The links on the right are to research guides created to improve the film/TV researcher's effectiveness in using the AU Library. The bibliographies are all selective and a comprehensive search of the library catalog will be necessary to find everything on a subject. The books cited in the bibliographies are located in the Bender Library stacks. For current circulation status, check the library’s online catalog at http://catalog.wrlc.org.
(compiled December 2009)
The following books are located in the Bender Library stacks. For current circulation status, check the library’s online catalog at http://american.edu/library.
A Family Affair: Cinema Calls Home. London: Wallflower, 2008. PN1995.9.F35 F36 2008.
Allen, Michael. Family Secrets: The Feature Films of D.W. Griffith. London: BFI Pub, 1999. PN1998.3.G76 .A55 1999.
American Film Institute. Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 2006. PN1998.2 .A45 2006.
Bacher, Lutz. Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1996. PN1998.3.O64 B3 1996.
Barry, Iris. D.W. Griffith, American Film Master. New York: Garland, 1985. PN1998.A3 G72.
Baxter, John. King Vidor. New York: Monarch Press, 1976. PN1998.A3 V4823.
Bernardoni, James. George Cukor: A Critical Study and Filmography. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1985. PN1998.A3 C798.
Black American Cinema. AFI film readers. New York: Routledge, 1993. PN1995.9.N4 B45.
Boys Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. PS173.M36 B69 2002.
British Film Institute. Home Is Where the Heart Is: Studies in Melodrama and the Woman's Film. London: British Film Institute, 1987. PN1995.9.M4.
———. Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas. London: BFI, 1993. PN1993.5.L3 M42 1993.
British Universities Film Council. Melodrama: Stage, Picture, Screen. London: British Film Institute, 1994. PN1912.
Byars, Jackie. All That Hollywood Allows: Re-Reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama. Gender & American culture.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. PN1995.9.S47 B9 1991.
Carey, Gary. Cukor & Co.; the Films of George Cukor and His Collaborators. New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn, 1971. PN1998.A3 C797.
Cavell, Stanley. Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1996. PN1995.9.W6 C38 1996.
Child, Abigail. This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film. Modern and contemporary poetics. Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 2005. PN1995.9.E96 C42 2005.
Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992. PN1995 .C537 1992.
Cook, Pam. Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema. London: Routledge, 2005. PN1995.9.N67 C66 2005.
Denton, Clive. King Vidor. London: Tantivy Press, 1976. PN1998.A2.
Desilet, Gregory E. Our Faith in Evil: Melodrama and the Effects of Entertainment Violence. Jefferson, N.C:
McFarland & Company, 2006. PN1995.9.V5 D47 2006.
Doane, Mary Ann. The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. PN1995.9.W6 D6.
Dumont, Hervé. Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2006.
PN1998.3.B68 D8613 2006.
Durgnat, Raymond. King Vidor, American. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. PN1998.A3 V4826.
Endless Night: Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. PN1995.9.P783 E53 1999.
Film Genre Reader II. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. PN1995 .F45792 1995.
Fischer, Lucy. Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form. Film and culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. PN1995.25 .F57 2003.
Garrett, Roberta. Postmodern Chick Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film. 1st ed. Basingstoke, [England]:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. PN1995.9.W6 G37 2007.
George Cukor: Interviews. Conversations with filmmakers series. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. PN1998.3.C8 A5 2001.
Gorton, Kristyn. Theorising Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. PN1995.9.D39 G67 2008.
Grodal, Torben Kragh. Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. PN1995 .G6886 2009.
Gunning, Tom. D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1991. PN1998.3.G76 G8 1991.
Imitation of Life. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. PN1997.I4553 I45 1991.
Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama. Contemporary film and television series. Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1991. PN1995.9.M45 I45.
Jacobs, Lea. The Decline of Sentiment: American Film in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. PN1993.5.U6 J198 2008.
Jayamanne, Laleen. Toward Cinema and Its Double: Cross-Cultural Mimesis. Arts and politics of the everyday. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001. PN1993.5.A1 J37 2001.
Jesionowski, Joyce E. Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D.W. Griffith's Biograph Films. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. PN1998.3.G76 J4.
