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This is a list of encyclopedias and encyclopedic/biographical dictionaries published on the subject of film, cinema, television, actors, directors and other biographies related to film and television in any language. Entries are in the English language except where noted.

Animation

  • Lenburg, Jeff. The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Facts on File, 1991.[1]

Communications

  • Abercrombie, Nicholas, Brian Longhurst. The Penguin dictionary of media studies. Penguin Books, 2007. ISBN 9780141014272.[2]
  • Barnouw, Eric. International Encyclopedia of Communications. Oxford University Press, 1989.[3]
  • Damesi, Marcel. Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics, media, and communications. University of Toronto Press, 2000. ISBN 0802047831.[2]
  • Hartley, John. Communication, cultural and media studies: the key concepts. Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0415268885.[2]
  • Schement, Jorge Reina. Encyclopedia of communication and information. Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. ISBN 0028653866.[2]

Film

Musicals

  • Green, Stanley. Encyclopedia of the Musical Film. Oxford University Press, 1981.[6]
  • Hirschhorn, Clive. Hollywood Musical. Crown, 1981.[6]

Entertainment

  • Marquis Who’s Who. Who's who in entertainment. Marquis Who’s Who, 1989-1999.[4]

Mass media

  • Downing, John. Encyclopedia of social movement media. SAGE Publ., 2011. ISBN 9780761926887.[2]
  • Hixson, Richard. Mass Media and the Constitution: An Encyclopedia of Supreme Court Cases. Garland, 1989.[7]
  • Hudson, Robert V. Mass Media: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Television, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines, Newspapers, and Books in the United States. Garland, 1987.[7]
  • Marquis Who’s Who. Who's who in media & communications. Marquis Who’s Who, 1985-.[4]

Performing arts

Radio

Theatre

American theatre

  • Navarro, Jerónimo Herrera. Catálogo de autores teatrales del siglo XVIII. Fundación Universitaria Española, 1993. ISBN 8473923367.[4]

American (U.S.) theatre

  • Boardman, Gerald. Concise Oxford Companion to American Theatre. Oxford Univ. Press, 1987.[15]
  • Boardman, Gerald. The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. Oxford Univ. Press, 1984.[13][15]
  • Bronner, Edwin. Encyclopedia of the American Theatre, 1900-1975. A. S. Barnes, 1979.[17]
  • Sampson, Henry T. The Ghost Walks: A Chronological History of Blacks in Show Business, 1865-1910. Scarecrow Press, 1988.[17]
  • Wilmeth, Don B. & Tice L. Miller. The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.[13][15]
  • Woll, Allen. Dictionary of the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Selected Harlem Theatre. Greenwood, 1983.[17]
American (U.S.) musical theatre
New York theatre
  • Leiter, Samuel L. The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage, 1920-1930. Greenwood, 1985.[17]
  • Leiter, Samuel L. The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage, 1930-1940. Greenwood, 1989.[17]
  • Leiter, Samuel L. The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage, 1940-1950. Greenwood, 1992.[17]
Broadway
  • Bloom, Ken. Broadway: An Encyclopedic Guide to the History, People, and Places of Times Square. Facts on File, 1991.[13]
  • Hischak, Thomas S. Enter the playmakers: Directors and choreographers on the New York stage. Scarecrow Press, 2006. ISBN 0810857472.[4]

Asian theatre

  • Brandon, James R. Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.[13]

Ballet

  • Balanchine, George and Francis Mason. 101 Stories of the Great Ballets. Doubleday, 1989.[19]
  • Bremser, Martha. International Dictionary of Ballet. St. James Press, 1993.[17]
  • Clarke, Mary and Clement Crisp. Ballet Goer's Guide. Knopf, 1981.[19]
  • Koegler, Horst. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet. Oxford Univ. Press, 1982.[17][19]

Canadian theatre

  • Benson, Eugene & L. W. Conolly. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre. Oxford Univ. Press, 1989.[15]

European theatre

  • Cooper, Barbara T. French dramatists, 1789-1914. Gale Research, 1998. ISBN 0787618470.[4]
  • Demastes, William W. British playwrights, 1956–1995: A research and production sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN 0313287597.[4]
  • Navarro, Jerónimo Herrera. Catálogo de autores teatrales del siglo XVIII. Fundación Universitaria Española, 1993. ISBN 8473923367.[4]
  • O'Neil, Mary Anne. Twentieth-century French dramatists. Thomson Gale, 2006. ISBN 9780787681395.[4]
  • Parker, Mary. Modern Spanish dramatists: A bio-bibliographical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 2002. ISBN 0313305781.[4]
  • Parker, Mary. Spanish dramatists of the Golden Age: A bio-bibliographical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1998. ISBN 0313288933.[4]

Kabuki

  • Leiter, Samuel L. Art of Kabuki: Famous Plays in Performance. Univ. of California Press, 1979.[15]
  • Leiter, Samuel L. Kabuki Encyclopedia: An English-Language Adaptation of Kabuki Jiten. Greenwood, 1979.[15]

Musical theatre

  • Gänzl, Kurt and Andrew Lamb. Gänzl's Book of the Musical Theatre. Schirmer, 1989.[17]
  • Green, Stanley. Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. Dodd, Mead, 1976.[17]

American musical theatre

Television

Video

  • Langman, Larry & Joseph A. Molinari. The New Video Encyclopedia. Garland, 1990.[5]

Biography

  • Contemporary theatre, film, and television. Gale Research, 1984–. ISSN 0749-064X.[4]
  • Morsberger, Robert Eustis, Stephen O. Lessek, Randall Clark. American screenwriters. Gale Research, 1984. ISBN 0810309173.[4]

Actors

Film directors

See also

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e Kister, 1994, p. 355.
  2. ^ a b c d e Guide to Reference: Communication and Media Studies
  3. ^ Kister, 1994, p. 356-357.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Guide to Reference: Biography
  5. ^ a b c d e Kister, 1994, p. 358.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kister, 1994, p. 356.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Kister, 1994, p. 357.
  8. ^ a b c d Kister, 1994, p. 357-358.
  9. ^ Guide to Reference: History of Asia
  10. ^ Guide to Reference: History of the Americas
  11. ^ Guide to Reference: General History
  12. ^ a b c Kister, 1994, p. 358-359.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g Kister, 1994, p. 437.
  14. ^ a b c Kister, 1994, p. 438-439.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Kister, 1994, p. 439.
  16. ^ a b c Kister, 1994, p. 439-440.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kister, 1994, p. 438.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Kister, 1994, p. 436.
  19. ^ a b c Kister, 1994, p. 437-438.
  20. ^ a b Kister, 1994, p. 355-356.

References

  • Guide to Reference. [1] American Library Association. Retrieved 5 December 2014. (subscription required).
  • Kister, Kenneth F. (1994). Kister's Best Encyclopedias (2nd ed.). Phoenix: Oryx. ISBN 0-89774-744-5.