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Fantasy films

Here are entered works on films that feature elements of the fantastic, often including magic, supernatural forces, or exotic fantasy worlds.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Motion pictures

• Fantasy films -- Encyclopedias

• Fantastic films

• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (originally published 1997), ed. by John Clute and John Grant (HTML at sf-encyclopedia.co.uk)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2007), ed. by Sharon R. Sherman and Mikel J. Koven (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Film Quarterly: Forty Years, A Selection (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Brian Henderson, Ann Martin, and Lee Amazonas (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by M. B. Iampolskii, trans. by Harsha Ram (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plays, Movies, and Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Jody McAuliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Movies From A.A.P.: Programs of Quality From Quality Studios (1957), by Associated Artists Productions (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Framing French Culture (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2015), ed. by Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann, and Peter Poiana (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• The Art of Cineplastics (Boston: Four Seas Co., 1923), by Élie Faure, trans. by Walter Pach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23; also, Who's Who in the Movies, and the Yearbook of the American Screen (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), ed. by Robert E. Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Film: Seine Mittel, Seine Ziele (in German; Berlin: Schuster und Loeffler, 1921), by Urban Gad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Making the Movies (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919), by Ernest A. Dench (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Novel and the Screen (New York: Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, ca. 1925), by Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• That Marvel, the Movie: A Glance at its Reckless Past, its Promising Present, and its Significant Future (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923), by Edward S. Van Zile, contrib. by Will H. Hays
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Breaking Into the Movies (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1921), by John Emerson and Anita Loos (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Radiomovies, Radiovision, Television (Washington: National Capital Press, c1929), by C. Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2019), by Hannah Frank, ed. by Daniel Morgan, contrib. by Tom Gunning (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)
• Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1998), by David Bordwell (page images and PDF with commentary at Michigan)
• Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by William C. Wees (HTML at UC Press)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Photogénie (in French; Paris: M. de Brunoff, ca. 1920), by Louis Delluc (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Photoplay: A Psychological Study (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1916), by Hugo Münsterberg (Gutenberg text)

• The Tread of a White Man's Foot: Australian Pacific Colonialism and the Cinema, 1925-62 (Canberra: Pandanus Books, c2006), by Jane Landman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23; also, Who's Who in the Movies, and the Yearbook of the American Screen (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), ed. by Robert E. Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Sheri-Marie Harrison (PDF at Ohio State)

• Library of Congress Catalog: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips (partial serial archives)
• Motion Pictures, 1894-1912, Identified From the Records of the United States Copyright Office (1953), by Library of Congress Copyright Office, ed. by Howard Lamarr Walls
  • with errata and addenda: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures (6th edition; c1936), by Kodascope Libraries (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalogue of the National Film Library of Sixteen Millimeter Motion Pictures (first edition; Los Angeles: National Film Library, c1931), by National Film Library (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalog of Copyright Entries, Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures, 1912-1939, by Library of Congress Copyright Office
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Catalog of Copyright Entries, Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures, 1960-1969, by Library of Congress Copyright Office
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1949, No. 248: John Howard Lawson, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent; No. 249: Dalton Trumbo, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent: Brief of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Cultural Workers in Motion Pictures and Other Arts, and of Members of the Professions, as Amici Curiae (Los Angeles: Parker and Co., printers, ca. 1949), by Max Radin and Carey McWilliams, contrib. by Alexander Meiklejohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Code to Govern the Making of Motion Pictures, the Reasons Supporting it and the Resolution for Uniform Interpretation (aka the Hays code; original version adopted 1930; this edition includes changes up to 1955), by Motion Picture Association of America
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at oscars.org

• The Community and the Motion Picture: Report of National Conference on Motion Pictures Held at the Hotel Montclair, New York City, September 24-27, 1929 (New York: Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, 1929) (facimile reprint: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• European Cinema: Face to Face With Hollywood (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2005), by Thomas Elsaesser (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• The Phantom Herd (1916), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)

• The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Caryl Flinn (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Landscapes of Resistance: The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Barton Byg (HTML at UC Press)

• 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)

• Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures: or, The Greatest Invention on Record (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy Scouts With the Motion Picture Players, by Robert Shaler (Gutenberg text)

• Moving Places: A Life at the Movies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Jonathan Rosenbaum (HTML at UC Press)

• Hollywood Cesspool: A Startling Survey of Movieland Lives and Morals, Pictures and Results (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1958), by Robert L. Sumner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Code to Govern the Making of Motion Pictures, the Reasons Supporting it and the Resolution for Uniform Interpretation (aka the Hays code; original version adopted 1930; this edition includes changes up to 1955), by Motion Picture Association of America
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at oscars.org
• Movies, Delinquency, and Crime (New York: Macmillan, 1933), by Herbert Blumer and Philip M. Hauser
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Propaganda in Moving Pictures: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of The Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, 77th Congress, 1st Session, on S. Res. 152, a Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of War Propaganda Disseminated by the Motion Picture Industry and of Any Monopoly in the Production, Distribution or Exhibition of Motion Pictures, September 9 to 26, 1941 (Washington: GPO, 1942), by United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theology at the Movies (electronic edition, based on 1995 print edition with additions), by John M. Frame (HTML at frame-poythress.org)

• Jump Cut (partial serial archives)
• Film Quarterly (American journal, 1958-) (partial serial archives)
• Filmbulletin (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Boxoffice (partial serial archives)
• American Cinematographer (partial serial archives)
• Film Daily Year Book (partial serial archives)
• Photoplay (partial serial archives)
• Business Screen (partial serial archives)
• Screenland (partial serial archives)
• The Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television (partial serial archives)
• Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)
• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)
• International Motion Picture Almanac (partial serial archives)
• Film Daily (partial serial archives)
• The Motion Picture Almanac (partial serial archives)
• The Reel Journal (partial serial archives)
• Motion Picture News Blue Book (partial serial archives)
• Talking Screen (full serial archives)
• Motion Picture Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Moving Picture World (partial serial archives)
• Kinema Junpō (in Japanese) (partial serial archives)
• Motion Picture Classic (partial serial archives)
• Cine-Mundial (in Spanish; New York: Chalmers, 1916-; 1920 issues online) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cinema News (New York, 1916-1919?) (partial serial archives)
• Movie Makers (published by the Amateur Cinema League; 1929 issues are online) (partial serial archives)
• Movie Weekly (partial serial archives)
• Radio Guide (partial serial archives)
• Variety (partial serial archives)
• International Photographer (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.