Library Guides: Film & Cinema: Latin America and Spain: Find Articles

Film Specific Databases

Many of these databases specific to film can be used as indexes - that is, they may only provide article citations which you can then use in one of the general databases (listed below) to find in full-text.

Classic Mexican Cinema Online This link opens in a new window
Covers Mexican Cinema, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its “Golden Age” (1930s to 1960). Includes popular movie periodicals, film flyers, and scrapbooks. Access reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) is a robust communication studies database. It provides full-text, indexing and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse.
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Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Multimedia collection that covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new window
This database contains over 400,000 article citations from more than 330 periodicals. It offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals.
Film Indexes Online This link opens in a new window
Search the AFI Catalog, the International Index to Film Periodicals Plus, and Film Index International via The Arts shared search interface.
Film Index International This link opens in a new window
Covers entertainment films and personalities. Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute.
HAPI Online This link opens in a new window
Your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the US-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US. Contains bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Includes popular and academic film journals
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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The leading international index of journals, books, dissertations, and more on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

Finding articles in the catalog

Not all articles are online! The Latin American Library and Howard Tilton Library have physical copies of journals dedicated to the study of film and the film industry. To find these titles, go to the catalog and search by subject:

Motion pictures -- Latin America -- Periodicals

Motion pictures -- Argentina (or Mexico or Cuba) -- Periodicals