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Filmographies by Themes, Subjects or Settings
Here are books and websites containing films categorised by
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by Genre / Type.
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VARIOUS THEMES
Lists
Of Things Found In The Movies / Lists
of films found in Wikipedia (Of course, the website you are
presently on is better !!)
DICCIONARIO TEMÁTICO DEL CINE by José Luis
Sánchez Noriega
Published by Cátedra. 2004
ISBN 84-376-2191-7
Contains 150 themes. More information can be found by downloading
this sheet: Diccionario
temático del cine, de José Luis Sánchez Noriega
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FILM THEMES, SETTINGS AND SERIES
by Richard B. Armstrong & Mary Willems Armstrong
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2001 ISBN 0-7864-0893-6
Contains over 670 entries.
THE ULTIMATE MOVIE THESAURUS by Christopher
Case
Published by Henry Holt.
1996 ISBN 080503496X
AFTERLIFE
GHOST IMAGES: Cinema of the Afterlife by Tom
Ruffles
Published by McFarland & Company, Inc. 2004 ISBN 0-7864-2005-7
ARCHAEOLOGY
A TREASURE HARD TO ATTAIN : Images of Archaeology in
Popular Film, with a Filmography
by David Howard Day
Published by Scarecrow
Press, Inc. 1997 ISBN 0-8108-3171-6
ARCHITECTS
LA IMAGEN SUPUESTA : Arquitectos en el Cine
by Jorge Gorostiza
Published by Fundación
Caja de Arquitectos. 1997 ISBN 8492259418
ARCHITECTURE
ARMPITS (Female)
Underarms 'n
Armpits - Mainstream List
ART
Art
Historians' Guide to the Movies / Nine
Movies About Famous Painters / Cinema
e arte
ART ON SCREEN: a directory of films and videos about
the visual arts by the Program for Art on Film, Nadine
Covert & Elizabeth Scheines
Published by G.K.Hall. 1991 ISBN 0816105383
Also available as ART ON SCREEN ON CD-ROM 1995
ABÉCÉDAIRE DES FILMS SUR L'ART MODERNE ET
CONTEMPORAIN, 1905-1984 by Gisèle Breteau
Published by Centre national des arts plastiques. 1985 ISBN
2858502943
BATHROOMS
MOVIE STARS IN BATHTUBS by Jack Scagnetti
Published by Jonathan David. 1975 ISBN 0824601963
BLINDFOLDED WOMEN
BODILY FUNCTIONS
Patches' Place
- Pee Movie List / The
Movie Poop-Scene Database / Emetophobia
Film List / International
Emetophobia Society - Film List
BRAS
CAFES
CHILDREN
Historical
Boys Clothing : movie subject themes / CIFEJ
Production Guide / BJF -
Clubfilmothek Filmkatalog
DICTIONNAIRE DES ENFANTS DANS LE CINÉMA by
Bertrand Boulin
Published by Dualpha. 2004 ISBN 2-915461-19-8
Contains information on over 1,000 films.
CHOCOLATE
CHRISTMAS
Santa's Favorite
Holiday Movies / Christmas
Movies
CHRISTMAS AT THE MOVIES : Images of Christmas in
American, British and European Cinema
by Mark Connelly
Published by I.B.Tauris.
2000 ISBN 1860643973
GREAT CHRISTMAS MOVIES by
Frank Thompson
Published by Taylor Publishing. 1998 ISBN 0878332146
DESCENDUS DU CIEL: les Pères Noël au cinéma
by Félix Tannenbaum
Published by Dreamland. 2002 ISBN 2-910027-96-1
CINEMAS
Silver
Screens - Movie theaters in movies
CIRCUSES
Guide
to Circus Movies / Pôle
arts du cirque - Filmographie
CIRQUE AU CINÉMA, CINÉMA AU CIRQUE by
Adrian
Published by Edition P. Adrian. 1984 ISBN 2900107032
CITIES
The
Cinematic City: A Selected Bibliography
VON METROPOLIS BIS MANHATTAN: Inhaltsanalysen zur
Grossstadtdarstellung im Film
by Holger Majchrzak
Published by Universitätsverlag N. Brockmeyer. 1989 ISBN
3-88339-771-7
CLOTHING (Boys)
CRASHES
List of films by crash scene - (Wikipedia)
DANCE
Dance
movies list / Movies with Dance
Scenes
DANCE ON CAMERA : A Guide to Dance Films and Videos
by Louise Spain
Published by Scarecrow
Press, Inc. 1998 ISBN 0-8108-3303-4
DEATH
Deathly
Movies from The Tombstone Traveller's Guide / Cinemorgue / List
of films by gory death scene - (Wikipedia)
THE DEVIL
THE DEVIL ON SCREEN : Feature
Films Worldwide, 1913 through 2000 by
Charles P. Mitchell
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2002 ISBN
0-7864-1049-3
DINOSAURS
Dinosaur
Films / Dinosaur
Movie History at The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette
THE ILLUSTRATED DINOSAUR MOVIE
GUIDE by Stephen Jones
Published by Titan Books. 1993 ISBN 1-85286-487-7
DIVORCE
Divorce
Goes to the Movies / Divorce
in the Movies
DREAMS
Dream Videophile
/ Dreams in
Film
DREAMS ON FILM : The Cinematic Struggle Between Art
and Science by Leslie Halpern
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2003 ISBN 0-7864-1596-7
DRIVE-IN THEATRES
8 TRACK TAPE MACHINES
8-Tracks on
The Big (and little) Screen
ENTERTAINERS
STAR MYTHS : Show Business Biographies on Film
by Robert Milton Miller
Published by Scarecrow
Press, Inc. 1983 ISBN 0-8108-1643-1
Contains information on 129 films from 1930 to 1982.
