Bibliography of film by genre
This is a bibliography of reference works on film by genre .
Action / adventure
Brode, Douglas (1 February 2003). Boys and Toys: Ultimate Action . Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0-8065-2381-1 .
Brown, Jeffrey A. (15 February 2011). Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture . Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-714-1 .
Donovan, Barna William (2008). The Asian influence on Hollywood action films . McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-3403-9 .
—— (2010). Blood, guns, and testosterone: action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7262-2 .
Gallagher, Mark (5 February 2006). Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives . Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-7012-1 .
Gimello-Mesplomb, Frédéric (2007). Le cinéma des années Reagan: Un modèle hollywoodien? . Nouveau Monde Editions. ISBN 978-2-84736-224-4 .
Hill, Katrina (8 November 2012). Action Movie Freak . Krause Publications Craft. ISBN 978-1-4402-3208-4 .
Holmlund, Chris (2002). Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-28443-4 .
Inness, Sherrie A. (1 February 2004). Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6396-3 .
Julius, Marshall (1996). Action!: The Action Movie A-Z . Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21091-3 .
Lichtenfeld, Eric (27 April 2007). Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie . Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6801-4 .
Tasker, Yvonne (1993). Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema . Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-09223-4 .
—— (2004). Action and Adventure Cinema . Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-23507-5 .
Taves, Brian (1993). The romance of adventure: the genre of historical adventure movies . University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0-87805-597-5 .
James Bond
Rubin, Steven Jay (2003). The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia . Contemporary Books. ISBN 978-0-07-141246-9 .
Martial arts
Chen, Ya-chen (12 April 2012). Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium: Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics . Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-3910-3 .
Hunt, Leon (2003). Kung Fu Cult Masters . Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-903364-63-5 .
Hunter, Jack, ed. (30 September 2005). Intercepting Fist: The Films of Bruce Lee and the Golden Age of Kung-Fu Cinema . Glitter Books. ISBN 978-1-902588-13-1 .
Lott, M. Ray (2004). The American Martial Arts Film . McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1836-7 .
Meyers, Richard (1 April 2001). Great Martial Arts Movies . Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0-8065-2026-1 .
—— (1 April 2011). Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Book . Eirini Press. ISBN 978-0-9799989-4-2 .
Palmer, Bill; Palmer, Karen; Meyers, Richard (1995). The encyclopedia of martial arts movies . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3027-1 .
Rance, Penelope (2005). Martial arts . Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-1078-0 .
Reid, Craig D. (1 November 2010). The Ultimate Guide to Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s: 500+ Films Loaded with Action, Weapons & Warriors . Black Belt Communications. ISBN 978-0-89750-192-7 .
Szeto, Kin-Yan (29 June 2011). The Martial Arts Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora: Ang Lee, John Woo, and Jackie Chan in Hollywood . SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-3021-8 .
Teo, Stephen (2009). Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition . Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-3286-2 .
West, David (26 December 2006). Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film . I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-85043-982-0 .
War
Animated
Beck, Jerry (28 October 2005). The Animated Movie Guide . Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-591-9 .
Bendazzi, Giannalberto (1994). Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation . Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20937-5 .
Borowiec, Piotr (1998). Animated Short Films: A Critical Index to Theatrical Cartoons . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3503-0 .
Bukatman, Scott (26 March 2012). The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit . University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26571-4 .
Cohen, Karl F. (1 September 2004). Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons And Blacklisted Animators in America . McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-2032-2 .
Crafton, Donald (15 December 1993). Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928 . University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-11667-9 .
Furniss, Maureen (1998). Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics . Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-1-86462-039-9 .
King, C. Richard; Lugo-Lugo, Carmen R.; Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K. (16 February 2010). Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children . Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-0195-8 .
Lamarre, Thomas (30 October 2009). The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation . University of Minnesota Press . ISBN 978-0-8166-5155-9 .
Murray, Robin L.; Heumann, Joseph K. (1 December 2011). That's All Folks?: Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features . U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-3512-0 .
Neupert, Richard (8 March 2011). History of Animated Cinema . John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4443-9257-9 .
Pilling, Jayne (1997). A Reader In Animation Studies . Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-1-86462-000-9 .
Shull, Michael S.; Wilt, David E. (2004). Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945 . McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1555-7 .
Telotte, J. P. (1 July 2010). Animating Space: From Mickey to WALL-E . University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3979-1 .
Webb, Graham (12 May 2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences, 1900–1999 . McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9 .
Wells, Paul (2002). Animation: Genre and Authorship . Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-903364-20-8 .
Wells, Paul; Hardstaff, Johnny; Clifton, Darryl (1 October 2008). Re-Imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image . AVA Publishing. ISBN 978-2-940373-69-7 .
