When Movies Were Theater : architecture, exhibition and the evolution of American film by Film Journal International Exhibition Guides (Links to the major exhibition chains worldwide, with info on theaters) (via filmjournal.com)
National Association of Theater Owners (NATO, sponsor of the annual CinemaCon)
Theatre Historical Society of America (US organization devoted to the preservation & documentation of move and stage theaters)
Barber, Stephen, Abandoned images : film and film's end, Reaktion Books, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Bordwell, David, et al. “From 35mm to DCP: a critical symposium on the changing face of motion picture exhibition …,” Cinéaste, Fall 2012, p. 32–42 (PDF available via Jstor)
Ezawa, Kota, “Screening rooms—or return to vaudeville,” American Art, v. 22, #2, 2008, p. 11–14 (PDF available via Jstor)
Heathcote, Edwin, The cinema builders, Wiley, NA6845.H43 2001
Maranzana, Chiara, “The city of cinemas and theatres,” Abitare, April 2017, p. 58-65
Uffelen, Chris van, Cinema architecture, Braun, NA6845.U34 2009
Wilkinson, T., “Typology: cinemas,” Architectural review, January 2016, p. 58–67
“3 theaters,” Architectural record, October 1972, p. 115-118
Di Battista, N., “Biennale di Venezia: 10 architetti per il nuove Palazzo del Cinema al Lido,” Domus, September 1991, p. 54–56 (International competition for a new cinema in Venice)
Branch, Mark Alden, “Restoring dreams,” Progressive architecture, June 1990, p. 92-99 (On restorations of six movie palaces)
“Film spaces,” Design Quarterly, #93, 1974 (Theme issue, PDFs available via Jstor)
Kelly, Dennis P., “When the movies played downtown: the exhibition system of the San Francisco Theater Row, 1945-1970,” Journal of Film and Video, Summer/Fall 2002, p. 71–89 (PDF available via Jstor)
Land, John S., "Like moths to a flame," Urban Land, September 1995, p. 15-16 (On multiplex development)
Langdon, Philip, “Flix nix stix: the megaplex goes downtown,” Planning, August 2000, p. 10-13
“The Paramount decrees,” U.S. Department of Justice (Anti-trust ruling that ended studio ownership of theaters in 1948. The DOJ is currently inviting information or comments on “whether the Paramount Decrees, in whole or in part, still are necessary to protect competition in the motion picture industry.”)
“Twin cinemas: flexible showcase for films,” Architectural forum, September 1962
Cinemas and movie complexes: selected references, Urban Land Institute, NA6845.U72 2000
Deron Overpeck, “Is this Pay-TV to be the end for us?: film exhibitors confront pay television, 1968–76,” The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Fall 2012, p. 1–40 (PDF available via Jstor)
"Stars of the silver screen," Architecture, September 1998 (Special issue on multiplexes)
Balio, Tino, Grand design: Hollywood as a modern business enterprise, 1930-1939, University of California Press, PN1995.5.U6H55 1995
Berger, Robert, The last remaining seats: movie palaces of Tinseltown, Balcony Press, NA6846.U62L673 1997
Graf, Don, “The design of the cinema,” Pencil Points, May/July 1938, p. 337-340, 399-406, 443-448
Heathcote, Edwin, “Sideshow to art house : the development of the modernist cinema,” Architectural Design, January 2000, p. 70-73
Herzog, Charlotte, “The movie palace and the theatrical sources of its architectural style,” Cinema Journal, Spring 1981, p. 15-37 (PDF via Jstor)
Koszarski, Richard, An evening's entertainment; the age of the silent feature picture 1915-1928, University of California Press, PN1995.5.U6H55 1994
Kracauer, Siegfried, “Cult of distraction: on Berlin's picture palaces,” New German Critique, #40, Winter, 1987, p. 91-95 (PDF via Jstor)
Maltby, Richard, “The Standard Exhibition Contract and the unwritten history of the classical Hollywood cinema,” Film History, v. 25, #1-2, 2013, p. 138–153 (PDF via Jstor)
Melnick, Ross, American showman : Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935, Columbia University Press, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Melnick, Ross, “Rethinking Rothafel: Roxy's forgotten legacy,” The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Fall 2003, p. 62–95 (PDF via Jstor)
Murphy, E. C., “Motion picture theatre design problems.” Pencil points, v. 9, 1928, p. 629–637
Naylor, David, American picture palaces : the architecture of fantasy, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NA6846.U6N39
Pildas, Ave, Movie palaces, C.N. Potter, NA6830.P5 1980
Regester, Charlene, “From the buzzard's roost: Black movie-going in Durham and other North Carolina cities during the early period of American cinema,” Film History, v. 17, #1, 2005, p. 113–124 (PDF via Jstor)
Scherer, Herbert, “Marquee on Main Street Jack Liebenberg's movie theaters: 1928-1941,” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, #24, Spring 1986, p. 62-75 (PDF via Jstor)
