Filmography
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A filmography is a list of films related by some criteria. For example, an actor's career
filmography is the list of films they have appeared in; a director's comedy filmography is
the list of comedy films directed by a particular director. The term, which has been in
use since at least 1957,[1] is modeled on and analogous to "bibliography", a list of books.
As lists filmographies are distinct from the cinematic arts of "videography" and
"cinematography" which refer to the processes themselves, and which are analogous
to photography instead.
Filmographies are not limited to associations with particular people. For example,
the Handbook of American Film Genres (1988, ISBN 0-313-24715-3) includes "19
substantive essays on major American film genres", each accompanied by a "valuable
selected filmography."[2] In 1998, the University of Washington sponsored a universitywide "All Powers Project" which assembled a filmography of films related to the Cold
War Red Scare, which consisted of "motion pictures that played a role in fueling the Red
Scare, in propagandizing the threat of Communism and in a few rare and rather veiled
cases, in standing up to the charges of the House Committee on Un-American
Activities."[3]
Another example is the filmography published by a library director at Brigham Young
University–Idaho of over 500 films "that in some significant or memorable way include a
library or librarian", a filmography assembled to better understand
Hollywood's stereotypes of librarians.[4] The Georgia Department of Economic
Development, whose responsibilities include promoting film production in the U.S. state
of Georgia, maintains a filmography of such films.[5]