Selective
Subject Bibliographies of Film
by Paul J. Spaeth
5. Regions & Countries
Africa
Manthia Diawara. African Cinema: Politics and Culture.
Bloomington
:
Indiana
University
Press, 1992.
N. Frank Ukadike. Black African Cinema.
Berkeley
:
University
of
California
Press, 1994.
Arab Countries
The Cinema in Arab Countries.
Beirut
: Interarab Centre of Cinema & Television, 1966.
Asia
Wimal Dissanayake (ed.) Colonialism and Nationalism in
Asian Cinema.
Bloomington
:
Indiana
University
Press, 1994.
John A. Lent. The Asian Film Industry.
Austin
:
University
of
Texas
Press, 1990.
Lee Server. Asian Pop Cinema:
Bombay
to
Tokyo
.
San Francisco
: Chronicle Books, 1999.
Thomas Weisser. Asian Cult Cinema.
New York
: Boulevard Books, 1997.
Eastern Europe
Grzegorz Balski.
Directory of Eastern European Filmmakers and Films 1945-1991. Trwobridge: Flicks
Books, 1992.
Daniel J. Goulding.
Five Filmmakers: Tarkovsky, Forman, Polanski, Szabo, Makavejev.
Bloomington
:
Indiana
University
Press, 1994.
Daniel J. Goulding.
Post New Wave Cinema in the
Soviet Union
and
Eastern Europe
.
Bloomington
:
Indiana
University
Press, 1989.
Mira & Antonin J.
Liehm. The Most Important Art: East European Film After 1945.
Berkeley
:
University
of
California
Press, 1977.
Alistair Whyte. New
Cinema in
Eastern Europe
.
London
: Dutton, Studio
Vista
, 1966.
Europe
Peter Lev. The
Euro-American Cinema.
Austin
:
University
of
Texas
, 1993.
Roger Manvell. New
Cinema in
Europe
.
London
: Dutton, Studio
Vista
, 1966.
Ginette Vincendeau
(ed.) The Encyclopedia of European Cinema.
London
: Cassell, 1995.
Scandinavia
Peter Cowie.
Scandinavian Cinema: A Survey of Film and Filmmakers in
Denmark
,
Finland
,
Iceland
,
Norway
and
Sweden
.
London
: Tantivy Press, 1992.
Tytti Soila, Astrid
Soderbergh Widding, Gunnar Iversen. Nordic National Cinemas.
London
: Rouledge, 1998.
Spanish America
Timothy Barnard & Peter Rist (eds.) South American
Cinema: A Critical Filmography 1915-1994.
New York
:
Garland
, 1996.
Julianne Burton (ed.) Cinema and Social Change in
Latin America
: Conversations with Filmmakers.
Austin
:
University
of
Texas
, 1986.
Coco
Fusco (ed.) Reviewing Histories: Selections from New Latin American Cinema.
Buffalo
: Hallwalls, 1987.
John King. Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in
Latin America
.
London
: Verso, 1990.
Chon A. Noriega (ed.) Visible Nations: Latin American
Cinema and Video.
Minneapolis
:
University
of
Minnesota
Press, 2000.
Ronald Schwartz. Latin American
Films, 1932-1994: A Critical Filmography.
Jefferson
,
NC
: McFarland, 1997.
Third World
Roy Armes.
Third World
Film Making and the West.
Berkeley
:
University
of
California
, 1987.
John D. H. Downing (ed.) Film and Politics in the
Third World
.
Brooklyn
,
NY
: Autonomedia, 1987.
Teshome K. Gabriel. Third Cinema in the
Third World
: The Aesthetics of Liberation.
Ann Arbor
,
MI
: UMI Research Press, 1982.
Countries
Argentina
Tim Barnard (ed.) Argentine Cinema.
Toronto
: Nightwood Editions, 1986.
Australia
Brian McFarlane. Australian Cinema.
