Film Reference Works

John M. Smith and Tim Cawkwell (eds.) The World Encyclopedia of the Film (New York: World, 1972 -- $25.00)

The Working Teacher's Personal Guide to Film Sources (Stanford, Ca.: ERIC Clearinghouse on Media and Technology, 1972 -- single copies free on request, paper)

D. Richard Bach (ed.) The Film Buff's Bible of Motion Pictures (1915-1972) (Hollywood, Calif.: Hollywood Film Archive, 8344 Melrose Ave., 1972 -- $24.00)

John Willis' Screen World: 1972 (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972 -- $8.95)

George Sadoul, Dictionary of Films, and Dictionary of Film Makers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 -- $16.50/5.95 and $14.50/4.95 respectively)

Clifford McCarty's Published Screenplays: A Checklist (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1971 -- $6.50)

James M. Salem, A Guide to Critical Reviews, Part IV: The Screenplay from the Jazz Singer to Dr. Strangelove (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1971 -- S30.00 for the set)

Cinema Catalog (Larry Edmunds Bookshop Inc., 6658 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California 90028 -- $2.95, paper)

Catalog of Film Literature (Cinemabilia, 10 Cornelia St., New York 10014 -- $2.50, paper)     

More Film Books

Paul Trent and Richard Lawton's The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972—$20.00, but $16.95 before January 1, 1977)

Laurence Kardish's Reel Plastic Magic: A History of Films and Filmmaking in America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972—$7.50)

David Manning White and Richard Averson's The Celluloid Weapon: Social Comment in the American Film (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972—$14.95)

Edward Mapp's Blacks in American Films: Today and Yesterday (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972—$7.50)

Charles Higham's Hollywood at Sunset (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972—$6.95)

Jean Narbonl and Tom Milne (eds), Godard on Godard: Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard (New York: Viking Press, 1972—$10.00)

Kenneth H. Roberts and Win Sharples, Jr. A Primer for Film-Making: A Complete Guide to 16 and 35 mm. Film Prodution (New York: Pegasus/Bobbs-Merrill, $15.00/6.95)

Stephen Farber's The Movie Rating Game (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1972—$4.50)     

Film Biography

Gary Carey, All the Stars in Heaven: Louis B. Mayer's M-G-M (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1981 -- $18.50 hardcover).

Wyn Wachhorst, Thomas Alva Edison: An American Myth (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981 -- $15.00).

Alexander Walker, Garbo: A Portrait (New York: Macmillan, 1980 -- $19.95 cloth).

Henry C. Rogers, Walking the Tightrope: The Private Confessions of a Public Relations Man (New York: William Morrow, 1980 -- $10.95 hardcover).

Scott Palmer, A Who's Who of British Film Actors (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981 -- no price given).

Tony Thomas, The Films of Ronald Reagan (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1980 -- $16.95).

Jim Connor, Ann Miller: Tops in Taps, An Authorized Pictorial History (New York: Franklin Watts, 1981 -- $10.95 paper).

Raymond Strait and Terry Robinson in Lanza: His Tragic Life (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: 1981 -- $10.00 hardcover)

Irene Adler in I Remember Jimmy: The Life and Times of Jimmy Durante (New York: Arlington House, 1981 -- $8.95 paper)

Jack Oakie, Jack Oakie's Double Takes (San Francisco: Strawberry Hill Press, 1980 -- $10.95 paper).

Marilyn Henry and Ron De Sourdis, The Films of Alan Ladd (Secaucus, N.J.: The Citadel Press, 1981 -- $16.95).     

Motion Pictures

Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen (eds.) Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974 -- $4.95, paper)

Jump Cut (3130 West Schubert, Chicago, Ill. 60647 -- $3.00 per year for Six issues)

Sam Ewing and R.W. Abolin's Professional Filmmaking (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1974 -- $9.95)

David Coynik's Movie-Making, (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1974 -- $3.50 (2.63 to schools), paper with a teacher guide at $1.00, paper)

Lewis Yablonsky's George Raft (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974 -- $8.95)

Al DiOrio, Jr.'s Little Girl Lost: The Life and Hard Times of Judy Garland (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1974 -- $8.95)

Eileen Hsu-Balzer, Richard H. Balzer and Franciz K.J. Gsy's China Day by Day (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974 -- $15.00/7.95)     

Bookstores-San Francisco

William Fadiman's Hollywood Now (New York: Liveright, 1972 -- $6.95)

V. F. Perkins' Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1972 -- $2.25, paper)

Richard Corliss (ed.) The Hollywood Screenwriters (New York: Avon Discus Books, 1972 -- $1.95, paper)

