Theater and Film Resource Guide
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St. Catherine University Theater Department web site: http://minerva.stkate.edu/offices/academic/theater.nsf/pages/homepage
University of St. Thomas Theater Department web site: http://www.stthomas.edu/Theater/
Print Indexes
- Music Index
- Coverage 1949-1978; 1987-1996
- Play Index
- Coverage 1949/52 - present
Author, title, and subject index to separately published plays and plays in collections. Plays for children and young adults are indicated.
Available on the Lower Level Index Shelves, ML 118 .M84
Available in Reference, PN 2020 .W48
Journal List |
 About off-campus access |
The following journal titles are available in the St. Kate's Library.
Index abbreviations are:
- Alt: Alternative Press Index (AI 3 .A27 on the Index Shelves)
- Art: Art Full Text
- A & H: Arts and Humanities Search (on FirstSearch; password required)
- ERIC: ERIC
- Hum: Humanities Index
- GR: General Reference Center (on InfoTrac)
- MLA: MLA Bibliography
| Camera Obscura 1976-1988; 1992 - present Indexed in: Alt, Art, A & H, MLA Entertainment Design (was TCI) Essays in Criticism Film Comment Film Quarterly Journal of Film and Video Journal of Popular Film and Television Modern Drama |
Performing Arts Journal Shakespeare Quarterly Sight and Sound TCI (was Theatre Crafts) TDR (The Drama Review) Theatre Crafts Theatre Journal |
World Wide Web Sites
- ELAC TheatrePedia: Internet Theatre Library
- Put together by the East Los Angeles College Theatre Arts department, this comprehensive site has links for theater production and research. There is also an email question answer service.
- A Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
- A comprehensive and well maintained list of theater resources. Created by Ken McCoy, professor at Stetson University.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama
- Two unusual aspects of this site are a compilation of play texts online, and links for finding theater images.
- Yahoo! Theatre Links
- A general list of theater related links
- Theatre Central: Sites
- Hosted by Playbill On-Line, this page is aimed primarily for theater professionals. Links for information about theater companies, production companies, training, stagecraft, and unions.
- ScreenSite
- Links to film and television resources on the Web that emphasize teaching and research. Sponsored by the University of Alabama's College of Communication--Department of Telecommunication and Film.
- Internet Movie Database
- THE place on the internet to find information about films. Search movies and TV shows by title, cast, crew, character name, and others. There are links to awards & nominations, reviews, quotes, and production information.
Reference Books
General Sources | Finding Plays | Biographical Information | Film
GENERAL SOURCES
- International Dictionary of Theatre. Mark Hawkins-Dady, editor. St. James Press, 1992. 3 vols.
Ref. PN 2035 .I49 1992 - Volume 1: Plays, Volume 2: Playwrights, Volume 3: Actors, Directors, and Designers
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. Stanley Hochman, editor. McGraw-Hill, 1984. 5 vols.
Ref. PN 1625 .M3 1984 - Articles on regional, national, and ethnic-linguistic drama. Individual dramatists are also included.
- Critical Survey of Drama. Frank N. Magill, editor. Salem Press, 1994. 7 vols.
Ref. PR 623 .C75 1994 - Volumes 1-6 cover 240 dramatists. Each entry contains a biography, analysis of the dramatist's work, and a bibliography. Volume 7 is a collection of essays on different aspects of drama.
- The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, new edition. Martin Banham. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.
Ref. PN 2035 .C27 1995
- The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (via Oxford Reference Online)
- The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, 2nd edition. Gerald Bordman. Oxford Univ. Press, 1992.
Ref. PN 2220 .B6 1992 (or access online at Oxford Reference Online)
- The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre. Colin Chambers, editor. Continuum, 2002.
Ref. PN 2035 .C65 2002 - Theatre Backstage from A to Z, 4th edition. Norman C. Boulanger. Univ. of Washington Press, 1999.
Ref. 2091 .M3 L68 1999
- Author, title, and subject index to separately published plays and plays in collections. Plays for children and young adults are indicated.
- Best Plays of .... 1952 - present
PN 6112 .B45
- Best American Short Plays. 1955 - present
PN 6111 .B47
- Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of .... 1993 - present
PS 628 .W6 w668
- Drury's Guide to Best Plays, 4th edition. James M. Salem. Scarecrow Press, 1987.
Ref. PN 1655 .D8 1987
- Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections, 7th edition. Scarecrow Press, 1988.
