College of DuPage Library

Call Number Range

Use these call number ranges to browse the General Collection and the Reference Collection.

PN1992 Television (history, theory, individual shows, writing for television)

PN1993 Film Journals

PN1993.5 Film History (general history first, then grouped alphabetically by country)

PN1994-1995 Film theory and appreciation

PN1995.9 Films by special topics (e.g. detective films, film noir, war films, etc.)

PN1996 Screenplay writing

PN1997 Screenplays

PN1998 Directors (biographies and criticism)

PN2000-2900 Actors and Actresses (biographies, studies and criticism)

E-Books

Review this list to find e-books that contain the search words motion pictures, film, cinema, or movies.

Collections of Film Review References

• Film Review Annual
  Gives important film reviews in their entirety and lists other publications in which the film was reviewed.
  Ref PN 1995. F465 (1981-2002 )
• Film Review Index
  Ref PN 1995 .F468 1986
• Index to Critical Film Reviews
  Arranged by title of film with director and reviewer indexes up to 1975.
  Ref PN 1995 .B69 1975x
• New York Times Film Reviews
  Includes a full index of personal names, titles, and corporate names.
  Ref PN 1995 .N4 (1913-2000)
• Variety Film Reviews
  24-volume hardcover reprint of feature film reviews by the weekly entertainment tabloid-size magazine Variety from 1907 to 1996
  Ref PN 1993 .V36 (1907-1996)

Finding Biographical Sources

• American Screenwriters
  Ref PN451 .D5 v.26 1984
• American Screenwriters: Second Series
  Ref PN451 .D5 v.44 1986
• A Biographical Dictionary of Film
  Ref PN 1998.2 T 49 1994
• Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films
• The St. James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia
  Ref PN1998.2. S683 1999

Finding a Topic

• Chambers Film Factfinder
• Chronicle of the Cinema
  General PN 1993.5.U6 C47 1997
• Complete Film Dictionary
  General PN 1993.45 .K66 1997
• The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film
  Ref PN 1997.85 T54 2005
• The Film Encyclopedia
  Ref PN 1993.45 K34 2008
• Filmmaker's Dictionary
  Ref PN 1993.45 S56 2000
• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
  Ref PN 1997.8 I 58 2000
• The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film
  Ref PN 1993.5.U6 W4954 2012

Plot Summaries

• Halliwell's The Movies That Matter
  Ref PN 1998 .H433 2009
• Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide
  Ref PN 1995 .L4 2010
• Magill's Survey of Cinema: First Series
  Ref PN 1993.45 M3
• Magill's Survey of Cinema: Second Series
  Ref PN 1993. 45 .M32
• Magill's Cinema Annual
  Ref PN 1993.3 M34 [1982-present]
• The Motion Picture Guide & Annual Supplement
  Ref PN 1995. N346

Searching for Books by Subject Heading

To identify materials about a particular genre, style, director or other topic, consider the following subject headings:

Film criticism	Film adaptations	Women in motion pictures
Name of the Film	Name of the Director	Motion pictures
Motion pictures history	Motion pictures United States History	Name of an Actor or Actress
Motion picture industry	Motion picture producers and directors	Motion pictures and literature

Books & Videos in Other Libraries

If you'd like to search for books and other materials in other Libraries, try WorldCat or use our Interlibrary Loan service.

Databases

Click here to go to databases.

• Academic Search Complete

Use Advanced Search. Enter the film title in the first search box and then select PS Reviews and Products from the drop-down menu to the right.

• Literature Resource Center

Use Works Search. Enter the name of the film and then select "Motion Picture" from the Type of Work list.

• New York Times Digital Edition

Head to the Arts section and go to "Movies"

• U.S. Major Dailies - Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post

Add "Film Review" or "movie review" to searches for the film title, or even director. From about 1980 to the present.

• JSTOR, and Art and Architecture Complete all would be very useful for critical essays and film criticism

Individual Film Journals/Magazines

Check out these individual film journals to search for critical film reviews and film criticism. If you have suggestions for other film journals to add here, please let us know.

• Film quarterly
  from 10/01/1958 to 06/01/2013 in JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Archive Collection
  In the College of DuPage Library

• Film comment
  from 11/01/2002 to present in Academic Search Complete
  from 11/01/2002 to present in Art & Architecture Complete

• Film criticism
  from 03/01/1976 to present in Academic Search Complete
  from 01/01/1990 to present in Art & Architecture Complete

• JCMS : Journal of cinema and media studies
  from 10/01/1997 to 10/20/2019 in ProQuest Central (US Academic Subscription)

• Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR)
  "The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is the home of one of the oldest and most extensive collections of print, audio/visual, and graphic materials relating to film, theater, radio and television in the United States." (from the website)

• Film Literature Index (FLI)
  "The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. " (from the website) Indiana University Digital Library Program

• Variety - FILM
  Variety.com contains reviews and information on new and upcoming films. Also you can find information about the film business, festivals, and statistics.

• IndieWire
  Locate reviews for new and older films from IndieWire.

• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media.

• Filmsite
  Filmsite is a unique website containing interpretive, descriptive review commentary and historical background, and hundreds of colorful, vintage film posters for some of the best Hollywood and American classic films in the last century.

• MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine
  MRQE.com, the Movie Review Query Engine, is the Internet’s largest database for movie reviews. Founded in 1993, MRQE (pronounced "marquee"), is a searchable index of all published and available movie reviews, news, interviews, and other material associated to movies.

• Metacritic
  Movie reviews, TV reviews, game reviews, and music reviews