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Welcome to the Temple University Libraries guide to Film and Media Arts. Use the tabs across the top of the page to learn more about what you can do here.  This is always a work in progress, so please feel free to email me with suggestions for resources or other film and media related guides.

 

History of American Cinema

Volume 1: The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907

Volume 2: The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915

Volume 3: An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928

Volume 4: The Talkies : American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931

Volume 5: Grand Design : Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939

Volume 6: Boom and Bust : The American Cinema in the 1940s

Volume 7: Boom and Bust : The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959

Volume 8: Boom and Bust : The Sixties: 1960-1969

Volume 9: Boom and Bust : Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979

Volume 10: Boom and Bust : A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electric Rainbow, 1980-1989

 

AFI: American Film Institute
Not as much about film itself on this site as there is at the BFI site, but details about the organization and its work. Also has its top 100 lists.

BFI: British Film Institute
Excellent website with detailed information and access to the (British) National Film and TV Archive site, the site for the BFI Library, their “16+” research guides, their top 100 list, and more.

H-Film
An H-NET list for scholarly discussion of cinema history and uses of media.

National Film Preservation Foundation
Includes a directory of film archives in the U.S.A., lists of the films they have preserved

New York Times: Movies
The Movies section at NYTimes.com includes reviews, articles, and trailers, a complete list of New York Times movie reviews dating back to 1983, selected reviews back to 1929, box-office charts and data for the U.S. and Canada, New York City and the U.K..

Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies: Film/Video
An extensive listing of links related to film.