Ref. PN 1655 .O8 1988 - Includes play collections published from 1900-1985 in the U.S. and England.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
- Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. Gale, 1984-present
Ref. PN 2208 .C6 - This source, published annually, contains brief biographical information.
- Contemporary Dramatists, 4th edition. D.L. Kirkpatrick, editor. St. James Press, 1988.
Ref. PR 737 .C57 1988 - Comprehensive biographical essays on living playwrights.
- Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1989.
Ref. PN 2285 .N65 1989 - American Women Playwrights, 1900-1950. Yvonne Shafer. Peter Lang, 1995.br> Ref. PS 338 .W6 S48 1995
- Lengthy essays on over 30 American women playwrights.
- Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers. Bernard L. Peterson. Greenwood Press, 1990.
Ref. PS 153 .N5 P44 1990 - Covers playwrights before 1950
- African Americans in the Performing Arts. Steven Otfinoski. Facts on File, 2003.
Ref. PN 2286 .O88 2003
- A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Philip H. Highfill, Jr., Kalman A. Burnim and Edward A. Langhans. Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1973-1993. 16 vols.
Ref. PN 2597 .H5
- Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Ref. PS 21 .D5 - Each volume in this series presents biographical essays and bibliographies for a particular group of literary figures. Volumes of interest to theater are:
- 7, 228, 249, 266: Twentieth Century American Dramatists
- 10: Modern British Dramatists 1900-1945
- 13, 233, 245: British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II
- 38: Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers
- 58: Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists
- 62: Elizabethan Dramatists
- 80, 84, 89: Restoration and Eighteenth Century Dramatists
- 118, 124: Twentieth Century German Dramatists
- 192: French Dramatists 1789-1914
- 205: Russian Literature in the Age of Puskin and Gogol: Poetry and Drama
- 229: Thomas Wolfe
- 263: William Shakespeare
FILM
- International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. St. James Press, 1997. 4 vols.
Ref. PN 1997.8 I58 1997 - Volume 1: Films, Volume 2: Directors, Volume 3: Actors and Actresses, Volume 4: Writers and Production Artists
- Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge, 2001.
Ref PN 1993.45 .C75 2001 - The Film Studies Dictionary. Arnold, 2001.
Ref. PN 1993.45 .B53 2001 - Magill's Cinema Annual. Salem Press, 1992 - present.
Ref. PN 1993.3 M34 - Listing of U.S. and foreign films released each year. For each it gives plot, credits, awards and nominations, and reviews.
- The Film Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. Ephraim Katz. Harper Perennial, 1994.
Ref. PN 1993.45 .K34 1994 - Forbidden Films: censorship histories of 125 motion pictures. Dawn Sova. Facts on File, 2001.
Ref PN 1995.62 .S67 2001 - Film It with Music: an encyclopedic guide to the American movie musical. Thomas Hischak. Greenwood, 2001.
Ref PN 1995.9 .M86 H57 2001 - A Biographical Dictionary of Film, 3rd edition. David Thompson. Knopf, 1994.
PN 1998.2 .T49 1994 - Contemporary North American Film Directors. Wallflower, 2002.
Ref. PN 1998.2 .C68 2002
- Women Filmmakers & Their Films. Amy L. Unterburger, editor. St. James Press, 1998.
Ref. PN 1998.2 W66 1998
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
Ref. PS 21 .D5 - Volumes 26 and 44 contain biographical essays and bibliographies for American screenwriters
Books
Books in CLICnet, the Library's online catalog, are assigned subjects based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). If you are having trouble, you may wish to consult LCSH for subject headings appropriate to your topic. The books are located behind the Reference Desk.
Browsing shelf areas relevant to your topic can be a useful strategy. Books in the Reference and circulating collections are shelved in general subject categories according to the Library of Congress classification system. Below is a brief listing of some of the shelf locations in the fields of theater and film.
| GT 500 - GT 2370 | Costumes |
| MT 956 | Acting in Opera |
| NA 6820 - NA 6845 | Theaters (Architecture) |
| PN 1720 - PN 1861 | Drama History |
| PN 1995 | Film Criticism |
| PN 1997 | Screenplays |
| PN 2000 - PN 3299 | Theater |
| PN 6110.5 - PN 6120 | Drama -- Collections |
| PR 621 - PR 739 | English Drama |
| PS 623 - PS 634 | American Drama (U.S.) |
| TK 4399 .T6 | Theater Lighting |
For assistance with any of the resources in this guide, or for help doing research in theater or film, contact:
Deborah Kloiber, Reference Librarian
651.690.6599 dkloiber@stkate.edu