Resources by Subject: Film Studies

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Finding Journal Articles
  • America History & Life -UW/CCC restricted
    Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
  • Art Abstracts - UW/CCC restricted
    Includes citations to articles in film studies.
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index - UW/CCC restricted
    A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, with cited references but not abstracts. Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, plus individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
  • Expanded Academic Index - UW/CCC restricted
    Provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Many full-text articles. Search tip: For reviews type the title of the film and motion pictures reviews. For scholarly sources, be sure to click on the "refereed" button.
  • FIAF Internation Filmarchive Database - UW/CCC restricted
    Indexing and fullContains: International index to film peridicals, International index to television periodicals, List of periodicals indexed, Treasures from the film archives, a directory of film and TV documentation collections, and a bibliography of FIAF memebers' publications
  • Film Literature Index - UW/CCC restricted
    International articles on film, television, and video published 1976-2001.
  • JSTOR - UW/CCC restricted
    Contains full text of hundreds of core scholarly journals, going back to the 1800s.  Covers Film, Literature, History, African-American Studies, Asian Studies and more. For help using this database, see how to search JSTOR.  
  • MLA Bibliography - UW/CCC restricted
    This database indexes approximately 4,000 international critical journals covering literature, languages, film studies, linguistics and folklore.
  • PsycINFO - UW/CCC restricted
    Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
  • Research Library Complete - UW/CCC restricted
    Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers; 1986 to present. Divided into Newspapers and periodicals sections. For scholarly publications, click on the "Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed" button.

**If your film, director, etc. is included in the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers [PN 1997.8 I58 1997 Reference shelves], be sure to note the bibliography included in the entry. This is an excellent way to identify additional scholarly sources.

Maintainer of this guide: Amanda Hornby, Media and Technology Studies Librarian