ENVIRONMENT
GREEN SCREEN: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema
by David Ingram
Published by University
of Exeter Press. 2000 ISBN 0-85989-609-9
Contains information on over 150 films.
ESPARANTO
El
cine y el esperanto / Esperanto film
- (Wikipedia)
FASCISM
FOOD
Food
Films / Chinese
Food in the Movies / List
of films involving food - (Wikipedia) / Il
Sapore dello sguardo
FOOD IN THE MOVIES by Steve Zimmerman and Ken
Weiss
Published by McFarland & Company, Inc. 2005 ISBN 0-7864-2182-7
REEL MEALS, SET MEALS: Food In Film and Theatre
by Gaye Poole
Published by Currency Press.
1999 ISBN 0-86819-578-2
DAS GROSSE FRESSEN: Gourmet-Gourmand-Filme by
Lena Mares
Published by Vertigo. 2000 ISBN 3934028020
MOVIE LOVER'S COOKBOOK: Reel Meals by Lorna
Woodsum Riley
Published by Wallace-Homestead. 1987 ISBN 0870694782
GEOLOGY
Geologia
e..cinema / Hollywood's
Portrayal Of Geologists
GLADIATORS (See also: Historical Film Timeline)
LOS GLADIATORES EN EL CINE by Héctor Enrique
Espinosa
Published by Filmoteca de
la UNAM. 2000
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
CineMythology
/ Greek Mythology in the Movies
CINEMYTHOLOGY: GREEK MYTH IN WORLD CINEMA by
Michel Demopoulos
Published by Hellenic Ministry
Of Culture. 2003
HABITATS
FILMOGRAFIA DO HABITAT by Instituto
Brasileiro de Administração Municipal
Published by Seplan/Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento
Científico e Tecnológico, Coordenação Editorial. 1982
Contains information on 592 films.
HAIRSTYLES (Women's)
HEIMATFILM
DER DEUTSCHE HEIMATFILM : Bildwelten
und Weltbilder : Bilder, Texte, Analysen zu 70 Jahren deutscher
Filmgeschichte by Wolfgang Kaschuba
Published by Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde. 1989 ISBN
3-925340-62-9
HIP HOP CULTURE
URBAN TESTIMONIALS : Hip Hop Culture in Film - Essay
& Annotated Filmography
by Audrey T. McCluskey & Tyrone Simpson
Published by Black Film
Center Indiana State University 2002
HOBOS
List
of books and films about hobos and freighthopping - (Wikipedia)
HUNTING
CHASSEUR EN IMAGES, VISIONS D'UN MONDE by
Georges Foveau
Published by Editions
L'Harmattan. 1996 ISBN 2-7384-4062-2
INANIMATE OBJECTS COME ALIVE
List
of films about possessed or sentient inanimate objects -
(Wikipedia)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ON FILM by Robert W.
Gregg
Published by Lynne
Rienner Publishers. 1998. ISBN 1-55587-675-7
Contains information on 150 films.
INTROVERTS
JOURNALISM
FROM HEADLINE HUNTER TO SUPERMAN
: A Journalism Filmography by Richard R Ness
Published by Scarecrow
Press, Inc. 1997 ISBN 0-8108-3291-7
Contains information on 2165 films.
