LATIN AMERICAN & SPANISH FILM STUDIES

This is a selective guide to resources for  Latin American and Spanish film available at Columbia University Libraries. The guide includes library locations and call numbers, but please consult CLIO for the most current holdings information.  Items in Reference and the Latin American Studies Reading Room (Butler 503) do not circulate.  Electronic resources marked with the blue key   are paid subscription titles, and are available to current Columbia faculty, staff and students only. 

Please see also the following Butler Media Center Guides:
Film & Television Resources |  Motion Pictures/Cinema/Film  Print Resources |  Features & Shorts BMC Blog

DICTIONARIES AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES  | ENCYCLOPEDIAS
FILMOGRAPHY and FILM CATALOGS | BIBLIOGRAPHIES 
HISTORIES OF FILM
ARTICLES, REVIEWS, and JOURNALS
TIPS FOR FINDING BOOKS OR FILMS IN CLIO  |  Other Guides

Dictionaries and Biographical Sources

GENERAL SOURCES:

Biography Resource Center

Film Index International "Person Search" allows you to look for biographical information.

Film Language Glossary Columbia Center for New Media, Teaching and Learning

The film studies dictionary / Steve Blandford, Barry Keith Grant, Jim Hillier. New York:Oxford University Press, 2001.
Location: Milstein Study, 209 Butler
Call Number: PN1993.45 .B53 2001g

The new biographical dictionary of film./ David Thomson. 4th Ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R040.08092 T38c
Ebook
Some coverage of Latin American and Spanish personalities.

International dictionary of films and filmmakers, 4th edition. / editors, Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast. Detroit : St. James Press, c2000.
Butler Reference Desk, 301 Butler
Call Number: R016.80922 In8411, vols. 1-4.

Women film directors : an international bio-critical dictionary / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R041.080922 F813

LATIN AMERICA

Astros e estrelas do cinema Brasileiro / Antonio Leão da Silva Neto.  São Paulo : Fundação Nestlé de Cultura : FAAP-FACOM, 1998.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R047.308 Si38

Diccionario de actores del cine argentino, 1933-1999 / por Roberto Blanco Pazos y Raúl Clemente.   Buenos Aires : Corregidor, c1999.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R047.1 B59

Diccionario de actrices del cine argentino, 1933-1997 / Roberto Blanco Pazos, Raúl Clemente.  Buenos Aires : Corregidor, 1997.
Offsite
Call Number: PN1998.2 .B58 1997

Diccionario de directores del cine argentino : de comienzos del sonoro a nuestros días / Adolfo C. Martínez. Buenos  Aires: Corregidor, c2004.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1998.2 .M37 2004g

Diccionario de directores del cine mexicano / [dirección] Perla Ciuk. México, D.F.: CONACULTA : Cineteca Nacional, [c2000]
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R041.208 D54

Diccionario del cine mexicano, 1970-2000 / Mario A. Quezada, compilador.  México, D.F. : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2005.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.22 D547
Latin American Studies Read Rm, 503 Butler (Non-Circulating)
PN1993.5.M6 D53 2005

Dicionário de cineastas brasileiros / Luiz Felipe Miranda. São Paulo : Secretaria de Estado da Cultura : Art Editora, 1990.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler (Non-Circulating)
Call Number: R047.3 M67

Directory of Spanish and Portuguese film-makers and films / compiled and edited by Rafael de España. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England : Flicks Books, 1994.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler (Non-Circulating)
Call Number: R809.22 Es61

Quién es quién en el teatro y el cine español e hispanoamericano / Centro de Investigaciones Literarias Españolas e Hispanoamericanas. Barcelona: C.I.L.E.H., c1990.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R046 Q4, vols. 1-2.

South American cinema : dictionary of film makers / Luis Trelles Plazaola ; translated by Yudit de Ferdinandy. Río Piedras, P.R.: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1989.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1998.2 .T7413 1989

SPAIN

Diccionario del cine español / Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España.  Madrid : Alianza Editorial : Sociedad General de Autores y Editores : Fundación Autor, c1998.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.22 D547

Diccionario del cine español, 1896-1968 / Fernando Vizcaíno Casas.  Madrid : Editora Nacional, 1970.
Offsite
Call Number: PN1993.5.S7 V55 1970

Diccionario Espasa cine español / Augusto M. Torres. Madrid : Espasa, 1999.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.22 T63

Guide to the cinema of Spain / Marvin D’Lugo.  Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.22 D64

Quién es quién en el teatro y el cine español e hispanoamericano / Centro de Investigaciones Literarias Españolas e Hispanoamericanas. Barcelona: C.I.L.E.H., c1990.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R046 Q4, vols. 1-2.

