Film

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Basic Databases

Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition from WilsonWeb
Covers core journals for many disciplines, as well as popular, general-interest magazines. Specify Motion Pictures as the Subject. Or, limit the document type to flim reviews. Journals include Sight & Sound, Film History, Cineaste, and Journal of Popular Film and Television.

New! Academic Search Complete GALILEO logo from EBSCOhost
A multi-disciplinary database that searches a total of 10,900 publications including both scholarly and popular journals. Full text is provided for 5,300 journals. A search for Motion Pictures as the subject retrieves articles on current cinema.

ProQuest-Multiple Databases GALILEO logo from ProQuest
Similar to Academic Search Premier. Specify Motion Pictures as the subject to retrieve articles on current cinema from magazines covering film. For reviews in major newspapers like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, use the ProQuest Newspapers database.

Film/Literature Databases

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.

Journals

Subscriptions and online availablilty are subject to change. For complete, current journal holdings, and online access info, search the Journal Locator.

  • Print Subscriptions
  • Afterimage
  • Cineaste
  • Cinema Journal
  • Film Criticism
  • Film Quaterly
  • Magill's Cinema Annual
  • Literature Film Quarterly
  • PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
  • Quarterly Review of Film and Video
  • Science Books and Films
  • Studies in Popular Culture
  • Variety
  • Only Online
  • American Cinematographer
  • American Drama
  • American Film
  • Amusement Business
  • Comparative Drama
  • Film and History
  • Film Comment
  • Film History
  • Films in Review
  • Historical J. of Film, Radio & Television
  • Independent Film & Video Monthly
  • Journal of Popular Culture
  • Journal of Popular Film & Television
  • New Cinemas : Journal of Contemporary Film
  • October
  • Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada
  • Research in Drama Education
  • Screen
  • Studies in French Cinema
  • Studies in Theatre and Performance
  • Televisual
  • Velvet Light Trap
  • Visual Studies

Web Sites

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 diePN1995 .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 nowPN1995 .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 moviesPN1993.5.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 contextPN1993.5.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

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