Genre Studies
Western
Western Films: A Complete Guide by Call Number: 791.4309 G18WISBN: 0892562188Publication Date: 1982-07-01
Westerns: Films Through History by Call Number: PN1995.9.W4 W44 2001ISBN: 0415924235Publication Date: 2001-10-12
The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half-Century by Call Number: PN1995.9.W4 S53 2003ISBN: 052155473XPublication Date: 2003-06-30
Horror Films
Deformed and Destructive Beings by Call Number: PN1995.9.H6 O25 2011ISBN: 9780786463077Publication Date: 2011-03-23
Musicals
American Film Musical Themes and Forms by Call Number: ML2075.D86 A43 2004ISBN: 078641877XPublication Date: 2004-08-25
The Migration of Musical Film: From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream by Call Number: PN1995.9.M86 G37 2014ISBN: 9780813568652Publication Date: 2014-08-01
The American Film Musical by Call Number: Main Stacks: 791.4309 AL79A; Undergrad: PN1995.9.M86 A48 1987ISBN: 025330413XPublication Date: 1987-06-01
Comedies
Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies--From Anarchy to Mockumentary by ISBN: 9780810883673Publication Date: 2012
Melodramas
Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama by Call Number: 791.43655 IM4ISBN: 0814320643Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects by Call Number: PN1995.9.M45 Z39 2013ISBN: 9780739172537Publication Date: 2012-11-16
American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli by Call Number: PN1995.9.M45 L36 1989ISBN: 0691047596Publication Date: 1989-04-21
Social Issues in Film
LGBTQ Cinema
New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut by Call Number: PN1995.9.H55 R53 2013ISBN: 9780822354116Publication Date: 2013-03-26
African American Cinema
Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film by ISBN: 9781439905654Publication Date: 2003
Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003 by ISBN: 0815633823Publication Date: 2015
Women's Film/Feminism and Film Theory
Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman Into Cinema by Call Number: PN1995.9.W6 M3 2004ISBN: 1904764037Publication Date: 2005-01-19
International Perspectives on Feminism and Sexism in the Film Industry by ISBN: 9781799817765Publication Date: 2019
Independent Cinema
Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream by ISBN: 9780822354109Publication Date: 2013
Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream by ISBN: 0415254868Publication Date: 2004
Star Studies
Larger Than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s by Call Number: PN1998.2 .L37 2010ISBN: 9780813547664Publication Date: 2010-08-30
Close-Ups: Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars By Their Co-Stars, Directors, Screenwriters, and Friends by Call Number: PN2285 .C55 1978ISBN: 0894800434Publication Date: 1978-12-01
The National Society of Film Critics on the Movie Star by Call Number: 791.43028 N213ISBN: 067049187XPublication Date: 1981-11-19
When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics by Call Number: E743 .C75 2013ISBN: 9780521199186Publication Date: 2013-10-21
Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics by Call Number: E743 .R675 2011ISBN: 9780195181722Publication Date: 2011-09-06
The Versatiles: A Study of Supporting Character Actors and Actresses in the American Motion Picture, 1930-1955 by Call Number: 791.43 T93VISBN: 0498067920Publication Date: 1969-01-01
Film Noir
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