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Encyclopedias

Tip: when consulting theses sources look under entries for cinema, film, and names of individual directors, actors etc.

The Cambridge companion to modern Spanish culture / edited by David T. Gies. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: DP48 .C233 1999

Enciclopedia del cine español : cronología / Pascual Cebollada, Luis Rubio Gil. Barcelona : Ediciones del Serbal, 1996.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.2246 C32

Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures / edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. López. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R980 En19, vols. 1-3.
Latin American Studies Reading Room, 503 Butler
Call Number: F1406 .E515 2000, vols. 1-3.

Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture / Jay Kinsbruner, editor in chief; Erick D. Langer, senior editor.  Detroit : Gale/Cengage, c2008
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R980 En192, vols. 1-6

Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture / Barbara A. Tenenbaum, editor in chief ; associate editors, Georgette Magassy Dorn et.al. New York : Scribner’s : Macmillan Library Reference USA, c1996.
Latin American Studies Read Rm, 503 Butler
Call Number: F1406 .E53 1996, vols. 1-5

Encyclopedia of modern Mexico / David W. Dent. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.
Latin American Studies Read Rm, 503 Butler
Call Number: F1234 .D364 2002
Lehman Reference
Call Number: F1234 .D364 2002

The film encyclopedia : the most comprehensive encyclopedia of world cinema in a single volume / by Ephraim Katz. 5th ed. / revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York : Collins Reference, 2005.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R038.092 K1592

Mexico : an encyclopedia of contemporary culture and history / Don M. Coerver, Suzanne B. Pasztor, and Robert M. Buffington. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R972 C651
Latin American Studies Read Rm, 503 Butler
Call Number: F1234 .C67 2004

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Filmography and Film Catalogs

Antología crítica del cine español 1906-1995 : flor en la sombra / Julio Pérez Perucha, ed.  Madrid : Cátedra, 1997.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.22 An88

Catálogo general del cine de la guerra civil / edición a cargo de Alfonso del Amo García. Madrid : Cátedra : Filmoteca Española, c1996.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.2246 C28

The Cuban filmography, 1897 through 2001 / by Alfonso J. García Osuna. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2003.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R016.80922 G16

Diez años del nuevo cine latinoamericano / Teresa Toledo. Verdoux :Quinto Centenario : Cinemateca de Cuba, [1990]
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1993.5.L3 T65 1990

A Guide to Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino made film and video / edited by Karen Ranucci and Julie Feldman. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.22 G94

Latin American films, 1932-1994 : a critical filmography / by Ronald Schwartz. Jefferson, N.C.:McFarland & Co., 1996.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.22 Sch9

The Mexican filmography : 1916 through 2001 / David E. Wilt. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1993.5.M4 W55 2004

South American cinema : a critical filmography, 1915-1994 / edited by Timothy Barnard and Peter Rist. New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.22 So87

SEE ALSO:

• Internet Movie Database
• Anuario del Cine Español [2001 - ; lists feature and short films produced each year, directors and producers]
• Base de datos de peliculas [Spanish Ministry of Culture] Background, technical information and synopses of films.
• Portal del cine y el audiovisual latinoamericano y caribeño Gateway to online information about Latin American and Caribbean film, the film industry, festivals, and film research.

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Bibliographies

La bibliografía cinematográfica española : aproximación histórica / Juan Delgado Casado.  Madrid : Arco/Libros, c1993.
Butler Stacks
Call Number:  Z5784.M9 D44 1993

Bibliography of Cuban mass communications / compiled by John A. Lent.  Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992. [includes several sections on Cuban cinema]
Lehman Reference (Non-Circulating)
Call Number: Z5634.C9 L46 1992

Film, an international bibliography / Malte Hagener, Michael Töteberg. Stuttgart : Metzler, 2002.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R016.80922 H122

Film in Latin America: A Selective Bibliography, 1999. Compiled by Marianne Siegmund. Latin American Information Series No. 7, SALALM.

