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• Asian American Filmography.
• Bad Subjects. Check out back issues for essays on films.
• Black Cultural Studies Web Site. Compiled by Tim Haslett, Nimmy Abiaka, and Paula Lee. Includes information about Manthia Diawara, Isaac Julien, Arthur Jafa, and other filmmakers and film critics.
• Black Film Center.
• Edison Motion Pictures. American Memory Project site on one of the important sources for early silent films.
• Feminist Film Reviews. From the University of Maryland’s Women’s Studies Database.
• Film and History course. taught by Steven Schoenherr at University of San Diego. Includes a bibliography on film and history.
• Film History. Timeline of major developments in cinema from beginnings to the 1990s.
• Film and History. Website from the journal Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television History.
• Film Site.org. Excellent comprehensive site concentrating on classic Hollywood films. Includes sections on history of film, strong genre introductions, excellent search engine advice, a strong “best films” list with much information, and a variety of other features.
• Film and TV Studies Sites. Fine list from the “English Server” at Carnegie Mellon.
• Filmmaker.com. Includes links to over 1,000 film production sites worldwide.
• Frameline. National organization supporting gay and lesbian filmmaking.
• Gay and Lesbian Film Reviews. Reviews of gay-friendly and gay-unfriendly films.
• Internet Movie Database. A very comprehensive resource of film information and reviews.
• Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture. A quarterly website focusing especially on movies of the past (as opposed to most sites, which focus on new releases). Each issue has features, and an “In Focus” section, which concentrates on one aspect or type of film (examples: the Western, Hollywood stars of the thirties, “Sex, Drugs and Exploitation”). Plus, the site features new articles and reviews (of new releases, videos/DVDs, and books) every week.
• Movie Review Query Engine. Comprehensive source for finding movies reviews.
• The Movies, Race and Ethnicity. Fine resource from the University of California, Berkeley library.
• The Movie Times. A good resource, primarily for box-office-receipt information (including charts of top-grossing actresses and actors, top-grossing films of all time, weekly box-office info, etc.)
• Origins of American Animation. Excellent site from the Library of Congress.
• The Palace. A web site devoted to “classic” Hollywood films (from the 1920s to the 1950s). The site is mainly composed of well-written articles and well-selected images, as well as some decent links.
• PopcornQ Movies. PlanetOut’s movie database.
• Simply Scripts. Contains an online archives of full-length screenplays, as well as scripts for unproduced movies, television, anime, and radio programs. Also numerous links for screenwriting sites and other movie and film resources.
• Society for Cinema Studies. Rich, useful academic site, including a discussion list, teaching resources, and information on conferences and other film study activities.
• SplicedWire. Film reviews, news, and interviews. (Including trailers, video interviews, and more.)
• Variety.com. The entertainment magazine Variety, online. An especially good source for info on the business of entertainment (namely: film, TV, and music).
• Women in Cinema. Excellent reference guide by Philip McEldowney.
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library - Film History Index: History of World Cinema. Good comprehensive, well-indexed site. [While technically beyond the range of our site, it is impossible to understand US film apart from world film, and vice versa] .

• Turning the Gaze Around and Orlando. An article by Nuria Enciso (Mediatribe) .
• The Carnage of Identity: Cyborgs and Women in Science Fiction and Horror Films. An article by Ben Rollins.
• Cleopatra Jones: 007: Blaxploitation, James Bond and Reciprocal Co-optation. An article by Chris Norton exploring race and gender politics in the spy genre.
• Feminist Film Criticism: The Piano and the Female Gaze. An article by Diane Sacco revising the theory of the male gaze developed by Laura Mulvey.
• Fight Club’s Utopian Dick. An article by Jonathan Beller exploring the sexual politics of the film Fight Club.
• Girls in Trouble, Again: Girl Interrupted. An article by Cynthia Fuchs on the conservative gender politics of this Winona Rider/Angela Jolie film.
• Independence Day and the Renationalization of America. An article by Scott Thrill on the racial, gender, and nationalistic implications of the film Independence Day.
• Morphing Out of Identity Politics: Black or White and Terminator 2. An article by Ron Alcalay on racial cross-dressing fantasies in these two films.
• Muslims Within Hollywood and Without. An article by Shabana Mir on the representation of Muslims in recent commercial films in the US.
• Nostalgia for the Masculine: Onward to the Past in the Sports Films of the Eighties. An article by Marjorie Kibby on sports films as attempts to return to traditional masculinities (PDF).
• Queer Horror: Decoding Universal’s Monster. An article by Gary Morris offering a queer theoretical reading of classic horror films of the 1930s.
• Queer Ripley. An article by J. Serpico analyzing the sexual politics of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
• Savages, Swine, and Buffoons: Hollywood’s Selective Stereotypical Representations of Japanese, Germans, and Italians in Films Produced during World War II. An article by Ralph Donald.
• The Sissy Gaze in American Cinema. An article by Ray Davis on the use of effeminate characters as plot foils in early Hollywood films.
• Todd Hayne’s Poison and Queer Cinema. An article by Norman Bryson offering a queer theoretical reading of Hayne’s 1999 film.

