Many Dartmouth alumni have achieved distinction in the film industry and the professional theatre. This statement concerns collection scope for the Departments of Drama and Film Studies . The collection supports the undergraduate curriculum and faculty research. Emphasis is on Western performing arts from antiquity to the present, although there is increasing interest in non-Western material.
Technical courses support an active program of stage performance and film production.
Faculty publications include not only critical and historical works but original plays as well, and the Drama Department offers a foreign-study sequence in London. Students are encouraged to take courses in English and foreign languages, comparative literature, and classics. Collection criteria for drama as literature are considered in policy statements for literature and languages. Plays are shelved with other literature in English and other languages. There is some duplication of English and American plays and critical works in the Sanborn House Library.