Film researcher’s handbook : a guide to sources in North America, South America, Asia, Australasia and Africa / compiled by Jenny Morgan. London ; New York : Routledge, c1996.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R061 F4871

The new Latin American cinema : an annotated bibliography of sources in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, 1960-1980 / compiled by Julianne Burton. New York, N.Y. : Smyrna Press, c1983.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R016.80922 B951

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Histories of Film

TIP:  Do a SUBJECT HEADING search in CLIO,  Motion Pictures Spain history [use any country name]

General and Latin American Region

A companion to Latin American film / Stephen M. Hart. Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2004.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1993.5.L3 H37 2004

The cinema of Latin America / edited by Alberto Elena & Marina Díaz López. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2003.
Butler Reserves, 208 Butler
Call Number: PN1993.5.L3 C56 2003g
Modern & Comparative Studies Read Rm, 504 Butler
Call Number: PN1993.5.L3 C56 2003g

Hojas de cine : testimonios y documentos del nuevo cine latinoamericano. México, D.F. : Secretaría de Educación pública : Universidad Autónoma Metropolitan: Fundación Mexicana de Cineastas, 1988.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1993.5.L3 H64 1988g, vols. 1-3.

Magical reels : a history of cinema in Latin America / John King. London ; New York : Verso, 2000.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1993.5.L3 K45 2000
Latin American Studies Read Rm, 503 Butler
Call Number: PN1993.5.L3 K45 2000

New Latin American cinema / edited by Michael T. Martin. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1997. v. 1. Theory, practices, and transcontinental articulations -- v. 2. Studies of national cinemas.
Butler Reserves, 208 Butler
Call Number: PN1993.5.L3 N48 1997, vols. 1-2.

The Oxford history of world cinema / edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Butler Reference, 301 Butler
Call Number: R809.22 Ox2

Latin American Countries

Brazilian cinema / [edited by] Randal Johnson and Robert Stam. Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press c1982. (ADDING 1995 edition)
Butler Stacks Call Number: PN1993.5.B6 B7
Butler Reserves, 208 Butler Call Number: PN1993.5.B6 B7

Breve historia del cine mexicano : primer siglo, 1897-1997 / Emilio García Riera. México, D.F. : Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía ; Zapopan, Jalisco : Ediciones Mapa, c1998.
Butler Stacks Call Number: PN1993.5.M4 G2924 1998g

100 años de cine en el Perú : una historia crítica / Ricardo Bedoya. Lima, Perú : Universidad de Lima, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, 1992.
Butler Stacks Call Number: PN1993.5.P4 B44 1992

Cuban cinema / Michael Chanan. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
Butler Reserves, 208 Butler Call Number: PN1993.5.C8 C48 2004

Contemporary Argentine cinema / David William Foster. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, c1992.
Butler Stacks Call Number: PN1993.5.A7 F6 1992

Historia del cine argentino / Jorge Miguel Couselo ... [et al.]. Buenos Aires : Centro Editor de América Latina, c1984.
Butler Stacks Call Number: PN1993.5.A7 H5 1984

Historia del cine cubano : cien años, 1897-1998 / Eduardo G. Noguer. Miami, Fla. : Ediciones Universal, 2002.
Butler Stacks Call Number: PN1993.5.C8 N64 2002g

Historia documental del cine mexicano / Emilio García Riera. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México : Universidad de Guadaljara, c1992-
Butler Stacks Call Number: PN1993.5.M4 G295 1992, vols. 1-18.

Mexican cinema / edited by Paulo Antonio Paranaguá ; translated by Ana M. López. London : British Film Institute, 1995.
Butler Reserves, 208 Butler Call Number: PN1993.5.M4 C4913 1995g

Panorama histórico del cine en Venezuela, 1896-1993 / José Miguel Acosta ... [et al.]. Caracas : Fundación Cinemateca Nacional, c1997.
Butler Stacks Call Number: PN1993.5.V4 P36 1997

Spain

Burning darkness : a half century of Spanish cinema / edited by Joan Ramon Resina.  Albany : SUNY Press, c2008.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1993.5.S7 B87 2008

The cinema of Spain and Portugal / edited by Alberto Mira. London ; New York : Wallflower, 2005.
Butler Reserves, 208 Butler AND Comparative Literature  & Society Reading Room, 615 Butler (Non-Circ)
Call Number: PN1993.5.S7 C525 2005g

Contemporary Spanish cinema / Barry Jordan and Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 1998.
Butler Stacks and Butler Reserves
Call Number: PN1993.5.S7 J6 1998g

Historia del cine español / José María Caparrós Lera ; prólogo de Rafael Utrea ; apéndice "La censura del cine en España" de Rafael de España.   Madrid : T&B, 2007.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1993.5.S7 C334 2007g

Historia del cine español / Román Gubern ... [et al.]. Madrid : Cátedra, c1995.
Butler Stacks
Call Number: PN1993.5.S7 H59 1995

Spanish cinema : a student’s guide / Barry Jordan and Mark Allinson.  London : Hodder Arnold, 2005.
Butler Reserves, 208 Butler
Call Number: PN1993.5.S7 J67 2005g

Spanish national cinema / Núria Triana-Toribio. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Butler Stacks AND Comparative Literature & Society Reading Room, 615 Butler (Non-Circ)
Call Number: PN1993.5.S7 T76 2003g

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Databases for finding articles and reviews

• FIAF international index to film periodicals plus
  
• Film Index International
  
• Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text [includes popular magazines and academic journals]
  
• Film Literature Index Online version covers 1976-2001 [print edition,Butler Reference, 301 Butler. Covers 1973-2004.]
  