JUGGLING
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
BAD BOYS : Dizionario Critico del Cinema della
Ribellione Giovanile by Maurizio Fantoni Minnella
Published by Bruno
Mondadori. 2000 ISBN 88-424-9808-4
Contains information on 450 films.
LABOUR RELATIONS & LABOUR MOVEMENT
Labor-Related
Films in the Library of Congress Collection / Blue
Collar Filmography by Julia Lesage / Le
Monde Du Travail Dans Le Cinema Français / Labor and
Labor History Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC
Berkeley / Films
with and Economic Justice Theme / The
LaborFilms Guide / The
Trotsky Encyclopedia Global Audio/Visual Index
WORKING STIFFS, UNION MAIDS, REDS, AND RIFFRAFF: An
Expanded Guide to Films About Labor
by Tom Zaniello
Published by ILR
Press. 2003 ISBN 0-8014-4009-2
Contains information on 350 films.
TEMPI MODERNI: l'immagine del lavoro nel cinema
by Angelo Sismondi & Roberto Tassi
Published by Effatà. 2002 ISBN 88-7402-023-6
Contains information on 35 films.
LIBRARIANS
Librarians
in the Movies -- An Annotated Filmography
SILENZIO IN SALA! : La biblioteca nel cinema
by Dario D'Alessandro
Published by Associazione
Italiana Biblioteche. 2001 ISBN 88-7812-073-1
There is also a German edition published by Studienverlag.
ISBN 3-7065-1701-9
DRÔLES DE BIBLIOTHÈQUES : Le thème de la
bibliothèque dans la littérature et le cinéma
by Anne-Marie Chaintreau et Renée Lemaitre
Published by Editions du Cercle de la librairie. 1990 ISBN
2-7654-0436-4
THE IMAGE OF LIBRARIANS IN CINEMA, 1917-1999
by Ray Tevis and Brenda Tevis
Published by McFarland & Company, Inc. 2005 ISBN 0-7864-2150-9
LOST CIVILISATIONS
LOVE TRIANGLES
MAGIC
MAKEOVERS
THE MAKEOVER IN MOVIES: Before and After in
Hollywood Films, 1941–2002 by Elizabeth A. Ford
& Deborah C. Mitchell
Published by McFarland & Company, Inc. 2004 ISBN 0-7864-1721-8
MARTIAL ARTS
KFCCinema
/ KungFu Cinema
/ Kung
Fu
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MARTIAL ARTS
MOVIES by Bill Palmer & Ric Meyers
Published by Scarecrow
Press, Inc. 2003 ISBN 0-8108-4160-6
Contains information on nearly 3300 films.
MATHEMATICS
MINING
LA MINA EN EL CINE
Published by Sala Oscura. 1999
BERGARBEITER IM SPIELFILM by Bert Hogenkamp
Published by Laufen. 1982 ISBN 3-87468-015-0
MORSE CODE
MOUNTAINS & MOUNTAINEERING
Rock
Climbing Media Reviews / Southern
Mountainers Filmography
CINEMA DELLE MONTAGNE: 4000 film a soggetto: montagna,
alpinismo, esplorazione, poli e regioni artiche
Published by Museo nazionale della montagna. 2004 ISBN
8877509295
SOUTHERN MOUNTAINEERS IN SILENT FILMS : plot synopses
of movies about moonshining, feuding, and other mountain topics,
1904-1929 by J.W. Williamson
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 1994 ISBN 0-89950-809-X
HÖHENRAUSCH : Der Deutsche Bergfilm by
Christian Rapp
Published by Sonderzahl. 1997 ISBN 3854491085
MOVIES AND MOVIE-MAKING
FILMS ON FILM HISTORY by Anthony Slide
Published by Scarecrow
Press, Inc. 1979 ISBN 0-8108-1238-X
HOLLYWOOD ON HOLLYWOOD by James Robert Parish
and Michael R. Pitts with Gregory W. Mank
Published by Scarecrow
Press, Inc. 1978 ISBN 0-8108-1164-2
Contains information on 287 films.
A FILMOGRAPHY OF FILMS ABOUT
MOVIES AND MOVIE-MAKING by Robert Wagner & David
Parker
Published by Eastman
Kodak. 1971
OLD AGE
The Great
Circle of Life: A Resource Guide to Films and Videos on Aging
/ Intergenerational
Relationships in Feature-Length Films: 1970-1995 / Confédération
de gérontologie - Films qui évoquent la vieiellesse / Confédération
de gérontologie - Documentaires / Filmographie
Gérontologie Sélective
VECCHIAIA, CINEMA E AUDIOVISIVI: film e documentari in
lingua italiana sulla condizione anziana by Giampiero
Girardi and Guglielmo Giumelli
Published by Guerini
e Associati. 2000 ISBN 88-8335-115-0
ABOUT AGING: A Catalog of Films, with a special
section on videocassettes by Mildred V. Allyn
Published by Ethel Percy
Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California.
