Guides: Film Studies: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Glossaries

Columbia Film Language Glossary
Key terms in film studies selected by Columbia University faculty and illustrated with detailed explanations, film clips, and visual annotations.
Film Analysis Site (Yale University)
A website with six parts corresponding to the major divisions within cinema technique and film studies. Includes basic terms, mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound, and analysis.

These subject dictionaries are located ONLINE or in the REFERENCE shelves on the main floor of the library.

A Dictionary of Film Studies by Annette Kuhn; Guy Westwell
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2012
The Film Studies Dictionary by Steve Blandford; Barry Keith Grant; Jim Hillier
Call Number: Shelves PN1993.45 .B53 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Historical Dictionary of American Cinema by M. Keith Booker
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2011
Movies in American History by Philip C. DiMare (Editor)
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2011
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema by Richard Abel (Editor)
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2005
There is a print copy of this book in the library.
REF PN1993.45 .E53 2005
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films by Denise Lowe
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2014
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
Call Number: REF PN1998.2 .T49 2002
Publication Date: 2002
Women Filmmakers and Their Films by Amy L. Unterburger (Editor)
Call Number: REF PN1998.2 .W66 1998
Publication Date: 1998
British Film Directors by Robert Shail
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2007
Dictionary of Film Finance and Distribution by John W. Cones
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9780875869957
Publication Date: 2013
This dictionary is an aid to anyone involved in seeking to finance a feature film project, especially independents.

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