Valentine, Maggie, The show starts on the sidewalk: an architectural history of the movie theatre, starring S. Charles Lee, Yale University Press, NA737.L42V36 1994
Abel, Richard, Americanizing the movies and movie-mad audiences, 1910-1914, University of California Press, 2006 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Allen, Robert C., “Motion picture exhibition in Manhattan 1906-1912: beyond the nickelodeon,” Cinema Journal, Spring 1979, p. 2-15 (PDF via Jstor)
Bowser, Eileen, Transformation of cinema 1907-1915, University of California Press, PN1995.5.U6H55 1994
Charney, Leo & Vanessa R. Schwartz, Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, University of California Press, PN1995.9.S6C47 1995
Gaudreault, Andre, American cinema, 1890-1909: themes and variations, Rutgers University Press, 2009 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Musser, Charles, The Emergence of cinema; the American screen to 1907, University of California Press, PN1995.5.U6H55 1994
Aufderheide, Patricia, Documentary film : a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2007 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog of Feature Films searchable database with info on U.S. films 1893-1993
Bordwell, David & Kristin Thompson, et al., Film art : an introduction, McGraw-Hill, PN1995.B617 2017
Colman, Felicity, Film, theory and philosophy : the key thinkers, Routledge, 2009 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Cousins, Mark, The story of film, British Film Institute, PN1993.5 .A1S76 2012 (5 DVDs, Media shelf)
Dulac, Nicolas, et al. (Editors), A companion to early cinema, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey, et al., A short history of film, Rutgers University Press, 2008 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Godard, Jean-Luc, Histoire(s) du cinema, Gaumont, PN1997.A1H57 2011 (2 DVDs, Media shelf)
Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, The history of cinema : a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, PN1993.5.A1N693 2017
Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, The Oxford history of world cinema, Oxford University Press, PN1993.5.A1O96 1995 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)
Rosen, Philip, Narrative, apparatus, ideology: film theory reader, Columbia University Press, PN1995.N34 1986 (Anthology)
Film studies journals available from Jstor include: Cinéaste (from 1967, with a 11year delay); Cinema Journal (from 1966, with a 3-year delay); Film Comment (from 1962, with a 3-year delay); Film History (from 1987, with a 3-year delay); See Jstor’s “Film” topic guide.
Bahn, Paul, The archaeology of Hollywood : traces of the Golden Age, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Bengtson, John, Silent visions: discovering early Hollywood and New York through the films of Harold Lloyd, Santa Monica Press, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Braudy, Leo, Hollywood sign : fantasy and reality of an American icon, Yale University Press, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Film L.A. (Entertainment industry development corporation for Southern California)
Gebhard, David & Harriette von Breton, Los Angeles in the thirties, 1931-1941, Hennessey & Ingalls, NA735.L55G42 1989
James, David E., The most typical avant-garde: history and geography of minor cinemas in Los Angeles, University of California Press, PN1993.5.U718J36 2005
James, David E. & Adam Hyman, Alternative projections : experimental film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, Indiana University Press, 2015 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Langford, Barry, Post-classical Hollywood : film industry, style and ideology since 1945, Edinburgh University Press, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Melnick, Ross, Hollywood's embassies : how movie theaters projected American power around the world, Columbia University Press, NA6845 .M35 2022
Rhodes, Chip, Politics, desire, and the Hollywood novel, University of Iowa Press, 2008 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Schatz, Thomas, The genius of the system: Hollywood filmmaking in the studio era, Henry Holt & Co., PN1993.5.U65S3 1996
Shiel, Mark, Hollywood cinema and the real Los Angeles, Reaktion Books, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Silvester, Christopher (Editor), The Grove book of Hollywood, Grove Press, PN1993.5.U65 P46 2000
Trope, Alison, Stardust monuments : the saving and selling of Hollywood, Dartmouth College Press, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
For entertainment industry news see: Company Town (Los Angeles Times); Deadline Hollywood (Widely followed entertainment industry news blog); The Hollywood Reporter; Media Decoder (New York Times); Variety.