Art/Arthouse
Arthur, Paul (15 January 2005). Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965 . University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4265-6 .
Connolly, Maeve (7 January 2009). The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site, and Screen . Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-84150-246-5 .
Elder, R. Bruce (2008). Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-Garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century . Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN 978-1-55458-028-6 .
Graf, Alexander; Scheunemann, Dietrich (2007). Avant-Garde Film . Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-2305-5 .
Hall, Phil (2004). The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies: Films from the Fringes of Cinema . M. Wiese Productions. ISBN 978-0-941188-95-1 .
Halle, Randall; Steingröver, Reinhild (2008). After the Avant-Garde: Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film . Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-365-6 .
Hamlyn, Nicky (1 November 2003). Film art phenomena . BFI Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85170-971-0 .
O'Pray, Michael (29 May 2012). Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes, and Passions . Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-85000-1 .
Rieser, Martin; Zapp, Andrea (17 April 2002). New screen media: cinema/art/narrative . BFI Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85170-865-2 .
Skoller, Jeffrey (14 August 2005). Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film . U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4232-8 .
Wilinsky, Barbara (9 January 2001). Sure Seaters: The Emergence of Art House Cinema . U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-3563-4 .
Biographical
Blaxploitation
Comedy
Austerlitz, Saul (1 September 2010). Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy . Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-951-1 .
Horton, Andrew; Rapf, Joanna E., eds. (7 September 2012). A Companion to Film Comedy . John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-32784-5 .
Karnick, Kristine Brunovska (1995). Classical Hollywood Comedy . Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-90640-1 .
King, Geoff (2002). Film Comedy . Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-903364-35-2 .
Laham, Nicholas (30 June 2009). Currents of Comedy on the American Screen: How Film and Television Deliver Different Laughs for Changing Times . McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4264-5 .
Matthews, Nicole (2000). Comic Politics: Gender in Hollywood Comedy After the New Right . Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-5503-4 .
Sutton, David (1 January 2000). A Chorus Of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929–1939 . University of Exeter Press. ISBN 978-0-85989-603-0 .
Tueth, Michael V. (3 May 2012). Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies—From Anarchy to Mockumentary . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8367-3 .
Crime
British Film Institute (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime . Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-304-33215-1 .
Brode, Douglas (1995). Money, women, and guns: Crime movies from Bonnie and Clyde to the present . Carol Pub. Group. ISBN 978-0-8065-1608-0 .
Chibnail, Steve (28 June 1999). British Crime Cinema . Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-16870-0 .
Delamater, Jerome; Prigozy, Ruth, eds. (1998). The Detective in American Fiction, Film, and Television . Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30463-7 .
Forshaw, Barry (30 October 2012). British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-30370-6 .
Gates, Philippa (2006). Detecting Men: Masculinity And the Hollywood Detective Film . SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-6813-5 .
Gillis, Stacy; Gates, Philippa, eds. (2002). The Devil himself: villainy in detective fiction and film . Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-31655-5 .
Glassman, Steve; O'Sullivan, Maurice, eds. (1997). Crime Fiction and Film in the Sunshine State: Florida Noir . Bowling Green State University Popular Press. ISBN 978-0-87972-749-9 .
——; ——, eds. (2001). Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest: Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands . Popular Press. ISBN 978-0-87972-846-5 .
Hughes, Howard (22 August 2006). Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies . I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-219-6 .
Langman, Larry; Finn, Daniel (1994). A guide to American silent crime films . Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28858-6 .
—— (1995). A guide to American crime films of the thirties . Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-29532-4 . {{cite book }}
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Leitch, Thomas (15 August 2002). Crime Films . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-64671-0 .
Mayer, Geoff (16 September 2012). Historical Dictionary of Crime Films . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6769-7 .
Nestingen, Andrew K. (30 July 2008). Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film, and Social Change . University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98804-7 .
Parish, James Robert (1 October 1990). The great cop pictures . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-2316-7 .
Rafter, Nicole (20 April 2006). Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517506-6 .
Scaglia, Beatriz (April 2011). The Thrill of the Kill: Celebrating the Crime Film Genre . Webster's Digital Services. ISBN 978-1-241-59183-0 .
Sorrento, Matthew (30 July 2012). The New American Crime Film . MCFARLAND & Company Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-7864-5920-9 .
Film noir
Gangster film
Grieveson, Lee; Sonnet, Esther; Stanfield, Peter, eds. (28 April 2005). Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film . Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3557-9 .
Hardy, Phil (1998). The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 4: The Gangster Film . UK: Aurum Press.
Larke-Walsh, George S. (6 March 2010). Screening the Mafia: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Mobsters from The Godfather to The Sopranos . McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4311-6 .
Mason, Fran (8 February 2003). American Gangster Cinema: From 'Little Caesar' to 'Pulp Fiction' . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-68466-5 .
