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Film Studies: National Cinemas

This guide highlights selected resources for various national cinemas.
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  • Afghanistan
  • Africa (General)
    • Africa, Northern
    • Africa, French speaking
    • Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Benelux
  • Brazil
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
    • Quebec
  • Caribbean area
  • Chile
  • Chinese cinema
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Czechia (Czech Republic)
  • France
  • Germany
  • Great Britain
    • Northern Ireland
    • Scotland
    • Wales
  • Greece
  • Hong Kong cinema
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Indigenous films
  • Irish cinema
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Middle East
    • Egypt
    • Iran
    • Israel
    • Turkey
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Nordic cinema
    • Denmark
    • Finland
    • Iceland
    • Norway
    • Sweden
  • Pakistan
  • Palestine
    • Films by Director
    • Documentaries
    • Films by Title
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia & the Soviet Union
  • Slovakia
  • South Africa
  • South America
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • United States
    • Puerto Rico
  • Vietnam
  • Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslav Republics
  • Transnational & diasporic cinema
  • Journals & magazines about film

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Film annuals

These are books which look at motion pictures and the film industry yearly.

  • The Film Daily year book of motion pictures by Film Daily
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.3 .F5 1937-1969 (with gaps)
    Older volumes are in the Storage Library under the same call number.
    The volumes are an annual accounting of films and the business of film making.
  • Film review annual
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1995 .F54 1981-2001
    ISBN: 0737-9080
    This annual reprints reviews from major news sources and lists other reviews as a short bibliography.
  • Magill's cinema annual
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. PN 1993.45 .M35 1982-
    Each yearbook includes an entry for every film released that year. The entry includes an in-depth synopsis and review, major credits and a list of reviews. The annual also has lists of awards, obituaries and lists of selected film books. They also includes cumulative indexes for directors, performers, editors, cinematographers, screenwriters, art directors, music directors, titles and subjects.
  • The motion picture guide by Jay Robert Nash; Stanley Ralph Ross
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995 .N346 1985-1999
    This is another annual which looks at all of the films released the previous year. Each volume also has an opening essay, "The Year in Review" which looks at film in general for that year.

Keeping up with the journal literature

Article indexes

Except for the Screen Studies Collection and the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, this list highlights resources that may not have citations prior to 1970. If you need information for movies made before 1970, look at the tab above called Researching early films.

  • Entertainment industry magazine archive
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    An archival resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles.
  • Film & television literature
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
  • Resource logoScreen studies collection by ProQuest
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
  • Resource logoFIAF: international index to film periodicals
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The International Index to Film Periodicals, offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present.
  • Resource logoMLA international bibliography by Modern Language Association
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    MLA International Bibliography indexes journal articles, books and dissertations. Coverage includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
  • Resource logoCommunication & mass media complete (CMMC) by Ebsco
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This is the main article index for the field of Communications and Mass Media.
  • Resource logoPerforming arts periodicals database
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Performing Arts Periodicals Database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.

Popular literature

Readers' Guide Retrospective does provide early film coverage, but only for popular publications. Popular publications include Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, Instyle, etc. The film indexes listed above also include non-academic publications.

  • Resource logoReaders' guide retrospective, 1890-1982 by H W Wilson vis EBSCO
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The regular Readers' Guide Abstracts covers popular literature from 1983 to the present. This retrospective version covers that same literature from 1890 to 1982. Because this is historical material, remember to search using the terms that were used during a particular time period. For example, early Black films would use the subject "Negro" or "Colored" rather than Black or Afro-American (African-American). You can also limit your searching to film reviews when looking for a particular title.
  • Resource logoallAfrica.com
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Contains over 700,000 articles from 100 news publications throughout Africa and from several hundred other sources, including governments, non-governmental organizations and other news makers, inside and outside of Africa.
  • LexisNexis Academic
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    LexisNexis gives you access to popular publications both foreign and domestic.

A short list of journal title(s)

For other journal and magazine titles, click here. This is a subject search for "motion pictures periodicals."

