Motion picture plays -- History and criticism

Here are entered works on criticism of screenplays. Works dealing with the technique of motion picture reviewing are entered under Film criticism. Collections of motion picture reviews are entered under Motion pictures -- Reviews.

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• Motion picture plays
• Drama -- History and criticism

• Motion picture plays, Japanese -- History and criticism

• The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema, by Robert Phillip Kolker
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• To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979), by Noël Burch, ed. by Annette Michelson (page images and PDF with commentary at Michigan)

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• Six Screenplays (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Robert Riskin, ed. by Patrick McGilligan (HTML at UC Press)

• Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)

• The Elinor Glyn System of Writing (4 volumes; Auburn, NY: The Authors' Press, c1922), by Elinor Glyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Photoplay Plots and Plot Sources (Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1920), by Eric Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Writing the Photoplay (revised edition; Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1919), by J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories That Resonate, by Brian McDonald (HTML with commentary at Booktrope)

• Pirate Cinema (2012), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)

• The Moving Picture Boys and the Flood: or, Perilous Days on the Mississippi (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Victor Appleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Moving Picture Boys at Panama: or, Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal (1915), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast: or, Showing Up the Perils of the Deep, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front: or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films (c1918), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Theology at the Movies (electronic edition, based on 1995 print edition with additions), by John M. Frame (HTML at frame-poythress.org)

• Harrison's Reports (1948), ed. by P. S. Harrison (partial serial archives)

• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
• The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1910), by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (Gutenberg text)

• An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (third edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1918), by John Dryden, ed. by Thomas Arnold and William T. Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)
• European Theories of the Drama (Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd, 1918), ed. by Barrett H. Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Robert B. Pierce (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)