Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)

Open Education Resources by Course Number

• FILM 101: Film Appreciation, CC-BY

Yelizaveta Moss & Candice Wilson, University of North Georgia Press, n.d.

Introductory Film textbook that covers a brief history of film, narration and story structure, cinematography, editing, sound, genre, and film analysis. Offers accessible PDF and Word formats.

You can use works in the public domain for free because their copyright has already expired.

Here are some useful guides to find films and images in the public domain:

• University of Texas Libraries: Public Domain 101
• UT Austin: Works Entering the Public Domain in 2024
• Library of Congress: Public Domain Films and Moving Images
• Picryl Public Domain Collections (Images and Documents)
• Library of Congress: Free-to-Use and Reuse Image Collection

Hardcopy Books Available at the Equity Center

The Equity Center (located in the Santa Barbara Building) offers free copies of Theater textbooks:

• Living Theater: A History, Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb

• Living Theatre: A History (4th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb 

• Theater: The Lively Art (3rd Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb

• Theater: The Lively Art (4th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb

• Theater: The Lively Art (5th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb

• Theater: The Lively Art (6th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb

• Theatre: the Lively Art (7th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb

• The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, John Russell Brown

• Broadway: An Encyclopedia, Ken Bloom

• Rehearsals Off, George Booth