Eugene Vale's The Technique of Screenplay Writing: An Analysis of the Dramatic Structure of Motion Pictures (New York: Grosset &; Dunlap, 1972 -- $5.95)

Alex Strasser's The Work of the Science Film Maker (New York: Hastings House, 1972 -- $17.50)

Dialogue on Film

Journal of the University Film Association     

Directors and Writers

Eric Sherman's Directing the Film: Film Directors on Their Art (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976---$15.00)

Donald Spoto's The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures (New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1976---$13.00/8.95)

Kemp R. Niver's D.W. Griffith: His Biograph Films in Perspective (Historical Films, P.O. Box 46505, Los Angeles, Calif. 90046---$12.00)

Stephen Pendo's Raymond Chandler on Screen: His Novels into Film (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976---$10.00)

Ronald Lloyd's American Film Directors: The World as They See It (New York: New Viewpoints/Franklin Watts, 1976---price not given, paper)

Maureen Lambray's The American Film Directors (New York: Whirlwind/Pathe Press, 1976---$22.50)

Bob Thomas' Walt Disney: An American Original (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976---$9.95)

Richard Koszarski's Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976---$13.95/3.95)

Philip Cecchettini and Don Whittemore's Passport to Hollywood: Film Immigramts (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976---413.50)

Beatriz Reyes Nevares' The Mexican Cinema: Interviews with Thirteen Directors (Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1976---$9.95/4.50)

Francisco Aranda's Luis Bunuel: A Critical Biography (New York: Da Capo Press, 1976---44.95, paper)

Glenn B. Infield's Leni Riefenstahl: The Fallen Film Goddess (New York: Crowell, 1976---$9.95)

Stuart Rosenthal's The Cinema of Federico Fellini (Cranbury, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1976---$9.95)

Edward Murray's Fellini the Artist (New York: Ungar, 1976---$10.00)     

Film Genres

James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts' The Great Spy Pictures (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$17.50)

Tam Perlmutter's War Movies (New York: Castle Books, 1974---$9.95)

John Cary and John Kobal's Spectacular: The Story of Epic Films (New York: Castle Books, 1974---$9.95)

Amos Vogel's Film as a Subersive Art (New York: Random House, 1974---$15.00)

Kenneth Turan and Stephen F. Zito's Sinema: American Pornographic Films and the People Who Make Them (New York: Praeger, 1974---$3.95)     

Cinema History

Jack C. Ellis, A History of Film (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979—$11.95, paper)

John L. Fell, A History of Films (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979— $14.95/9.95)

William K. Everson American Silent Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$17.50)

Jack Ellis, Charles Derry, and Sharon Kern, The Film Book Bibliography: 1940-1975 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979—$28.50)

James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts, Hollywood on Hollywood (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$17.50)

Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin, eds. The Modern American Novel and the Movies (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1978—$14.50/6.95)

Richard Shale, comp. Academy Awards: An Ungar Reference Index (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1978—$24.50/ 8.95)

David Zinman 50 from the 50's: Vintage Films from America's Mid-Century (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1979—$25.00)

Darlene Geis Walt Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics (New York: Harry Abrams, 1978—$25.00)

James Monaco Alain Resnais (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$5.95, paper).     

Film: General

Michael F, Mayer's The Film Industries (New York: Hastings House, 1978---$11.50/5.95)

Joseph M. Boggs' The Art of Watching Films: A Guide to Film Analysis (Menlo Park, Calif.: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1978---$6.95, paper)

Bernard F. Dick's Anatomy of Film (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978---$10.00)

Film periodicals: Chamba Notes (P.O. Box U, Brooklin, N.Y. 11202---$3.00 for students, $5.00 for other individuals, and $10.00 for institutions/quarterly)     

Media and Media Related

Ronald Gottesman and Harry Geduld (eds.) Guidebook to Film: An Eleven-in-One Reference (New York: Holt, Rinehart &; Winston, 1972 – ,$6.95/3.95)

C. Edward Wall (ed.) Multi Media Reviews Index: 1970 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Press, 1971 – $19.50)

Dorothy I. Weil's (ed.) The American Film Institute's Guide to College Film Courses 1971-72 (Chicago: American Library Association, 1972 – $3.50, paper)

Raymond Fielding's The Technique of Special Effects Cinematography (New York: Hastings House, 1972 – $18.50)     

More on Cinema

Robert M. Henderson's D.W. Griffith: His Life and Work ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1972—$10.95)

Fred Silva (ed.) Focus on The Birth of a Nation (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971—$2.45, paper)

