Subject Guide
Related Guides
Film Literature Databases
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Academic Search CompleteFind articles in all subject areas in over 17,000 journals and magazines, with full text for most. Updated daily. Dates vary, some as early as 1865 to present.
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Art & Architecture CompleteFind full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts. It covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.
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Communication & Mass Media CompleteFull text and indexing for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and more. Also includes author profiles. Dates of coverage vary, 1915-present.
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JSTOR
Full-text scholarly journals in many subject areas. JSTOR has the beginning of each journal to 3, 4 or 5 years ago. How-to videos.
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Literary Reference Source PlusFull-text database provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
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MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of citations related to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in nearly 4,000 scholarly journals, books, book chapters, and other formats. Includes some non-English language material. 1926 to present.
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Movie Review Query EngineSearch for film reviews on the Internet by film name.
Business Databases
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Business Source CompleteFind articles about business in magazines, newspapers and journals, author profiles, and country economic reports. Coverage varies, as early as 1886 to present. Click "More" and then "Company Profiles" to view DataMonitor and LifeStyle Analytics reports.
Finding and Using Media
Digital Film Collections
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Harry Ransom Center Movie Posters CollectionThe Ransom Center's movie poster collection consists of an estimated 10,000 posters and spans the entire history of film from the silent era to the present day.
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Chicago Film ArchivesCFA's collections contain professional and amateur films of all genres, including documentaries, experimental films, and home movies, depicting histories of Chicago, the Midwest and the world.
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Love, Links, Archives: The Wendy Clarke CollectionDigitized collection of videos from filmmaker Wendy Clarke's personal archive.
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Moving Image at the Library of CongressOver 25 digital Library of Congress collections include, or are comprised of, film or video materials. The following selected list of moving image collections provide a good starting point for research.
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Media History Digital LibraryDigitized books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
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Margaret Herrick LibraryRepresenting more than 35,000 items, the Academy Library Digital Spotlight presents a curated selection of materials from the library's extensive holdings on motion picture history.
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Wildlife Conservation Society Film CollectionThe Wildlife Conservation Society Film Collection is currently composed of 1,607 film reels created or collected by WCS between approximately 1900 and 1996.