New York
:
Columbia
University
, 1988.
Sue Matthews. 35 mm Dreams: Conversations with Five
Directors about the Australian Film Revival. Penguin, 1984.
Tom O’Regan. Australian National Cinema.
London
: Routledge
Neil Rattigan. Images of
Australia
: 100 Films of the New Australian Cinema.
Dallas
: Southern
Methodist
University
, 1991.
Brazil
Randall Johnson & Robert Stam (ed.) Brazilian Cinema.
Austin
:
University
of
Texas
, 1988.
Randall Johnson. Cinema Novo x 5: Masters of Contemporary
Brazilian Film.
Austin
:
University
of
Texas
, 1984.
Canada
Seth Feldman & Joyce Nelson (eds.) Canadian Film
Reader.
Toronto
: Peter Martin, 1977.
Seth Feldman (ed.) Take Two: A Tribute to Film in
Canada
.
Toronto
: Irwin, 1984.
Christopher E. Gittings. Canadian National Cinema:
Ideology, Difference and Representation.
London
: Routledge, 2002.
Peter Harcourt. Movies and Mythologies: Towards a National
Cinema.
Toronto
: CBC, 1977.
Tom Henighan. The Maclean’s Companion to Canadian Arts
and Culture.
Vancouver
,
BC
: Raincoast Books,
John Hofsess. InnerViews: Ten Canadian Film-makers.
Toronto
: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975.
D. B. Jones. Movies and Memoranda: An Interpretive History
of the National Film Board of Cananda.
Ottawa
: Canadian Film Institute, 1981.
Jenny Lion (ed.) Magnetic North [Canadian Experimental
Video].
Minneapolis
:
University
of
Minnesota
Press, 2000
[Catalog of an exhibition of 40 videos shown at
Walker
Art
Center
(
Minneapolis
) 10/00 and Plug In (
Winnipeg
,
Manitoba
) 11/00]
Bill Marshall. Quebec National Cinema.
Montreal
:
McGill-Queens
University
Press, 2001.
Katherine Monk. Weird Sex and Snowshoes, and Other Canadian
Film Phenomena.
Vancouver
,
BC
: Raincoast Books, 2001.
China
:
Hong Kong
David Bordwell. Planet
Hong Kong
: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment.
Cambridge
,
MA
: Harvard, 2000.
Li Cheuk-to. "Popular Cinema in
Hong Kong
" OHWC (704-711)
Frederic Dannen & Barry Long.
Hong Kong
Babylon
: An Insider's Guide to the
Hollywood
of the East. NY: Miramax/Hyperion, 1997.
Poshek Fu & David Desser (eds.) The Cinema of Hong
Kong: History, Arts, Identity.
Cambridge
:
Cambridge
University
, 2000.
Stefan Hammond & Mike Wilkins. Sex and Zen & A
Bullet in the Head: The Essential Guide to
Hong Kong
's Mind-Bending Films. NY: Fireside, 1996.
Bey Logan. Hong Kong Action Cinema. NY, 1996.
Lisa Odham Stokes & Michael Hoover. City on Fire: Hong
Kong Cinema.
London
, 1999.
Stephen Teo & N. K Leung. "Hong Kong Cinema"
OGFS (550-556)
Stephen Teo. Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimension.
London
: BFI Publishing, 1997.
China
: Mainland
Chris Berry. "
China
Before 1949" OHWC (409-413)
Chris Berry (ed.) Perspectives on Chinese Cinema.
London
: BFI, 1991.
Nick Browne, Paul G.Pickowicz, Vivian Sobchack, Esther Yau
(eds.) New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. NY:
Cambridge
University
, 1994.
Kuan-hsiang Chen. "Taiwanese New Cinema" OGFS
(557-561)
Robert R. S. Chen. The Historical and Cultural Experiences
of the
Taiwan
New Cinema.
Taipei
: Wuang-Hsiong, 1993.
