Librarian for Media Studies, Gender Studies, & Philosophy
nicholae cline
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The following resources will help you get started with your research.
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Recommended Resources
A few good databases to get you started.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
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Contains: International index to film/TV periodicals, thesaurus, list of periodicals indexed, and the FIAF databases. - Film Index International
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Information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. - Project Muse
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Provides full text access and indexing for e-journals and e-books from a variety of scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. - Academic Search (EBSCO)
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Provides full-text coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journal articles for most academic disciplines. - Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
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Full-text and bibliographic coverage from scholarly and popular sources, spanning the entire spectrum of film and television studies. - Communication Source
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This resource offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields. - MEF Media Studies & Communication Collection
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Streaming full-length documentaries from Media Education Foundation. Films cover critical thinking on the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media, with a special focus on representations of gender and race. - MLA International Bibliography
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The MLA Bibliography indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore. - Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
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Survey of figures, schools, and movements in literary criticism. - JSTOR
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Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
And round this out with access to newspapers, magazines, and other media sources
- Nexis Uni
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Includes articles from local, regional, national and international newspapers, magazines, online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, transcripts, and legal research, as well as federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of historical newspapers. Each issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images. - Alternative Press Index
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Bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and leftist periodicals. - Alt-PressWatch
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Alt-PressWatch is a fulltext database of alternative and independent newspapers, magazines and journals that present viewpoints that differ from mainstream media coverage of issues and events. - Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
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Full text, primary sources for studying the history of the music, film and entertainment industries. Includes access to Music Magazine Archive. - Newspaper Source Plus
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Full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes newspapers, newswires and news magazines, as well as television and radio news transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
A Short Guide to Writing about Film by Call Number: PN1995 .C66 2010ISBN: 9780205668946Publication Date: 2009-01-26This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. Both an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to major film theories as well as film terminology, enabling them to write more thoughtfully and critically. With numerous student and professional examples, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects. Moving from movie reviews to theoretical and critical essays, the text demonstrates how an analysis of a film can become more subtle and rigorous as part of a compositional process.
Film Criticism in the Digital Age by Call Number: PN1995 .M39 2016ISBN: 9781784532840Publication Date: 2016-10-30'The critic is dead.' 'Everyone's a critic.' These statements reflect some of the perceptions of film criticism in a time when an opinion can be published in seconds, yet reach an audience of millions. This book examines the reality of contemporary film criticism, by talking to leading practitioners in the UK and North America - such as Nick James, Mark Cousins, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Richard Porton - and by covering a broad spectrum of influential publications - including Sight & Sound, The Guardian, Cineaste, indieWIRE and Variety. Forming a major new contribution to an emerging field of study, these enquiries survey the impact of larger cultural, economic and technological processes facing society, media and journalism. Historical perspectives on criticism from ancient times and current debates in journalism and digital media are used to unravel questions, such as: what is the relationship between crisis and criticism? In what way does the web change the functions and habits of practitioners? What influences do film industries have on the critical act? And how engaged are practitioners with converged and creative film criticism such as the video essay?In the face of transformative digital idealism, empirical findings here redress the balance and argue the case for evolution rather than revolution taking place within film criticism.
- Cineaste"Cineaste (subtitled 'America’s Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema') is a quarterly publication, founded in 1967, which offers a social, political, and aesthetic perspective on the cinema. We are interested in all areas of the cinema, including Hollywood films (old and new), American independent cinema, quality European films, and the cinema of developing nations. Familiarity with our editorial policies and publishing history is a must for authors. The most frequent reason we reject material is that the potential contributor has sent material, which, because of its length, style or subject matter, is clearly inappropriate for either our magazine or our Website (where we post some contributions we are unable to publish in the magazine as 'Web Exclusives')."
- Digital Media History ProjectOnline, searchable database collecting "classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The Media History Digital Library contains digital scans of hundreds of thousands of magazine pages from thousands of magazine issues from 1904 to 1963."
- Film Criticism Journal"Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication whose aim is to bring together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies in order to present the finest work in this area, foregrounding textual criticism as a primary value. Our readership is academic, although we strive to publish material that is both accessible to undergraduates and engaging to established scholars.
Film Criticism is an open access academic journal that allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose except where otherwise noted."