Sourcebook for the Performing Arts: A Directory of Collections, Resources, Scholars, and Critics in Theatre, Film, and Television »

ANTHONY SLIDE, film scholar and historian, is the author of more than thirty volumes on the history of the performing arts, including International Film, Radio, and Television Journals, The American Film Industry: A Historical Dictionary, (Greenwood Press, 1985, 1986).

PATRICIA KING HANSON is editor of the American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-1920 and 1931-1940.

STEPHEN L. HANSON is Assistant Head of the Reference Department for the University Library at the University of Southern California.

This comprehensive directory provides the most thorough coverage available on resources for the performing arts. In this single volume, researchers will find information on a wide range of topics relating to theatre, film, radio, and television. The book provides documentation on collections as well as individuals. Divided into two main sections, the first part of the book gives resource information on collections and institutions with major holdings in each of the fields under consideration. The remainder of the volume is devoted primarily to a "who's who" of leading academics, archivists, critics, historians, librarians, and scholars in the performing arts. Entries include major accomplishments, publications, academic and professional affiliations, as well as general biographical information. Completing the work is a listing of useful addresses of publishers, bookshops, organizations, periodicals, studios, film commissions, television networks, guilds, unions, and associations. A comprehensive index provides ready access to persons, institutions, and collections referenced throughout.

Library Journal

Theater, film, radio, and television are the performing arts covered here. The first half of the volume is a directory of performing arts collections in the United States. Unfortunately, the annotations for each entry generally are quite skimpyonly a sentence or twoand usually fail to give the size of the collection. Fourteen states have been omitted. The rest of the book consists of several directories, including performing arts bookstores, publishers, organizations, etc. These too are minimal; most listings provide only name, address, and phone number. Existing reference works cover each topic in considerably more detail. Since this handbook's major virtue is the convenience and economy of a single volume, only small libraries and comprehensive collections should consider. Richard W. Gre frath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno

Introduction

Institutions and Collections

Who's Who

Useful Addresses

Bookshops

Journals and Magazines

Specialist Publishers

Organizations

Major U.S. Motion Picture and Television Studios and Production Companies

U.S. Film Commissions

International Film Commissions

Television Networks

Index