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.
About the Author: 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.
