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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
  • Women on/in/creating Film
    • Examples on film
  • Film genres This link opens in a new window
  • 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
  • Film awards
  • Disney
  • Hitchcock
  • Internet resources
  • Future of Media
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Subjects: Film and Media Studies, Geography, Polar Studies

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Internet resource(s)

  • Alliance for Women in Media
    • Link
    The Alliance for Women in Media is an organization for women, by women. They are committed to supporting women across all media segments, to expand networks, educate and celebrate accomplishments.
  • Alliance of Women Film Journalists logo
    Alliance of Women Film Journalists
    • Link
    Their purpose is to amplify the voices of women critics, provide a platform for the expression of women’s perspectives on film and support work by and about women – both in front of and behind the cameras – through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies. ...
  • Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film
    • Link
    The Center is dedicated to producing extensive and timely research, studies generated by the Center provide the foundation for a realistic and meaningful discussion of women’s on-screen representation and behind-the-scenes employment. Their research includes studies such as It's A Man's (Celluloid) World and Boxed In.
  • The Shot logo
    Forgotten Black Actresses from The Shot
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    During the Golden Era of Hollywood, beloved Black actresses Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge dominated the big screen with their undeniable beauty and talent—but they weren’t the only ones. In fact, there were many incredibly talented Black actresses of the time whose roles went unnoticed and uncredited as a result of racial discrimination. And these women deserve their names in lights. ...
  • Institute logo
    Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
    • Link
    This is the only organization working within the entertainment industry to educate and influence the creation of gender balanced onscreen roles, reduce harmful stereotypes and create an expanse of unique and intersectional female characters in entertainment targeting children 11 and under.
  • Girls on Film podcast
    Girls on Film podcast
    • Podcast
    Girls On Film is a film review podcast from a female perspective, hosted by film critic and broadcaster Anna Smith and produced by co-founder Hedda Archbold at HLA Agency.
  • Unladylike2020
    Unladylike2020
    • Video
    • Link
    Unladylike2020 is a series of 26 short films and a one-hour documentary profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. ...
  • Women and Hollywood
    • Link
    Women and Hollywood educates, advocates, and agitates for gender parity across the entertainment industry.
  • Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP)
    • Link
    The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a digital publication and resource that advances research on the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the silent film era. WFPP publishes original scholarship on women who worked all around the world as directors, producers, screenwriters, editors, and more. ...
  • Women in Film
    • Link
    Women In Film is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting equal opportunities for women, encouraging creative projects by women, and expanding and enhancing portrayals of women in all forms of global media.

In the Library's collections

Suggested subject headings for searching the online catalog include:

  • african american women in motion pictures
    Call number range is PN 1995.9 .N4 on Baker Level 4.
  • women black in motion pictures
  • asian american women in motion pictures
    Call number range is PN 1995.9 .A77 on Baker Level 4.
  • hispanic american women in motion pictures
    Call number range is PN 1995.9 .H47 on Baker Level 4.
  • indian women in motion pictures
    Call number range is PN 1995.9 .I48 on Baker Level 4.
  • transgender people in motion pictures
    Books are scattered within the HQ 75.5 call number range.
  • lesbianism in motion pictures
    Call number range is PN 1995.9 .L48 on Baker Level 4.
  • bisexuality in motion pictures
    This books are scattered between PN 1995.9 .B57 and HQ 74.
  • feminism and motion pictures
  • women in the motion picture industry
  • women motion picture producers and directors
  • women cinematographers
  • women in motion pictures
    Call number range is PN 1995.9 .W6 on Baker Level 4.

