Selected Resources for: Film Studies
| Subject Librarian: Kate Brooks E-Mail: kabrooks@umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers: critical, historical and theoretical study of film. |
Abstracts and Indexes
* Premier Resources *Article Search, Film Studies  Use to search for articles on topics in film studies. This link goes to a research database called Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film Indexes Online This web portal combines three research databases in the film studies area: FIAF International Film Database Plus (info), AFI Film Catalog (info), and Film Index International (info). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Films and Videos in the Libraries Use to search for films and videos in the Libraries at the University of Minnesota. Simplified interface for searching film and videos in MNCAT, the library catalog. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
American Film Institute Catalog  Use to find information on U.S. films made between 1890s-1972 (for other coverage, see Film Index International). Includes bibliographies. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index This citation index can be used to find articles that cite a particular article. It covers arts and humanities, including film and television, 1975 - present. Indexes articles from over 1,100 arts and humanities journals published worldwide in all languages (note that many journals are NOT included). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Communication and Mass Media Complete A comprehensive resource for articles relating to various forms of communication, Communication and Mass Media Complete provides journal articles on topics such as mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more. The database provides full text for more than 285 journals, and indexing or abstracts to nearly 600 journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| EBSCO MegaFILE Use this resource to search for articles from scholarly journals or popular magazines, and from a select number of newspapers. It is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus A bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film and Television Literature Index with Full-Text Use this database to find research articles, commentaries and more on film & television issues. List of titles included. Aspects covered include theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, reviews (back to 1914) and more. The database allows full searching of more than 270 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Articles are available for more than 80 journals and texts from nearly 50 books. If the article you are interested in is not available online, click the Find It-button to see if the article is available in another library database, or to see if the library has the article in print. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film Index International Use to find information on over 100,000 films, including plot summaries, film awards and lists of relevant articles. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas. Updated, uniform subject headings facilitate your search, with the original subject headings also provided. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PCI: Periodicals Contents Index This title has changed its name to Periodicals Index Online. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| The New Film Index A print bibliography of magazine articles in English, 1930-1970. Published in 1975. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Alternative Press Index Indexes articles, editorials, reviews, interviews, obituaries, speeches, fiction, songs, recipes, regular columns from 250 publications. The bibliographic citations cover North American alternative, radical and left analysis and opinion sources concerning cultural, economic, political, and social change. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| New York Times (1851-2004) Full-page, digital archive of the New York Times, 1851-2004. Search content, and view images of pages and articles, advertising and more. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ProQuest Newsstand This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. ProQuest Newsstand provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources. Full-text titles include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Christian, Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other newspapers of record. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Readers' Guide Retrospective Provides comprehensive, historic indexing of the most popular general-interest magazines and journals published in the United States during the 20th century in the following subject areas: Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Archeology, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biographies, Business, Children, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Gardening, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Literature, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Popular Culture, Radio, Religion, Science, Sports, Technology, Television, Travel. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs| American Film Institute Catalog Provides information on American-made films between 1893 and 1972. Unique features: ability to find films by topic; article reference list for a film. Links to library holdings of articles (Find It links). Note: For films made after 1972, use Film Index International which is also available from the University Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| CLA Film Catalogue Contains records of film holdings in the the CLA Language Center (Jones Hall), Department of English, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Dance Program, CLA Visual Resources Center. Not all are available for checkout. Some are limited for departmental or instructional use. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| CLA Language Center Audio Video Search Use to search the film holdings in the University of Minnesota's CLA Language Center in Jones Hall. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film Index International Use to find thoroughly researched information for over 100,000 films, including biographical information, plot summaries, full cast and crew lists, and film awards. Each person and film entry features a rich list of relevant articles. Films covered range from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters, with a focus on entertainment films and personalities. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Films and Videos in the Libraries Use to search for films and videos in the Libraries at the University of Minnesota. Simplified interface for searching film and videos in MNCAT, the library catalog. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Ulrich's Periodicals Directory This directory lists information for nearly a quarter-million serial records such as newspapers, popular and trade magazines, and academic and scholarly journals. The listings include active, ceased, and forthcoming publications, and they can be searched by country, subject headings, circulation numbers, and many more options. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| WorldCat Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources| Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Please note: BGMI allows only one U of M - TC user at a time. If you are denied access, please wait 15 minutes and try again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dictionaries
