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Works Cited page entry: Personal interview, film, tv program

Please note that although the MLA Handbook recommends underlining material that is italicized in print, italics are used in these examples because of internet browser limitations.

Type of source
Sample entry in reference list
Personal Interview
Parsons, Gwynneth. Personal interview. 
     7 Sept. 2003.
Film
Inherit the Wind. Dir. Stanley Kramer.
     Perf. Spencer Tracy and Frederic 
     March. United Artists, 1960.

[Note: If it's the director or another individual associated 
with the film that you want to cite, start the entry with that 
person's name--here, for example, Kramer, Stanley, dir.]
Television Program
Voyage to the Galapagos. Host Alan Alda.
     Scientific American Frontiers. PBS. 
     5 Oct. 1999.

 


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