  • Issue cover artCelebrity studies
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Celebrity Studies addresses key issues in the production, circulation and consumption of fame, and its manifestations in both contemporary and historical contexts. Alongside the primary articles, the journal includes the Celebrity Forum section devoted to shorter observations, debates or issues in celebrity culture, ...
  • Film comment
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
  • Film criticism
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
  • Journal title logoFilm quarterly by University of California Press
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Film Quarterly publishes substantial, peer-reviewed writing on cinema and media.
  • Films in review by Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Book
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    This title continues New Movies.
  • Issue cover artJCMS: Journal of cinema and media studies
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is the peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). JCMS's basic mission is to foster engaged debate and rigorous thinking among humanities scholars of film, television, digital media, and other audiovisual technologies. ...
  • Journal logoJournal of e-media studies by Dept. of Film & Media Studies, Dartmouth College
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    The Journal of e-Media Studies is a blind peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to the scholarly study of the history and theory of electronic media, especially Television and New Media.
  • Open screens by British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Open Screens is the open-access online journal of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. The scope of the journal is international and its vision is inter-disciplinary. It encourages innovative contributions from scholars of film, television and other screen-based media, publishing research articles, reviews and audio-visual research-by-film-practice. ...
  • Issue cover artThe Velvet Light Trap
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    The Velvet Light Trap (VLT) is a journal devoted to investigating historical questions that illuminate the understanding of film and other media. While VLT maintains its traditional commitment to the study of American film, it also expands its scope to television and other media, to adjacent institutions, and to other nations' media.

Newspapers

  1. Major metropolitan newspapers are a good source for movie reviews and information.
  2. You can also limit your searching to "reviews" in most of this group of databases.
  3. Note that the Historical newspapers do not cover the present but the Expanded version does.
  4. LexisNexis and Library Pressdisplay give you more current coverage of films.
    • Resource logoProquest historical newspapers by ProQuest
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      • Database
      • Newspaper
      Call Number: Electronic resources
      A collection of major regional and ethnic newspapers from their beginning date to a date in the near past. The New York Times goes until 3 years ago, while the Boston Globe only goes to 1989. The Chicago Defender goes from 1905 to 1975.
    • U.S. Newsstream by ProQuest
      • On Campus or VPN
      • Database
      • Newspaper
      Call Number: Electronic resource
      This database lets you search a collection of current newspapers. Coverage varies from 1980 to the present. You can search a few or all of the newspapers in the collection.
    • Resource logoLos Angeles sentinel
      • On Campus or VPN
      • Database
      • Newspaper
      Call Number: Electronic resource
      The Los Angeles Sentinel is an African American owned and operated newspaper that puts emphasis on issues concerning the African-American community and it's readers. Its a highly regarded paper that significantly influences the perceptions, attitudes and buying decisions of it's readership.
    • LexisNexis Academic
      • On Campus or VPN
      Call Number: Electronic resource
      LexisNexis gives you access to current newspapers. However, some newspapers go back several years while others only have the last 6 months. Your best search may be in "Major Papers" under the "General News" category in a Guided News Search.
    • Resource logoPressReader by Press Reader
      • On Campus or VPN
      • Database
      • Newspaper
      Call Number: Electronic resource
      A database of regional, national and international newspapers. The time limit is the last 60 days. Many countries are represented in the archive.
    • Times (London, England)
      • On Campus or VPN
      Call Number: Electronic resource
    • Resource logoMedia history digital library by Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research
      • Open Access Icon
      • Database
      Call Number: Electronic resource
      The Media History Digital Library digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning.

      The Collection feature extensive runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.
    • Menus for Movieland: newspapers and the emergence of American film culture by Richard Abel
      • Book
      • On Campus or VPN
      Call Number: eBook
      ISBN: 9780520286788
      At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer "menus" by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, exhibitors, and the rapidly expanding audience of fans. This writing about the movies arguably played a crucial role in the emergence of American popular film culture, negotiating among national, regional, and local interests to shape fans' ephemeral experience of movie going, their repeated encounters with the fantasy worlds of "movieland," and their attractions to certain stories and stars.
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