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Motion picture plays

Use as a topical subdivision under names of individual literary authors for works of criticism about film scripts written by the author.

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• Criticism and interpretation

• Motion picture plays -- History and criticism
• Motion picture plays -- Periodicals
• Motion picture plays -- Technique
• Motion picture authorship
• Motion picture plays, English
• Motion picture plays, Japanese
• Motion pictures -- Production and direction
• Motion pictures -- Reviews
• Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 -- Motion picture plays

• Moving-picture plays
• Screenplays

• Six Screenplays (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Robert Riskin, ed. by Patrick McGilligan (HTML at UC Press)
• How to Write Photoplays (Philadelphia: Royal Pub. Co., c1916), by Carl Charlton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Art of Sound Pictures (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1930), by Walter B. Pitkin and William Moulton Marston, contrib. by Jesse L. Lasky (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)
• How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago: Photoplaywrights' Ass'n of America, c1914), by Arthur Winfield Thomas, contrib. by B. P. Schulberg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema, by Robert Phillip Kolker
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google
  • HTML at UMD

• Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Joanne Klein (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)

• Photoplay Plot Encyclopedia (series Y; Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1920), by Frederick Palmer and Eric Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Photoplay Plot Encyclopedia (second revised edition; Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1922), by Frederick Palmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• How to Write a Photoplay (New York: Magazine Maker Pub. Co., c1912), by Herbert Case Hoagland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago: Photoplaywrights' Ass'n of America, c1914), by Arthur Winfield Thomas, contrib. by B. P. Schulberg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Palmer Plan Handbook: Photoplay Writing (No. L, revised edition; Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., 1920), by Frederick Palmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Writing the Photoplay (revised edition; Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1919), by J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Elinor Glyn System of Writing (4 volumes; Auburn, NY: The Authors' Press, c1922), by Elinor Glyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to Write Photoplays (Philadelphia: Royal Pub. Co., c1916), by Carl Charlton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Photoplay Plots and Plot Sources (Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1920), by Eric Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Film and the Director (New York: Macmillan, c1953), by Don Livingston (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • 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)
• The Moving Picture Boys: or, The Perils of a Great City Depicted (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1913), by Victor Appleton (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)

• Harrison's Reports (1948), ed. by P. S. Harrison (partial serial archives)
• Filmbulletin (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Kinema Junpō (in Japanese) (partial serial archives)

• Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Joanne Klein (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints (English content only; 1921), ed. by F. Kingsbury and Godfrey E. Phillips (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Shah Latif and His Message, by Jī. Em. Sayyidu, trans. by Egnert Azariah (HTML at gmsyed.org)

• The Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Gary Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)

• De Codicibus Aeschineis (dissertation in Latin; Berlin: Actien-Gesellschaft, 1882), by Johannes Adam (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at Wayne State)

• The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Aimeric de Peguilhan, ed. by William P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens and Thackeray (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963), by Keith Hollingsworth, illust. by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, and William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)

• Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Wen Jin (PDF at Ohio STate)

• Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2015), ed. by Vanja Malloy (illustrated HTML with commentary at Amherst)

• Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Anthony Dyer Hoefer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Walter S. Allward: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2021), by Philip Dombowsky, illust. by Walter Seymour Allward (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)

• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (in English and French; London: Open Humanities Press, 2017), by Érik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, and Adam Szymanski, contrib. by Erin Manning (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Wilfred E. Major (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Arnold's Poetic Landscapes (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alan Roper (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1973), by Edward Alexander
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1951), by Frederic E. Faverty (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• The Age of Eclecticism: Literature and Culture in Britain, 1815-1885 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Christine Bolus-Reichert (PDF at Ohio State)
• Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater (1969), by David J. DeLaura (HTML at Victorian Web)
• The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (1952), by E. D. H. Johnson (HTML at Victorian Web)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.