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Film Studies

This guide is an introduction to the resources for Film Studies at Dartmouth. If you are interested in Television, see the separate research guide for Television.
  • Introduction
  • Basic information on film
  • Finding a specific film title
  • Streaming film services
    • Readings on streaming video
  • National cinemas This link opens in a new window
  • Course guides for Film & Media Studies
  • Starting your research ...
  • Researching early films
  • Film history through the decades
    • 1960's film history
    • 1970's film history
  • Books about film
  • Film reviews
  • Journals & magazines about film
  • Film theory
    • Feminist film theory
    • Auteur theory
  • Film criticism
    • Feminist film criticism
  • Box office information
  • Film audiences
  • Mass media Industry
  • Primary sources for historical film research
    • Cinema Pressbooks from the Original Studio Collections
    • Congressional Hearings & Communism
    • Film Daily
    • Herrick Library Digital Collections
    • Hollywood and the Production Code
    • Media History Digital Library
    • Moving Picture World
  • Themes
  • Acting
  • Racial & ethnic representation on film
    • African American diaspora
    • Asian American diaspora
    • Hispanic American diaspora
    • Native American & Indigenous peoples diasporas
    • Examples on film
  • LGBTQIA+
    • Examples on film
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    • Examples on film
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  • Film & society
  • Screenwriting
  • Film adaptations
    • Shakespeare on film
    • Television to Film adaptations
  • Color in film
  • Film music
  • Film festivals
    • A short list of film festivals
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Gay Film Festivals

This is just a short list of LGBT film festivals. To find more, you can search the internet using "gay film festivals."

  • Inside Out
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    For more than two decades, Inside Out has brought Toronto's LGBT community together in celebration of the best queer film from Canada and around the world.
  • Wikipedia logo
    List of LGBT film festivals from Wikipedia
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    A continuing list of Queer film festivals around the world.
  • Look Beyond the List logo
    Look Beyond the List
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    This is a resources site for underrepresented groups working behind the camera in scripted TV and film, primarily focused on the UK with a worldwide reach.
  • New Fest logo
    NewFest
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    NewFest is dedicated to bringing together filmmakers and audiences in the building of a community that passionately supports giving greater visibility and voice to a wide range of expressions and representations of the LGBT experience.
  • Outfest
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    Outfest protects our past, showcases our present and nurtures our future by fostering artistic expression of gender, sexuality and LGBTQ culture and its transformative social impact on the world.
  • OUTshine Film Festival logo
    OUTshine Film Festival
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    The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival started in 1998; the Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in 2008. Both were brought together under one brand: OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival - underscoring their broad appeal and dynamic multi-cultural location. ...
  • Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
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    This is the second oldest film festival of its kind in the US, and prides itself on showcasing the best LGBTQ+ films and videos each and every year.
  • San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival
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    Run by Frameline a vendor of LGBTQ+ media, this is the oldest LGBTQ+ film festival in the world.

Bisexuality on film

Find more titles in the library's collections. This link performs the following subject, keyword search for bisexuality and feature films.

  • Movie poster artL'homme de sa vie = The man of my life by Zabou Breitman
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7544
    While on holiday at his family's home, Frédéric's seemingly perfect family life is disrupted when he meets his neighbor, a graphic artist named Hugo. Suddenly, Frédéric's entire existence is thrown out of order as the two men develop an attraction to each other, both intellectually and physically, which destroys the once-perfect relationship between Frédéric and his wife.
  • Movie poster artLes biches by Claude Chabrol
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #14113
    Socialite Frederique encounters young student Why on the streets of Paris, seduces her and whisks her off to spend winter with the chic crowd in St. Tropez. When architect Paul meets Why, he too charms her and comes between the two lovers. Frederique then seduces Paul out of jealousy, but finds herself feeling real love. Paul and Frederique invite Why to live together with them, resulting in a ménage-à-trois beset by jealousy, madness, and ultimately, murder.

Gay men on film

Find more titles in the library's collection. This link performs the following subject, keyword search for gay men and feature films.

  • Cover artAntarctica by Yair Hochner
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #10954
    ISBN: 9781417233649
    Days before his 30th birthday, Omer finds himself torn between Danny, a sexually-charged dancer, and Ronen, a handsome journalist. Meanwhile, his sister Shirley faces problems of her own when she pursures a lesbian relationship with her boss.
  • Movie poster artA different story by Paul Aaron
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6276
    Albert is an illegal alien from Belgium who is serving as chauffeur and lover to a string of powerful men. Stella is a real estate agent with several women lovers. When Albert loses his job, Stella temporarily takes him in. He becomes her cook and housekeeper, time passes, and they marry so that he won't be deported. Later, after a boozy birthday celebration with him, she finds herself pregnant and so they try to be a family.
  • Movie poster artI love you Phillip Morris by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #12533
    A true story of a spectacularly charismatic con man's journey from small-town businessman to flamboyant white-collar criminal, who repeatedly finds himself in trouble with the law and on the lam, all in the name of love.
  • Cover artThe night listener by Patrick Stettner
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5489
    ISBN: 9780788872273
    In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions of the boy's identity comes up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
  • Cover artWere the world mine by Tom Gustafson
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8749
    ISBN: 9781935423003
    When Timothy is cast as Puck in A Midsummer's Night's Dream, the young gay man stumbles upon a secret love-potion recipe hidden in the script. He creates comic chaos as he turns much of his narrow-minded town gay, starting with the rugby jock of his dreams.

