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Selective Subject Bibliographies of Film
by Paul J. Spaeth

2. The Arts

Dance

Peter Kenedy. Films on Traditional Music and Dance. Paris : UNESCO, 1970.

John Mueller. Dance Film Directory. Princeton , NJ : Princeton Book Co., 1979.

David L. Parker & Esther Siegel. Guide to Dance in Film. Detroit : Gale, 1978.

Louis Spain. Dance on Camera: A Guide to Dance Films and Videos. Scarecrow, 1998.

Literary Adaptations

Ellen Baskin & Andrew G. S. Mayes (eds.) Enser’s Filmed Books and Plays: A List of Books and Plays From Which Films Have Been Made, 1928-2001. Ashgate, 2003.

Tom Costello. International Guide to Literature on Film. London : Bowker-Sauer, 1994.

Thomas G. Deveny. Contemporary Spanish Film From Fiction. Lanham , MD : Scarecrow, 1999.

Jill Rubenson Fenton (ed.) Women Writers From Page to Screen. New York : Garland , 1990.

Denis Gifford. Books and Plays in Films, 1896-1915: Literary, Theatrical and Artistic Sources of the First Twenty Years of Motion Pictures. Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1991.

Alan Goble. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. New Providence , NJ : Bowker-Sauer, 1999.

Andrew Horton & Joan Magretta (eds.) Modern European Filmmakers and the Art of Adaptation. New York : Ungar, 1981.

Michael Klein & Gillian Parker (eds.) The English Novel and the Movies. New York : Ungar, 1981.

Larry Langman. Writers of the American Screen: A Guide to Film Adaptations of American and Foreign Literary Works. New York : Garland , 1986.

Barbara Tepa Lupack. Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Morrison. Rochester , NY : University of Rochester Press, 2002.

Barbara Tepa Lupack (ed.) Take Two: Adapting the Contemporary American Novel to Film. Bowling Green , OH : Bowling Green State University , 1994.

Barbara Tepa Lupack (ed.) Vision/Re-vision: Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film. Bowling Green , OH : Bowling Green State University , 1996.

Keiko I. McDonald. From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films. Armonk , NY : Sharpe, 2000.

Millicent Marcus. Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Robert Mayer. Eighteenth Century Fiction on Screen. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Eric Rentschler (ed.) German Literature and Film: Adaptations and Transformations. New York : Methuen , 1986.

Harris Ross. Film as Literature, Literature as Film: An Introduction to and Bbliography of Film’s Relationship to Literature. New York : Greenwood , 1987.

John C. Tibberts & James M. Welsh. Novels into Film: The Encyclopedia of Movies Adapted From Books. New York : New York : Facts on File, 1998.

Jeffrey Eagan Welch. Literature and Film: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1977. New York : Garland , 1981.

Jeffrey Egan Welch. Literature and Film: An Annotated Bibliography, 1978-1988. New York : Garland , 1993.

Literary Adaptations: Austin

Jane Austin at the Movies. Washington , PA : Washington & Jefferson College , 1997.

Linda Troost & Sayre Greenfield (eds.) Jane Austin in Hollywood . 2^nd ed. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2001.

Literary Adaptations: Conrad

Gene M. Moore. Conrad on Film. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Gene D. Philips. Conrad and the Cinema: The Art of Adaptation. New York : P. Lang, 1997.

Literary Adaptations: Dickens

Shari Denise Hodges. Theoretical Approaches to Dickens on Film: The Cinematic Interpretation of Charles Dickens Novels. Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Mississippi , 2000.

A. L. Zambrano. Dickens and Film. New York : Gordon, 1976.

Literary Adaptations: Hemingway

Frank M. Lawrence. Hemmingway at the Movies. Jackson : University of Mississippi , 1981.

Literary Adaptations: Faulkner

Bruce Kawin. Faulkner and Film. New York : Ungar, 1977.

Literary Adaptations: James

Susan M. Griffin. Henry James Goes to the Movies. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2002.

Literary Adaptations: Kafka

Hanns Zischler. Kafka Goes to the Movies. Chicago : University of Chicago , 2003.

Literary Adaptations: Lawrence

Louis K. Greiff. D. H. Lawrence: Fifty Years on Film. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.

Literary Adaptations: Shakespeare

[studies & listings on more than one work or director]

Lynda E. Boose & Richard Burt (eds.) Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV and Video. London : Routledge, 1997.

Lorne M. Buchman. Still in Movement: Shakespeare on Screen. Oxford University Press, 1991.

J. C. Bulman & H. R. Coursen (eds.) Shakespeare on Television: An Anthology of Essays and Reviews. University Press of New England , 1988

Anthony Davies & Stanley Wells (eds.) Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Charles W. Eckert (ed.) Focus on Shakespearean Films. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hal, 1972.

Kathy M. Howlett. Framing Shakespeare on Film. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2000.

Russell Jackson (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. 2000.

Jack J. Jorgens. Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington : University of Indiana Press, 1977.

Roger Manvell. Shakespeare and Film. Revised & updated ed. South Brunswick , NJ : A. S. Barnes, 1979.

Kenneth Rothwell. A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Kenneth Rothwell and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. Shakespeare on Film: An International Filmography and Videography. Neal-Shuman, 1990.

Eddie Sammons. Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film. London : Shepheard-Walwyn, 2000.

Robert Shaughnessy (ed.) Shakespeare on Film. New York : Macmillan, 1998.

Micahel Skovmand (ed.) Screen Shakespeare. Aarhus University Press, 1994.

Robert F. Willson. Shakespeare in Hollywood , 1929-1956. Madison , NJ : Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.

Music: Opera

Marcia J. Citron. Opera on Screen. Yale University Press, 2000.

Ken Wlaschin. Opera on Screen: A Guide to 100 Years of Films and Videos. Beechwood, 1997.

Music: Jazz

David Meeker. Jazz in the Movies: A Guide to Jazz Musicians 1917-1977. New Rochelle , NY : Arlington House, 1977.