Bibliography: Regions & Countries: U.S.
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Selective Subject Bibliographies of Film
by Paul J. Spaeth

 

5a. Regions & Countries: United States

 

General

Tino Balio (ed.) The American Film Industry. Rev. ed. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Gregory Battcock (ed.) The New American Cinema. New York : Dutton, 1967.

David Boardwell, Janet Saiger, Kristin Thompson. The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. New York : Columbia University , 1985.

Gene Brown. Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywood and the Movie Industry from its Beginnings to the Present. New York : Macmillan, 1995.

Daniel Curran. Guide to American Cinema, 1965-1995. Greenwood , 1998.

Gene Fernett. American Film Studios: An Historical Encyclopedia. Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1988.

Douglas Gomery. The Hollywood Studio System. New York : St. Martin ’s, 1986.

Benjamin B. Hampton. A History of the Movies. New York : Covici, Friede, 1931.
[later reprinted as: History of the American Film Industry from its Beginnings to 1931]

Charles Higham. The Art of the American Film. Garden City, NJ:  Doubleday, 1973.

Garth Jowett. Film, the Democratic Art: A Social History of American Film. Boston : Little, Brown, 1976.

Gorham Kindem (ed.) The American Movie Industry: The Business of Motion Pictures.  Carbondale : University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Richard Kozarski (ed.) Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940. New york : Oxford University Press, 1976.

Jon Lewis (ed.) The New American Cinema. Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

Todd McCarthy & Charles Flynn (eds.) Kings of the B’s: Working Within the Hollywood System. An Anthology of Film History and Criticism. New York : Dutton, 1975.

Andrew Sarris. The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968. New York : Dutton, 1968.

Andrew Sarris. “You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet”: The American Talking Film, History and Memory, 1927-1949. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Thomas Schatz. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era.  New York : Pantheon, 1988.

Robert Sklar. Movie-made America : A Cultural History of American Movies. Rev. ed. New York : Random House, 1994.

Anthony Slide. The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.

Janet Staiger (ed.) The Studio System. New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Thomas R. Whiston. Guide to American Cinema, 1930-1965. Greenwood , 1998.

Steve Neale & Murray Smith (eds.). Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. London : Routledge, 1998.

The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States . Berkeley : University of California Press, 1971-
Contents: A. Film Beginnings, 1893-1910.—F1. Feature Films, 1911-1920.—F2. Feature Films, 1921-1930.—F3. Feature Films, 1931-1940.—F4. Feature Films, 1941-1950.—F5. Feature Films, 1951-1960.—F6. Feature Films, 1961-1970.—F7. Feature Films, 1971-1980.—F8. Feature Films, 1981-1990.—N1. Newsreels, 1908-1920.—N2. Newsreels, 1921-1930.—N3. Newsreels, 1931-1940.—N4. Newsreels, 1941-1950.—N5. Newsreels, 1951-1960.—N6. Newsreels, 1961-1970.—S1. Short Films, 1911-1920.—S2. Short Films, 1921-1930.—S3. Short Films, 1931-1940.—S4. Short Films, 1941-1950.—S5. Short Films,1951-1960.—S6. Short Films, 1961-1970.—S7. Short Films, 1971-1980.—S8. Short Films, 1981-1990.

 

General: Studio Histories

Ronald Bergan. The United Artists Story. New York : Crown, 1986.

John Douglas Eames. The MGM Story. New York : Crown, 1976.

John Douglas Eames. The Paramount Story. New York : Crown, 1985.

Clive Hirschorn. The Columbia Story. New York : Crown, 1989.

Clive Hirschorn. The Universal Story. New York : Crown, 1983.

Clive Hirschhorn. The Warner Brothers Story. New York : Crown, 1979

Richard B. Jewell. The RKO Story. New York : Arlington House, 1982.

 

General: Avant-garde & Independent

Geoff Andrew. Stranger Than Paradise : Maverick Film-makers in Recent American Cinema. New York : Limelight Editions, 1999.

Randall Clark. At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture an Politics of the American Exploitation Film. New York : Garland , 1995.

Jim Hiller (ed.) American Independent Cinema: A Sight and Sound Reader. London : BFI, 2001.

Jan-Christopher Horak (ed.) Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-garde,  1919-1945. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Emanuel Levy. Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film. New York University Press, 1999.

