Feature Films

Author(s)

• Munden, Kenneth W. (Kenneth White)
• American Film Institute

Bibliographic Information

Feature Films

Kenneth W. Munden, executive editor

（The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States, v. F1, F2, F3, F4, F6）

University of California Press, 1988-

• 1911-1920, film entries
• 1911-1920, indexes
• 1921-1930, film entries
• 1921-1930, indexes
• 1931-1940, film entries A-L
• 1931-1940, film entries M-Z
• 1931-1940, indexes
• 1941-1950, film entries A-L
• 1941-1950, film entries M-Z
• 1941-1950, indexes
• 1961-1970, film entries
• 1961-1970, indexes

Note

Originally published: New York : R.R. Bowker, 1971-1976

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1911-1920, indexes ISBN 9780520063013

Description

"The American Film Institute Catalog" volumes easily surpass all other film reference books for comprehensiveness, reliability, and utility. In a field bedevilled by quickly assembled and slipshod reference works, the Catalogs are the one essential purchase for every library. This set of volumes, on the teen years, covers a pivotal period in film history, encompassing the birth of the feature film and the development of the 'film language' that still structures virtually all narrative films today. The decade saw the rise of stars, and of directors who left their creative mark on decades to come - Griffith, Ince, De Mille. Small firms gave way to consolidated studios. And film production relocated to the Southern California town whose name became synonymous with American films: Hollywood. Classics of the era such as De Mille's "The Cheat" and Griffith's "Intolerance" have reached popular audiences, and many others are being distributed on videocassette. New scholarly attention is focusing on the decade - especially on such questions as how stage melodrama elements were gradually incorporated into film narrative. But since film is also a record of folkways and national concerns, the rich materials catalogued here will be invaluable to social or cultural historians. As John Fell, author of "Film and the Narrative Tradition", comments: 'In a real sense, the "AFI Catalog" preserves and revitalizes old movies that will otherwise disappear ...[it] will increasingly serve an audience far broader than motion picture history alone'.

Volume

1931-1940, indexes ISBN 9780520079083

Description

The American Film Institute Catalog easily surpasses all other reference works in its field for comprehensiveness, reliability, and utility. Its decade-by-decade, exhaustive, detailed, and carefully descriptive coverage is simply not approached by any other source. In a field bedevilled by quickly assembled and slipshod reference books, the AFI Catalog volumes are the one essential purchase for every library's film reference shelves, and individual researchers will also find them indispensable. Following the recently published set of volumes on the teen decade, the AFI research staff has now completed this far more massive set on the thirties - reaching into a period where many films have survived, many of them easily available and much beloved by film enthusiasts. For the thirties, the improved methodology developed for the teens is deployed in three vast volumes. Hundreds of films never before identified are included, on the basis of new preservation efforts. Extensive coverage is given to Spanish - and other foreign-language films, to foreign versions produced in the U.S., and to coproductions. Surprisingly, independent films figure largely; in some years, out of 500 films produced, 150-200 were independents - works of special social and cultural significance.

Volume

1921-1930, indexes ISBN 9780520209695

Description

After more than fifteen years, this initial volume of the "American Film Institute Catalog" series is again in print. The 1920s set covers the important filmmaking period when "movies" became "talkies," and the careers of many influential directors and actors were launched. Films such as "Wings", "The Phantom of the Opera", "All Quiet on the Western Front", and "The Jazz Singer" are included in this volume.

Volume

1961-1970, indexes ISBN 9780520209701

Description

Back in print after more than fifteen years, this "American Film Institute Catalog" covers the decade of the sixties. This was the era in which films began to challenge the taboos on sex and violence and treated social issues in a new light. Included in this volume are "The Wild Bunch", "Bonnie and Clyde", "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The decade also produced such all-time classics as "The Sound of Music", "To Kill a Mockingbird", and "The Graduate".

Volume

1941-1950, indexes ISBN 9780520215214

Description

This three volume set contains entries for feature-length films produced in the United States in the 1940's. The decade was an important and transitional one for filmmakers. Societal changes from the war years was reflected in films, the rise of television, the Hollywood blacklist and the breakup of studio-owned theatres affected the number and type of films produced. Among films viewed are well known films, like Casablanca, as well as less known films, like Strange Death of Adolf Hitler. Entries include cast lists and crew credits, plot summaries and sources for further study.

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Details

• NCID: BA30552757
• ISBN:
  • 0520063015
  • 0520063015
  • 0520209699
  • 0520209699
  • 0520079086
  • 0520079086
  • 0520079086
  • 0520215214
  • 0520215214
  • 0520215214
  • 0520209702
  • 0520209702
• LCCN: 96045734
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 778.03
  • LCC : PN1998
  • DC19 : 016.79143/75/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Motion pictures -- United States -- Catalogs
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA30554027