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Montgomery Library's Guide to Resources for Film and Digital Media

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eBook Collection by EBSCOhost

Additional e-books not available through CU Search can be found at EBSCOhost's ebook collection, which contains over 180,000 books.

Recent Titles in Print

Find these books and many others on the shelves in the reference and circulating collections of Montgomery Library:

EDUCATION          
LB 1044 .I618 2019     The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema
       
MUSIC, LITERATURE, & DRAMA      
ML 410 .S8163 S65 2020     Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer
ML 2075 .C3706 2022     Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz
ML 2075 .H317 2022     Film Music: An Introduction In 11 Takes
P 302.7 .A735 2021     Not a Big Deal: Narrating to Unsettle
PN 1661 .C38 2021     The Art of Dramaturgy
       
DRAMA      
PN 2219 .O8 K66 2022       On Site: Methods for Site-specific Performance Creation
       
TELEVISION, MOTION PICTURES      
PN 1992.8 .H54 L38 2022     Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
PN 1992.8 .R43 N87 2024     Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV
PN 1993.5 .U6 J57 2018     Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States
PN 1993.92 G66 2020     Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us About African Americans
PN 1993.5 .F7 S54413 2018     Contemporary French Cinema: A Student's Book
PN 1993.5 .K6 R43 2019     Rediscovering Korean Cinema
PN 1993.5 .U752 A24 2020     Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925
PN 1994.9 .A96 2018     Richard Ayoade Presents: The Grip of Film
PN 1995 .C3583 2018     Metafilm
PN 1995.9 .E23 C48 2020     Hollywood Diplomacy: Regulation, Foreign Relations & East Asian Representation
PN 1995.9 .H69 O45 2020     Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects
PN 1995.9 .J3 G47 2020     Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender
PN  995.9 .M86 B38 2019     The Movie Musical!
PN 1995.9 .S67 B64 2021     Sports on Film
PN 1995.9 .Y6 S37 2021     Screening Youth: Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema
PN 1995.2 .P66 2019     Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory
PN 1995.62 .B54 2018     Film Censorship
PN 1995.9 .A77 Y36 2023       The Golden Screen: The Movies that Made Asian America
PN 1995.9 .B598 A25 2020     American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder
PN 1995.9 .C513 A73 2018     Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City Circa 1968
PN 1995.9 .E96 W26 2020     Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia
PN 1995.9 .P7 B38 2023     Creative Producing: A Pitch-to-Picture Guide to Movie Development
PN 1995.9 .R3 M36 2019     In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema
PN 1995.9 .S688 T48 2019     Spaces of Women's Cinema
PN 1995.9 .S695 G65 2019     Star Wars After Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy
PN 1998.3 .M5547 R63 2019     Lewis Milestone: Life and Films
PN 1998.3 .T374 T87 2020     Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism
PN 1998.3 .W45 O77 2018     Orson Welles in Focus
PN 1999 .M25 R63 2024       MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
PN 2053 .E87 2021     Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor
PN 2287 .K4 S74 2022     Camera Man: Buster Keaton, The Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
PN 3448 .G68 S47 2021     Gothic Imagination in Latin America Fiction and Film
       
LITERATURE      
PS 169 .M53 O24 2020     The American Midwest in Film and Literature
PS 3573 .I45677 Z675 2023       August Wilson: A Life
       
TECHNOLOGY      
TR 848 .K43 2019     The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

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Browse the Collection

Use these call numbers to browse the reference and circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.

Library of Congress Classification Guide to Film and Digital Media Resources

  Class P   Language and Literature
  PN 1600-3307   Drama
  PN 1990-1992.92           Broadcasting
  PN 1992-1992.92    Television Broadcasts   
  PN 1992.93-1992.95   Nonbroadcast Video Recordings
  PN 1993-1999   Motion Pictures
  PN 1997-1997.85   Plays, Scenarios, etc.