A filmography is a

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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 film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

s directed by a particular

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. Filmographies are not limited to associations with particular people. For example, the ''Handbook of American Film Genres'' (

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, ) includes "19 substantive essays on major American

film genre A film genre is a Genre, stylistic or thematic category for Film, motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative , narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film. Drawing heavily from the theories ...

s", each accompanied by a "valuable selected filmography." In 1998, the

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sponsored a university-wide "All Powers Project" which assembled a filmography of films related to the

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Red Scare, which consisted of "

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s that played a role in fueling the

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, in propagandizing the threat of Communism and in a few rare and rather veiled cases, in standing up to the charges of the

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." Another example is the filmography published by a library director at

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of over 500 films "that in some significant or memorable way include a library or librarian", a filmography assembled to better understand Hollywood's

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s of librarians. The

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, whose responsibilities include promoting film production in the U.S. state of Georgia, maintains a filmography of such films.

Etymology

The term, which has been in use since at least 1957, is modeled on and analogous to "

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", a list of books. As lists, filmographies are distinct from the cinematic arts of "

videography Videography involves capturing moving images on electronic media (such as: videotape, direct to disk recording, or solid state storage), and can include streaming media. It encompasses both video production and post-production methods. Historic ...

" and "

cinematography Cinematography () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (optics), lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sen ...

", which refer to the processes themselves, and which are analogous to "

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

" instead.

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