Cinema Art & Production Research Guide: Databases

Provides coverage of films and filmmakers, including actors and actresses, directors, writers and other production artists. Entries include a detailed essay written by an expert; biographies; filmographies; comprehensive credits; major awards; and updated bibliographies, as well as photographs.

In-depth, academic entries on American movie history from the invention of the zoopraxiscope to present day. Includes entries by film title, people (historically significant actors, directors, and screenwriters), and subjects (feminist film criticism, coming of age films, Hollywood blacklist, animation, French new wave, etc).

Provides an introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history.

Explores the history and concept of humor around the world from the perspectives of sociology, child development, social psychology, life style history, communication, and entertainment media.

Explores the ways that editorial content--from journalism and scholarship to films and infomercials--is developed, presented, stored, analyzed, and regulated around the world.

Authoritative and up-to-date information about dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions.