LibGuides: Films and Media: Research

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Films -- History and criticism

Films -- Production and direction

Motion picture actor and actresses

Motion pictures -- History

Television programs -- History

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PN 1992-1992.92 Broadcast Television

PN1993-PN1999 Cinema Studies/Film Criticism

PN1993.5 Film History
PN1995.75 Silent Films
PN1995.9.A-Z Special Topics--ex. PN1995.9.D6 Documentary
PN1997 Individual Motion Pictures (Films)
PN1998 Biography
PN1999 Special Corporations (i.e. Studios)

TR845-TR899 Film Production

TR848 History
TR849 Biography
TR853-TR859 Color, 3D, Widescreen, Time-lapse, Trick
TR860-TR862 Digital cinematography and HD
TR878-TR883 Motion Picture Machines (cameras)
TR890 Projection
TR891 Lighting
TR832-TR896.8 Applied cinematography
TR897 Sound
TR897.5 Animation
TR899 Editing

Databases

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Fine Arts & Music Collection
The Fine Arts and Music Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The database emphasizes full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography.
Humanities Source
A database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. This includes studies in art, history, communications, culture, literature and philosophy. Content includes articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays and more.
Communications and Mass Media
This database brings together information found in more than 400 journals. Nearly 3 million articles on all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in many academic disciplines, especially arts, literature, humanities, history and biology.
Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals across all subject areas. Coverage is primarily from 1980 to the present, with some older content.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
Films on Demand
A comprehensive collection of high-quality educational videos. Content providers include: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Davidson Films, California Newsreel, PBS, HBO, and many more. Over 50,000 videos cover a wide range of topics organized into broad subjects. Individual segments subdivide each video into discrete shorter units.

IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
Great for finding or checking basic facts about movies and television series.

Writing About Movies

University of Calgary: Writing About Film
Tips on critical analysis and academic writing from the University of Calgary's Writing Support Services & Student Success Centre.

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Films and Media: Research

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