Bibliography of film by genre

Last updated April 07, 2024

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

James Bond

Rubin, Steven Jay (2003). The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia. Contemporary Books. ISBN 978-0-07-141246-9.

Martial arts

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.
Hunt, Leon (2003). Kung Fu Cult Masters . Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-903364-63-5.
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.
Lott, M. Ray (2004). The American Martial Arts Film. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1836-7.
Meyers, Richard (1 April 2001). Great Martial Arts Movies . Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0-8065-2026-1.
—— (1 April 2011). Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Book. Eirini Press. ISBN 978-0-9799989-4-2.
Palmer, Bill; Palmer, Karen; Meyers, Richard (1995). The encyclopedia of martial arts movies. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3027-1.
Rance, Penelope (2005). Martial arts. Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-1078-0.
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.
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.
Teo, Stephen (2009). Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-3286-2.
West, David (26 December 2006). Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film . I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-85043-982-0.

War

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.
Lentz, Robert J. (2003). Korean War Filmography: 91 English Language Features Through 2000 . McFarland. ISBN 0786410469.^[1]
Palmer, Bill; Palmer, Karen; Meyers, Richard (1995). The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3027-1.
Picart, Caroline Joan (2004). The Holocaust Film Sourcebook. Praeger. ISBN 0275978508.^[2]
Thomson, David (2023). The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film. New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-304141-7.

Animated

Beck, Jerry (28 October 2005). The Animated Movie Guide . Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-591-9.
Bendazzi, Giannalberto (1994). Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation . Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20937-5.
Borowiec, Piotr (1998). Animated Short Films: A Critical Index to Theatrical Cartoons. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3503-0.
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.
Cohen, Karl F. (1 September 2004). Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons And Blacklisted Animators in America. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-2032-2.
Crafton, Donald (15 December 1993). Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-11667-9.
Furniss, Maureen (1998). Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-1-86462-039-9.
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.
Lamarre, Thomas (30 October 2009). The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5155-9.
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.
Neupert, Richard (8 March 2011). History of Animated Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4443-9257-9.
Pilling, Jayne (1997). A Reader In Animation Studies. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-1-86462-000-9.
Shull, Michael S.; Wilt, David E. (2004). Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1555-7.
Telotte, J. P. (1 July 2010). Animating Space: From Mickey to WALL-E. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3979-1.
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.
Wells, Paul (2002). Animation: Genre and Authorship. Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-903364-20-8.
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.

Art/Arthouse

Arthur, Paul (15 January 2005). Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4265-6.
Connolly, Maeve (7 January 2009). The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site, and Screen. Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-84150-246-5.
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.
Graf, Alexander; Scheunemann, Dietrich (2007). Avant-Garde Film. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-2305-5.
Hall, Phil (2004). The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies: Films from the Fringes of Cinema. M. Wiese Productions. ISBN 978-0-941188-95-1.
Halle, Randall; Steingröver, Reinhild (2008). After the Avant-Garde: Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film. Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-365-6.
Hamlyn, Nicky (1 November 2003). Film art phenomena. BFI Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85170-971-0.
O'Pray, Michael (29 May 2012). Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes, and Passions. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-85000-1.
Rieser, Martin; Zapp, Andrea (17 April 2002). New screen media: cinema/art/narrative. BFI Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85170-865-2.
Skoller, Jeffrey (14 August 2005). Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4232-8.
Wilinsky, Barbara (9 January 2001). Sure Seaters: The Emergence of Art House Cinema . U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-3563-4.

Biographical

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.
Custen, George (1 May 1992). Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1755-1.

Blaxploitation

Dunn, Stephane (4 August 2008). "Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07548-3.
Howard, Josiah (30 June 2008). Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide. Fab Press. ISBN 978-1-903254-44-8.
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.
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.

Comedy

Austerlitz, Saul (1 September 2010). Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy . Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-951-1.
Horton, Andrew; Rapf, Joanna E., eds. (7 September 2012). A Companion to Film Comedy. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-32784-5.
Karnick, Kristine Brunovska (1995). Classical Hollywood Comedy. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-90640-1.
King, Geoff (2002). Film Comedy . Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-903364-35-2.
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.
Matthews, Nicole (2000). Comic Politics: Gender in Hollywood Comedy After the New Right. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-5503-4.
Sutton, David (1 January 2000). A Chorus Of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929–1939. University of Exeter Press. ISBN 978-0-85989-603-0.
Tueth, Michael V. (3 May 2012). Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies—From Anarchy to Mockumentary. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8367-3.