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SELECTED FILM GENRE LINKS

• Moving Image Genre-Form Guide. Introduction to film genres based on the Library of Congress's method of categorizing types of film.
• Film Genres. Good introduction from filmsite.org to the various genres, or types, of Hollywood film (Action, Adventure, Film Noir, Musical Comedy, etc), with essays on each genre to get you on your way.
• Horror-wood. A site devoted to classic and cult horror movies (in other words, not slashers).
• Screwball Comedy. Good site on some of the classic comedies of the thirties and forties, usually featuring "fast talking dames," gender role reversals and intricate plotting.
• Silent Movies. Good site on the history of the silent film era.
• Origins of Animation. Excellent Library of Congress site on early animation (1900-21).
• The Astounding B Monster. Cult-movie site featuring essays, profiles, and interviews with stars like James Arness, Dick Contino, Anne Francis, and Mamie Van Doren. Not entirely limited to B-movies, as the name suggests, but definitely concentrating on cult classics.
• Film Noir. Good brief introduction to film noir and its classic examples.
• Martin’s Film Noir Pages. Comprehensive site with filmography, articles, and links.
• Full Text Essays on Film Noir. Six interesting articles on the University of California, Berkeley library site.
  
  [ NOTE: more genres links are planned ]

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FURTHER REFERENCE

• Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism. Back and current issues have many fine essays on popular films, a few of which are listed below.
  • “An Other Frontier: Voyaging West with Mark Twain and Star Trek’s Imperial Subject,” by Valerie Fulton.
  • “Pee-Wee Herman and the Postmodern Picaresque” by Melynda Huskey.
  • “Disney and the Imagineering of Histories” by Scott Schaffer.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
[Few topics on popular culture can be adequately researched on the web alone. These reading suggestions are designed as beginning points for further offline study.]

Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. New York: Continuum, 2001.
	Classic study (updated in 1998 edition) of African American stereotypes, from silent film era to late 20th century.
Clover, Carrol J. Men, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
	The title says it all. Ever wonder why people (maybe even you?) like slasher films? Here’s a sophisticated set of psycho-social answers.
Diawara, Manthia, ed. Black American Cinema. New York: Routledge, 1993.
	Excellent collection of essays on aesthetics, history, and reception of African American film.
Doty, Alexander. Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
	Witty re-reading of popular figures from film and television who knowingly or not project a "queer subtext."
Fregoso, Rose Linda. The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
	The best study yet of Chicanas as subjects in and creators of film.
Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
	Among the very best general works on African Americans and film.
Kellner, Douglas. Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern. London; New York: Routledge, 1995.
	Broad study that offers both a fully developed theoretical model and case studies ranging from films like Rambo to Madonna videos to Gulf War news coverage.
Kilpatrick, Jacquelyn. Celluloid Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
	Best general study of images of Native American Indians in mainstream film.
Reid, Mark. Redefining Black Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
	Important history of the black independent film industry that has long sought to counter and complicate mainstream Hollywood representations of African Americans.
Rollins, Peter C., and John E. O'Connor, eds. Hollywood's Indian. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.
	Good collection of essays on various portrayals of Indians in film from the silent era to the present
Russo, Vito. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. New York: Harper and Row, 1981.
	A groundbreaking book analyzing sex and gender, in regards to homosexuality, in film from the 1920s through the 1980s.
Walters, Suzanna Danuta. All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
	An excellent book looking not only at gay visibility in film but in all forms of media up to its publication in 2001. While this book focuses primarily on television, it does pick up where Russo (above) left off.

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