An Introduction to Film

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FURTHER READING 551

Solomon, Stanley J. Beyond Formula: American Film Genres. New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
Warshow, Robert. The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics,
Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture. Enl. ed.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.


Types of Movies and Genres
Action Movies
Gallagher, Mark. Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and
Contemporary Adventure Narratives.New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006.
Schneider, Steven Jay, ed. New Hollywood Violence. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2004.
Tasker, Yvonne. Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action
Cinema.London: Routledge, 1993.


African American Movies
Bobo, Jacqueline, ed. Black Women Film and Video Artists. New
York: Routledge, 1998.
Bogle, Donald. Blacks in American Films and Television: An
Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1988.
Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An
Interpretive History of Blacks in American Film. 4th ed. New
York: Continuum, 2001.
Bowser, Pearl, Jane Gains, and Charles Musser, eds. Oscar
Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and
Race Cinema of the Silent Era.Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2001.
Cripps, Thomas. Black Film as Genre. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1979.
———. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film 1900–1942.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, 1993.
Davis, Natalie Zemon Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Gabbard, Kim. Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the American
Cinema.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Gaines, Jane M. Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent
Era.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Jones, G. William. Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found.
Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1991.
Reid, Mark A. Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film
Now. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and
Black Urban Modernity.Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2005.


Animated Films
Barrier, Michael. Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its
Golden Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Bendazzi, Giannalberto. Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema
Animation. London: Libbey, 1994.
Clements, Jonathan, and Helen McCarthy. The Anime
Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation since 1917. Rev.
ed. Berkeley: Stone Bridge, 2001.
Crafton, Donald. Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898–1928. New
ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Furniss, Maureen. Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics. Rev. ed.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Grant, John. Masters of Animation.New York: Watson-Guptill, 2001.


Holloway, Ronald. Z Is for Zagreb. London: Tantivy, 1972.
Kanfer, Stefan. Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of
Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story. New York:
Da Capo Press, 2000.
Laybourne, Kit. The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to
Animated Filmmaking, from Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to
3-D Animation.Rev. pbk. ed. New York: Three Rivers, 1998.
Lent, John A., ed. Animation in Asia and the Pacific. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2001.
Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic: A History of American
Animated Cartoons.New York: New American Library, 1980.
McCarthy, Helen. Anime! A Beginner’s Guide to Japanese
Animation.London: Titan, 1993.
——— .The Anime! Movie Guide. London: Titan, 1996.
———. Hayao Miyazaki, Master of Japanese Animation: Films,
Themes, Artistry.Berkeley: Stone Bridge, 1999.
Neuwirth, Allan. Makin’ Toons: Inside the Most Popular Animated
TV Shows and Movies. New York: Allworth, 2003.
Noake, Roger. Animation: A Guide to Animated Film Techniques.
London: Macdonald Orbis, 1988.
Pilling, Jayne, ed. A Reader in Animation Studies. London: Libbey,
1997.
Poitras, Gilles. The Anime Companion: What’s Japanese in Japanese
Animation?Berkeley: Stone Bridge, 1999.
Russett, Robert, and Cecile Starr, eds. Experimental Animation:
An Illustrated Anthology.New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold,
1976.
Wells, Paul. The Fundamentals of Animation. Lausanne: AVA,
2006.

Comedy
Cavell, Stanley. Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of
Remarriage.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1981.
Chaplin, Charles. My Autobiography.New York: Simon & Schuster,
1964.
Karnick, Kristine Brunovska, and Henry Jenkins, eds. Classical
Hollywood Comedy. New York: Routledge, 1995.
King, Geoff. Film Comedy. London: Wallflower, 2002.
Koszarski, Richard. An Evening’s Entertainment: The Age of the
Silent Feature Picture, 1915–1928. History of the American
Cinema, Vol. 3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Krutnick, Frank, ed. Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader. New
York: Routledge, 2003.
Mast, Gerald. The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies.2nd ed.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
McDonald, Tamar Jeffers. Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets
Genre. London: Wallflower, 2007.
Robinson, David. Buster Keaton. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1969.
Winokur, Mark. American Laughter: Immigrants, Ethnicity, and
1930s Hollywood Film Comedy. New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.
Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American
Movies. Rev. ed. New York: Vintage, 1994.

Disaster Movies
Dixon, Wheeler Winston. Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of
Destruction in American Cinema.London: Wallflower, 2003.
Keane, Stephen. Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Ca tastrophe.
2nd ed. London: Wallflower, 2006.
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