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Featured journals

Camera Obscura provides a forum for scholarship and debate on feminism, culture, and media studies and encourages contributions in areas at the conjunctions of gender, race, class, and sexuality with audiovisual culture. From publisher website.

 

 

 

 

 

Feminist Media Studies is for researchers pursuing feminst approaches to the field of media and communication studies, with attention to the historical, philosophical, cultural, social, political and economic media, film and the arts, and new media technologies. 

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MLA International Bibliography - covers topics in literature, folklore, theatre, and other performing arts, including film; includes book chapters, doctoral dissertations, conference proceedings, and other film studies resources.

Black Thought and Culture - Search for books, essays, articles, speeches, letters and interviews of leading African Americans.

Communication & Mass Media Complete cover topics in communication, mass media, linguistics, and film studies including the journal Feminist Media Studies (up to 18 months ago; for the most recent articles in this journal search here).

JSTOR - full-text of core scholarly journals from their earliest issues to within a few years of current publication; coverage for recent articles can be found in Project Muse

Film & television literature index with full text - subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews including the journal Camera Obscura (up to 1 year ago; for the most recent articles in this journal search here).

International Index to the Performing Arts - covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry--including dance, film, television, drama, theater.

GenderWatch -  full-text of articles devoted to women's and gender studies.

Contemporary Women's Issues covers global women's issues, including sexuality.

Women's Studies International  indexes feminist research literature in a wide range of subject areas including: medicine and health, literature, sociology, history, international relations, arts and humanities, business, political science, public policy, education, economics, law, and psychology.

Google Scholar - search across disciplines for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations; use the GetIt@Duke icon to see if we have access to full text.