Introductory reading(s)

  • Hispanics in Hollywood: an encyclopedia of film and television by Luis Reyes & Peter Rubie
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .H47 R49 1994
    ISBN: 9780815308270
  • Cover artHollywood's second sex: the treatment of women in the film industry, 1900-1999 by Aubrey Malone
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .W6 D54 2015
    ISBN: 9780786479788
    Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in two categories, said director Otto Preminger. One group was of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was of women who survived by acting like men.
  • Cover artIndependent female filmmakers: a chronicle through interviews, profiles, and manifestos by Michele Meek, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1998.2 .I53 2019
    ISBN: 9780815373049
    Independent Female Filmmakers collects original and previously published essays, interviews, and manifestos from some of the most defining and groundbreaking independent female filmmakers of the last 40 years. ...
  • Cover ArtThe international encyclopedia of gender, media, and communication by Karen Ross; Ingrid Bachmann; Valentina Cardo; Sujata Moorti; Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9781119429104
    The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication comprises more than 250 entries by an international team of both established and emerging scholars in the field. This innovative resource explores how gender is represented in media, who produces the content, and the ways in which audiences receive and understand media messages. ...
  • Cover artNever done: a history of women's work in media production by Erin Hill
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780813574899
    Histories of women in Hollywood usually recount the contributions of female directors, screenwriters, designers, actresses, and other creative personnel whose names loom large in the credits. Yet, from its inception, the American film industry relied on the labor of thousands more women, workers whose vital contributions often went unrecognized. Never Done introduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry--from the employees' wives who hand-colored the Edison Company's films frame-by-frame, to the female immigrants who toiled in MGM's backrooms to produce beautifully beaded and embroidered costumes. Challenging the dismissive characterization of these women as merely menial workers, media historian Erin Hill shows how their labor was essential to the industry and required considerable technical and interpersonal skills. ...
  • Cover ArtThe Routledge companion to cinema and gender by Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelača, E. Ann Kaplan, Patrice Petro, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .S47 R68 2017
    ISBN: 9781138924956
    This companion is both an overview of, and intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The essays included here address a variety of geographical contexts, from an analysis of cinema. Islam and women and television under Eastern European socialism, to female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. A special focus is on women directors in a global context that includes films and filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America. ...
  • Cover artWhat if I had been the hero?: investigating women's cinema by Sue Thornham
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .W6 T467 2012
    ISBN: 9781844573639
    Sue Thornham's study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 1970s to the present day, discussing directors including Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Patricia Rozema and Lynne Ramsay.
  • Women and film: a bibliography by Rosemary R. Kowalski
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Z 5784 .M9 K68
    ISBN: 9780810809741
  • Cover artWomen on screen: feminism and femininity in visual culture by Melanie Waters; Stacy Gillis, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .W6 W666 2011
    ISBN: 9780230229655
    A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture.