Rey Chow. Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality,
Ethnography and Contemporary Chinese Cinema. NY:
Columbia
University
, 1995.
Paul Clark. Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics Since
1949.
Cambridge
,
MA
:
Cambridge
University
, 1987.
Jay Leyda. Dianying: An Account of Films and the Film
Audience in
China
.
Cambridge
,
MA
: MIT Press, 1972.
Kwok-kan Tam & Wimal Dissanayake. New Chinese Cinema.
NY:
Oxford
University
, 1998.
[Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Hou Hsiao-hsien,
Edward Yang, Stanley Kwan]
Tony Rayns and Scott Meek (ed.) Electric Shadows:
Forty-five Years of Chinese Cinema.
London
: BFI, 1980.
Tony Rayns. More Electric Shadows: Chinese Cinema
1922-1984.
London
: BFI, 1985.
Tony Rayns. The New Chinese Cinema: An Introduction.
London
: Faber & Faber, 1989.
Berenice Reynaud. "Chinese Cinema" OGFS (543-549)
George Sempsel (ed.) Chinese Film: The State of the Art in
the People's Republic. NY: Praeger, 1987.
George Sempsel, Hou Jianping, Xia Hong (eds.) Chinese Film
Theory: A Guide to the New Era. NY: Praeger, 1987.
Esther Yau. "
China
After the Revolution" OHWC (693-704)
June Yip. "Taiwanese New Cinema" OHWC (711-713)
Czechoslovakia
Peter Hames. The Czechoslovak New Wave.
Berkeley
:
University
of
California
Press, 1985.
Antonin J. Liehm. Closely Watched Films: The
Czechoslovakian Experience.
White Plains
,
NY
: International Arts & Sciences, 1974.
Joseph Skvorecky. All the Bright Young Men and Women: A
Personal History of the Czech Cinema.
Toronto
: Peter Martin, 1971.
England
Roy Armes. A Critical
history of British Cinema.
London
: Secker & Warburg, 1978.
Beth Olton. Arthurian Legends on Film and Television.
Jefferson
,
NC
: McFarland, 2000.
Sarah Street
. British National Cinema.
London
: Routledge
France
Richard Abel. French
Cinema: The First Wave 1915-1929.
Princeton
:
Princeton
University
Press, 1984.
Roy Armes. French
Cinema.
New York
:
Oxford
, 1985.
Guy Austin. Contemporary French Cinema.
Manchester
:
Manchester
University
Press, 1996.
Mary Lea Bandy (ed.)
Rediscovering French Film.
New York
:
Museum
of
Modern
Art, 1983.
Melissa Biggs.
French Films, 1945-1993: A Critical Filmography of the 400 Most Important
Releases. McFarland, 1996.
Colin Crisp. The
Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960.
Bloomington
:
Indiana
University
, 1993.
Jill Forbes. The
Cinema in
France
after the New Wave.
Bloomington
,
IN
:
Indiana
University
, 1992.
Susan Hayward. French National Cinema.
London
: Routledge, 1993.
James Monaco. The New Wave;
Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette.
New York
:
Oxford
, 1976.
Alan Williams.
Republic
of
Images
: A History of French Filmmaking.
Cambridge
:
Harvard
University
Press, 1992.
Germany
Lotte Eisner. The
Haunted Screen; Expressionism in the German Cinema.
Berkeley
:
University
of
California
, 1969.
Thomas Elsaesser (ed.)
The BFI Companion to German Cinema.
London
: BFI, 1999.
Thomas Elsaesser. New
German Cinema; A History.
New York
: Macmillan, 1989.
Richard C. & Marie
E. Helt. West German Cinema Since 1945: A Reference Handbook. Scarecrow Press,
1987.
Richard C. & Marie
E. Helt. West German Cinema 1985-1990 : A Reference Handbook. Scarecrow Press,
1992.
Donald Stewart Hull.
Film in the Third Reich.
