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Film Studies Research Guide: Literature & Film

A guide to conducting research in Film Studies at Yale University, including key resources and crucial search strategies.

Searching for Literature and Film Resources

One can search for literature and film resources in Orbis using subject headings such as:

Selected Resources on Literature and Film

Books and plays in films, 1896-1915: literary, theatrical, and artistic sources of the first twenty years of motion pictures by Denis Gifford
A companion to literature and film by Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo
Enser's filmed books and plays: a list of books and plays from which films have been made, 1928-1991 by Ellen Baskin
Film as literature, literature as film: an introduction to and bibliography of film's relationship to literature by Harris Ross
International guide to literature on film by Tom Costello
Literature and film: an annotated bibliography, 1909-1977 by Jeffrey Egan Welch
Literature and film: an annotated bibliography, 1978-1988 by Jeffrey Egan Welch
Stories into film by William Kittredge and Steven Krauzer
Women writers, from page to screen by Jill Rubinson Fenton, et al.
Writers on the American screen: a guide to film adaptations of American and foreign literary works by Larry Langman

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