The following selections are starting points for your research.

Reference Books (Selective):

Used to locate background information

Blacks in American Films and Television [REF] PN 1995.9  .N4  B58 1988

Halliwell’s Film and Video Guide [REF] PN 1993.45  .H27a 2003

Halliwell's Who's Who In The Movies  [REF] PN 1993.45 .H28 2001

History of the American Cinema [REF] PN 1993.5  .U6  H55 1990

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers [REF] PN 1997.8  .I58 2000

Motion Picture Guide [REF] PN 1993 .M4334

Circulating Books (Selective)

American Cinema:  One Hundred Years of Filmmaking   PN 1993.5  .U6  B314  1994

Cinema Book PN 1994  .C489  1986

Encyclopedia of movie special effects  TR 858 .N48 2000

Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema, 1896 to the Present PN 1998.2  .A24 1991

Illustrated History of the Cinema  PN 1993.5  .A1  I45  1987

Understanding movies PN 1994 .G47 2002

eBooks of Interest From netLibrary 

[Off-campus access by netLibrary username/password account]

• Cinema Studies : The Key Concepts
• International Dictionary of Broadcasting and Film
• Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema
• Film Quarterly : Forty Years, a Selection
• Second Century of Cinema : The Past and Future of the Moving Image

Search the Library Catalog

Search the Library Catalog using some of the suggested subjects listed below.  Subject headings consist of words, groups of words, or acronyms that are used to describe the subject of a work and are utilized in searching the catalog and other online databases to enhance retrieval.  Change the Location Limiter to All Locations from GateWay to see what the other MCCCD libraries have available.  Online requests may be made on books available at any of the other libraries for delivery to our campus for pick-up.

Suggested Subject Headings

• Motion pictures
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Motion picture actors and actresses
• Film genres
• Silent films

Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings (set of red volumes at the Index tables) to find other related subject headings to search.
Most books on Cinema are classified as PN1993-PN1999 in the Library Of Congress Classification System.  You may wish to browse the shelves in this area.  Look in both the Reference Collection and the General Collection.

Search the Library Databases for Articles

To find periodical and newspaper articles, select one of the databases listed under Databases from the GateWay Community College Library Home Page.  Many of the articles are available full text and may be printed, e-mailed or saved to disk. Off-campus access is available to many of the databases.

Please keep in mind that the Library does not own every journal listed in these sources.  To find out if the library does own a specific title perform a Title search in the Library Catalog or look up the magazine or journal title in GateWay's Journal Locator.  For those periodicals that we do not carry, Interlibrary Loan is available for requesting such resources.

Suggested Databases:

• EBSCOhost [Select MasterFile Premier from the database list:  Off-campus access by ID number]
• Expanded Academic ASAP [InfoTrac:  Off-campus access by ID number]
• SIRS Knowledge Source  [Off-campus: Username/Password]
• Wilson Biographies [For biographical profiles of directors, actors, actresses, etc.  Off-campus access by Username/Password]
• Wilson Select Plus  [FirstSearch:  Off-campus access by ID number]

Journals of Interest

• Film Comment 1990-
• People 1985-

Websites of Interest

• GateWay's Humanities Subject Links: Movies
• Cinema Spot
• Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• Motion-Picture Industry: Behind-the-Scenes
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Includes the Official Academy Awards database)