David Mayer's Eisenstein's Potemkin: A Shot-By-Shot Presentation (New York: Grossman, 1972— $10.00/4.50)

Cinemabilia Catalogue of Film Literature (New York: Cinemabilia, 10 Cornelia St., 1972—$2.50, paper)

Lawrence Alloway's Violent America: The Movies 1946-1964 (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971—$7.95)

Roger Kahle and Robert E.A. Lee's Popcorn and Parable: A New Look at the Movies (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1971—$2.95, paper)

Hugh B. Churchill's Film Editing Handbook: Technique of 16 mm Film Cutting (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1972—$4.95, paper)

Tony Miller and Patricia George Miller's Cut! Print! The Language and Structure of Filmmaking (Los Angeles: O'Hara Publications, 5650 West Washington Blvd., 1972—$5.50 with 20% discount to schools, paper)     

General Motion Pictures

Eileen Sheahan's Moving Pictures: An Annotated Guide to Selected Film Literature With Suggestions for the Study of Film (South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1979 – $9.95 hardcover)

Anthony Slide, Films on Film History (Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1979 – $12.00 hardcover)

Hannah Elsas Miller, Films in the Classroom: A Practical Guide (Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1979 – $12.50)

Roy Pickard, Hollywood Gold: The Award Winning Movies (New York: Taplinger, 1979 – $1 4 .95/$9.95)

Legal and Business Problems of Financing Motion Pictures 1979 (Practising Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019—$20, paper)

Nancy Allen's Film Study Collections: A Guide to Their Development and Use (New York: Frederik Ungar, 1979—$14.00)

David McNicoll, eds. A Guide to Film and Television Courses in Canada (Canadian Film Institute, 75 Albert Street, Suite 1105, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5E7 – $6.95)

Film Periodicals: A new journal, Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (P.O. Box 4667, Berkeley, California 94704 – $9.00 for three issues for individuals, $12.00 for institutions, and $18.00 foreign)

Don Allen, ed. The World of Film and Filmmakers: A Visual History (New York: Crown, 1979—$19.95)

Raymond Fielding, comp. A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations on the Subject of Film: 1916-1979 (Houston, Tx.: University Film Association Monograph No. 3, 1979—$6.50, paper)     

Books on Broadcasting

Eric Reade's Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History, 1896-1929 (Melbourne: Lansdowne, 1970—$6.20)

Andrew Bergman's We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films (New York: New York University Press, 1971—$7.95)

James Robert Parish's The Fox Girls (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1971—$14.95)

Peter Cowie The Concise History of the Cinema: Volume II, After 1940 (Cranbury, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1971—$3.50, paper)

Louis M. Sarary and J. Paul Carrico Contemporary Film and the New Generation. (New York: Association Press, 1971—$2.95, paper)

Richard Rudisill, Mirror Image: The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971—$30.00)     

Film Genres

Thomas Schatz, Hollywood Genres (New York: Random House, 1981 -- $9.95 paper).

Foster Hirsch, The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir (San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1981 -- $14.95 hardcover),

Robert Ottoson, A Reference Guide to the American Film Noir: 1940-1958 (Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1981 -- $15.00 hardcover).

Christopher Frayling, Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone ($40.00 cloth/$20.00 paper)

Jeffrey Richards, Swordsman of the Screen: From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York ($15.00 paper).

Leonard Malten, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons (New York: New American Library, 1980 -- $9.95 paper).     

2. GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS

William L. Rivers and William T. Slater's Aspen Handbook on the Media: Research, Publications, Organizations (Palo Alto, Calif.: Aspen Program, 770 Welch Rd., Suite 453, 1973— $1.95, paper)

John McHale's The Changing Information Environment: A Selective Topography (Center for Integrative Studies, School of Advanced Technology, SUUT-Binghamton, Binghamton, N.Y. 13901—no price indicated).

Donis A. Dondis' A primer of Visual Literacy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1973— $9.95)

Anthony Sampson's The Sovereign State of ITT (New York: Stein &; Day, 1973—$10.00)

Z.A.B. Zeman's Nazi Propaganda (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973-.42.95, paper),

Edmund Carpenter's Oh What A blow That Phantom Gave Me! (New York: Holt, Rinehart &; Winston, 1973– $5.95),

Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein and Eleanor Clark's The Amazing Careers of Bob Hope: From Gags to Riches (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1973—$8.95)     

Journalism

Irving E. Fang Television News (New York: Hastings House, 1972—$12.95/7.50)

Ivan and Carol Doig's News: A Consumer's Guide (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972—available in hard and soft cover with a teacher's guide, cost not known)