(including the representation of architecture, cities and sites in movies; art direction; production design; set design; filmic space, …)
Albrecht, Donald, Designing dreams: modern architecture in the movies, Thames & Hudson, PN1995.9.S4A4 2000
Barber, Stephen, Projected cities ; cinema and urban space, Reaktion Books, PN1995.9.C513B37 2002
Bergfelder, Tim, et al., Film architecture and the transnational imagination: set design in 1930s European cinema, Ambsterdam University Press, 2007 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Bruno, Giuliana. Atlas of emotion: journeys in art, architecture, and film, Verso, NX440.B78 2007
Conley, Tom, Cartographic cinema, University of Minnesota Press 2007 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Harper, Graeme & Jonathan Rayner (Editors), Cinema and landscape : film, nation and cultural geography: film, nation and cultural geography, Intellect Books Ltd, 2010 (ebook avialable via Ebook Central)
Jacobs, Steven, The wrong house: the architecture of Alfred Hitchcock, 010 Publishers, NA2588.J33 2007
Krause, Linda & Patrice Petro, Global cities: cinema, architecture, and urbanism in a digital age, Rutgers University Press, NX650.C66G58 2003 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)
Lamster, Mark (Editor), Architecture and film, Princeton Architectural Press, PN1995.9 .A695A73 2000 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)
MacDonald, Scott, The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place, University of California Press, PN1995.9.E96M344 2001
Mennel, Barbara Caroline, Cities and cinema, Routledge, PN1995.9.C513M46 2008
Penz, François & Andong Lu, Urban cinematics: understanding urban phenomena through the moving image, Intellect Books, Ltd., 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Prakash, Gyan (Editor), Noir urbanisms : dystopic images of the modern city, Princeton University Press, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Rhodes, John David & Elena Gorfinkel (Editors), Taking place : location and the moving image, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Schaal, Hans Dieter, Learning from Hollywood, Edition Axel Menges, PN1995.9.S4 S33 1996
Schleier, Merrill, Skyscraper cinema : architecture and gender in American film, University of Minnesota Press, 2009 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Shiel, Mark & Tony Fitzmaurice (Editors), Cinema and the city: film and urban societies in a global context, Wiley-Blackwell, PN1995.9.C513C45 2001
Shonfield, Katherine, Walls have feelings : architecture, film and the city, Routledge, 2003 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Stierli, Martino, Montage and the metropolis : architecture, modernity, and the representation of space, Yale University Press, NA500.S75 2018
Truniger, Fred, Filmic mapping: film and the visual culture of landscape architecture, Jovis, PN1995.9.D6T78 2012
Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, The Apartment Plot: urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975, Duke University Press, PN1995.9.C513W65 2010
There are several recurring film festivals devoted to architecture and movies, including … Arch Film Fest (June, London); Architecture & Design Film Festival (for-profit, traveling program); Architecture + Design Film Festival (May, Winnipeg); Architecture Film Festival (October, Rotterdam); Arq Film Fest (November, Santiago); Copenhagen Architecture Festival CAFx (April); FICARQ (July, Santander); Milano Design Film Festival (October); Society of Architectural Historians Award for Film & Video (April, screenings at the annual SAH conference); Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival (August)
Balsom, Erika, Exhibiting cinema in contemporary art, Amsterdam University Press, 2013 (PDFs available vial Jstor)
Bell, Shannon, “From ticket booth to screen tower: an architectural study of drive-in theaters in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.-Richmond Corridor,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, v. 9, 2003, p. 215–227 (PDF available via Jstor)
DriveInMovie.com (“The Internet’s oldest drive-in movie resource”)
Fowler, Catherine, “Remembering cinema ‘elsewhere’: from retrospection to introspection in the gallery film,” Cinema Journal, v. 51, #2, 2012, p. 26–45 (PDF available via Jstor)
Hilderbrand, Lucas, “The art of distribution: video on demand,” Film Quarterly, v. 64, #2, 2010, p. 24–28 (PDF available via Jstor)
Hoelzl, Ingrid, “Screens—the place of the image in digital culture,” Leonardo, v. 45, #5, 2012, p. 474–475 (PDF available via Jstor)
Jennings, Gabrielle, Abstract video : the moving image in contemporary art, University of California Press, N6494.V53 A246 2015
Klinger, Barbara, Beyond the multiplex : cinema, new technologies, and the home, University of California Press, 2006 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Liftin, Joan, Drive-ins, Trolley, TR647.L54 2004
Mondloch, Kate, Screens : viewing media installation art, University of Minnesota Press, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Mov Mob (Temporary drive-ins)
Open-air screenings: Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (New York); Cinespsia (at Hollywood Forever since 2002); Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House (London), ...
Outdoor movie system vendors: Cinerent, Open Air Cinema, Outdoor Movies, …
Pizzi, M., “The show is about to begin …,” Abitare, December 2016, p. 136–141 (on home theaters)
Segrave, Kerry, Drive-in Theaters: a history, McFarland & Co., PN1993.5.U6537 1992
Susik, Abigail, “Sky projectors, portapaks, and projection bombing: the rise of a portable projection medium,” Journal of Film and Video, Spring/Summer 2012, p. 79–92 (PDF available via Jstor)
