LibGuides: Cinema Studies Libary Guide: Home

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Cinema Studies Guides at the Library

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

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Brigitte Mira and El Hedi Salem in Angst essen Seele auf (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany 1973)

Introduction

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:

Finding Films: a selection of resources inclusive of reviews and more in-depth discussions of films.
Finding Books: a selection of print and electronic resources providing essential information about films.
Popular Reviews and Scholarly Criticism: a bibliography of print resources meant to assist you with learning about various critical, theoretical, and historical points of view on film, ranging from classic texts to more recent works.
World Cinema: print and electronic resources based on films from various continents.
Animation: print and electronic resources based on animation studies, including history and theory from around the world.

Book summaries text is taken from Books in Print.