• International index to the performing arts
  
• Art & Humanities Citation Index, AHCI
  
• Dialnet  Tables of Contents and some Full-text of Spanish and some Latin American journals.
  
• HAPI Online- Hispanic American Periodicals Index Covers over 400 journals published in or about Latin America.
  
• Humanities Full Text Index Citations 1984 – present; Full text 1995-present
  
• JSTOR: the scholarly journal archive (Archive does not include issues for the most recent 4-5 years)
  
• MLA Bibliography Main database for articles about modern languages and literature. Includes film studies.

News Databases may also include film reviews.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Tips for searching:
For major U.S. newspapers, 
----»IN RED navigation bar, select General or News search.
----»Choose sources if you wish, US Newspapers and wires; Major U.S. and World publications etc.
----»SET an appropriate date range.  Default settings vary with the type of search you choose
For Spanish/Latin American newspapers,
----»Select "News" in the red navigation bar at the top of the page
----»Under "SELECT SOURCES"  choose "Spanish Language News, combined" OR "Portuguese Language News"
----»Use keywords in the same language as your sources. [accents and diacritical marks are not necessary]
----»SET an appropriate date range.  Default is "previous 3 months"

ProQuest
Tip for searching:click on “more search options” and select Reviews-->Film as Document Type

MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine Finds reviews from a variety of international sources.

New York Times Movie Reviews—free archive of reviews since 1960; can browse by selected country of origin

El País -- archive of the Spanish newspaper.  TIP: Searching all content can be useful.  But Select "sólo en la edición impresa" and use drop-down menu to limit search to the Cine section.

Selected Journals

• El Amante Cine (Argentina)
• Butaca : revista del Cine Arte del Centro Cultural de San Marcos  (Peru)
• Butaca sanmarquina (Lima, Peru, 1998-2004)
• Cine Cubano  [Online edition]
• Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
• Filmhistoria Online (Spain)  Includes "dossier" on Latin American film
• Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico : [catálogo] (Brazil)
• Revista de Cinema (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
  
• Studies in Documentary Film
• Film Criticism  [Online edition]
• Film Journal International
• International motion picture almanac
• Variety international film guide

Tips for searching CLIO

Find books on film studies in Latin America and/or Spain

• Keyword search:
  “motion pictures” and “latin america”
  “motion pictures” and country
  add relevant keywords to further refine the search.  The GUIDED KEYWORD search in CLIO makes it easier to work with multiple search terms.

• Subject heading search:
  motion pictures spain
  motion pictures COUNTRY NAME
  documentary films

Find films on video or DVD

Restrict your searching to video/DVD items.

• In CLIO use the “QUICK LIMIT” and select “VIDEO RECORDINGS”
• In WorldCat, select the “Visual Materials” option in the LIMIT TYPE  area.

IF YOU KNOW the title, director, screenwriter, or principal actors of a film:

• DO a Title search using the movie's name
• DO an Author search using the names of the director/screenwriter/actor 

For BROWSING by country or topics:

• Keyword search in CLIO: enter country name or topic keywords, or combine a director name and partial title. Select the VIDEO RECORDINGS QUICK LIMIT.  This will find BOTH videos and DVDs. To view the most recent films, use the pull-down menu above the results lists to re-sort by date.

• Select “PRE-SET Limits” and select Spanish as your language limit.  Then do a keyword search on the word “videorecording.”  Add more keywords to refine the search, if you wish.

• Keyword search in WorldCat:  WorldCat is a database with records from libraries throughout the U.S.  Enter country name and/or topic keywords and check "visual materials" to limit your search to DVDS/videos.  You can set date limits, or you can sort your results by using the "Sort" button on the upper left side of result screen.

Other Guides

LANIC Cinema page Latin American Network Information Center's subject directory of websites
Film Studies Subject Guide  Barnard College Library
Latin American and Spanish Video on the Internet: a Guide to Web Resources SUNY Albany Libraries

Prepared by Pamela Graham, Latin American & Iberian Studies Librarian, graham@columbia.edu
Last revised: 10/22/2009