Databases for Film Studies
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Key Databases
- Film and Television Literature Database
- It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.
- American Film Scripts Online
- Full-text database of film scripts, searchable by scene, character, theme,and many other search categories
- MLA Bibliography
- Indexes journals, monographs, working papers and proceedings in literature, language, linguistics and folklore, 1963 to present
- Art Abstracts
- Indexes periodicals, exhibition listings, museum bulletins, yearbooks, interviews, competition and award notices, and book and film reviews in more than 250 key international, mostly English-language journals in the visual arts, 1984 to present
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Indexes and abstracts more than 200 popular magazines published in the U.S., 1890 through 1982
Additional Databases
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- Literature Resource Center
- Full-text of biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline, includes text of Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 international, English-language social science journals, 1983 to present
Multidisciplinary Databases
- InfoTrac Web
- Indexes and provides full text to thousands of journals and magazines in all fields, including academic disciplines, business, and health, 1980 to present
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
