Film & Animation  

The Visual Arts Library has many books on film and animation.  Some subject searches to try are:

For general books on films and filmmaking:
CINEMATOGRAPHY (for the technical aspects of making motion pictures)
MOTION PICTURE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES
MOTION PICTURE AUTHORSHIP (for screenwriting)
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
MOTION PICTURES (click Next to browse through the many subdivisions of film genres)
MOTION PICUTRES HISTORY

For books on animation:
ANIMATION (CINEMATOGRAPHY)
COMPUTER ANIMATION
ANIMATED FILMS

The following are Reference books on film and animation:

Animation, a Reference Guide TR897.5 H63
Animation Industry Directory NC1766 U5 A485
Anime Companion                   NC1766 J3 P65 1998
Anime Encyclopedia NC1766 J3 C53 2001
Art of Hanna-Barbera NC1766 U52 H3634 
Blu-Book Film, TV, Commercial Production Directory PN1998 A1 H6 2001
Complete Anime Guide NC1766 J3 L43 1997
Encyclopedia of Walt Disney’s Animated Characters NC1766 U52 D52 1998
Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies NC1766 U52 W37335 1989
World of Movies: 70 Years of Film History PN1993.5 A1 L35
Oxford History of World Cinema PN1993.5 A1 O96 1995
Producer’s Masterguide  PN1993.5 U77 B46 
New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry  PN1993.5 U6 S539 1998  
Variety Film Reviews (from 1907) PN1995 V34
Warner Brothers Cartoons NC1766 U52 W3734 
World Film Directors, 1890-1985 PN1998.2 W67 1987 
World History of Film PN1993.5 A1 S555 2002

American Film Institute - www.afionline.org
Digital Librarian: Movies - www.digital-librarian.com
Film Festivals Server - www.filmfestivals.com
Internet Movie Database - www.imdb.com
New York Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - www.nyc.gov/html/film/
P.O.V. Interactive - www.pbs.org/pov/
Student Filmmakers - Student Filmmakers
UC Berkeley Film Studies Resources - www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/filmstudies/index.html
Writers Guild of America - www.wga.org/

Reviews
Metacritic - www.metacritic.com/
Movie Review Query Engine - www.mrqe.com/
Rotten Tomatoes - www.rottentomatoes.com/

Animation
Animation World News - www.awn.com/
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive - www.animationarchive.org
Cartoon Brew - www.cartoonbrew.com
Cartoon Research - www.cartoonresearch.com
Don Markstein's Toonopedia - www.toonopedia.com
Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga - www.koyagi.com/Libguide.html
Origins of American Animation - memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html

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