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Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Prepared by Robin Imhof
Librarian for English and Film Studies
Fall 2006

Film Censorship

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

  • International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, 4vol.
    Ref PN1997.8.I58 1997
  • The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States
    Ref PN1998 .A51

Books

  • Banned in the media: a reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures, broadcasting, and the Internet
    P96.C42 U654 1998. Also available as an ebook
  • Policing cinema: movies and censorship in early-twentieth-century America (ebook)
  • Classical film violence: designing and regulating brutality in Hollywood cinema, 1930-1968
    PN1995.9 .V5 P75 2003Also available as an ebook

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

  • Arts and Humanities: Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more from the leading arts and humanities journals
  • JSTOR Language & Literature: JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible
  • Literature Resource Center : In addition to authors, information on film writers and directors are included
  • MLA Intl. Bibliography: International database on language, literature, linguistics and folklore. Excellent resource for film-related articles as well.
  • Project Muse: Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, to offer full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the world wide web.

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