Lesbians on film

Find more titles in the library's collections. This link performs the following subject, keyword search for lesbians and feature films.

  • Movie poster art101 Reykjavík = 101 enf. Kynnir by Baltasar Kormákur
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #1358
    ISBN: 9780794203351
    A black comedy in which a young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just slept with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover. Set against Reykjavik's swinging nightlife, Hlynur soon finds that he can't continue resisting adulthood.
  • Movie poster artChutney popcorn by Nisha Ganatra
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #509
    ISBN: 9781884190827
    Lisa and Reena are in love, but when Reena agrees to become a surrogate mother for her childless sister, the cultural divide between Reena's Indian family and their lesbian lifestyle hits home. A heartfelt comedy about the cultural struggles between immigrant parents and their Americanized children and the strength of family ties.
  • Film poster artDesert hearts by Donna Deitch
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7745
    ISBN: 9781932134896
    Vivian is a repressed English professor who goes to Reno for a quickie divorce in 1959. She spends the weeks waiting for final divorce papers at a dumpy dude ranch. There she mets Cay, a beautiful young casino worker. The two develop a friendship that stirs desires in Vivian she cannot deny. Slowly their attraction deepens into bold sensuality as they develop a bond that renews their hearts--and breaks all the rules.
  • Movie poster artFirst girl I loved by Kerem Sanga
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #21865
    On assignment for her high school yearbook, social misfit Anne (Dylan Gelula) charmingly hits it off with the beautiful star of the softball team, Sasha (Brianna Hildebrand). But when Anne tells her best friend Clifton (Mateo Arias) about her new crush, he reveals a hidden jealousy that threatens more than just the girls' budding romance.
  • Je tu il elle by Chantal Akerman
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #11691
    ISBN: 9781604652437
    An aimless young woman leaves self-imposed isolation to journey on a trip that ultimately leads her to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend. This is Akerman's first feature film.
  • Movie poster artOnce is not enough by Guy Green
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #11142
    January Wayne returns home to New York only to find her father married to the fifth richest woman in the world. Though it is a marriage of convenience for both parties, it is just enough to spite his daughter, who in return seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter as a payback.

Transgender persons on film

Find more titles in the library's collections. This link performs the following subject, keyword search for transgender people and feature films.

  • Movie poster artHŏsuabidŭl ŭi ttang = Land of scarecrows by No Kyŏng-tʻae
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #11368
    A Filipina Rein comes to Korea to earn money. She falls in love with Ji-young and marries him but is shocked to discover that he is a transgender. She encounters another Filipino Loittan and finds herself drawn to him. Not knowing that Loittans adoptive father is her husband, Rein promises Loittan to meet his father together.
  • Movie poster artI want what I want by John Dexter
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #16651
    A story about a young man's slow transition into the woman he always knew he was meant to be. Roy/Wendy played by Anne Heywood takes the plunge, leaving her abusive father's house and starting life anew as a woman. Through trial and error she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman as well as the terrible problems involved in not being considered fully female.

Transvestites on film

Find more titles in the library's collections. This link performs the following subject, keyword search for transvestites and feature films.

  • Movie poster art20 centímetros by Ramón Salazar
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6634
    Marieta is a narcoleptic transvestite prostitute who yearns to be woman and when asleep is the star of lavish musical numbers.
  • Movie poster artBeautiful boxer by Ekachai Uekrongtham
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5139
    Based on the true story of Thailand's famed transvestite kickboxer, Beautiful Boxer is an action drama that punches straight into the heart and mind of a boy who fights like a man so he can become a woman.
  • Cover artBreakfast on Pluto by Neil Jordan
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #3369
    ISBN: 9781404989283
    As foster kid Patrick 'Kitten' Braden grows up, he leaves behind his small-town life in Ireland for London, where he's reborn as a transvestite cabaret singer in the 1960s and 70s.
  • Movie poster artPrincesa by Henrique Goldman
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #3145
    A love affair develops between Fernanda, a 19-year old Brazilian transvestite, and Gianni, a conventional Italian man.

Keeping up with Film Studies journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for all facets of Film Studies? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's, you can download and read the articles you want from the journals for which we have subscriptions.

You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's also available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

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