Greg Merritt. Celluloid Mavericks: A History of American Independent Film. New York : Thunder’s Mouth, 2000.

Sheldon Renan. An Introduction to the American Underground Film. New York : Dutton, 1967.

Marilyn Singer & John G. Hanhardt. A History of the American Avant-garde Cinema.  New York : American Federation of the Arts, 1976.

P. Adams Sitney. Visionary Cinema: The American Avant-garde, 1943-1978. 2nd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.

 

General: Special Studies

Nick Browne (ed.) Refiguring American Film Genres: History and Theory. Berkeley University of California Press, 1998.

Kenneth M. Cameron. America on Film: Hollywood and American History. New York : Continuum, 1997.

Larry Ceplair & Steven Englund. The Inquisition in Hollywood : Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960. Garden City: Anchor Press, 1980.

Douglas Gomery. Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Charles Higham. Hollywood Cameramen: Sources of Light. Bloomington : Indiana  University Press, 1970.

Ian Jarvie. Hollywood ’s Overseas Campaign: The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920-1950. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Leonard J. Leff & Jerrold L. Simmons. The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood , Censorship and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s. New York : Grove  Wiedenfeld, 1990.

Kenneth MacGowan. Behind the Screen: The History and Techniques of the Motion Picture. New York : Delacorte, 1965.

Steve Neale. Genre and Hollywood . London : Routledge, 2000.

Brian Neve. Film and Politics in America : A Social Tradition. New York : Routledge, 1992.

John E, O’Connor & Martin A. Jackson (eds.) American History / American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image. New York : Unger, 1979.

Peter Roffman & Jim Purdy. The Hollywood Social Problem Film: Madness, Despair and Politics from the Depression to the Fifties. Bloomington : Indiana University , 1981.

Michael Ryan & Douglas Kellner. Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1988.

Thomas Schatz. Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking and the Studio System. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1981.

Kerry Segrave. American Films Abroad: Hollywood ’s Domination of the World’s Movie Screens from the 1890s to the Present. Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1997.

Tom Stempel. Framework: A History of Screenwriting in the American Film. New York : Continuum, 1988.

 

Topical Studies

 Colonial America

Bertil O. Osterberg. Colonial America on Film and Television. Jefferson , NC McFarland, 2001.

 

The Civil War

Jack Spears. The Civil War on the Screen and Other Essays. New York : A. S. Barnes,  1977.

 

The West

Les Adams & Buck Rainey. Shoot-em Ups: The Complete Reference Guide to Westerns of the Sound Era. New Rochelle , NY : Arlington House, 1978.

David Austin. "Continental Westerns" Fims and Filming. 17 (July 1971) 36-44.

Andre Bazin. "The Evolution of the Western"

Andre Bazin. "The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence"

Edward Buscombe (ed.) The BFI Companion to the Western. New York : Atheneum,  1988.

Jenni Calder. There Must Be a Lone Ranger: The American West in Film and in Reality. London : Hamish Hamilton, 1974.

John G. Cawelti. The Six-Gun Mystique. Bowling Green : Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971.

William K. Everson. The Hollywood Western. Seacaucus , NJ : Carol, 1992.

Allen Eyles. The Western. South Brunswick , NJ : A. S. Barnes, 1975.

George N. Fenin & William K. Everson. "The European Western" Film Culture 20 (1959) 59-72.

George N. Fenin & William K. Everson. The Western: From Silents to the Seventies. NY: Grossman, 1973.

Philip French. Westerns: Aspects of a Movie Genre. Revised edition. NY: Oxford University Press, 1977. (Cinema One ; 25)

Brian Garfield. Western Films: A Complete Guide. New York : Da Capo, 1982.

Phil Hardy. Overlook Encyclopedia of Film: Western. Woodstock , NY : Overlook, 1994.

Jim Kitses. Horizons West: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: Studies of Authorship within the Western. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1970. (Cinema One ; 12)

Larry Langman. A Guide to Silent Westerns. New York : Greenwood Press, 1992.

John H. Lenihan. Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film. Urbana : University of Illinois , 1980.

Frank Manchel. Cameras West. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Richard Maynard. The American West on Film: Myth and Reality. Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden, 1974.

Jack Nachbar (ed.) Focus on the Western. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974.

