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Starting Points: Film Studies |
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Finding Background Info [help]
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these sources for quick overviews, to develop vocabulary for searching and/or for more sources |
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Oxford Reference Online Database -
access to over 140 online reference books
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Magill's Cinema Annual --
Ref PN 1993.3 .M34 (library has 1982 - date) |
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Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film -- Ref PN 1993.45 .G65 2007 v.
1- 4 |
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..more books may be found in the PN section of the Reference Room. |
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Finding Articles [help]
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Academic Search Premier
-- scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most
academic areas of study |
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JSTOR
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an online archive of academic journals in all fields. Articles generally become available here 3-5 years after publication |
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MLA International Bibliography --
consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1926 to the present |
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Project Muse
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access to over 380 humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers |
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SocINDEX -- full text of journal articles, and indexing and informative abstracts for "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. |
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Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated --
includes
biographies and obituaries. It is searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date
of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images
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Finding Books [help]
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Library Catalog -- search by subject,
keyword, author or title!
Click here for suggested subject
search terms & genres |
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Tip:
Using the "search the catalog" feature, do a subject search for any of the following terms: film, motion picture, film criticism. This will bring
up ALL subject headings that have those terms anywhere in the heading. If you treat the director as a subject, this will give you
books ABOUT the director; treating the director as an author will give you books
(and DVD's) BY him/her. |
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Web Resources |
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Film Culture
-- links to film resources, film festivals and film journals available on the
WWW. From the department of Film Studies at UC Berkeley |
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Film Studies Resources --
University of Iowa's Department of
Communication Studies |
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Film Studies Website at Yale --
Yale University Library Research
Guide in Film Studies |
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The Internet
Movie Database --
provides detailed information for movies including directors, producers, actors, plot summaries, character names, running times,
trivia, soundtracks, release dates, box office grosses, alternate versions, Academy Awards and other awards information, and much more. |
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