Great for summaries and background information books are a reliable, easy to understand source. Most of the books for Film Theatre & Television can be found on the 3rd Floor of the Library.
Use your module reading list to find books recommended by your lecturer. Find the link on the module site on Blackboard or via the link below.
Alternatively search for a specific book or books on a topic using the Enterprise catalogue (search box below).
Books and the shelves where you will find them are all numbered according to topic area. See the guide below for an outline of the main location (Call) numbers for topics in this subject area:
For the latest information on specific topics use journal articles.
For quick access to articles available to students at Reading search Summon for your topic using the box below.
Explore further using these key resources for your subject:
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is a collection of TV and radio programmes from free-to-air channels. Set new recordings and playback programmes already recorded. Content back to 1990s.
Plays and supporting critical and contextual material relating to works from the classical era to the present day. The collection features the theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber, as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center. Also available are plays, screen plays and theatrebooks from Nick Hern Books; Playwrights Canada Press, a collection of plays by emerging and established Canadian playwrights; plays from the Oberon Books collection; Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Videos covering key plays and acting techniques; and the National Theatre collection, containing 30 filmed performances from the venue.
Gives references, and some full-text access, to sources relating to film and television.