Jack Nachbar. Western Films: An Annotated Critical Bibliography. New York : Garland , 1975.

James Robert Parish & Micahel Pitts. The Great Western Pictures. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1976.

William T. Pilkington & Don Graham (eds.) Western Movies. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico , 1979.

Buck Rainey. The Reel Cowboy: Essays on the Myth in Movies and Literature. Jefferson , NC: McFarland, 1996.

T. J. Ross. "Fantasy and Form in the Western: From Hart to Peckinpah" December 12:1 (Fall 1970) 158-69. 

Wayne Michael Sarf. God Bless You Buffalo Bill: A Layman;s Guide to History and the Western Film. Rutherford , NJ : Farleigh Dickinson University , 1983.

Jon Tuska. The American West in Films: Critical Approaches to the Western. Westport , CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Jon Tuska. The Filming of the West. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976.

Will Wright. Sixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1975.

 

The South

Jack Temple Kirby . Media Made Dixie : The South in American Imagination. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.

 

Chronological Studies by Decades

 

Origins, Teens & Twenties (The Silent Era)

Eileen Bowser. The Transformation of Cinema: 1907-1915. New York : Scribner’s, 1990  (History of the American Cinema ; 2)

Kevin Brownlow. The Parade’s Gone By. New York : Ballantine, 1968.

Craig W. Campbell. Reel America and World War I: A Comprehensive Filmography and History of Motion Pictures in the United States , 1914 to 1920. Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1985.

Paula Marantz Cohen. Silent Films & the Triumph of the American Myth. New York : Oxford , 2001.

William K. Everson. American Silent Film. New York : Oxford University , 1978.

Thomas Gunning. D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph. Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

Robert Henderson. D. W. Griffith : The Years at Biograph. New York : Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1970.

Gordon Hendricks. Beginnings of the Biograph: the Story of the Invention of the Mutoscope and the Biograph and Their Supplying Cameras. 1964.

Gordon Hendricks. The Kinetoscope: America ’s First Commercially Successful Motion Picture Exhibitor. 1966.

Lewis Jacob. The Rise of American Film: A Critical History. With an Essay  Experimental Cinema in America , 1921-1947. New York : Teachers College Press, 1968. [main text covers up to 1939]

Charlie Keil. Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

Richard Koszarski. An Evening’s Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928. New York : Scribner’s, 1990. (History of the American Cinema ; 3)

Larry Langman. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Westport , CT : Greenwood , 1998.

Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood , 1999.

David H. Mould. American Newsfilm, 1914-1919: The Underexposed War. New York : Garland , 1983.

Charles Musser. The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. New York : Scribner’s, 1990 (History of the American Cinema ; 1)

Paul O’Dell. Griffith and the Rise of Hollywood . Cranbury , NJ : Barnes, 1970.

Terry Ramsaye. A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1926.

David Robinson. Hollywood in the Twenties. New York : A.S. Barnes, 1968.

Steven J. Ross. Working-Class Hollywood : Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in   America . Princeton University Press, 1998.

Anthony Slide. Aspects of American Film Before 1920. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1978.

Anthony Slide. Early American Cinema. New York : A.S. Barnes, 1970.

Kay Sloan. The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film. Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Kristin Thompson. Exporting Entertainment: America in the World Film Market, 1907-1934. London : BFI, 1985.

Jerry Vermilye. The Films of the Twenties. Secaucus , NJ : Citadel, 1985.

Larry W. Ward. The Motion Picture Goes to War: The U.S. Government Film Effort During World War I. Ann Arbor , MI : UMI, 1985.

 

Thirties (The Sound Era)

William Alexander. Film on the Left: American Documentary Film from 1931 to 1942. Princeton University Press, 1981.

Tino Balio. Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise , 1930-1939. New York : Scribner’s, 1993. (History of the American Cinema ; 5)

John Baxter. Hollywood in the Thirties. New York : A.S. Barnes, 1968.

Andrew Bergman. We’re in the Money: Depression America & its Films. New York :   Columbia University , 1971.

Gregory D. Black. “The Production Code and the Hollywood Film Industry, 1930-1940”

   Film History 3:2 (1989) 167-189.

Evan William Cameron (ed.) Sound and the Cinema: The Coming of Sound to American

   Film. New York : Redgrave, 1980.

