Awards
- Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2006 0 (United States)
- Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2006 2006
- Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2006 2006 (United States)
Overview
The popularity and pervasiveness of film and television in 21st-century life is inescapable. Whether viewed as entertainment, educational, or cultural forms, the effect of these media on our lifestyles and attitudes is unmistakable. No wonder an increasing number of academics, students, and laypeople are drawn to study their particular appeal. Mark Emmons's magnum opus is a true labor of love. International in scope, it offers 1,244 substantially annotated entries, organized by topic. Its focus is movies and television shows: how they are produced; the people who make and appear in them; their content, their distribution and exhibition; and their reception by audiences, reviewers, critics, and scholars. Beginning with general guides, dictionaries and encyclopedias, the book then turns to filmographies, filmmakers, and filmmaking respectively. Filmographies lists films and television shows in the categories of national cinema and genre, made by studios or filmmakers, or featuring various groups of people. Filmmakers includes biographies and credits for filmmakers and actors. Filmmaking includes reference sources on making film and television shows. An indispensable guide for librarians, faculty, students, neophyte filmmakers, and fans everywhere.
Full Product Details
Author: Mark Emmons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Libraries Unlimited Inc
Edition: Annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.624kg
ISBN: 9781563089145
ISBN 10: 1563089149
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 30 March 2006
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Film and Television: A Guide to the Reference Literature is an essential volume for any college or university library supporting programs in film and television studies. Intended as a starting point for research, it fills a decade-long gap in the reference literature by providing an updated and comprehensive bibliography for film and television studies' resources. Listings include print and electronic resource titles and Internet Web sites--a welcome addition....[t]his is a welcome and timely addition to the reference literature. Highly recommended. -College & Research Libraries Selected Reference Works, 2006
Author Information
Mark Emmons is Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico. His lifelong passion for film led him to work briefly in the film and television industry immediately after graduating from UCLA in 1983. Realizing that he liked watching films more than making them, he explored a career in teaching before finding his niche as a librarian in 1990. As a librarian, he has selected books and films for the library collection, taught students how to conduct research, and answered reference questions about film and television. He has also written chapters on web-based film resources and on how to teach film research to undergraduates.
