Research Resources
Film
Electronic Journals
Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts
(Multi-Subject)
Other Web Sites
Full-Text Electronic Journals
[Available on campus and through
proxy server ]
Camera Obscura
- Provides feminist perspective on film, television, and
visual
media. Full-text (2000-2003)
Cinema Journal
- Full-text (1999-2003)
Critical
Quarterly Full-text (1997-2003)
Historical
Journal of Film, Radio and Television Full-text (1999-2003)
The Lion and the
Unicorn Full-text (1995-2003)
The Moving Image
- an exciting new journal that deals with crucial issues surrounding
the preservation and restoration of film, television, video, and digital
moving images. The journal offers detailed profiles of moving image collections,
behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve and restore moving
images, and theoretical and visionary articles on the future of the field.
Full-text (2003- )
PAJ - Journal
of Performance and Art Full-text (1996-2003)
Screen - Has
searchable table of contents online for 1996 and after.
Wide Angle
- Full-text (1996-1999)
Journal Databases, Indexes,
and Abstracts (Multi-Subject)
Trial Databases - A rotating list
of databases available for limited time
periods. It is a good idea to check this page for resources that
might
be useful for your research.
EBSCO
Includes Academic Search Premier, a scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full
text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Coverage
includes nearly all academic areas of study - social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts
& literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc. Other
databases are included and multiple databases can be search simultaneously.
[Available on campus and through
proxy server ]
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines
and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
[Available on campus and through
proxy server ]
JSTOR
Offers full-text articles from the humanities and the social sciences.
[Available on campus and through the
proxy server .]
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Find articles from newspapers and magazines around the world and legal
information for your term papers. Film reviews are available.
[Available on campus and through
proxy server ]
netLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/
- An electronic library containing hundreds of electronic books.
[Available on and off campus.]
Project Muse
Research different subjects in over 100 online journals.
[Available on campus only.]
Science Direct
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Abstracts and full-text journal articles in all fields. Topics
covered are the arts and humanities, the social sciences, the physical sciences,
environmental sciences, etc.
[Available on campus and through the
proxy server .]
WorldCat
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
[Available on campus and through the
proxy server .]
Other Web Sites
American Film Institute (AFI)
http://www.AFI.com/
Asian American
Film & Video
http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/
-
Created to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for
Asian American films, the site provides reviews, news, events calendar, browsable film
database, and Minute
Movies, supershort Asian American films online.
Asian American
Film & Video Database
http://www.asianamericanfilm.com/filmdatabase/index.html
-
A directory of Asian American films arranged by title or director, including
films in production.
Based
on the Book
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
- A database of selected movies
based on books. View the database by
title or author of book, title
of movie, or the year of its release. Covers
about 500 films made from 1980
through projected releases in 2003.
Film Festivals
http://www.documentaryfilms.net/festivals.htm
- Documentary and others.
Film Finder
http://www.allmovie.com/avg_film_finder.html
- Search for films by performers, author or original source,
setting, and
producer, etc.
Filmmaker Resources
http://www.documentaryfilms.net/filmmakers.htm
- Links to useful websites
for filmmakers.
Independent Feature Project
http://www.ifp.org/
Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com
Movie review Query Engine
http://www.mrqe.com/
- Film reviews from newspapers, magazines,
and the internet.
New York Times Film
Section Online
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html
- Links to past film reviews are on the page as well as links to the recent
stories and reviews. Free
registration is required.
Official Film Sites
http://www.documentaryfilms.net/filmsites.htm
Society for
Cinema Studies
http://www.cinemastudies.org/
- Devoted to the scholarly study of film, television, video, and new
media.
Comments? Questions? Sites that should be added?
Contact Professor Jocelyn Berger-Barrera
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