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artChick flicks: theories and memories of the feminist film movement by B. Ruby Rich
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .W6 R47 1998
    ISBN: 9780822321217
    If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women's film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks--with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays--captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done. ...
  • Cover ArtContested images: women of color in popular culture by Alma M. García, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry P 9.5 .M552 U6273 2012
    ISBN: 9780759119628
    Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. The anthology is divided into four parts: film images, beauty images, music, and television. ...
  • Cover artFor his eyes only: the women of James Bond by Lisa Funnell, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .J3 F67 2015
    ISBN: 9780231176156
    The release of Skyfall in 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. It earned over one billion dollars in the worldwide box office and won two Academy Awards. Amid popular and critical acclaim, some have questioned the representation of women in the film. From an aging M to the limited role of the Bond Girl and the characterization of Miss Moneypenny as a defunct field agent, Skyfall develops the legacy of Bond at the expense of women.
  • Cover artGender in science fiction films, 1964-1979: a critical study by Bonnie Noonan
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .S26 N64 2015
    ISBN: 9780786459742
    The 1950's era of science fiction film effectively ended when space flight became a reality with the first manned orbit of Earth in 1962. As the genre's wildly speculative depictions of science and technology gave way to more reality-based representations, relations between male and female characters reflected the changing political and social climates of the era.
  • Cover ArtHammer!: making movies out of life and sex by Barbara Hammer
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1998.3 .H32 A3 2010
    ISBN: 9781558616141
    The first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired generations of queer, feminist and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of the queer aesthetic in the 80s and the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, Hammer's search for meaning as she contemplates mortality in the past 10 years, Hammer! includes text and images from all these periods to create a memoir as innovative and disarming as her work on screen has always been.
  • Cover artHeroes, lovers, and others: the story of Latinos in Hollywood by Clara E. Rodriguez
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .H47 R63 2004
    ISBN: 9781588341112
    Heroes, Lovers, and Others tells the fascinating history of Latinos in film, from the birth of the movies to the present, through a series of stories about Hollywood's most famous and enduring stars. The book features such Latino legends as Dolores del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Ramon Navarro, Desi Arnaz, Anthony Quinn, Raquel Welch, Selma Hayek, and Antonio Banderas. ...
  • Cover artKnock me up, knock me down: images of pregnancy in Hollywood films by Kelly Oliver
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .P66 O45 2012
    ISBN: 9780231161091
    No longer is pregnancy a repulsive or shameful condition in Hollywood films, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female character. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family. Not all representations signify progress. Oliver finds that in many pregnancy films, our anxieties over modern reproductive practices and technologies are made manifest, and in some cases perpetuate conventions curtailing women's freedom. ...
  • Cover artLatina/o stars in U.S. eyes: the making and meanings of film and tv stardom by Mary C. Beltrán
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .H47 B45 2009
    ISBN: 9780252076510
    This book explores the role film and television stardom has played in establishing, reinforcing, and challenging popular ethnic notions of Latina/os in the United States since the silent film era of the 1920s. In addition to documenting the importance of Latina and Latino stars to American film and television history, Mary C. Beltrán focuses on key moments in the construction of "Hollywood Latinidad" by analyzing the public images of these stars as promoted by Hollywood film studios, television networks, producers, and the performers themselves. ...
  • Cover artLatinas in the United States: a historical encyclopedia by Vicki L. Ruiz; Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    • Database
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780253346803
    Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia records the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States. This encyclopedia is the first comprehensive gathering of scholarship on Latinas. ...
  • Cover ArtThe limits of #MeToo in Hollywood: gender and power in the entertainment industry by Margaret Tally
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781476684956
    In October 2017, actress Alyssa Milano sparked the #MeToo movement. The ensuing protests quickly encompassed far more than Harvey Weinstein and the entertainment industry. They expressed women's outrage at male workplace behavior in every sector and social class and even helped elect a new generation of women leaders in 2018. But what has been the effect of #MeToo in the entertainment industry itself? This book traces the movement's influence on the stories being told, on changing representations of women's lives and bodies, and on the slow changes among the producers who shape the stories. ...
  • Cover ArtThe queens of animation: the untold story of the women who transformed the world of Disney and made cinematic history by Nathalia Holt
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1999 .W27 H59 2019
    ISBN: 9780316439152
    From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these ground-breaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for respect in an often ruthless male-dominated industry and who have slipped under the radar for decades. ...
  • Cover artReflections on blaxploitation: actors and directors speak by David Walker; Andrew J. Rausch; Christopher Watson
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .N4 R46 2009
    ISBN: 9780810867062
    In the early 1970s, a new breed of film emerged that would completely change the way black people were presented in movies. With their afros picked to spherical perfection and their guns blazing, big bad soul brothers and super sexy sisters lit up movie theaters across the country. Never before had black men and women appeared on screen in quite this way. In time, these films would be called "blaxploitation." And while it has long been debated exactly which film launched the blaxploitation era, the financial success of Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Gordon Parks's Shaft helped open the flood gates for the more than 200 films that are now considered blaxploitation. Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak is a collection of interviews with many of the men and women who defined the genre. ...
  • Cover artReservation reelism: redfacing, visual sovereignty, and representations of Native Americans in film by Michelle H. Raheja
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .I48 R34 2010
    ISBN: 9780803211261
    In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood's representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native audiences. These films have been highly influential in shaping perceptions of Indigenous peoples as, for example, a dying race or as inherently unable or unwilling to adapt to change. However, films with Indigenous plots and subplots also signify at least some degree of Native presence in a culture that largely defines Native peoples as absent or separate. ...
  • Cover ArtSex goddesses of the silent screen by Norman Zierold
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1998 .A2 Z55
    This book covers Theda Bara, Barbara Lamarr, Pola Negri Mae Murray, Clara Bow and other actresses in the silent era.
  • Cover ArtThe silent feminists: America's first women directors by Anthony Slide
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1998.2 .S548 1996
    ISBN: 9780810830530
    American women who contributed their talent to the silent film industry are still largely unrecognized today. In The Silent Feminists, Anthony Slide shows how " during the first three decades of its existence, the American film industry was, in many ways, a woman's world." His work documents the lives and careers of America's first women directors and provides an introduction to the subject of women in the American silent-film industry. ...
  • Cover ArtWomen filmmakers: refocusing by Jacqueline Levitin; Judith Plessis; Valerie Raoul, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780774809023
    What difference does it make when a woman wields the camera? Women Filmmakers: Refocusing casts a critical eye on the often-overlooked work of women filmmakers. It provides a rich sampling of the wealth of thought and experience of women in the film industry and brings together in a unique way the views of creators and critics from around the world.
  • Cover artWomen filmmakers in sinophone world cinema by Zhen Zhang
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9789463729352
    Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across the Sinophone world including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and beyond. The book delineates and conceptualizes their cinematic and trans-media practices within an evolving, multifaceted feminist intimate-public commons. The films by these experienced and emerging filmmakers, including Huang Yu-shan, Yau Ching, Ai Xiaoming, Wen Hui, Huang Ji and others, represent some of the most innovative and socially engaged work in both fictional and non-fictional modes in Chinese-language cinema as well as global women's cinema. ...