Berkeley
:
University
of
California
, 1969.
Siegfried Kracauer.
From Caligari to Hitler; A Psychological History of the German Film.
Princeton
,
NJ
:
Princeton
University
, 1947.
Klaus Kreimeier. The
UFA
Story; A History of
Germany
's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945.
New York
: Hill & Wang, 1996.
Erwin Leiser. Nazi
Cinema.
New York
: Macmillan, 1968.
Roger Manvell &
Heinrich Fraenkel. The German Cinema.
New York
: Praeger, 1971.
Klaus Phillips (ed.)
New German Filmmakers, From
Oberhausen
Through the 1970’s.
New York
: Ungar, 1984.
John Sandford. The
New German Cinema.
Totowa
,
NJ
: Barnes & Noble, 1980.
Hungary
Istvan Nemeskurty.
Word and Image: History of the Hungarian Cinema. 2nd ed. Corvina, 1974.
India
Eric Barnouw & S. Krishnaswany. Indian Film. Revised
edition.
New York
:
Columbia
University
Press, 1980.
Rani Burra (ed.) Film
India
: Looking Back, 1896-1960.
New Delhi
: The Directorate of Film Festivals, 1981.
Sumita S. Chakravarty. National Identity in Indian Popular
Cinema 1947-1987.
Austin
:
University
of
Texas
Press, 1993.
Uma da Cunha (ed.) Film
India
: The New Generation, 1960-1980.
New Delhi
: The Directorate of Film Festivals, 1981.
Lalit Mohn Joshi (ed.) Bollywood: Popular Indian Cinema.
London
: Dakini, 2001.
Vijay Mishra. Bollywood Cinema:
Temples
of Desire.
New York
: Routledge, 2002.
Ashish Rajadhyaskha & Paul Willemen. Encyclopedia of
Indian Cinema.
London
: BFI, 1994.
Iran
Hamid Dabashi. Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and
Future.
New York
: Verso, 2001.
Richard Tapper (ed.) The New Iranian Cinema: Politics,
Representation and Identity.
London
:
I.
B. Tauris, 2002.
Ireland
Gary Crowdus. “The Screening of
Irish History” Cineaste 22:4 (1997) 14-19.
Michael Gray. Stills, Reels and
Rushes:
Ireland
and the Irish in 20th Century Cinema.
Dublin
: Ashfield Press, 1999.
Brian McIlroy. Shooting to Kill: Filmmaking and the
“Troubles” in
Northern Ireland
.
Trowbridge
,
Eng.
: Flick Books, 1998.
Jams MacKillop (ed.) Contemporary Irish Cinema: From The
Quiet Man to Dancing at Lughnasa.
Syracuse
University
Press, 1999.
Lance Pettitt. Screening
Ireland
: Film and Television Representation.
New York
:
St. Martin
’s Press, 2000.
Kevin Rockett, Luke Gibbons, John Hill (eds.) Cinema and
Ireland
.
Syracuse
University
Press, 1988.
Italy
Roy Armes. Patterns of
Realism: A Study of Italian Neo-Realist Cinema. A.S. Barnes, 1971.
Peter Bondanella.
Italian Cinema; From Neorealism to the Present.
New York
: Continuum, 1990.
Mira Liehm. Passion and
Defiance
: Film in
Italy
from 1942 to the Present.
Berkeley
:
University
of
California
, 1984.
Millicent Marcus. Italian Film in the Light of Neo-Realism.
Princeton
:
Princeton
University
Press, 1986.
David Overbey (ed.) Springtime in
Italy
: A Reader on Neorealism.
London
: Talisman, 1978.
Pierre Sorlin. Italian National Cinema,
1896-1996.
London
: Routledge
R. T. Witcombe. The New Italian Cinema.
New York
:
Oxford
, 1982.
Japan
Joseph L. Anderson
& Donald Richie. The Japanese Film. Expanded ed.
