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  5. Starting your research ...

Film Studies

This guide is an introduction to the resources for Film Studies at Dartmouth. If you are interested in Television, see the separate research guide for Television.
  • Introduction
  • Basic information on film
  • Finding a specific film title
  • Streaming film services
    • Readings on streaming video
  • National cinemas This link opens in a new window
  • Course guides for Film & Media Studies
  • Starting your research ...
  • Researching early films
  • Film history through the decades
    • 1960's film history
    • 1970's film history
  • Books about film
  • Film reviews
  • Journals & magazines about film
  • Film theory
    • Feminist film theory
    • Auteur theory
  • Film criticism
    • Feminist film criticism
  • Box office information
  • Film audiences
  • Mass media Industry
  • Primary sources for historical film research
    • Cinema Pressbooks from the Original Studio Collections
    • Congressional Hearings & Communism
    • Film Daily
    • Herrick Library Digital Collections
    • Hollywood and the Production Code
    • Media History Digital Library
    • Moving Picture World
  • Themes
  • Acting
  • Racial & ethnic representation on film
    • African American diaspora
    • Asian American diaspora
    • Hispanic American diaspora
    • Native American & Indigenous peoples diasporas
    • Examples on film
  • LGBTQIA+
    • Examples on film
  • Women on/in/creating Film
    • Examples on film
  • Film genres This link opens in a new window
  • Film & society
  • Screenwriting
  • Film adaptations
    • Shakespeare on film
    • Television to Film adaptations
  • Color in film
  • Film music
  • Film festivals
    • A short list of film festivals
  • Film awards
  • Disney
  • Hitchcock
  • Internet resources
  • Future of Media
  • Back to Film & Media
  • Scholarly communication This link opens in a new window
  • Video Help

Start with the online catalog

START with the film title:

  • A quick way to start your research is to search the online catalog.
  • Look for your film as a subject. This will find resources ABOUT the film rather than the film itself. 
    • For example, you want to see what the library has for the "Godfather films." Type "Godfather" as a subject and click on the Submit button. Click here to see results of that search. These are resources about the Godfather films. 
  • Remember, when looking for a foreign language film, use the original language title.
    • As another example, you want to research Fellini's "8½." The original title in Italian is "Otto e mezzo." That is the title to use for a subject search. Click here to see the results.

But you don't find anything. What should you do next?

LOOK for the director as a subject:

  • Sticking with the "Godfather films," if we didn't have anything under the films themselves, look for Francis Ford Coppola. Click here for results. The books under "Criticism and Interpretation" should be especially helpful.
  • Nothing for "Otto e mezzo?" Do a subject search for Federico Fellini. Click here for results.

Still nothing in the online catalog? See WorldCat below.

      Searching the online catalog

      This box highlights basic catalog searches and some of the more interesting subject headings you can find in the online catalog for film.

      • motion pictures and ...
        This subject heading can look at a group's relationship to movies. For instance, there is "motion pictures and gay men" which looks at how and what they watch rather than their depictions in movies. Take a look at the rest of the list.
      • ... in motion pictures
        If you want to see how a theme is handle in movies, you put the word in front of "in motion pictures." An example is "sex in motion pictures."

      WorldCat

      • WorldCat by OCLC
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        Call Number: Electronic resource
      • WorldCat is a union catalog of many library catalogs in the United States and abroad. You can search WorldCat to see the breadth of a particular topic. You don't get articles, but you do get books and other items that could be useful.
      • If you find something you want to use, you can request the item through Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan.
        • Both Borrow Direct and Interlibrary Loan uses your Dartmouth credentials for access.
      • You can search for the "Godfather films" or "Otto e mezzo" or Francis Ford Coppola or Federico Fellini to see how much other research there is out there on these subjects.
      • There is WorldCat.org and WorldCat.com. The .org version is free to everyone but has less functionality and is less comprehensive than the .com version.
      • Use the link below for the best results for searching.
      • Remember, books are scholarly works too.
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      • Last Updated: May 15, 2025 12:13 PM
      • URL: https://researchguides.dartmouth.edu/filmstudies
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      Subjects: Film and Media Studies
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