Crime

British Film Institute (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-304-33215-1.
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.
Chibnail, Steve (28 June 1999). British Crime Cinema. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-16870-0.
Delamater, Jerome; Prigozy, Ruth, eds. (1998). The Detective in American Fiction, Film, and Television. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30463-7.
Forshaw, Barry (30 October 2012). British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-30370-6.
Gates, Philippa (2006). Detecting Men: Masculinity And the Hollywood Detective Film. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-6813-5.
Gillis, Stacy; Gates, Philippa, eds. (2002). The Devil himself: villainy in detective fiction and film. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-31655-5.
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.
——; ——, 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.
Hughes, Howard (22 August 2006). Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-219-6.
Langman, Larry; Finn, Daniel (1994). A guide to American silent crime films. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28858-6.
—— (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)
—— (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)
Leitch, Thomas (15 August 2002). Crime Films. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-64671-0.
Mayer, Geoff (16 September 2012). Historical Dictionary of Crime Films. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6769-7.
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.
Parish, James Robert (1 October 1990). The great cop pictures. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-2316-7.
Rafter, Nicole (20 April 2006). Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517506-6.
Scaglia, Beatriz (April 2011). The Thrill of the Kill: Celebrating the Crime Film Genre. Webster's Digital Services. ISBN 978-1-241-59183-0.
Sorrento, Matthew (30 July 2012). The New American Crime Film. MCFARLAND & Company Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-7864-5920-9.

Film noir

Mayer, Geoff; McDonnell, Brian (2007). Encyclopedia of Film Noir. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-33306-4.
Spicer, Andrew (30 March 2010). Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5960-9.

Gangster film

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.
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.
Mason, Fran (8 February 2003). American Gangster Cinema: From 'Little Caesar' to 'Pulp Fiction'. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-68466-5.
McCarty, John (1993). Hollywood Gangland: The Movies' Love Affair With the Mob. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-09306-8.
—— (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 ]}
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.
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.
Shadoian, Jack (16 January 2003). Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514292-1.
Silver, Alain; Ursini, James, eds. (1 February 2007). The Gangster Film Reader. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 978-0-87910-332-3.
Smith, Jim (15 June 2011). Gangster Films. Virgin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-7535-3929-3.
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.
Yaquinto, Marilyn (1998). Pump 'em full of lead: a look at gangsters on film. Twayne. ISBN 978-0-8057-3892-6.

Horror / thriller

Horror

Hanich, Julian (2010). Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear. Routledge Advances in Film Studies. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-87139-6.
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.
Myford, Eric (2010). The Encyclopedia of Horror & Suspense Movies Volume I. CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1-4538-2100-8.

Thriller

Derry, Charles (2001). The Suspense Thriller: Films in the Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-1208-2.
Frank, Alan (1997). Frank's 500: The Thriller Film Guide. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-2728-8.
Hanich, Julian (2010). Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear. Routledge Advances in Film Studies. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-87139-6.
Hicks, Neil D. (2002). Writing the Thriller Film: The Terror Within. Michael Wiese Productions. ISBN 978-0-941188-46-3.
Indick, William (2006). Psycho Thrillers: Cinematic Explorations of the Mysteries of the Mind. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2371-2.
Mesce, Bill (2007). Overkill: The Rise And Fall of Thriller Cinema. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2751-2.
Rubin, Martin (1999). Thrillers. Genres in American Cinema. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58839-3.

Musical

Altman, Rick (1989). The American Film Musical. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-20514-X.
Barrios, Richard (1995). A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508811-3.
Creekmur, Corey; Mokdad, Linda (1 January 2012). The International Film Musical. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-5430-7.
Dunne, Michael (25 August 2004). American Film Musical Themes and Forms. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-8337-2.
Grant, Barry Keith (23 April 2012). The Hollywood Film Musical. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-8253-9.
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.