David J. LeRoy and Christopher H. Sterling (eds.) Mass News: Practices, Controversies and Alternatives (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973—about $6.95/3.95, with advance copies available this month)

William L. Rivers, William B. Blankenburg, Kenneth Starck, and Earl Reeves' Backtalk: Press Councils in America (San Francisco: Canfield Press, with distribution by Harper & Row of New York, 1972—price not known, paper)

Laurence Leamer's The Paper Revolutionaries: The Rise of the Underground Press (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972—$8.95/2.95)

John Whale's Journalism and Government: A British View (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972—$4.95)

Al Morgan's The Whole World is Watching (New York: Stein & Day, 1972—$6.95)

J.H. Schacht's A Bibliography for the Study of Magazines (Urbana, Ill.: Institute of Communications Research, 1207 West Orange St., 1972—single copies free on request),     

Motion Pictures

George Rehrauer's Cinema Booklist: Supplement Two (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977– $15.00), a 482 page update to the main volume (1972–see 4:1:9)

Bab-bars Anne Price and Theodore Price, Federico Felini: An Annotated International Bibliography (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$11.00).

Dennis R. Bohnenkamp and Sam L. Grogg Jr., eds. The American Film Institute Guide to College Courses in Film and Television (Princeton, N.J.: Peterson's Guides, 1978—$9.75, paper)

Ian C. Jarvie's Movies as Social Criticism: Aspects of their Social Psychology (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$10.00)

Robert Stanley's The Celluloid Empire: A History of the American Motion Picture Industry (New York: Hastings House, 1978—$15.75/7.95)

Richard Koszarski, ed. Hollywood Directors 1941-1976 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977—$4.95, paper)

Andre Bazin's Orson Welles: A Critical View (New York: Harper & Row, 1978— $10.00)

James Naremore's The Magic World of Orson Welles (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$15.95)

Paul Michael's The Academy Awards: 50th Anniversary Edition (New York: Crown, 1978— $14.95)

James Beveridge's John Grierson, Film Master (New York: Macmillan, 1978— $17.95)

John McCabe's Charlie Chaplin (New York: Doubleday, 1978—$10.00)

Leonard Maltin's The Great Movie Comedians, From Charlie Chaplin to Woody Allen (New York: Crown, 1978—$10.95)

S. C. Earley An Introduction to American Movies (New York: New American Library Mentor Books, 1978—$2.25, paper)

Ron Haydock's Deerstalker! Holmes and Watson on Screen (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$12.50)

Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed., F.Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay for Three Comrades (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978—$10.00/3.95)     

Film Screenwriting

Rolando Giustini, The Film Script: A Writer's Guide (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice- Hall, 1980 -- $6.95 paper).

Tom Stempel, Screenwriter: The Life and Times of Nunnally Johnson (San biego: A. S. Barnes, 1980 -- $12.00 hardcover).

Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980 -- $12.50 hardcover).

David Lees and Stan Berkowitz, The Movie Business (New York: Vintage, 1981 -- $4.95).

Film & Literature

Gene D. Phillips, Hemingway and Film (New York: Ungar, 1981 $9.95/$4.95).

Jeffrey Egan Welch, Literature and Film: An Annotated Bibliography, 1909-1977 (New York: Garland, 1981 -- $40.00).     

Television and Radio

TVPE (1826 Spaight St., Madison, Wisconsin 53704; to begin publication on a monthly basis in February 1973 at $6.00 per year)

Television Quarterly

Terry Galanoy's Tonight! (New York: Doubleday, 1972 -- $7.95)

Gene Kievan, Turn That Damned Thing Off: An Irreverent look at TV's Impact on the American Scene (Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill, 1972 -- $6.95)

John Gambling's Rambling with Gambling (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972 -- $6.95)

Mary Francis Rhymer (ed.) The Small House Halfway Up in the Next Block: Paul Rhymer's Vic and Sade (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972 -- 9.50)

Charles E. Lowman's Magnetic Recording (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972 -- $14.50)     

Film Directors

Alexander Sesonske, Jean Renoir: The French Films, 1924-1939 ( Cambridge: Harvard University Press -- $25.00 cloth/ $9.95 paper)

Martin Williams, Griffith: First Artist of of the Movies (New York: Oxford University Press -- $12.95)

Tony Rayns (ed.), Fas sbinder ($8.25 paper/$17.50 cloth)

Peter Baxter (ed.), Sternberg ($9.50 paper/$17.50 cloth)

G. K. Hall "Reference Publications III Film" series (Boston: C.K. Hall, 1979 except 1980 for Penn volume -- at prices shown below)