Film Studies Research Guide

Finding Articles

Directories and Indexes

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1987-) (Available through Web of Science)
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-1994) (Windows Platform Only)
• Bowker's Complete Video Directory Access through Global Books in Print
• International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPA)
• JSTOR Film Studies
• MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
• Project MUSE

Electronic Journals

• Bright Lights Film Journal
• Cinema Journal (Project Muse Journal)
• Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
• Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
• Wide Angle (Project Muse Journal)
• The Yale Journal of Criticism (Project Muse Journal)

Reference Materials

Print Resources

All are located in the Reference Room on the second floor.

• Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 1999 (PN1993.45 .h27)
• Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz (PN1993.45 .K34)
• The Complete Film Dictionary by Ira Konigsberg (PN1993.45 .K66)
• History of the American Cinema (series; 7 volumes) (PN1993.5.U6 .H55)
• The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 by Charles Musser
• The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 by Eileen Bowser
• An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 by Richard Koszarski
• The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 by Donald Crafton
• Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 by Tino Balio
• Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s by Thomas Schatz
• Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 by David A. Cook
• Seventy Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards by Robert Osborne (PN1993.92 .O82)
• Academy Awards Index: The Complete Categorical and Chronological Record (PN1993.92 .S53)
• Film Quotations: 11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed (PN1994.9 .N69)
• Film Review Annual 1981-1997 (PN1995 .F463)
• Film Review Index 1882-1985 (PN1995 .F55)
• New York Times Film Reviews 1913-1968, 1971-1996 (PN1995 .N4)
• Enser's Filmed Books and Plays (PN1997.85 B37)
• The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film (PN1997.85 .T54)
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 26, American Screenwriters (PN1998.A2 .A586)
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 44, American Screenwriters, Second Series (PN1998.A2 .A586)
• Who Was Who on Screen by Evelyn Mack Truitt (PN1998.A2 .T73)
• A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson (PN1998.2 .T49)

Organizations & Associations

Film Organizations and Archives

• American Film Institute
• Association of Moving Image Archivists
• National Center for Jewish Film
• Pacific Film Archive (UC Berkeley Art Musuem)
• UCLA Film and Television Archive

Web Resources

Websites

• All Movie Guide | About
• CineMedia: the Internet's Largest Film and Media Directory
• Documentary Educational Resources
• epguides.com (formerly Episodes Guide Page) episode lists for over 1550 TV shows
• Film and History
• Film Vault
• Internet Movie Database
• ScreenSite focuses on the teaching and research of film and television and is designed for educators and students
• Script-O-Rama a source of film and television scripts