Road movie

Cohan, Steven; Hark, Ina Rae, eds. (1997). The Road Movie Book. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-14937-2.
Laderman, David (2002). Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-74732-6.
Mazierska, Ewa; Rascaroli, Laura (2006). Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie. Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-904764-67-0.
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.
Orgeron, Devin (2007). Road Movies: From Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-60127-7.
Wood, Jason (2008). 100 Road Movies . BFI Screen Guides. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-160-4.

Samurai

Galloway, Patrick (2009). Warring Clans, Flashing Blades: A Samurai Film Companion. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-78-5.
Silver, Alain (2005). The Samurai Film. Duckworth Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7156-3662-6.
Thorne, Roland (20 August 2013). Samurai Films. Oldcastle Books, Limited. ISBN 978-1-84243-400-0.
Thornton, S.A. (30 October 2007). The Japanese Period Film: A Critical Analysis. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-3136-6.

Science fiction

Cornea, Christine (2007). Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-1642-8.
Hardy, Phil (1984). The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Science Fiction. UK: Aurum Press. ISBN 978-0-7064-2557-4. Google Books.
Henderson, C. J. (2001). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies . Facts On File. ISBN 978-0-8160-4567-9.
Kuhn, Annette (1990). Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. Verso. ISBN 978-0-86091-993-3.
—— (1999). Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science-fiction Cinema. Verso. ISBN 978-1-85984-259-1.
Sobchack, Vivian Carol (1987). Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2492-4.
Telotte, J. P. (24 September 2001). Science Fiction Film. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-59647-3.

Western

Buscombe, Edward (1993). The BFI Companion to the Western. Andre Deutsch. ISBN 978-0-233-98857-3.
Cameron, Ian Alexander (1996). The book of westerns. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-0818-1.
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.
Cawelti, John G. (1 January 1999). The Six-gun Mystique Sequel. Popular Press. ISBN 978-0-87972-785-7.
Hardy, Phil (1983). The Aurum Film Encyclopedia,Volume 1: The Western. UK: Aurum Press. ISBN 978-0-7064-2555-0. Google Books.
Kitses, Jim (1 September 2007). Horizons West: The Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-019-5.
Kitses, Jim; Rickman, Gregg (1 September 1998). The western reader. Limelight Editions. ISBN 978-0-87910-268-5.
McMahon, Jennifer L.; Csaki, B. Steve (2010). The Philosophy of the Western. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2591-6.
Saunders, John (2001). The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey. Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-903364-12-3.
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.
Wright, Will (1977). Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03491-4.

Other genres

Drama: Cody, Gabrielle H.; Sprinchorn, Evert, eds. (2007). The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231140324.
Pornography/erotic film: Williams, Linda (1989). Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "frenzy of the Visible" . University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06652-6.
Religion: Eaghill, Tenzan; King, Rebekka, eds. (2022). Representing Religion in Film. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-14080-6.
Sport film: Edgington, K.; Erskine, Thomas L.; Welsh, James (2010). Encyclopedia of Sports Films. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7652-1.

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A list of reference works on the horror genre of film.

Florence Marly was a Czech-born French film actress. During World War II, Marly moved to neutral Argentina with her Jewish husband, film director Pierre Chenal, where she appeared in several films. She also acted in two of her husband's films while they were in Chile.

Kung Fu Zombie is a 1981 comedy-themed Hong Kong martial arts film written and directed by Hwa I Hung. It stars Billy Chong as a martial artist who must fight supernatural foes.

Sue Dwiggins Worsley was an American writer and production assistant on many films and also TV shows. She also worked on the memoir of her husband, film director Wallace Worsley Jr. She worked largely in science fiction and horror genres, but also did production secretary work for Deliverance.

Dalton Shaffer Reymond was an American screenwriter, author, and college professor. He is perhaps best remembered as a screenwriter for the controversial Disney live-action feature film Song of the South (1946).

References

↑ Guide to Reference: History of Asia
↑ "General History." Guide to Reference (subscription required). American Library Association.

External links

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

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[GtRHistory_of_Asia-1] Guide to Reference: History of Asia

[GtRGeneral_History-2] "General History." Guide to Reference (subscription required). American Library Association.

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