For books on specific directors or films, try a "subject heading" search using the director's name or film title. Samples of subject heading searches include: Documentary films--History and criticism
The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
Documentary films with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.
Provides citations to research in literature, literary criticism, linguistics, modern languages, drama, folklore, film and video, and other communicative behavior. Covers American, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish, other European, Asian, African, and Latin American literature and folklore.
indexes 150 scholarly and popular periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 300 other periodicals selectively for reviews and articles on the topic film and television. Search by keyword, production title and more or browse by subject headings. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
A database of e-journals covering the arts and humanities, social science, and mathematics. The journals are published by university presses, including the Duke University Press.
International Index to the Performing Arts includes articles on music , dance, film, drama, theater, stage design and puppetry. Coverage is international in this database, which indexes over 200 journals from 1864-present.
Contains citations for over 400,000 articles in more than 330 periodicals; it offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular journals focusing on film (motion pictures), video and television.
A database of archived issues of academic journals, going back to first issues but not including most recent years. Articles are available as PDFs of journal pages.
With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies, from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters, this database provides in-depth indexing of over 90,000 international films as well as biographical information on over 40,000 film personalities.
Sponsored by Amazon.com, the IMDB is a collection of movie information contributed by fans. Contributors "try to catalog every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web. We then do our best to present this information in a manner that is easy to search and access."