Kaplan, E. Ann. Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama. New York:
Routledge, 1992. PS228.M66 K36 1992.
Klinger, Barbara. Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. PN1998.3.S57 K55.
Kozloff, Sarah. Overhearing Film Dialogue. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2000. PN1995.9.D49 K69 2000.
Kreidl, John. Nicholas Ray. Boston: Twayne, 1977. PN1998.A3 R347.
Kuhn, Annette. Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1982. PN1995.9.W6 K8 1982.
Lamster, Frederick. Souls Made Great Through Love and Adversity: The Film Work of Frank Borzage. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press, 1981. PN1998.A3 B6135.
Lang, Robert. American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1989. PN1995.9.M45 L36 1989.
Leibman, Nina C. Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television. 1st ed. Texas film studies series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. PN1992.8.F33 L45 1995.
Letter from an Unknown Woman. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1986. PN1997.L4563 L49 1986.
Levy, Emanuel. George Cukor: Master of Elegance: Hollywood's Legendary Director and His Stars. 1st ed. New York: Morrow, 1994. PN1998.3.C8 L48 1994.
Lyden, John. Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, Rituals. New York: New York University Press, 2003. PN1995.5 .L89 2003.
MacKinnon, Kenneth. Love, Tears and the Male Spectator. Madison [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002. PN1995.9.M46 M23 2002.
McHugh, Kathleen Anne. American Domesticity: From How-to Manual to Hollywood Melodrama. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. PN1995.9.W6 M38 1999.
Me Jane: Masculinity, Movies and Women. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. PN1995.9.M46 M35 1995.
Mercer, John. Melodrama: Genre, Style, Sensibility. London: Wallflower, 2004. PN1995.9.M45 M47 2004.
Mulvey, Laura. Douglas Sirk. Edinburgh]: Edinburgh Film Festival '72 in association with The National Film Theatre and John Player and Sons, 1972. PN1998.A3.
Naremore, James. The Films of Vincente Minnelli. Cambridge film classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. PN1998.3.M56 N37 1993.
National Society of Film Critics. The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties,
Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2008. PN1995 .N354 2008.
Palmer, R. Barton. Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. PS3545.I5365 Z7995 2009.
Pearson, Roberta E. Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. PN1995.75 .P43 1992.
Peucker, Brigitte. The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film. Cultural memory in the present. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2007. PN1995.25 .P46 2007.
Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies. Wisconsin studies in film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. PN1994 .P6565 1996.
Ray, Nicholas. I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. PN1995.9.P7 R37 1993.
Schatz, Thomas. Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Film Making, and the Studio System. New York, N.Y: Random House, 1981. PN1993.5.U6 S32.
Screening Genders. Rutgers depth of field series. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2008. PN1995.9.S47 S37 2008.
Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1998. PN1995.2 .S38 1998.
Singer, Ben. Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts. Film and culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. PN1995.9.M45 S56 2001.
Sirk, Douglas. Sirk on Sirk; Interviews with Jon Halliday. New York: Viking Press, 1972. PN1998.A3 S545.
Stern, Michael. Douglas Sirk. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979. PN1998.A3 S54536.
Tasker, Yvonne. Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema. London: Routledge, 2005. PN1995.9.W6 T36 1998.
The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2007. PN1997.85 .L516 2007.
Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the Birth of Modern America. Making the modern South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 2006. PS3507.I93.
Umland, Rebecca A. The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film: From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings. Contributions to the study of popular culture no. 57. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1996. PN1995.9.A75 U44 1996.
Vidor, King. King Vidor on Film Making. New York: McKay, 1972. PN1998.A3 V48.
Wagenknecht, Edward. The Films of D. W. Griffith. New York: Crown Publishers, 1975. PN1998.A3 G785.
Walsh, Andrea S. Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950. New York: Praeger, 1984. PN1995.9.W6 W3.
White, Patricia. UnInvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability. Theories of representation and difference. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. PN1995.9.L48 W54 1999.
White, Susan M. The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1995. PN1998.3.O64 W5 1995.
You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies, and Men. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. PN1995.9.M46 Y68.