1979 ISBN 0-88474-091-9
ABOUT AGING: A Catalog of Films. Supplement to fourth
edition by Mildred V. Allyn
Published by Ethel Percy
Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California.
1981 ISBN 0-88474-126-5
THE ORIENT
VISIONS OF THE EAST : Orientalism In Film by
Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar
Published by Rutgers
University Press. 1997 ISBN 0-8135-2294-3
OUTLAWS
PAGANISM
PHILATELY AND POSTAGE STAMPS
THE PHILATELIC FILMOGRAPHY by Howard Summers
Published by Howcom Services. 2007
For more information and to order this book, please
go to my book page.
PIRATES (See also: Swashbuckling & Swordfights)
A
Comprehensive List of Pirate Films
PIRATES À L'AFFICHE : les aventuriers de la mer dans
le cinéma occidental des origines à nos jours
by Gérard A. Jaeger
Published by Ed. ACL-Crocus. 1989 ISBN 2-86723-040-3
PIRATES AND SEAFARING SWASHBUCKLERS ON THE HOLLYWOOD
SCREEN by James Robert Parish
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 1995 ISBN 0-89950-935-5
Contains information on 137 films.
PLUMBING
POETRY
Movies
with Poetry-A Partial List
POKER & CARD PLAYING (See also Addictions: Gambling)
Poker
Movies - Best Card Playing Films / Poker Movies
POLITICS, AMERICAN
AMERICAN POLITICAL MOVIES : An Annotated Filmography
Of Feature Films by James E. Combs
Published by Garland Publishing. 1990 ISBN 0824078470
PRESIDENTS OF THE USA (See also: Historical Film Timeline)
Hauenstein
Center for Presidential Studies / The
President in Film
HOLLYWOOD'S WHITE HOUSE : The American Presidency in
Film and History
by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor
Published by University
Press of Kentucky. 2003 ISBN 0-8131-2270-8
PROJECTIONISTS
PROSTITUTION
PROSTITUTION IN HOLLYWOOD FILMS by James
Robert Parish
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 1992 ISBN 0-89950-677-1
Contains information on 389 films.
PUNK CULTURE
List
of punk movies - (Wikipedia)
RACE RELATIONS
Sul
tema della discriminazione / KATALOG
- Filme/Videos gegen Gewalt, Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Intoleranz
RACE RELATIONS: A Feature and Documentary Filmography
by Cecily Garver & David Raizman
Published by Columbia University. 1984
RIVERS
SADISM
cinema Sade
/ Mainstream
Films Featuring BDSM Practices
LE SADISME AU CINÉMA by George de Coulteray
Published by Le Terrain Vague. 1964
Also available in English as: SADISM IN THE MOVIES.
Published by Medical Press. 1965
SAMURAI
THE SAMURAI FILM by Alain Silver
Published by The
Overlook Press. 2004
Contains information on 384 films.
SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS
Films
and The Image of Scientists / Phil
Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bad Movies / Insultingly
Stupid Movie Physics
DE LO FANTÁSTICO A LO REAL: Diccionario de La Ciencia
en El Cine by José Manuel Serrano Cueto
Published by Editorial
Nivola. 2003 ISBN 84-95599-39-2
SKIRTS IN THE LAB: Madame Curie and the image of the
woman scientist in the feature film by Alberto Elena
Published in Public
Understanding of Science 6 (3): 269-278. July 1997
CINE E HISTORIA DE LA CIENCIA: Un Estudio Preliminar
by Alberto Elena
Published in Sylva Clius 8: 3-46. 1989
LAS IMÁGENES DE LA CIENCIA EN EL CINE DE FICCIÓN
by Alberto Elena
Published in Arbor (569). 1992
SCUBA DIVING (Women's)
Women
In Scuba In TV and Film / Women In
Deep Sea Diving Suits
SEA
THE CINEMA OF THE SEA : A
Critical Survey and Filmography, 1925-1986 by Tony
Thomas
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 1988 ISBN 0-89950-342-X
SERIAL KILLERS
SERIAL KILLER CINEMA : An
Analytical Filmography by Robert Cettl
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2002 ISBN
0-7864-1292-5
Contains information on over 500 films.
