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
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• 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
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• Donovan, Barna William (2008). The Asian influence on Hollywood action films. McFarland & Co.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-3403-9
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• —— (2010). Blood, guns, and testosterone: action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-7262-2
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• Gallagher, Mark (5 February 2006). Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives. Macmillan.
  ISBN 978-1-4039-7012-1
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• Gimello-Mesplomb, Frédéric (2007). Le cinéma des années Reagan: Un modèle hollywoodien?. Nouveau Monde Editions.
  ISBN 978-2-84736-224-4
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• Hill, Katrina (8 November 2012). Action Movie Freak. Krause Publications Craft.
  ISBN 978-1-4402-3208-4
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• Holmlund, Chris (2002). Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies. Routledge.
  ISBN 978-1-136-28443-4
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• Inness, Sherrie A. (1 February 2004). Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
  ISBN 978-1-4039-6396-3
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• Julius, Marshall (1996). Action!: The Action Movie A-Z. Indiana University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-253-21091-3
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• Lichtenfeld, Eric (27 April 2007). Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie. Wesleyan University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8195-6801-4
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• ISBN 978-0-415-09223-4
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• —— (2004). Action and Adventure Cinema. Routledge.
  ISBN 978-0-415-23507-5
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• Taves, Brian (1993). The romance of adventure: the genre of historical adventure movies. University Press of Mississippi.
  ISBN 978-0-87805-597-5
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Rubin, Steven Jay (2003). The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia. Contemporary Books.

• 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
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• Hunt, Leon (2003). Kung Fu Cult Masters. Wallflower Press.
  ISBN 978-1-903364-63-5
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• 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
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• Lott, M. Ray (2004). The American Martial Arts Film. McFarland.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-1836-7
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• Meyers, Richard (1 April 2001). Great Martial Arts Movies. Citadel Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8065-2026-1
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• —— (1 April 2011). Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Book. Eirini Press.
  ISBN 978-0-9799989-4-2
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• Palmer, Bill; Palmer, Karen; Meyers, Richard (1995). The encyclopedia of martial arts movies. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-3027-1
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• Rance, Penelope (2005). Martial arts. Virgin Books.
  ISBN 978-0-7535-1078-0
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• 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
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• 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
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• Teo, Stephen (2009). Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition. Edinburgh University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-7486-3286-2
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• West, David (26 December 2006). Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film. I.B.Tauris.
  ISBN 978-1-85043-982-0
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• Davenport, Robert Ralsey (2004). The Encyclopedia of War Movies: The Authoritative Guide to Movies about Wars of the Twentieth Century. Facts On File/Checkmark Books.
  ISBN 978-0-8160-4479-5
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• Lentz, Robert J. (2003).
  ISBN 0786410469.^[1]
• Palmer, Bill; Palmer, Karen; Meyers, Richard (1995). The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-3027-1
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• Picart, Caroline Joan (2004). The Holocaust Film Sourcebook. Praeger.
  ISBN 0275978508.^[2]
• ISBN 978-0-06-304141-7
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• Beck, Jerry (28 October 2005). The Animated Movie Guide. Chicago Review Press.
  ISBN 978-1-55652-591-9
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• Bendazzi, Giannalberto (1994). Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation. Indiana University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-253-20937-5
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• Borowiec, Piotr (1998). Animated Short Films: A Critical Index to Theatrical Cartoons. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-3503-0
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• 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
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• Cohen, Karl F. (1 September 2004). Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons And Blacklisted Animators in America. McFarland.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-2032-2
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• Crafton, Donald (15 December 1993). Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928. University of Chicago Press.
  ISBN 978-0-226-11667-9
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• Furniss, Maureen (1998). Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics. Indiana University Press.
  ISBN 978-1-86462-039-9
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• 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
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• Lamarre, Thomas (30 October 2009). The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. U of Minnesota Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8166-5155-9
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• 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
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• Neupert, Richard (8 March 2011). History of Animated Cinema. John Wiley & Sons.
  ISBN 978-1-4443-9257-9
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• Pilling, Jayne (1997). A Reader In Animation Studies. Indiana University Press.
