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Databases - Specific

Film Literature Index from Indiana University
Contains 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews, and book reviews published between 1976-2001. Can search by format (film or tv) and by type (articles, reviews). Nearly 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries & 200 other periodicals (magazines, newpapers, journals) are selectively indexed annually for articles on film and television. No full text is provided but you can access many of articles cited in Film Literature Index through Lane Library's Journal Locator.

MLA Bibliography GALILEO logo from EBSCOhost
Covers journals, books and dissertations in the fields of literature, film, languages, linguistics, literary theory, and literary criticism.

Subject Librarian

Jewell Anderson
Phone: 912-344-3005
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Hours: M 12-9, T-F 8-5 and by appointment
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Databases - General

Research Library GALILEO logo from ProQuest
Provides full text for over 1,700 scholarly journals and general magazines. All subjects.

Academic Search Complete GALILEO logo from EBSCOhost
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database that searches a total of 10,900 publications including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Full text is provided for 5,300 journals.

JSTOR
A digital archive of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. The collection's coverage begins with the earliest issues of these journals and continues up to a few years before current publication.

Encyclopedias & Reference

From Credo Reference
Chambers Film Factfinder

Journals - access holdings by clicking titles

Subscriptions are subject to change. Additional titles of potential interest to the field are available. For complete, current journal holdings, and online access info, search the Journal Locator.

Web Sites

General Resources
Internet Movie Database
Motion Picture and Television Reading Room (Library of Congress)
Screen Site (University of Alabama)
Reviews
Greatest Films
Rotten Tomatos
Movie Review Query Engine
National Public Radio Movie Reviews
Roger Ebert: Movies & More
Associations
AEA: Actors Equity Association
American Film Institute
Film Music Society
Society for Cinema & Media Studies

Finding Books in Lane library

Use GIL, Lane Library's online catalog, to search for books on specific topics. Search for books with motion picture or film in the subject heading:

Motion picture or Motions pictures
Motion picture-acting
Motion pictures-history and criticism
Motion pictures-aesthetics
Motion picture-industry
Motion picture-music
Motion picutre producers and directors
Motion picture plays
Motion pictures-United States
Feature films-United States
Film adaptations
Film criticism

Film genres
Comedy films
Biographical films
Documentary films
Historical films
Film noir
Feminist motion pictures
African Americans in motion pictures
Acting
Cinematography
Drama
Dramatic criticism

Selected Books in Lane library

REFERENCE BOOKS
1001 Movies to see before you die	PN1995 .A16 2005
The film studies dictionary	Ref PN1993.45 .B49 2001
Magill's cinema annual	Ref PN1993.3 .M34
Halliwell's film and video guide	Ref PN1998 .H433 2004
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook	PN1995 .E318 2003
CRITICISM
American Movie Critics: an anthology from the silents until now	PN1995 .A448 2006
A companion to film theory	PN1995 .C624 2004
Encyclopedia of film themes, settings and series	Ref PN1997.8 .A76 2001
Film analysis: a Norton Reader	PN1994 .F43814 2005
Perverse spectators: the practices of film reception	PN1995.9.A8 S69 2000
Reel arguments: film, philosophy, and social criticism	PN1995.9.S6 L54 2003
The Way Hollywood tells it: story and style in modern movies	PN1993.5.U6 B656 2006
LITERATURE AND FILM
The encyclopedia of novels into film	Ref PN1997.85 .T54 2005
The encyclopedia of stage plays into film	PN1997.85 .T544 2001
Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on film	PR3093 .C36 2000
Eighteenth-century fiction on screen	PN1997.85 .E39 2002
Henry James goes to the movies	PS2127.F55 H45 2002
Literature and film : a guide to the theory...	PN1997.85 .L515 2005
FILM HISTORY
Chronicle of the cinema	Ref PN1993.5.A1 C5255 1997
Cinemas of the world : film and society from 1895 to the present	PN1995.9.S6 C465 2003
Guide to American cinema, 1965-1995	Ref PN1993.5 U6 C87 1998
History of the American cinema (series)	PN1993.5.U6 H55
A history of early film	Ref 1993.5 .A1 H547 2000
BIOGRAPHIES
The encyclopedia of American independent filmmaking	Ref PN1993.45 .L63 2002
The new biographical dictionary of film	Ref PN1998.2 .T49 2002
The St. James film directors encyclopedia	Ref PN1998.2 .S68 1998
WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES
Feminist film theory	PN1995.9.W6 F465 1999
A feminist reader in early cinema	PN1995.9.W6 F467 2002
Film studies: women in contemp. world cinema	PN1995.9.W6 F52 2002
Queer images: a history of gay & lesbian film in America	PN1995.9.H55 \|b B44 2006
RACIAL AND ETHNIC ISSUES
Black lenses, black voices: African-American film now	PN1995.9.N4 R43 2005
Corporeal image: film, ethnography, and the senses	GN347 .M32 2006
Off-white Hollywood: American culture & ethnic female stardom	PN1995.9.M56 N44 2001
New European cinema: redrawing the map	PN1993.5.E8 G35 2006
Reading a Japanese film: cinema in context	PN1993.5.J3 M363 2006
Within our gates: ethnicity in American...films, 1911-1960	Ref PN1995.9.M56 W58 1997
Film nation: Hollywood looks at U.S. history	PN1995.9.H5 B87 1997
Forbidden films: censorship histories	Ref PN1995.62 .S67 2001
History goes to the movies	PN1995.9.H5 R67 2000
Making the white man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood movies	PN1995.9.I48 A44 2005
Past imperfect: history according to the movies	PN1995.9.H5 P37 1996
Reel history: in defense of Hollywood	PN1995.9.H5 T67 2002