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Reference and quick look up:

  • Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism: One of the standard reference works in the field, this guide offers articles on theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault. Entries on Film Theory, Cultural Studies and Feminist Theory provide useful overviews.
  • Search the catalogs of the American Film Institute (1893-1970) and British Film Institute (1930s-present) in Film Indexes Online. Most records include plot summaries and references to articles and contemporary reviews.

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Film Industry Web Sites

Nancy Spiegel
Bibliographer for Art and Cinema
JRL 463
nspiegel@uchicago.edu

Collections of primary sources

Box office statistics

  • Film Daily Yearbook (1918-1969) Trade publication covering the film industry. Indexing is sparse, but the early statistical information is worth the work. PN1993.3.F48 bookstacks
  • Britfilm.com's Box Office statistics has reports for Europe broken down by country and then by film.
  • Box Office Mojo: Commercial website claims to offer "the most comprehensive box office tracking available online."

Consumer and demographic information

  • What is a dollar worth? From the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, a nice calculator which actually uses movie ticket price as an example. Covers the years 1913-2005.
  • Global Market Information Database Statistics on movie-going. Browse Reports/Consumer Lifestyle reports; Consumer Lifestyles in The United States. See also Motion Picture Industry, a guide to library resources authored by Regenstein's Business and Economics specialists.