  ISBN 978-1-86462-000-9
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• Shull, Michael S.; Wilt, David E. (2004). Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945. McFarland.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-1555-7
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• Telotte, J. P. (1 July 2010). Animating Space: From Mickey to WALL-E. University Press of Kentucky.
  ISBN 978-0-8131-3979-1
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• 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
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• Wells, Paul (2002). Animation: Genre and Authorship. Wallflower Press.
  ISBN 978-1-903364-20-8
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• 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
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• Arthur, Paul (15 January 2005). Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965. University of Minnesota Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8166-4265-6
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• Connolly, Maeve (7 January 2009). The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site, and Screen. Intellect Books.
  ISBN 978-1-84150-246-5
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• 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
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• Graf, Alexander; Scheunemann, Dietrich (2007). Avant-Garde Film. Rodopi.
  ISBN 978-90-420-2305-5
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• Hall, Phil (2004). The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies: Films from the Fringes of Cinema. M. Wiese Productions.
  ISBN 978-0-941188-95-1
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• Halle, Randall; Steingröver, Reinhild (2008). After the Avant-Garde: Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film. Camden House.
  ISBN 978-1-57113-365-6
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• Hamlyn, Nicky (1 November 2003). Film art phenomena. BFI Publishing.
  ISBN 978-0-85170-971-0
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• O'Pray, Michael (29 May 2012). Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes, and Passions. Columbia University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-231-85000-1
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• Rieser, Martin; Zapp, Andrea (17 April 2002). New screen media: cinema/art/narrative. BFI Publishing.
  ISBN 978-0-85170-865-2
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• Skoller, Jeffrey (14 August 2005). Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film. U of Minnesota Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8166-4232-8
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• Wilinsky, Barbara (9 January 2001). Sure Seaters: The Emergence of Art House Cinema. U of Minnesota Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8166-3563-4
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• Bingham, Dennis (2 April 2010). Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre. Rutgers University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8135-4658-2
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• Custen, George (1 May 1992). Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History. Rutgers University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8135-1755-1
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• Dunn, Stephane (4 August 2008). "Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films. University of Illinois Press.
  ISBN 978-0-252-07548-3
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• Howard, Josiah (30 June 2008). Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide. Fab Press.
  ISBN 978-1-903254-44-8
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• Sims, Yvonne D. (24 August 2006). Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture. McFarland.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-2744-4
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• Walker, David; Rausch, Andrew J.; Watson, Chris (30 March 2009). Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-6706-2
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• Austerlitz, Saul (1 September 2010). Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy. Chicago Review Press.
  ISBN 978-1-55652-951-1
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• Horton, Andrew; Rapf, Joanna E., eds. (7 September 2012). A Companion to Film Comedy. John Wiley & Sons.
  ISBN 978-1-118-32784-5
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• Karnick, Kristine Brunovska (1995). Classical Hollywood Comedy. Psychology Press.
  ISBN 978-0-415-90640-1
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• King, Geoff (2002). Film Comedy. Wallflower Press.
  ISBN 978-1-903364-35-2
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• 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
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• Matthews, Nicole (2000). Comic Politics: Gender in Hollywood Comedy After the New Right. Manchester University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-7190-5503-4
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• Sutton, David (1 January 2000). A Chorus Of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929–1939. University of Exeter Press.
  ISBN 978-0-85989-603-0
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• Tueth, Michael V. (3 May 2012). Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies—From Anarchy to Mockumentary. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-8367-3
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• British Film Institute (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime. Continuum International Publishing Group.
  ISBN 978-0-304-33215-1
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• 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
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• Chibnail, Steve (28 June 1999). British Crime Cinema. Psychology Press.
  ISBN 978-0-415-16870-0
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• Delamater, Jerome; Prigozy, Ruth, eds. (1998). The Detective in American Fiction, Film, and Television. Greenwood Publishing Group.
  ISBN 978-0-313-30463-7
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• Forshaw, Barry (30 October 2012). British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order. Palgrave Macmillan.
  ISBN 978-0-230-30370-6
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• Gates, Philippa (2006). Detecting Men: Masculinity And the Hollywood Detective Film. SUNY Press.