Russell Campbell. Cinema Strikes Back: Radical Filmmaking in the United States , 1930-

   1942. Ann Arbor : UMI Research Press, 1982.

Donald Crafton. The Talkies: American Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1926-1931. New

   York : Scribner’s, 1997. (History of the American Cinema ; 4)

Thomas Doherty. Pre-Code Hollywood : Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American  

   Cinema, 1930-1934. New York : Columbia University Press, 1999.

Roger Dooley. From Scarface to Scarlett: American Films in the 1930s. New York :

   Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.

Scott Eyman. The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution. New York :

   Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Richard Fine. Hollywood and the Profession of Authorship, 1928-1940. Ann Arbor : UMI

   Research Press, 1979.

Harry M. Geduld. The Birth of the Talkies: From Edison to Jolson. Bloomington : Indiana

   University Press, 1975.

Mick LaSalle. Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood . St.

   Martin’s Press, 2000.

Mick LaSalle. Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man.

   Thomas Dunne, 2002.

Giuliana Muscio. Hollywood ’s New Deal. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.

Nick Roddick. A New Deal in Entertainment: Warner Brothers in the 1930s. London :

   BFI, 1983.

Colin Shindler. Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and the American Society, 1929-1939. 

   Routledge, 1996.

Peter Stanfield. Hollywood , Westerns and the 1930’s: The Lost Trail. University of

   Exeter , 2001.

Jerry Vermilye. The Films of the Thirties. Secaucus , NJ : Citadel, 1982.

Mark A. Viera. Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood . New York : Abrams, 1999.

Alexander Walker. The Shattered Silents: How the Talkies Came to Stay. New York :

   Morrow, 1979.

Gerald Weales. Canned Goods as Caviar: American Film Comedies of the 1930s.

   Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1985.

 

Forties

M. Joyce Baker. Images of Women in Film: The War Years, 1941-1945. Ann Arbor , MI :

   UMI, 1980.

Jeanine Basinger. The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre. New York :

   Columbia University Press, 1986.

Bernard F. Dick. The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film.

   Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1985.

Thomas Doherty. Projections of War: Hollywood , American Culture and World War II. 

   New York : Columbia University Press, 1993.

Manny Farber. “Movies in Wartime” New Republic (January 3, 1944) 16-20.

Robert Frye. The Hollywood Propaganda of World War II. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow,

   1994.

Charles Higham & Joel Greenberg. Hollywood in the Forties. New York : A.S. Barnes,

   1968.

Roy Hoopes. When the Stars Went to War: Hollywood and World War II. New York :

   Random House, 1994.

Lewis Jacobs. “World War II and the American Film” Cinema Journal 7 (Winter 1967-8)

   1-21.

Dorothy B. Jones. “ Hollywood Goes to War” Nation (January 27, 1945) 93-95.

Ken Jones & Arthur McClure. Hollywood at War: The American Motion Picture &

   World War II. New York : Castle, 1973.

Clayton R. Koppes & Gregory D. Black. Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits

   and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies. New York : Free Press, 1987.

Richard R. Lingeman. “Will This Picture Help Win the War?” Don’t You Know There’s

   a War On? The American Home Front, 1941-1945. New York : Putnam’s, 1970. (168-

   223)

Dana Polan. Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative and the American Cinema, 1940-

   1950. New York : Columbia University Press, 1986.

Thomas Schatz. Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s. New York

   Scribner’s, 1997. (History of the American Cinema ; 6)

Michael Renov. Hollywood ’s Wartime Women: Representation and Ideology. Anne

   Arbor, MI: UMI, 1988.

Russell Earl Shain. An Analysis of Motion Pictures About the War Released by the

   American Film Industry, 1939-1970. New York : Arno , 1976.

Michael S. Shull & David E. Witt. Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short

   Films, 1939-1945. Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1987.

Michael S. Shull & David E. Witt. Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945: An Exhaustive  

   Filmography of American Feature-length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II.   

   Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1996.

Tony Thomas. The Films of the Forties. Secaucus , NJ : Citadel, 1975.

Andrea Walsh. Women’s Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950. New York : Praeger,

   1984.

Allan L. Woll. The Hollywood Musical Goes to War. Chicago : Nelson-Hall, 1983.

 

Fifties

Peter Biskind. Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying & Love

   the Fifties. New York : Pantheon, 1983.

