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Library Guide for Film Research 
New to the Shelf!
Students and faculty online and at regional centers may request books by mail through CU Library Exchange.
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by 
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, The Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by 
Film Music: An Introduction In 11 Takes by 
Sports on Film by 
Creative Producing: A Pitch-to-Picture Guide to Movie Development by 
On Site: Methods for Site-specific Performance Creation by 
Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor by 
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century by 
August Wilson: A Life by 
The Golden Screen: The Movies that Made Asian America by 
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by New E-Books
New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting by 
Art cinema and India's forgotten futures: Film and history in the postcolony by 
The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film by 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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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. |