  ISBN 978-0-7914-6813-5
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• Gillis, Stacy; Gates, Philippa, eds. (2002). The Devil himself: villainy in detective fiction and film. Greenwood Press.
  ISBN 978-0-313-31655-5
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• 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
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• ——; ——, 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
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• Hughes, Howard (22 August 2006). Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies. I. B. Tauris.
  ISBN 978-1-84511-219-6
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• Langman, Larry; Finn, Daniel (1994). A guide to American silent crime films. Greenwood Press.
  ISBN 978-0-313-28858-6
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• —— (1995). A guide to American crime films of the thirties. Greenwood Press.
  ISBN 978-0-313-29532-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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• —— (1995). A guide to American crime films of the forties and fifties. Greenwood Press.
  ISBN 978-0-313-29265-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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• Leitch, Thomas (15 August 2002). Crime Films. Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-521-64671-0
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• Mayer, Geoff (16 September 2012). Historical Dictionary of Crime Films. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-6769-7
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• 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
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• Parish, James Robert (1 October 1990). The great cop pictures. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-2316-7
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• Rafter, Nicole (20 April 2006). Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society. Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-19-517506-6
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• Scaglia, Beatriz (April 2011). The Thrill of the Kill: Celebrating the Crime Film Genre. Webster's Digital Services.
  ISBN 978-1-241-59183-0
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• Sorrento, Matthew (30 July 2012). The New American Crime Film. MCFARLAND & Company Incorporated.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-5920-9
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• Mayer, Geoff; McDonnell, Brian (2007). Encyclopedia of Film Noir. ABC-CLIO.
  ISBN 978-0-313-33306-4
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• Spicer, Andrew (30 March 2010). Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-5960-9
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• 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
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• 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
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• Mason, Fran (8 February 2003). American Gangster Cinema: From 'Little Caesar' to 'Pulp Fiction'. Palgrave Macmillan.
  ISBN 978-0-333-68466-5
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• McCarty, John (1993). Hollywood Gangland: The Movies' Love Affair With the Mob. St. Martin's Press.
  ISBN 978-0-312-09306-8
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• —— (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}
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• 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
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• 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
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• Shadoian, Jack (16 January 2003). Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (2 ed.). Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-19-514292-1
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• Silver, Alain; Ursini, James, eds. (1 February 2007). The Gangster Film Reader. Hal Leonard Corporation.
  ISBN 978-0-87910-332-3
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• Smith, Jim (15 June 2011). Gangster Films. Virgin Books Limited.
  ISBN 978-0-7535-3929-3
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• 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
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• Yaquinto, Marilyn (1998). Pump 'em full of lead: a look at gangsters on film. Twayne.
  ISBN 978-0-8057-3892-6
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• Hanich, Julian (2010). Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear. Routledge Advances in Film Studies.
  ISBN 978-0-415-87139-6
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• Hardy, Phil (1984). The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Horror. UK: Aurum Press.
• Milne, Tom; Hardy, Phil (1986). The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies. Harper & Row.
  ISBN 978-0-06-055050-9
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• Myford, Eric (2010). The Encyclopedia of Horror & Suspense Movies Volume I. CreateSpace.
  ISBN 978-1-4538-2100-8
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• Derry, Charles (2001). The Suspense Thriller: Films in the Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock. McFarland & Company.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-1208-2
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• Frank, Alan (1997). Frank's 500: The Thriller Film Guide. Batsford.
  ISBN 978-0-7134-2728-8
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• Hanich, Julian (2010). Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear. Routledge Advances in Film Studies.
  ISBN 978-0-415-87139-6
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• Hicks, Neil D. (2002). Writing the Thriller Film: The Terror Within. Michael Wiese Productions.
  ISBN 978-0-941188-46-3
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• Indick, William (2006). Psycho Thrillers: Cinematic Explorations of the Mysteries of the Mind. McFarland & Company.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-2371-2
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• Mesce, Bill (2007). Overkill: The Rise And Fall of Thriller Cinema. McFarland & Company.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-2751-2
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• Rubin, Martin (1999). Thrillers. Genres in American Cinema. Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-521-58839-3
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• ISBN 0-253-20514-X
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• Barrios, Richard (1995). A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-19-508811-3
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• Creekmur, Corey; Mokdad, Linda (1 January 2012). The International Film Musical. Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-7486-5430-7
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• Dunne, Michael (25 August 2004). American Film Musical Themes and Forms. McFarland.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-8337-2
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• Grant, Barry Keith (23 April 2012). The Hollywood Film Musical. John Wiley & Sons.
