A number of librarians and library units are responsible for cinema studies. Please send general inquires and purchase requests to cinemastudies@library.illinois.edu or email one of the subject librarians listed below.
To request films for classes, use the Course Reserves page at http://guides.library.illinois.edu/reserves under Requesting Purchases for Reserves.
Atoma Batoma | batoma@illinois.edu | Africa
Courtney Becks | bexlib@illinois.edu | African American & Jewish
Paula Carns | pcarns@.illinois.edu | Iberia, France, Scandinavia
Kit Condill | condill@.illinois.edu | Eastern Europe & Eurasia
Laila Hussein | lhoussei@illinois.edu | Middle East & North Africa
ShuYong Jiang | shyjiang@illinois.edu | China
Matt Roberts | mjrii@illinois.edu | US and UK |
Lisa Romero | l-romero@illinois.edu | Production & Industry
Yoo-Seong Song | yoosong@illinois.edu | Korea
Antonio Sotomayor | asotomay@illinois.edu | Latin America & Caribbean
Marek Sroka | msroka@illinois.edu | Germany and Poland
Steve Witt | swwitt@illinois.edu | Japan
Animation Study Guide
Book and Film Reviews
Canadian Cinema Guide
Cinema do Brasil
Film Noir Study Guide
French Cinema
German Cinema
Global and Popular Culture
Indian Cinema in Context
Korean Films and Media
Middle Eastern Language Films (Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish & Persian)
Nordic Cinema
Brigitte Mira and El Hedi Salem in Angst essen Seele auf (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany 1973)
This guide provides an overview of how to locate Books, Films, Popular Reviews and Scholarly Criticism, and information about World Cinema and Animated Film.
In this guide:
Book summaries text is taken from Books in Print.
Jack Haley, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger and Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, USA 1939)
The film encyclopedia : the complete guide to film and the film industry
Katz, Ephraim.; Nolen, Ronald Dean.
New York : Collins Reference; ©2012
Call Number: Communications Library - Reference: 791.4303 K15f2012
Features alphabetically organized entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of movies, including style, genres, actors and actresses, directors, producers, and motion picture studios.
Nash, Jay Robert, author.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield; 2019
"This all-inclusive A-Z encyclopedia by one of the world's foremost experts on cinema provides comprehensive annotations of the best films produced from 1914 on. The work offers more than 5,000 three- to five-star entries (three stars=good; four stars=excellent; five stars=masterpiece), and yes, author Jay Robert Nash has viewed every single one of them as well as many more that did not "make the cut."
"In addition to a precis, each film's entry also includes a listing of the cast as well as the key principles involved in production, from the director to the hair stylist. Especially unique to this book is a rating system that helps parents determine whether or not a film is appropriate for their children. ... Rounding out this essential volume for the film buff are over 500 still photos from the author's private collection"--Back cover.
Contents: volume 1: A-J -- volume 2: K-R -- volume 3 : S-U -- volume 4: V-Z.
Call Number: Main Stacks; Oak Street; 792.5 IN81