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Reference resources are a great place to begin your research.  They can help you define terms as well as find overviews of topics and theories and identify keywords or alternate terms for database searching.

There are many different types of reference sources, which include dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, bibliographies, handbooks, style manuals to name a few.

History of the American Cinema

This seminal 10 volume history covers from 1895 to 1989 and can be found in SL Books PN1993.5 .U6 H55.

  1. The Emergence of Cinema: the American Screen to 1807
  2. The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915
  3. An Evening's Entertainment: the Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928
  4. The Talkies: America's Cinema Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
  5. Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939
  6. Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s
  7. Transforming the Screen, 1950-1958
  8. The Sixties, 1960-1969
  9. Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979
  10. New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989

 

 

 

Oxford Bibliographies provides peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture and the study of the moving image. 

Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.

Take a look at the following subject guide:

♦ Cinema and Media Studies