Douglad Brode. The Films of the Fiftes: Sunset Boulevard to On the Beach. Secaucus,

   NJ: Citadel, 1976.

Thomas Doherty. Teenagers & Teen-pics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the

   1950’s. Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1988.

Andrew Dowdy. The Films of the Fifties: The American State of Mind. New York :

   Morrow, 1973.

Brandon French. On the Verge of Revolt: Women in American Films of the Fifties. New

   York : Ungar, 1978.

Gordon Gow. Hollywood in the Fifties. New York : A. S. Barnes, 1971.

Sam Kashner & Jennifer Macnair. The Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties.

   New York : Norton, 2002.

Ed Sikov. Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950’s. New York :

   Columbia University Press,

 

Sixties

John Baxter. Hollywood in the Sixties. New York : A.S. Barnes, 1972.

Pat Billings & Allen Eyles. Hollywood Today. New York : A.S. Barnes, 1971.

Wheeler Winston Dixon. The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960’s

   American Experimental Cinema. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1998.

Douglas Brode. The Films of the Sixties. Secaucus , NJ : Citadel, 1980.

David E. James. Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties. Princeton , NJ :

   Princeton University , 1989.

John L. Mason. The Identity Crisis Theme in American Feature Films, 1960-1969. New 

   York : Arno , 1977.

Paul Monaco. The Sixties: 1960-1969. New York : Scribner’s, 2001. (History of the

   American Cinema ; 8)

Ethan Mordden. Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960’s. New York : Knopf, 1990.

Juan A. Suarez. Bike Boys, Drag Queens and Superstars: Avant-garde, Mass Culture and

   Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema. Bloomington : Indiana University

   Press, 1996.

 

Seventies

James Bernardoni. The New Hollywood : What the Movies Did with the New Freedoms

   of the Seventies. Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1991.

Robert Bookbinder. The Films of the Seventies. Secaucus , NJ : Citadel, 1982.

Seth Cagin & Philip Dray. Hollywood Films of the Seventies: Sex, Drugs, Violence,

   Rock n Roll & Politics. New York : Harper & Row, 1984.

   [reprinted as: Born to Be Wild: Hollywood and the Sixties Generation (1994)]

Noel Carroll. “The Future of Allusion: Hollywood in the Seventies (and Beyond)”

   October  20 (1982) 51-81.

David A. Cook. Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and

   Vietnam , 1970-1979. New York : Scribner’s, 2000.

   (History of the American Cinema ; 9)

Ryan Gilbey. It Don’t Worry Me: The Revolutionary American Films of the Seventies.

   Faber & Faber, 2003.

Diane Jacobs. Hollywood Renaissance. New York : A. S. Barnes, 1977.

Les Keyser. Hollywood in the Seventies. San Diego : A. S. Barnes, 1981.

Peter Lev. American Films of the 70’s: Conflicting Visions. Austin : University of Texas ,

   2000.

Axel Madsen. The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 1970s. New York : Crowell,

   1975.

Glen Man. Radical Visions: American Film Renaissance, 1967-1976. Westport , CT :

   Greenwood , 1994.

James Monaco. American Film Now. New York : New American Library, 1979.

Marc Sigoloff. The Films of the Seventies: A Filmography of American, British and 

   Canadian Films, 1970-1979.

 

Eighties

Douglas Brodie. The Films of the Eighties. New York : Citadel, 1991.

Robert A. & Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan. The Films of the Eighties: A Complete,

   Qualitative Filmography to Over 3400 Feature-Length English Language Films.   

   Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1991.

John Pierson. Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of

   American Independent Cinema. New York : Miramax/Hyperion, 1997.

Stephen Prince. A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-

   1989. New York : Scribner’s, 2000. (History of the American Cinema ; 10)

 

Nineties

Tino Balio. “Adjusting to the New Global Economy: Hollywood in the 1990s” in Film Policy: International, National and Regional Perspectives / ed. Albert Moran. London :   Routledge, 1996.

Philip John Davies & Paul Wells (eds.) American Film and Politics from Reagan to Bush, Jr. Manchester University Press, 2002.

Jon Lewis (ed.) The End of Cinema As We Know It: American Films in the Nineties. New York University Press, 2002.

Steve Neale & Murray Smith (eds.) Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. London : Routledge, 1998.