Library Guides: Film Studies: Film History

Find information on film history

H-Film
A list of scholarly discussions of cinema history and uses of media.
AFI catalog
A complete catalog of films. Search by title, author, actor...etc.
Film and History
ProjectMuse-Film History: An International Journal
Digital History
Discusses the entire history of film and it's different time periods.

Library Catalogues

WorldCat
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Book Search

Print Books

The books listed below are only a few of the texts available on this subject matter. For more please visit the MERLIN Catalog.

The Hollywood historical film by Robert Burgoyne
Call Number: PN1995.9.H5 B89 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Writing history in film by William Howard Guynn
Call Number: PN1995.2 .G89 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Cinema and history by Marc Ferro
Call Number: PN1995.2 .F413 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Revisioning history: film and the construction of a new past by Robert A. Rosenstone
Call Number: PN1995.2 .R48 1995
Publication Date: 1995

Online Books

The books listed below are only a few of the online texts available on this subject. For more visit the MERLIN Catalog, do an Advanced Search and select "Ebooks" as the material type.

Screening the past: film and the representation of history by Tony Barta
Call Number: Online and in Print (PN1995.2 .S38 1998)
Publication Date: 1998
History in the Media by Robert Niemi
Publication Date: 2006
Filmography of American History by Grant Tracey
Publication Date: 2001