Recommended Films for Literature Study

Animal Farm

Beautiful Mind

Catch Me if you Can

Count of Monte Cristo

Education of Little Tree

Fahrenheit 451

Farewell to Arms

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Forrest Gump

Grapes of Wrath

House of Sand and Fog

Jane Eyre

Lesson Before Dying

Manchurian Candidate

Matchstick Men

Misery

Mystic River

Neverending Story

Pay it Forward

Perfect Storm

Runaway Jury

Scarlet Letter

Schindler's List

Seabiscuit

Shipping New

Simon birch

Snow Falling on Cedars

War of the Worlds

World According to Garp

Wuthering Heights

Sources: NBS or your school library

Genres and Categories

This is an authoritative site on categories of all films. Still not sure what genre your film is? Look here!

Screenwriting Conventions

Here's what a dramatic screenplay looks like

You should refer to this when writing your scripts. 

Movie Cliches

Now that you understand genre, well maybe not yet ! Well this site will remind you of what you're going to expect in a horror movie for example.

And why should this site be anything more than just funny.  Well, as film connoiseurs, you shouldn't be too impressed by a directors handywork if it's been seen and done so often as to be a cliche! 

A really cool site on Kubrick

Getting started… you'll maybe want a biography, filmography, articles, quotes from critics and works by your director, influences and finally overall contribution to film.  Additionally, a close examination of main film and themes.  Have a look at how this is done at this site.

Directors

Cinemedia is the largest internet movie database and really comprehensive on movie directors.

The quality of the content varies, so if you see a website made on geocities, then it's someone's homepage probably.  So double-check your facts. 

Based on the Book

Liked the movie and now you want to read the book? Yes, to do this topics, you'll have to read it! Here

Use LII [Librarian’s Index to the Internet

Film as a search term will waste a lot of you time because the number of links are so large and many of the pages are just fronts for advertisers, movie trailers and commercial sites. Use LII

and don't be disappointed.

Google Scholar

Have an idea of what you want to do for your topic but haven't made up your mind yet what your thesis will be?  Try using google scholar

use the search terms film history and criticism.  You'll find here some already produced studies which can prompt you to investigate your own theories. 

Cinema Terms

Auteur, cross-cutting, more terms, maybe you've missed some.