Basic research tips as well as core databases, dictionaries & encyclopedias, and websites for Communication studies, film studies, rhetoric, mass media, new media, and journalism.
Comprehensive coverage of film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
A comprehensive guide to the journal literature on performing arts--drama, theater, dance, film, television, and more--searchable together for the first time in one electronic database. Former title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA).
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.
This database contains credits and holdings information about the silent-era film holdings of film archives from around the world, encompassing features as well as short films, and actualities as well as fictional works.
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.
A major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. Covers all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters - provides international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries.
Authoritative resource of American film information for the years 1893-1971. Produced in collaboration with the American Film Institute (AFI), it is compiled and updated by the AFI film experts.
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.
Features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.
The Film Scripts Online Series (formerly American Film Scripts) contains over 1,100 scripts and makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays. Researchers can compare the writer’s vision with the producer’s and director’s interpretations from page to screen.
Most scripts in the series have never been published before and are available nowhere else. Alexander Street developed the collection through arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, StudioCanal, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others.
Contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
The Archives holds approximately 180 sepia prints of photographs taken by Archelaus “Chad” Chadwyck. These photographs depict movie sets that Chadwyck designed for the Wharton Studios. The studios were located in Ithaca in the 1920’s. While some of the images include actors, many document the artistry of the movie sets.
Archive Finder is a current directory that describes over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Includes ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland.
This database contains credits and holdings information about the silent-era film holdings of film archives from around the world, encompassing features as well as short films, and actualities as well as fictional works.
Includes a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology.
In two volumes, this reference provides a survey that profiles more than 350 filmmakers from every branch of the industry, including independent films, French new wave, documentaries, Hollywood blockbusters, silent films, and more.
A comprehensive listing of theatrical animated cartoons through the end of the 20th century, as well as significant animated sequences in live-action films.
Film Encyclopedia
Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory
