From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a bibliography of reference works on film by genre .
Action / adventure
Brode, Douglas (1 February 2003).
Boys and Toys: Ultimate Action . Citadel Press.
ISBN
978-0-8065-2381-1 .
Brown, Jeffrey A. (15 February 2011).
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture . Univ. Press of Mississippi.
ISBN
978-1-60473-714-1 .
Donovan, Barna William (2008).
The Asian influence on Hollywood action films . McFarland & Co.
ISBN
978-0-7864-3403-9 .
—— (2010).
Blood, guns, and testosterone: action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence . Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
978-0-8108-7262-2 .
Gallagher, Mark (5 February 2006).
Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives . Macmillan.
ISBN
978-1-4039-7012-1 .
Gimello-Mesplomb, Frédéric (2007).
Le cinéma des années Reagan: Un modèle hollywoodien? . Nouveau Monde Editions.
ISBN
978-2-84736-224-4 .
Hill, Katrina (8 November 2012).
Action Movie Freak . Krause Publications Craft.
ISBN
978-1-4402-3208-4 .
Holmlund, Chris (2002).
Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies . Routledge.
ISBN
978-1-136-28443-4 .
Inness, Sherrie A. (1 February 2004).
Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture . Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN
978-1-4039-6396-3 .
Julius, Marshall (1996).
Action!: The Action Movie A-Z . Indiana University Press.
ISBN
978-0-253-21091-3 .
Lichtenfeld, Eric (27 April 2007).
Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie . Wesleyan University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8195-6801-4 .
Tasker, Yvonne (1993).
Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema . Psychology Press.
ISBN
978-0-415-09223-4 .
—— (2004).
Action and Adventure Cinema . Routledge.
ISBN
978-0-415-23507-5 .
Taves, Brian (1993).
The romance of adventure: the genre of historical adventure movies . University Press of Mississippi.
ISBN
978-0-87805-597-5 .
James Bond
Rubin, Steven Jay (2003).
The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia . Contemporary Books.
ISBN
978-0-07-141246-9 .
Martial arts
Chen, Ya-chen (12 April 2012).
Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium: Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics . Lexington Books.
ISBN
978-0-7391-3910-3 .
Hunt, Leon (2003).
Kung Fu Cult Masters . Wallflower Press.
ISBN
978-1-903364-63-5 .
Hunter, Jack, ed. (30 September 2005).
Intercepting Fist: The Films of Bruce Lee and the Golden Age of Kung-Fu Cinema . Glitter Books.
ISBN
978-1-902588-13-1 .
Lott, M. Ray (2004).
The American Martial Arts Film . McFarland.
ISBN
978-0-7864-1836-7 .
Meyers, Richard (1 April 2001).
Great Martial Arts Movies . Citadel Press.
ISBN
978-0-8065-2026-1 .
—— (1 April 2011).
Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Book . Eirini Press.
ISBN
978-0-9799989-4-2 .
Palmer, Bill; Palmer, Karen; Meyers, Richard (1995).
The encyclopedia of martial arts movies . Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
978-0-8108-3027-1 .
Rance, Penelope (2005).
Martial arts . Virgin Books.
ISBN
978-0-7535-1078-0 .
Reid, Craig D. (1 November 2010).
The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s: 500+ Films Loaded with Action, Weapons & Warriors . Black Belt Communications.
ISBN
978-0-89750-192-7 .
Szeto, Kin-Yan (29 June 2011).
The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora: Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood . SIU Press.
ISBN
978-0-8093-3021-8 .
Teo, Stephen (2009).
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition . Edinburgh University Press.
ISBN
978-0-7486-3286-2 .
West, David (26 December 2006).
Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film . I.B.Tauris.
ISBN
978-1-85043-982-0 .
War
Animated
Beck, Jerry (28 October 2005).
The Animated Movie Guide . Chicago Review Press.
ISBN
978-1-55652-591-9 .
Bendazzi, Giannalberto (1994).
Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation . Indiana University Press.
ISBN
978-0-253-20937-5 .
Borowiec, Piotr (1998).
Animated Short Films: A Critical Index to Theatrical Cartoons . Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
978-0-8108-3503-0 .
Bukatman, Scott (26 March 2012).
The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit . University of California Press.
ISBN
978-0-520-26571-4 .
Cohen, Karl F. (1 September 2004).
Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons And Blacklisted Animators in America . McFarland.
ISBN
978-0-7864-2032-2 .
Crafton, Donald (15 December 1993).
Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928 . University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
978-0-226-11667-9 .
Furniss, Maureen (1998).
Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics . Indiana University Press.
ISBN
978-1-86462-039-9 .
King, C. Richard; Lugo-Lugo, Carmen R.; Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K. (16 February 2010).
Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children . Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN
978-1-4422-0195-8 .
Lamarre, Thomas (30 October 2009).
The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation . U of Minnesota Press.
ISBN
978-0-8166-5155-9 .
Murray, Robin L.; Heumann, Joseph K. (1 December 2011).
That's All Folks?: Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features . U of Nebraska Press.
ISBN
978-0-8032-3512-0 .
Neupert, Richard (8 March 2011).
History of Animated Cinema . John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN
978-1-4443-9257-9 .
Pilling, Jayne (1997).
A Reader In Animation Studies . Indiana University Press.
ISBN
978-1-86462-000-9 .
Shull, Michael S.; Wilt, David E. (2004).
Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945 . McFarland.
ISBN
978-0-7864-1555-7 .
Telotte, J. P. (1 July 2010).
Animating Space: From Mickey to WALL-E . University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
978-0-8131-3979-1 .
Webb, Graham (12 May 2011).
The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences, 1900–1999 . McFarland.
ISBN
978-0-7864-4985-9 .
Wells, Paul (2002).
Animation: Genre and Authorship . Wallflower Press.
ISBN
978-1-903364-20-8 .
Wells, Paul; Hardstaff, Johnny; Clifton, Darryl (1 October 2008).
Re-Imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image . AVA Publishing.
ISBN
978-2-940373-69-7 .
Art/Arthouse
Arthur, Paul (15 January 2005).
Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965 . University of Minnesota Press.
ISBN
978-0-8166-4265-6 .
Connolly, Maeve (7 January 2009).
The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site, and Screen . Intellect Books.
ISBN
978-1-84150-246-5 .
Elder, R. Bruce (2008).
Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-Garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century . Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press.
ISBN
978-1-55458-028-6 .
Graf, Alexander; Scheunemann, Dietrich (2007).
Avant-Garde Film . Rodopi.
ISBN
978-90-420-2305-5 .
Hall, Phil (2004).
The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies: Films from the Fringes of Cinema . M. Wiese Productions.
ISBN
978-0-941188-95-1 .
Halle, Randall; Steingröver, Reinhild (2008).
After the Avant-Garde: Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film . Camden House.
ISBN
978-1-57113-365-6 .
Hamlyn, Nicky (1 November 2003).
Film art phenomena . BFI Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-85170-971-0 .
O'Pray, Michael (29 May 2012).
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes, and Passions . Columbia University Press.
ISBN
978-0-231-85000-1 .
Rieser, Martin; Zapp, Andrea (17 April 2002).
New screen media: cinema/art/narrative . BFI Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-85170-865-2 .
Skoller, Jeffrey (14 August 2005).
Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film . U of Minnesota Press.
ISBN
978-0-8166-4232-8 .
Wilinsky, Barbara (9 January 2001).
Sure Seaters: The Emergence of Art House Cinema . U of Minnesota Press.
ISBN
978-0-8166-3563-4 .
Biographical
Blaxploitation
Comedy
Austerlitz, Saul (1 September 2010).
Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy . Chicago Review Press.
ISBN
978-1-55652-951-1 .
Horton, Andrew; Rapf, Joanna E., eds. (7 September 2012).
A Companion to Film Comedy . John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN
978-1-118-32784-5 .
Karnick, Kristine Brunovska (1995).
Classical Hollywood Comedy . Psychology Press.
ISBN
978-0-415-90640-1 .
King, Geoff (2002).
Film Comedy . Wallflower Press.
ISBN
978-1-903364-35-2 .
Laham, Nicholas (30 June 2009).
Currents of Comedy on the American Screen: How Film and Television Deliver Different Laughs for Changing Times . McFarland.
ISBN
978-0-7864-4264-5 .
Matthews, Nicole (2000).
Comic Politics: Gender in Hollywood Comedy After the New Right . Manchester University Press.
ISBN
978-0-7190-5503-4 .
Sutton, David (1 January 2000).
A Chorus Of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929–1939 . University of Exeter Press.
ISBN
978-0-85989-603-0 .
Tueth, Michael V. (3 May 2012).
Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies—From Anarchy to Mockumentary . Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
978-0-8108-8367-3 .
Crime
British Film Institute (1997).
The BFI Companion to Crime . Continuum International Publishing Group.
ISBN
978-0-304-33215-1 .
Brode, Douglas (1995).
Money, women, and guns: Crime movies from Bonnie and Clyde to the present . Carol Pub. Group.
ISBN
978-0-8065-1608-0 .
Chibnail, Steve (28 June 1999).
British Crime Cinema . Psychology Press.
ISBN
978-0-415-16870-0 .
Delamater, Jerome; Prigozy, Ruth, eds. (1998).
The Detective in American Fiction, Film, and Television . Greenwood Publishing Group.
ISBN
978-0-313-30463-7 .
Forshaw, Barry (30 October 2012).
British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order . Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN
978-0-230-30370-6 .
Gates, Philippa (2006).
Detecting Men: Masculinity And the Hollywood Detective Film . SUNY Press.
ISBN
978-0-7914-6813-5 .
Gillis, Stacy; Gates, Philippa, eds. (2002).
The Devil himself: villainy in detective fiction and film . Greenwood Press.
ISBN
978-0-313-31655-5 .
Glassman, Steve; O'Sullivan, Maurice, eds. (1997).
Crime Fiction and Film in the Sunshine State: Florida Noir . Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
ISBN
978-0-87972-749-9 .
——; ——, eds. (2001).
Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest: Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands . Popular Press.
ISBN
978-0-87972-846-5 .
Hughes, Howard (22 August 2006).
Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies . I. B. Tauris.
ISBN
978-1-84511-219-6 .
Langman, Larry; Finn, Daniel (1994).
A guide to American silent crime films . Greenwood Press.
ISBN
978-0-313-28858-6 .
—— (1995).
A guide to American crime films of the thirties . Greenwood Press.
ISBN
978-0-313-29532-4 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link )
—— (1995).
A guide to American crime films of the forties and fifties . Greenwood Press.
ISBN
978-0-313-29265-1 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link )
Leitch, Thomas (15 August 2002).
Crime Films . Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-64671-0 .
Mayer, Geoff (16 September 2012).
Historical Dictionary of Crime Films . Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
978-0-8108-6769-7 .
Nestingen, Andrew K. (30 July 2008).
Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film, and Social Change . University of Washington Press.
ISBN
978-0-295-98804-7 .
Parish, James Robert (1 October 1990).
The great cop pictures . Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
978-0-8108-2316-7 .
Rafter, Nicole (20 April 2006).
Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-517506-6 .
Scaglia, Beatriz (April 2011).
The Thrill of the Kill: Celebrating the Crime Film Genre . Webster's Digital Services.
ISBN
978-1-241-59183-0 .
Sorrento, Matthew (30 July 2012).
The New American Crime Film . MCFARLAND & Company Incorporated.
ISBN
978-0-7864-5920-9 .
Film noir
Gangster film
Grieveson, Lee; Sonnet, Esther; Stanfield, Peter, eds. (28 April 2005).
Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film . Rutgers University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8135-3557-9 .
Hardy, Phil (1998).
The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 4: The Gangster Film . UK: Aurum Press.
Larke-Walsh, George S. (6 March 2010).
Screening the Mafia: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Mobsters from The Godfather to The Sopranos . McFarland.
ISBN
978-0-7864-4311-6 .
Mason, Fran (8 February 2003).
American Gangster Cinema: From 'Little Caesar' to 'Pulp Fiction' . Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN
978-0-333-68466-5 .
McCarty, John (1993).
Hollywood Gangland: The Movies' Love Affair With the Mob . St. Martin's Press.
ISBN
978-0-312-09306-8 .
—— (2005).
Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture from the Silents to "The Sopranos" . Da Capo Press.
ISBN
978-0-306-81429-7 . [
permanent dead link ]
Munby, Jonathan (15 March 1999).
Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil . University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
978-0-226-55031-2 .
Nochimson, Martha P. (29 May 2007).
Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong . John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN
978-1-4051-6370-5 .
Shadoian, Jack (16 January 2003).
Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (2 ed.). Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-514292-1 .
Silver, Alain; Ursini, James, eds. (1 February 2007).
The Gangster Film Reader . Hal Leonard Corporation.
ISBN
978-0-87910-332-3 .
Smith, Jim (15 June 2011).
Gangster Films . Virgin Books Limited.
ISBN
978-0-7535-3929-3 .
Stephens, Michael L. (8 February 2008).
Gangster Films: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to People, Films and Terms . MCFARLAND & Company Incorporated.
ISBN
978-0-7864-3770-2 .
Yaquinto, Marilyn (1998).
Pump 'em full of lead: a look at gangsters on film . Twayne.
ISBN
978-0-8057-3892-6 .
Horror / thriller
Horror
Thriller
Derry, Charles (2001). The Suspense Thriller: Films in the Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock . McFarland & Company.
ISBN
978-0-7864-1208-2 .
Frank, Alan (1997). Frank's 500: The Thriller Film Guide . Batsford.
ISBN
978-0-7134-2728-8 .
Hanich, Julian (2010). Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear . Routledge Advances in Film Studies.
Routledge .
ISBN
978-0-415-87139-6 .
Hicks, Neil D. (2002). Writing the Thriller Film: The Terror Within . Michael Wiese Productions.
ISBN
978-0-941188-46-3 .
Indick, William (2006). Psycho Thrillers: Cinematic Explorations of the Mysteries of the Mind . McFarland & Company.
ISBN
978-0-7864-2371-2 .
Mesce, Bill (2007). Overkill: The Rise And Fall of Thriller Cinema . McFarland & Company.
ISBN
978-0-7864-2751-2 .
Rubin, Martin (1999). Thrillers . Genres in American Cinema. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-58839-3 .
Musical
Altman, Rick (1989).
The American Film Musical . Indiana University Press.
ISBN
0-253-20514-X .
Barrios, Richard (1995).
A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-508811-3 .
Creekmur, Corey; Mokdad, Linda (1 January 2012).
The International Film Musical . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-7486-5430-7 .
Dunne, Michael (25 August 2004).
American Film Musical Themes and Forms . McFarland.
ISBN
978-0-7864-8337-2 .
Grant, Barry Keith (23 April 2012).
The Hollywood Film Musical . John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN
978-1-4051-8253-9 .
Green, Stanley (1981). Encyclopedia of the Musical Film. Oxford University Press.
Hirschhorn, Clive. (1981). Hollywood Musical. Crown.
Hischak, Thomas S. (2008).
The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-533533-0 .
Road movie
Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae, eds. (1997). The Road Movie Book . Routledge.
ISBN
978-0-415-14937-2 .
Laderman, David (2002). Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie . University of Texas Press.
ISBN
978-0-292-74732-6 .
Mazierska, Ewa; Rascaroli, Laura (2006). Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie . Wallflower Press.
ISBN
978-1-904764-67-0 .
Mills, Katie (2006). The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television . Southern Illinois University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8093-2710-2 .
Orgeron, Devin (2007). Road Movies: From Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami . Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN
978-0-230-60127-7 .
Wood, Jason (2008).
100 Road Movies . BFI Screen Guides. British Film Institute.
ISBN
978-1-84457-160-4 .
Samurai
Science fiction
Western
Buscombe, Edward (1993).
The BFI Companion to the Western . Andre Deutsch.
ISBN
978-0-233-98857-3 .
Cameron, Ian Alexander (1996).
The book of westerns . Continuum.
ISBN
978-0-8264-0818-1 .
Carmichael, Deborah A. (2006).
The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns: Ecocriticism in an American Film Genre . University of Utah Press.
ISBN
978-0-87480-866-7 .
Cawelti, John G. (1 January 1999).
The Six-gun Mystique Sequel . Popular Press.
ISBN
978-0-87972-785-7 .
Hardy, Phil (1983).
The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 1: The Western . UK: Aurum Press.
ISBN
978-0-7064-2555-0 .
Google Books .
Kitses, Jim (1 September 2007).
Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood . British Film Institute.
ISBN
978-1-84457-019-5 .
Kitses, Jim; Rickman, Gregg (1 September 1998).
The western reader . Limelight Editions.
ISBN
978-0-87910-268-5 .
McMahon, Jennifer L.; Csaki, B. Steve (2010).
The Philosophy of the Western . University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
978-0-8131-2591-6 .
Saunders, John (2001).
The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey . Wallflower Press.
ISBN
978-1-903364-12-3 .
Simmon, Scott (30 June 2003).
The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century . Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-55581-4 .
Wright, Will (1977).
Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western . University of California Press.
ISBN
978-0-520-03491-4 .
Other genres
Drama : Cody, Gabrielle H.; Sprinchorn, Evert, eds. (2007). The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama . Columbia University Press.
ISBN
9780231140324 .
Pornography/erotic film :
Williams, Linda (1989).
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "frenzy of the Visible" . University of California Press.
ISBN
978-0-520-06652-6 .
Religion : Eaghill, Tenzan; King, Rebekka, eds. (2022). Representing Religion in Film . London: Bloomsbury Academic.
ISBN
978-1-350-14080-6 .
Sport film : Edgington, K.; Erskine, Thomas L.; Welsh, James (2010).
Encyclopedia of Sports Films . Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
978-0-8108-7652-1 .
Documentary
See also
References
External links