Other library resource(s)

  • Cover artMiss representation by Jennifer Siebel Newsom
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #14627
    Explores how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions in America and challenges the media's limiting and often disparaging portrayals of women, which make it difficult for the average girl to see herself as powerful.
  • Movie poster artReel herstory: the real story of reel women with Jodie Foster by Ally Acker
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    The first director to tell a story on the screen ... The highest paid director in the silent days ...The pioneer of socially conscious films. The first editor to receive solo screen credit ... All Were Women. Based on the groundbreaking edition, Reel Women: the First Hundred Years, by Ally Acker, Jodie Foster takes us on a sweeping journey that looks at the remarkable achievements of female filmmakers from 1896 into the 21st century who transformed the way we look at movies. Using rare footage, and exclusive interviews with filmmakers all over the globe, Reel Herstory corrects the notion that women behind the scenes held adjunct or peripheral careers, and restores them rightfully to their pioneering status. Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women is an unforgettable look at pioneering women all crafts behind the scenes who helped shape the history of motion pictures, but whose contributions have been long ignored.
  • Reel women: pioneers of the cinema, 1896 to the present by Ally Acker
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    There were more women working in influential positions behind the scenes in film before 1920 than at any other time in history. Filmmaker, author, nationwide lecturer Ally Acker, takes us on an archival journey of the pioneering female filmmakers who have transformed the way we look at movies from 1896 to the present. This compelling event has toured the country. Features: Katharine Hepburn, Lillian Gish, Sherry Lansing, Rita Moreno, Euzhan Palcy, Margarethe von Trotta, Marcia Nasatir, Jay Presson Allen, Harriet Frank Jr. Lee Grant and Dede Allen. [Filmmakers on Film, 10]
  • Resource logoUnladylike 2020 by Charlotte Mangin; Sandra Rattley
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    Unladylike2020 is a series of 26 short films and a one-hour documentary profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. ...
  • Resource logoWomen and film from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Lucy Fischer
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    “Women and Film” encompasses numerous issues in academic film studies, including the histories of female practitioners in the industry; the works they produced; female audiences; female critics, historians, archivists, and theorists; and the portrayals of women on the movie screen. In the early years of cinema, women played a significant role in filmmaking (e.g., the director Lois Weber and the scenarist Frances Marion in the United States), but these individuals were soon forgotten as the industry became male dominated.
  • Resource logoWomen and the silent screen from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Shelley Stamp
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Research on women and the silent screen examines the role gender plays onscreen and behind the scenes in early film cultures worldwide. This vibrant sub-field emerged in the 1990s in response to the rise of scholarship on early cinema that began after the Brighton conference in 1978 and the emergence of feminist film theory earlier in that decade. Scholars of women and silent cinema add a historical perspective to feminist film theory, while demonstrating the formative role that gender and sexuality played in early film-making, film-going, and film culture. ...

Selected documentaries

  • Movie poster artThe Bronze screen: 100 years of the Latino image in Hollywood by Susan Racho; Nancy de Los Santos
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #3322
    ISBN: 9781568558998
    The Bronze Screen honors the past, illuminates the present, and opens a window to the future of Latinos in motion pictures. From silent movies to urban gang films, stereotypes of the Greaser, the Lazy Mexican, the Latin lover and the Dark lady are examined. Rare and extensive footage traces the progression of this distorted screen image to the increased prominence of today's Latino actors, writers and directors.
  • Movie poster artCaptured on film: the true story of Marion Davies by Hugh Munro Neely
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7691
    Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest of the screwball comediennes. She combined zany slapstick with exuberant mimicry. This combines archival film clips with interviews and rare home movies to explore her life and work.
  • Hispanics in the media by Francisco Ramirez; Jim Medrinos
    Call Number: Jones Media Video tape #4314
    Explores the current role of Hispanics in the media including interviews with Geraldo Rivera, Moctesuma Esparza, David Valdez, Rita Moreno, Elizabeth Peña, Jimmy Smits and Isiah Morales.
  • Images of Indians by Phil Lucas & Robert Hagopian
    Call Number: Jones Media Video tape #5522 parts 1-5
    A series of films which examines the Indian stereotype portrayed in movies and questions what the effect this Hollywood image has been on Indians' own self-image.
  • Cover artMakers. Volume 2, Women in war, space, comedy, business, Hollywood, politics by Kunhardt McGee
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #18206
    ISBN: 9781627891011
    Profiles women leaders in the fields of politics, business, military, space, motion pictures, and comedy.
  • Movie poster artReel injun by Neil Diamond
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #11118
    Travelling through the heartland of America, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond examines how the myth of the movie "Injun" has influenced the world's understanding - and misunderstanding - of Natives. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors and activists, including Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson, Sacheen Littlefeather, John Trudell, Charlie Hill and Russell Means, Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema's depiction of Native people from the silent film era to the present day.
  • Slaying the dragon; Slaying the dragon: reloaded by Elaine H. Kim
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #13455
    Describes racial and gender stereotyping of Asian women in U.S. motion pictures as well as other filmic media, with Reloaded updating the original documentary by noting the effects of globalization and a changing population within the past 25 years. Includes interviews with actresses and other Asian American women who describe their experiences of such stereotyping.

Finding journal articles & journal title(s)

You can find articles about women in all aspects of entertainment in a variety of sources. You can use Film & Television Literature Index, Women's Studies International or the Screen Studies Collection to find articles. You can also use the search box at the top of the page.

  • Issue cover artFeminist media histories
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Inter-medial and trans-national in its approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender has played in varied media technologies, and documents women’s engagements with these media as audiences, users and consumers, creators and executives, critics, writers and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators, activists, and librarians.
  • Journal logoWomen and the silent screen (Screening the Past) by Victoria Duckett; Susan Potter, guest eds.
    • Open Access Icon
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    What makes women and the silent screen a compelling field of research – one that engages scholars, students and film-going publics – is the opportunity to explore film history anew. As this special dossier demonstrates, presumptions about industrial, cultural, artistic, national, political and social change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are challenged when an apparently simple question is posed: who were making films, writing about films, and enabling the industry’s popular expansion? ...
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
  • Resource logoScreen studies collection by ProQuest
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
  • Resource logoPerforming arts periodicals database
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Performing Arts Periodicals Database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.
  • Resource logoWomen's studies international by EBSCO
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This resource includes references from a variety of Women's Studies bibliographic databases.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
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