To begin checking out books, bring your SMFA ID to the Library (3rd floor, B side of the Fenway building) and set up an account.
Through our membership in the Fenway Libraries Online (FLO) consortium, we offer access to over 1 million print and electronic books. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to explore the collections in one, some, or all of the following ways:
If you can't find what you need at the SMFA Library, we may be able to obtain a copy for you elsewhere.
Visit our Interlibrary Loan page, or contact Lauren Kimball-Brown for more information:
Try browsing these Library of Congress subject headings in the FLO catalog:
Art and motion pictures
Cinematography
Experimental film
Film
Film installations (Art)
Motion pictures
Visit the following call number ranges, related to Film, in the SMFA Library's print book collection:
| NC1765 - 1766 | Animated films | PN1994 | General film theory |
| PN1993 - 1999 | Motion pictures | TR897.5 - 897.7 | Animated motion pictures |
| PN1993.5 | Motion pictures - History - By region or Country | TR899 - 899.5 | Editing of motion pictures |
| PN1995.9.D6 | Documentary films | ||
| PN1995.9.E9 | Experimental films | ||
| PN1998.A2 - 1998.3 | Motion pictures - Biographies (directors, filmmakers, etc) | ||
| TR845 - 899 | Cinematography |
Art cinema
PN1995.9.E96 Y68 2009
Future cinema : the cinematic imaginary after film
TR860 .F88 2003
Film as a subversive art
PN1995.5 .V6 2005