Library Guides: Cinema and Media Studies: Starting points

Bibliographies & filmographies

Use these sources to situate your topic in broader context and to build your bibliography.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies This link opens in a new window
Regularly updated annotated bibliography addressing themes and topics in Cinema and Media Studies

Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
Routledge Companions to Cinema Studies
City of Chicago Film Office
Website features a list of movies filmed in Chicago neighborhoods, 1896-2016.
Combined catalogs of the AFI and BFI
American Film Institute and British Film Institute catalogs can be searched together or separately.

Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory This link opens in a new window
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

American Film Scripts Online This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text of film scripts by American author. Also includes detailed citations with information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
Motion Picture Scripts Collection This link opens in a new window
The New York State Archives preserves a large collection of film scripts. It is also valuable for research on the history of censorship in New York State and shifting of American attitudes toward sex, religion and morality.
Internet Film Scripts Database This link opens in a new window

There are several printed series of scripts and screenplays, among them:

Starting in 1961, the monthly periodical L'Avant Scene Cinema published scripts for both contemporary films and important films from the past.