Dissertations and Theses
| Center for Research Libraries Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database This database is no longer being updated. The titles included in this database as well as almost 600,000 other dissertation titles are cataloged in CRL’s catalog and in OCLC’s Worldcat. We update our catalog and Worldcat daily. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Digital Dissertations Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities: http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/CICUniversities.shtml. Masters theses from selected schools only. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Index To Theses accepted for higher degrees in the universities of Great Britain and Ireland [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Designed to promote access to scholarly research and increase sharing of knowledge, this database provides free online access to thousands of theses and dissertations from all over the world. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Theses Canada Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of British Film Information about this book at Amazon.com. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters Information about this book at Amazon.com [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Film Noir 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-453) and index. Publisher's description [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Novels into Film Information about the title in Amazon.com. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen Information about this title on Amazon.com. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Orson Welles Information about this title on Amazon.com. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film Information about this book at Amazon.com. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television Information about this title at Amazon.com. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| Film in Latin America - a Bibliography Compiled in 1999 by Marianne Siegmund at Brigham Young University. Unclear if it has been updated since. Still, a useful list of reference resources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Guides
| Film Studies Workshop - Guide Guide used at a Film Studies workshop, March 23, 2007. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
Internet Resources
Blogs| filmjourney.org From the about-section: filmjourney.org hopes to address a diverse assortment of films and give special attention to their historical, formal, and human values. Editor Doug Cummings has a degree in film from the University of Arizona and is a co-founder of Masters of Cinema and Robert-Bresson.com. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Listservs and Discussion Groups
| a_film_by Internet film discussion group focusing on film art, from an auteurist perspective. Formed in 2003 by Fred Camper and Peter Tonguette. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Search Engines
| Svensk Film Databas Use to find information on approximately 60,000 Swedish films, including every Swedish feature film made since 1897. Also included are non-Swedish films that have premiered in Sweden, short films, documentary films, and Swedish made-for-TV movies. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Web Sites
| All Movie Guide This site has information on over 220,000 film titles. Some have reviews or links to reviews. This site can be useful to look for films on a particular topic. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Internet Movie Database The most comprehensive movie source on the web. Provides information on movies around the world, from earliest times to the latest releases. Includes filmographies , plot summaries, reviews, biograhical data, etc. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Motion Picture Scripts Database The Motion Picture Scripts Database provides a searchable interface to the film script holdings of six Los Angeles-area collections: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute, the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the Writers Guild Foundation. This database is limited almost exclusively to the screenplays of produced films; that is, films which were actually made. The only exception is the inclusion of a few published scripts of unproduced films. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Movie Review Query Engine Valuable link to more than 50,000 movie reviews on the Internet, both bonafide publications' reviews and those from movie newsgroup contributors. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| New Films in the University Libraries Click on the monthly links on this webpage to see films added to the Learning Resources Center in the Walter Library on the U of MN East Bank. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Rotten Tomatoes A comprensive site that captures the consensus opinion of critics from across the nation . [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Primary Source Materials
Archival Materials| ArchiveGrid ArchiveGrid is a tool for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives, libraries, and museums around the world. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Libraries and Archives in France With 1991 supplement [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| VHA Visual History Archive With a collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages and from 56 countries, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's archive is the largest visual history archive in the world. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti survivors (Gypsy), survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants. Developed by the USC Shoah Foundation for Visual History and Education Presented by the University of Minnesota Libraries and the University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology. Recommended Web browsers Windows: Internet Explorer; Mac: Safari [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| WorldCat Provides information on archival materials, books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, and films held at 30,000 libraries and archives world-wide. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals
| Style Manuals A selected list of sources available in Wilson Reference Services. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Writing Guides
| <i>Manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations</i> [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Library Information
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