Film and Television

• Basic Reference Works in Hunt Library
• Film Studies at Carnegie Mellon
• Open Access Web Links (Local and National)
  

Basic Reference Works in Hunt Library

Film

A Dictionary of Cinema Quotations from Filmmakers and Critics : Over 3400 Axioms, Criticisms, Opinions, and Witticisms from 100 Years of the Cinema.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000.
HUNT FA-REF-4  PN1994.9 .D53 2000

Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
HUNT FA-REF-4  PN1998.2 .F53 2002

Katz, Ephraim., and Ronald Dean Nolen. The Film Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry. 6th ed. New York: Collins, 2008.
FA-REF-4 PN1993.45 .K34 2008

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Chicago : St. James Press, 1990-
FA-REF-4 PN1997.8 .I58 2000

LoBrutto, Vincent. The Encyclopedia of American Independent Filmmaking.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
HUNT FA-REF-4  PN1993.45 .L63 2002

Lowe, Denise. Women and American Television: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 1999
FA-REF-4 PN1992.8 .W65 L69 1999

Magill's Cinema Annual. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Salem Press.
FA-REF-4 PN1993.3 .M34, 1990-2009.

Motion Picture Guide. Chicago: Cinebooks.
FA-REF-4 PN1993 .M4334 (Annual) 1927-1983; 1986-1999.

New York Times Film Reviews. New York: New York Times. 1913-1982.
FA-REF-4 PN1995 .N4
For more current film reviews be sure to ask at the Arts Reference Desk about databases such as the International Index for the Performing Arts or Proquest Direct via Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Databases by Name.

Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, ed. The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
FA-REF-4 PN1993.5 .A1 O96 1995

Osborne, Robert A. 75 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards. New York: Abbeville Press, 2003.
HUNT-OVRSZQ-4 PN1993.92 .O82 2003

Parish, James Robert and Allan Taylor, assoc. ed. The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood. New York, NY:Facts on File, Inc., 2003.
Includes both film and television.
FA-REF-4 PN1995.9 .M56 M85 2003

Screen World. New York: Crown Publishers.
FA-REF-4 PN1993.3 .D3 (Annual) 1951- .

Singleton, Ralph S. and Conrad, James A. Filmmaker's Dictionary. 2nd ed. Hollywood, Calif. : Lone Eagle Publishing Co., 2000.
HUNT-STACKS-4 PN1993.45 .S56 2000

Trottier, David. The Screenwriters's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script. 3rd Edition. Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 1998.
FA-REF-4 PN1996 .T76 1998

Tibbetts, John C. The encyclopedia of filmmakers. New York : Facts on File, 2002.
HUNT - FA-REF-4  PN1998.2 .T53 2002

Truitt, Evelyn Mack. Who Was Who On Screen. New York : Bowker, c1977.
Offsite Request PN1998 .A2 T73 1977
Around 9,000 names from the years 1905-1975.

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Television

Brooks, Tim and Earle Marsh. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. 9th editon. New York: Balantine Books, 2007.
FA-REF-4 PN1992.18 .B68 2007

Inman, David M. Performers' Television Credits, 1948-2000. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2001.
OFFSITE by request PN1992.4 .A2 I58 2001 (3 volumes)

Lackman, Ron. The Encyclopedia of American Television: Broadcast Programming Post-World War II to 2000.
New York: NY, Facts on File, Inc., 2003.
FA-REF-4 PN1992.18 .L33 2003

Lowe, Denise. Women and American Television: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California: ABC Clio, 1999.
FA-REF-4 PN1992.8 .W65 L69 1999

Moschkovitz, Moshe. Dictionary of Television and Audiovisual Terminology. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1998.
FA-REF-4 TK6634 .M67 1998

Newcomb, Horace ed. Encyclopedia of Television. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, c1997.
FA-REF-4 PN1992.18 .E53 1997, 3 Vols.

Parish, James Robert and Allan Taylor, assoc. ed. The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood. New York, NY:Facts on File, Inc., 2003.
Includes both film and television.
FA-REF-4 PN1995.9 .M56 M85 2003

Summers, Claude J. The Queer Encyclopedia of Film & Television
San Francisco : Cleis Press, 2005
HUNT FA-REF-4 PN1590 .G39 Q44 2005

Rose, Bryan G. TV Genres: A Handbook and Reference Guide. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985.
OFFSITE by Request PN1992.3 .U5 T88 1985

Terrace, Vincent. Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials. New York, N.Y. : New York Zoetrope, 1986.
FA-REF-4 HE8700.7 .P76 T47
Vol 1: 1937-1973, Vol 2: 1974-1984 Vol 3: Index.

Terrance, Vincent. Encyclopedia of Television Subjects, Themes and Settings. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2007.
FA-REF-4 PN1992.18 .T38 2007

Terrace, Vincent. Television Character and Story Facts: Over 110,000 Details From 1,008 Shows, 1945-1992. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1993
FA-REF-4 PN1992.8 .S4 T48 1993

Terrace, Vincent . Television characters : 1,485 profiles, 1947-2004. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2006.
FA-REF PN1992 .3.U5 T465 2006

Zettl, Herbert. (San Francisco State University). Television Production Handbook. 9th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomas Learning, 2006.
FA-REF-4 PN1992.75 .Z4 2006

Open-Web Links

Local

Film & Entertainent: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Guide to film resources, venues and events

National and International

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Official site. Detailed; including Academy Awards information, events, archives, grants and fellowships;
Index to Motion Picture Credits.

Television Academy
Official site; Emmy Awards and information about the organization.

SAG-AFTRA
Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

American Film Institute Catalog Database (AFI)
A free comprehensive online citation catalog of feature films produced in the United States from 1893-1972. Cataloging of films from 1971-1980 is in progress; entries from the 1970s are posted to the web site at intervals; some AFI Awards Outstanding Movies of the Year also included; detailed entries on cast, crew, plot summaries, subjects, genres and historical notes included for each film. (Accessed 11/16/2009)

A more comprehensive AFI database can be accessed at the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library with presentation of a current Carnegie Mellon I.D.

Films for the Humanities and Sciences (Films Media Group)
Educational videos and multimedia programs

IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
A searchable database of films, performers and synopses.

International Film Guide
An online annual that includes essays on film activity worldwide.

MIC: Moving Image Collections: A Window to the World's Moving Images
Locate and, in some cases, view moving and other images from image repositories around the world. Part of the National Science Digital Library; sponsored by the Library of Congress, Association of Moving Image Archivists; funded through the National Science Foundation 2002-2005.

Shop PBS: Arts: Drama
Videos and DVD's aired through PBS.

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md2z@andrew.cmu.edu
August 2015
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