Princeton
,
NJ
:
Princeton
University
, 1982.
Audie Bock. Japanese
Film Directors.
New York
: Kodansha, 1985.
David Desser. Eros
Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema.
Keiko McDonald. From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese
Literature in Film.
Armonk
,
NY
: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.
Keiko McDonald. Japanese Classical Theater in Films.
Farleigh
Dickinson
University
Press, 1994.
Patrick Macias. Tokyoscope: The Japanese Cult Film
Companion.
San Francisco
: Cadence, 2001.
Joan Mellen. Voices from the Japanese Cinema.
New York
: Liveright, 1975.
Arthur Nolleti & David Desser (eds.) Reframing Japanese
Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History.
Bloomington
:
Indiana
University
Press, 1992.
Donald Richie. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film.
Tokyo
: Kodansha, 2001.
Tadao Sato. Currents in Japanese Cinema.
Tokyo
: Kodansha International, 1982.
Mark Schilling. Contemporary Japanese Film.
New York
: Weatherhill, 1999.
Dennis Washburn & Carole Cavanaugh (eds.) Word and
Image in Japanese Cinema.
Cambridge
University
Press, 2001.
T. Weisser & Y. M. Weisser. Japanese Cinema
Encyclopedia: Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Miami
: Vital Books, 1997.
Japan
: Anime
Jonathan Clements & Helen McCarthy. The Anime
Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917.
Berkeley
,
CA
:
Stone
Bridge
Press, 2001.
Trish Ledoux & Doug Ranney (ed.). The Complete Anime
Guide: Japanese Animation Video Directory and Resource Guide.
Washington
:
Tiger
Mountain
Press, 1996.
Trish Ledoux (et al., ed.) Anime Interviews: The First Five
Years of Animerica Anime & Manga Monthly.
San Francisco
: Cadence Books, 1997.
Antonia Levi. Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding
Japanese Animation.
Chicago
:
Open Court
, 1996.
Susan J. Napier. Anime: From Akira to Princess Mononoke.
New York
: Palgrave, 2000.
Gilles Poitras. The Anime Companion: What’s Japanese in
Japanese Animation.
Berkeley
,
CA
:
Stone
Bridge
, 1998.
[A dictionary of cultural references, related to various
anime films]
Mexico
Charles Ramirez
Berg. Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983.
Austin
:
University
of
Texas
Press, 1992.
Carl J. Mora.
Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-1988. Revised ed.
Berkeley
:
University
of
California
Press, 1989.
Elissa J. Rashkin.
Women Filmmakers in
Mexico
: The Country in Which We Dream.
Austin
:
University
of
Texas
Press, 2001.
Russia & Soviet
Nicholas Galichenko.
Glasnost: Soviet Cinema Responds.
Austin
:
University
of
Texas
, 1991.
Jay Leyda. Kino; A
History of the Russian and Soviet Film. 3rd ed.
Princeton
,
NJ
:
Princeton
University
, 1983.
Luda
Schnitzer & Jean, & Marcel Martin (ed.) Cinema in Revolution; The
Heroic Era of Soviet Film.
New York
: Hill & Wang, 1973.
Richard Taylor &
Ian Christie (ed.) The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents
1896-1939.
London
: Routledge, 1988.
Neya Zorkaya. The
Illustrated History of the Soviet Cinema.
New York
: Hippocrene, 1989.
Spain
Thomas G. Deveny.
Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction.
Lanham
,
MD
: Scraecrow, 1999.
Peter William Evans.
Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition.
Oxford
University
Press, 1999.
Marsha Kinder. Blood
Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in
Spain
.
Berkeley
:
University
of
California
, 1993.
Marsha Kinder (ed.)
Refiguring
Spain
: Cinema, Media, Representation.
Durham
,
NC
: Duke University Press, 1997.
Ronald Schwartz.
Spanish Film Directors (1950-1985): 21 Profiles. Scarecrow Press, 1986.