  ISBN 978-1-4051-8253-9
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• 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
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• Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae, eds. (1997). The Road Movie Book. Routledge.
  ISBN 978-0-415-14937-2
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• Laderman, David (2002). Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie. University of Texas Press.
  ISBN 978-0-292-74732-6
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• Mazierska, Ewa; Rascaroli, Laura (2006). Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie. Wallflower Press.
  ISBN 978-1-904764-67-0
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• 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
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• Orgeron, Devin (2007). Road Movies: From Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami. Palgrave Macmillan.
  ISBN 978-0-230-60127-7
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• Wood, Jason (2008). 100 Road Movies. BFI Screen Guides. British Film Institute.
  ISBN 978-1-84457-160-4
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• Galloway, Patrick (2009). Warring Clans, Flashing Blades: A Samurai Film Companion. Stone Bridge Press.
  ISBN 978-1-933330-78-5
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• ISBN 978-0-7156-3662-6
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• Thorne, Roland (20 August 2013). Samurai Films. Oldcastle Books, Limited.
  ISBN 978-1-84243-400-0
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• Thornton, S.A. (30 October 2007). The Japanese Period Film: A Critical Analysis. McFarland & Company.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-3136-6
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• Cornea, Christine (2007). Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality. Edinburgh University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-7486-1642-8
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• ISBN 978-0-7064-2557-4. Google Books
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• Henderson, C. J. (2001). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies. Facts On File.
  ISBN 978-0-8160-4567-9
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• Kuhn, Annette (1990). Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. Verso.
  ISBN 978-0-86091-993-3
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• —— (1999). Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science-fiction Cinema. Verso.
  ISBN 978-1-85984-259-1
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• ISBN 978-0-8135-2492-4
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• Telotte, J. P. (24 September 2001). Science Fiction Film. Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-521-59647-3
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• Buscombe, Edward (1993). The BFI Companion to the Western. Andre Deutsch.
  ISBN 978-0-233-98857-3
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• Cameron, Ian Alexander (1996). The book of westerns. Continuum.
  ISBN 978-0-8264-0818-1
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• 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
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• ISBN 978-0-87972-785-7
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• ISBN 978-0-7064-2555-0. Google Books
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• Kitses, Jim (1 September 2007). Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood. British Film Institute.
  ISBN 978-1-84457-019-5
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• Kitses, Jim; Rickman, Gregg (1 September 1998). The western reader. Limelight Editions.
  ISBN 978-0-87910-268-5
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• McMahon, Jennifer L.; Csaki, B. Steve (2010). The Philosophy of the Western. University Press of Kentucky.
  ISBN 978-0-8131-2591-6
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• Saunders, John (2001). The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey. Wallflower Press.
  ISBN 978-1-903364-12-3
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• 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
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• Wright, Will (1977). Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western. University of California Press.
  ISBN 978-0-520-03491-4
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• Drama: Cody, Gabrielle H.; Sprinchorn, Evert, eds. (2007). The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Columbia University Press.
  ISBN 9780231140324
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• Pornography/erotic film:
  ISBN 978-0-520-06652-6
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• Religion: Eaghill, Tenzan; King, Rebekka, eds. (2022). Representing Religion in Film. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
  ISBN 978-1-350-14080-6
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• Sport film: Edgington, K.; Erskine, Thomas L.; Welsh, James (2010). Encyclopedia of Sports Films. Scarecrow Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8108-7652-1
  .

See also

• Bibliography of encyclopedias: film and television
• List of books on films
• Bibliography of film: film noir
• Bibliography of film: documentary
• Bibliography of film: horror
• Bibliography of works on James Bond

References

External links

• The Howard Summers Website: Filmographies by Genre/Type
• "Film noir." Encyclopedia Britannica, November 15, 2019