Databases for Film Studies
Best Bets
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| Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text |
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 370 publications (and selected coverage for nearly 300 publications), as |
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| Film Literature Index |
The Film Literature Index (FLI) indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. |
1976-2001 |
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| MLA International Bibliography |
MLA covers folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature. Provides over one million citations for items from more than 4,400 journals and series published worldwide. |
1926-present |
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| International Index to Performing Arts Full Text |
This database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 260 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 100 of the indexed journals. |
1990s-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| America: History and Life with Full Text |
Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Covers U.S. and Canadian history. |
1955-present |
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| Americas Historical Newspapers |
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. |
1690-1922 |
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| Art Full Text |
Art Abstracts indexes over 400 English and foreign-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Includes nearly 120 titles in full text. |
1984-present |
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| Art Index Retrospective |
Covering content for more than 55 years of art journalism, this retrospective resource includes articles, interviews, reviews and much more from over 600 publications. |
1929-1984 |
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| ARTstor Digital Library |
The collection currently contains over one million images, including the following collections: |
Prehistory to the present |
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| Design and Applied Arts Index |
Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items. |
1973-present |
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| Historical Abstracts with Full Text |
Provides citations with abstracts to over 1,700 journals,book and media reviews, and dissertations. |
1955-present |
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers |
Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer) |
1764-2005 |
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Even More
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| LexisNexis Academic |
News, business information, medical and health topics, and law-related resources |
1990s-present |
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