SHAMENS
LE CHAMANISME AU CINÉMA by Georges Foveau
Published by Institut de l'image. 2000 ISBN 2-909618-17-X
SILENCE
Poétique
du silence, le silence au cinéma dans les films sonore
SISTERS
SISTERS ON SCREEN: Siblings In Contemporary Cinema
by Eva Rueschmann
Published by Temple
University Press. 2000 ISBN 1-56639-747-2
SLAVERY
SLAVES ON SCREEN : Film and Historical Vision by
Natalie Zemon Davis
Published by Harvard
University Press. 2000 ISBN 0-674-00821-9
SOCIAL ISSUES
FILMOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL ISSUES: A Reference Guide
Published by Greenwood Press. 2004 ISBN 0-313-32037-3
Contains information on 100 films.
THE HOLLYWOOD SOCIAL PROBLEM FILM : Madness, Despair,
and Politics from the Depression to the Fifties by Peter
Roffman and Jim Purdy
Published by Indiana
University Press. 1981 ISBN 0-253-20261-2
Contains information on 237 films.
REEL CHANGE : A Guide to Social Issue Films
by Patricia Peyton
Published by Film Fund. 1979 ISBN 0960317013
MENTAL HYGIENE: Classroom Films 1945-1970 by
Ken Smith
Published by Blast
Books 200? ISBN 0-922233-21-7
Contains information on 300 films.
SPACESUITS (Women's)
Women
In Spacesuits in TV and Film
SPANKING
spankings
in the movies and on tv
STAPLERS
STATUE OF LIBERTY
List
of movie appearances of the Statue of Liberty - (Wikipedia)
STOCKINGS & PANTYHOSE (Women's)
STRAITJACKETS (Women In)
Straitjacketed
Women in Motion Pictures
STRONGMEN
GLI UOMINI FORTI by Alberto Farassino &
Tatti Sanguineti
Published by Mazzotta.
1983
SUPERHEROES
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUPERHEROES ON FILM AND TELEVISION
by John Kenneth Muir
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2003 ISBN 0-7864-1723-4
SUPERNATURAL AND SPIRITUAL THEMES
SURFING
SWASHBUCKLING & SWORDFIGHTS (See also: Pirates)
At
Sword's Point: Swashbuckling in the Movies / Top
10 Swashbuckling Films / Swashbucklers
TECHNOLOGY
SMOKIN' ROCKETS: The Romance of Technology in American
Film, Radio, and Television, 1945-1962
by Patrick Lucanio and Gary Coville
Published by McFarland
& Company, Inc. 2002 ISBN 0-7864-1233-X
TEENAGE EXPLOITATION FILMS
THE I WAS A TEENAGE JUVENILE DELINQUENT ROCK 'N' ROLL
BEACH PARTY MOVIE BOOK
by Alan Betrock
Published by St. Martins Press. 1986 ISBN 0312402937
Contains information on over 200 films from 1954-1969.
TELEPHONES
phones on philm
/ 555
numbers from movies, television & radio
TELEFON UND KULTUR : das Telefon im Spielfilm
by Bernhard Debatin & Hans Jürgen Wulff
Published by Spiess
Verlag. 1991 ISBN 3-89166-146-0
TELÉFONOS DE CINE by Mariano Cebrián
Herreros, Agustín García Matilla & Eduardo Rodríguez
Merchán
Published by Electa España. 1996 ISBN
84-8156-122-3
TERRORISM
The
Portrayal of Terrorism and Terrorists
TICKLING
Tickling
Scenes in Mainstream Videos
TIME
PASSAGGI : Figure Del Tempo nel Cinema Contemporaneo
by Roberto De Gaetano
Published by Bulzoni Editore.
1996 ISBN 88-7119-994-4
TRANSGENDER
Transgender
Video/ Movie & Reviews - Directory
TRANSVESTISM
Cross Dressing
Movies / Cross
Dressing : The Pictorial
WHAT A DRAG : Men as Women and Women as Men in the
Movies by Homer Dickens
Published by Quill. 1984 ISBN 0-688-02626-5
TRAVEL INDUSTRY
VAUDEVILLE
WHEELCHAIRS
REEL WHEELS: The role of wheelchairs in American
movies by M. F. Norden
Published in Beyond the stars III: The material world of American
popular film (pp. 187-204) by P. Loukides & L. K. Fuller
Bowling Green State University Popular Press 1990
WHIPPING
The Whipping Scenes
in Movies Database
WITCHCRAFT
Magick
and Witchcraft In The Movies / Movie Witches
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