Use these resources to locate reviews, academic articles, critiques, and analysis of various films and the works of individual directors.
Communication & Mass Media provides access to peer-reviewed journals, books, reports, and multimedia across communication, mass media, journalism, and other closely-related fields.
JSTOR provides comprehensive access to peer-reviewed scholarly journals, books, and primary sources from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources.
Streaming 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.
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”
Use this mix of professional and fan websites can be used to locate information about a film, reviews, criticism, and analysis.