The Depiction of American Public Libraries in Film - Bibliography

10. Bibliography

Films

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1969)
All The President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
Battlefield Earth (Roger Christian, 2000)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
The Blot (Lois Weber, 1921)
The Blue Kite (Zhuangzhuang Tian, 1993)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
City of Angels (Brad Silberling, 1998)
Desk Set (Walter Lang, 1957)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (John McTiernan, 1995)
Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson, 1989)
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
Hairspray (John Waters, 1988)
Hammett (Wim Wenders, 1982)
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (Curtis Hanson, 1992)
Hear My Song (Peter Chelsom, 1991)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, 1998)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
It’s A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1947)
Logan’s Run (Michael Anderson, 1976)
Matilda (Danny deVito, 1996)
Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990)
Moscow on the Hudson (Paul Mazursky, 1984)
The Music Man (Morton da Costa, 1962)
The Pagemaster (Joe Johnston & Maurice Hunt, 1993)
The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears, 1987)
Public Access (Bryan Singer, 1993)
Rollerball (Norman Jewison, 1975)
Salmonberries (Percy Adlon, 1991)
Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi, 1998)
Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szwarc, 1980)
Sophie’s Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)
Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, 1973)
Stanley and Iris (Martin Ritt, 1989)
Suspect (Peter Yates, 1987)
The Time Machine (George Pal, 1962)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan, 1945)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Wings of Desire (WimWenders, 1987)


Libraries – Books

Benge, Ronald C., Libraries and Cultural Change, Clive Bingley, 1970

Foerstel, Herbert N., Surveillance in the Stacks: the FBI’s library awareness program, Greenwood Press, Westport CT, 1991

Harris, Michael H. & Davis Jr., Donald G., American Library History: a bibliography, University of Texas Press, London, 1978

Johnson, Peggy & MacEwan, Bonnie (Eds.), Collection Management and Development: issues in an electronic era, American Library Association, London, 1994

Jones, Helen L., Metropolitan Los Angeles, A Study in Integration: XIII. Public Libraries, Haynes Foundation, Los Angeles, 1953

Josey, E.J., The Black Librarian in America, Sacrecow Press, New Jersey, 1970

Kinnell, Margaret & Sturges, Paul (Eds.), Continuity and Innovation in the Public Library: the development of a social institution, Library Association Publishing, London, 1996

Martin, Lowell A., Enrichment: a history of the public library in the United States in the twentieth century, Scarecrow Press, Maryland, 1998

Murison, W.J., The Public Library: its origins, purpose and significance (3rd ed.), Clive Bingley, London, 1988

Olle, James G., Library History, Clive Bingley, London, 1979

Roach, Patrick and Morrison, Marlene, Public Libraries, Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship (British Library Research and Innovation Report 76), Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations & Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research, University of Warwick, 1998

Slater, Margaret, Career Patterns and the Occupational Image: a study of the library/information field (Aslib Occasional Publication no.23), Aslib, London, 1979

Usherwood, Bob, The Public Library as Public Knowledge, Library Association, 1989

Wagner, Gulten S., Public Libraries as Agents of Communication: a semiotic analysis, Scarecrow Press, London, 1992

Wilson, Pauline, Stereotype and Status: librarians in the United States (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, Number 41), Greenwood Press, London, 1982

Libraries – Websites

http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/librarians.html The Anarchist Librarian Web

http://geocities.com/SoHo/Café/7423 The Street Librarian

http://internettrash.com/users/lafnlibn/ The Laughing Librarian

http://pages.hotbot.com/books/barbarianlibrarian/ The Barbarian Librarian

http://sussex.njstatelib.org/njlib/lbhumtoc.htm Fun For Bookworms

http://valinor.purdy.wayne.edu/waycool.html Cool Librarians by Frederick Duda

http://www.ala.org The American Library Association

http://www.bmeworld.com/gailcat/index.html The Modified Librarian

http://www.careerdevelopmentgroup.org.uk/impact/archives/abrewerton.htm Article about public perception of librarians

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/3497/ The Ska Librarian

http://www.iupui.edu/it/libref/lib_film.html The Top Ten Films Featuring Libraries, Librarians and the Book Arts by Steven J. Schmidt

http://www.jessamyn.com/naked/choose.html The Naked Librarian

http://www.lib.byu.edu/dept/libsci/films/introduction.html Librarians in the Movies: an annotated filmography by Martin Raish

http://www.librarian.net Discussion and news site on librarianship issues

http://www.msu.edu/~olseneri/comic1.html The Adventures of the Librarian

http://www.teleport.com/~petlin/liplib/ The Lipstick Librarian

http://www.virtue.nu/intlibrarian/ The Intolerant Librarian

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~staciemm/project/ImageHomepage.htm Image and the Librarian: an exploration of a changing profession

http://www.wco.com/~eris/bdlib.html The Belly-Dancing Librarian

http://www.webpak.net/~dan/libraryporn/ The Image of Librarians in Pornography

Libraries – Journals

Brewerton, Antony, Sex, Lies and Stereotypes, Assistant Librarian, vol.86 no.2, February 1993, pp.22-27

Hall, Alison, Batgirl was a Librarian, Canadian Library Journal, vol.49 no.5, October 1992, pp.345-347

O'Brien, Ann & Raish, Martin, The Image of the Librarian in Commercial Motion Pictures: An Annotated Filmography, Collection Management, Vol.17 no.3, 1993, pp.61-84.

Walker, Stephen & Lawson, V. Lonnie, The Librarian Stereotype and the Movies, The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, vol.1 no.1, Spring 1993, pp.16-28

Film – Books

Bazin, Andre (translated by Hugh Gray), What is Cinema? (2 vols.), University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1967

Belton, John (Ed.), Movies and Mass Culture, Athlone Press, London, 1996

Bernstein, Carl & Woodward, Bob, All The President’s Men, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1974

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin, Film Art: an introduction (5th ed.), McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997

Clarke, David B. (Ed.), The Cinematic City, Routledge, London, 1997

Johnson, William (Ed.), Focus On The Science Fiction Film, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1972

Katz, Ephraim, The Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia (New Edition), Macmillan, London, 1994

Kuhn, Annette (Ed.), Alien Zone: cultural theory and contemporary science fiction cinema, Verso, London, 1990

Mast, Gerald & Cohen, Marshall, Film Theory and Criticism: introductory readings (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985

Monaco, James, How To Read A Film: the art, technology, language, history, and theory of film and media (Revised Edition), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981

Ousby, Ian (Ed.), The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Cambridge University Press, London, 1988

Smith, Betty, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Pan Books, London, 1986

Tudor, Andrew, Theories of Film, Martin Secker and Warburg, London, 1974

Walker, John, Halliwell’s Film Guide (8th ed.), Grafton, London, 1991

Wells, H.G., The H.G.Wells Omnibus, Heinemann/Octopus, London, 1981

Young, Jeff, Kazan On Kazan, Faber and Faber, London, 1999

Film – Websites

http://excaliburfilms.com/holliscompton/debbiedoesdallas.htm Hollis Compton’s review of Debbie Does Dallas

http://www.filmunlimited.co.uk The filmunlimited database

http://www.imdb.com The internet movie database