Databases
Use these resources to locate reviews, academic articles, critiques, and analysis of various films and the works of individual directors.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowJournals articles covering communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowArchive of scholarly research and book reviews back to the 19th century
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowProvides a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
- Film Studies Online Videos (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowStreaming video collections to support teaching and research in film studies and related disciplines. The collections include a comprehensive offering of silent era films and the contemporary collection offers selections from over 60 countries.
- Reframe : Research in media, film, and musicReframe is an open access academic digital platform for the online practice, publication and curation of internationally produced research and scholarship, in the areas of film, media and music.
- Access World News (NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowGlobal information on topics related to business, economics, education, government, health, international studies, politics, science, social issues, sports, STEM and more from a variety of news media featuring newspapers, videos and web-only content.
Journals
Journals contain less information than databases, but let you conduct similar research within a smaller subset of information.
Searching for Academic Journals: Useful keywords “film”, “movie”, “cinema”, “media studies”
Scripts
- Simply ScriptsA database of hundreds of downloadable scripts, movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic and maybe a few soon-to-be-released movies, television, anime, unproduced and radio shows.
Websites
Use this mix of professional and fan websites can be used to locate information about a film, reviews, criticism, and analysis.
- American Film Institute CatalogAn authoritative resource of American film information from the American Film Institute. Covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1975, with full or short records for films from 1976-2014.
- CineFilesScanned images of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archive Library.
- Pop MattersInternational magazine of cultural criticism and analysis, covering music, television, films, books, video games, sports, theater, the visual arts, travel, and the Internet. Features include articles, interviews, essays, blogs, and reviews.
- Educational Media Review OnlineAn open access database of critical reviews of media from major educational and documentary distributors and independent filmmakers. The reviews are written by librarians and teaching faculty from across the United States and Canada. The reviews are aimed at an educational audience, primarily academic librarians.
- Lantern (Media History Digital Library)Search the collections of the Media History Digital Library, including Variety (1905-1926) and more classic media periodicals.