McCarty, John (1993). Hollywood Gangland: The Movies' Love Affair With the Mob . St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-09306-8 .
—— (2005). Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture from the Silents to "The Sopranos" . Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81429-7 . [permanent dead link ]
Munby, Jonathan (15 March 1999). Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil . University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-55031-2 .
Nochimson, Martha P. (29 May 2007). Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong . John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-6370-5 .
Shadoian, Jack (16 January 2003). Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514292-1 .
Silver, Alain; Ursini, James, eds. (1 February 2007). The Gangster Film Reader . Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 978-0-87910-332-3 .
Smith, Jim (15 June 2011). Gangster Films . Virgin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-7535-3929-3 .
Stephens, Michael L. (8 February 2008). Gangster Films: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to People, Films and Terms . MCFARLAND & Company Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-7864-3770-2 .
Yaquinto, Marilyn (1998). Pump 'em full of lead: a look at gangsters on film . Twayne. ISBN 978-0-8057-3892-6 .
Horror / thriller
Horror
Thriller
Derry, Charles (2001). The Suspense Thriller: Films in the Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock . McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-1208-2 .
Frank, Alan (1997). Frank's 500: The Thriller Film Guide . Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-2728-8 .
Hanich, Julian (2010). Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear . Routledge Advances in Film Studies. Routledge . ISBN 978-0-415-87139-6 .
Hicks, Neil D. (2002). Writing the Thriller Film: The Terror Within . Michael Wiese Productions. ISBN 978-0-941188-46-3 .
Indick, William (2006). Psycho Thrillers: Cinematic Explorations of the Mysteries of the Mind . McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2371-2 .
Mesce, Bill (2007). Overkill: The Rise And Fall of Thriller Cinema . McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2751-2 .
Rubin, Martin (1999). Thrillers . Genres in American Cinema. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58839-3 .
Musical
Altman, Rick (1989). The American Film Musical . Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-20514-X .
Barrios, Richard (1995). A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508811-3 .
Creekmur, Corey; Mokdad, Linda (1 January 2012). The International Film Musical . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-5430-7 .
Dunne, Michael (25 August 2004). American Film Musical Themes and Forms . McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-8337-2 .
Grant, Barry Keith (23 April 2012). The Hollywood Film Musical . John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-8253-9 .
Green, Stanley (1981). Encyclopedia of the Musical Film. Oxford University Press.
Hirschhorn, Clive. (1981). Hollywood Musical. Crown.
Hischak, Thomas S. (2008). The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533533-0 .
Road movie
Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae, eds. (1997). The Road Movie Book . Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-14937-2 .
Laderman, David (2002). Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie . University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-74732-6 .
Mazierska, Ewa; Rascaroli, Laura (2006). Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie . Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-904764-67-0 .
Mills, Katie (2006). The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television . Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2710-2 .
Orgeron, Devin (2007). Road Movies: From Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-60127-7 .
Wood, Jason (2008). 100 Road Movies . BFI Screen Guides. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-160-4 .
Samurai
Science fiction
Western
Buscombe, Edward (1993). The BFI Companion to the Western . Andre Deutsch. ISBN 978-0-233-98857-3 .
Cameron, Ian Alexander (1996). The book of westerns . Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-0818-1 .
Carmichael, Deborah A. (2006). The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns: Ecocriticism in an American Film Genre . University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-0-87480-866-7 .
Cawelti, John G. (1 January 1999). The Six-gun Mystique Sequel . Popular Press. ISBN 978-0-87972-785-7 .
Hardy, Phil (1983). The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 1: The Western . UK: Aurum Press. ISBN 978-0-7064-2555-0 . Google Books .
Kitses, Jim (1 September 2007). Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood . British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-019-5 .
Kitses, Jim; Rickman, Gregg (1 September 1998). The western reader . Limelight Editions. ISBN 978-0-87910-268-5 .
McMahon, Jennifer L.; Csaki, B. Steve (2010). The Philosophy of the Western . University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2591-6 .
Saunders, John (2001). The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey . Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-903364-12-3 .
Simmon, Scott (30 June 2003). The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55581-4 .
Wright, Will (1977). Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western . University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03491-4 .
Other genres
Drama : Cody, Gabrielle H.; Sprinchorn, Evert, eds. (2007). The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama . Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231140324 .
Pornography/erotic film : Williams, Linda (1989). Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "frenzy of the Visible" . University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06652-6 .
Religion : Eaghill, Tenzan; King, Rebekka, eds. (2022). Representing Religion in Film . London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-14080-6 .
Sport film : Edgington, K.; Erskine, Thomas L.; Welsh, James (2010). Encyclopedia of Sports Films . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7652-1 .
Documentary
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