Afilmography is alist 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 ofcomedy films directed by a particulardirector.
Filmographies are not limited to associations with particular people. For example, theHandbook of American Film Genres (1988,ISBN 0-313-24715-3) includes "19 substantive essays on major Americanfilm genres", each accompanied by a "valuable selected filmography."[1] In 1998, theUniversity of Washington sponsored a university-wide "All Powers Project" which assembled a filmography of films related to theCold War Red Scare, which consisted of "motion pictures that played a role in fueling theRed Scare, in propagandizing thethreat of Communism and in a few rare and rather veiled cases, in standing up to the charges of theHouse Committee on Un-American Activities."[2]
Another example is the filmography published by a library director atBrigham 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'sstereotypes of librarians.[3] TheGeorgia Department of Economic Development, whose responsibilities include promoting film production in theU.S. state of Georgia, maintains a filmography of such films.[4]