Film Databases
- Film & television literature index with full text This link opens in a new windowIndexes all types of writing about television and film, including industry papers, news journalism, and scholarly academic journals. Subjects covered include film & television theory, preservation and restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Includes major academic film journals, international film publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Cinema in India, Cinemaya, Filmkultura, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio, and the full text of Variety Movie Reviews back to 1920.
- Performing Arts Database (Online)Content from more than 240 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events.PAD covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry-including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, opera, etc.
Communication Databases
- Communication & mass media complete This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for the core journals in the fields of communication studies, journalism and mass communication as well as non-core journals in additional fields which extend the resource to include the growing interdisciplinary nature of the field.
- Gale OneFile Communications and Mass Media This link opens in a new windowIndexes over 250 journals from the fields of communication and mass media. This collection is part of the larger Academic OneFile database. Gale Cengage.
Multidisciplinary and Other Databases
- Academic search complete This link opens in a new window
Offers indexing and abstracts for journals in all academic subjects.
- MLA international bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides a subject, author, and title index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
The film encyclopedia : the complete guide to film and the film industry by Call Number: Jones Ref PN1993.45 .K34 2008ISBN: 0061432857Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this sixth edition features more than 7,500 A-Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including:
Directors, producers, actors, screenwriters, and cinematographers
Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking Motion picture studios and film centers Film-related organizations and events
Industry jargon and technical terms
Inventions, inventors, and equipment
And much more!
The Film Studies Dictionary by Call Number: Moody General Collection PN1993.45 .B49 2001ISBN: 0340741902Publication Date: 2001-02-15This unique reference work is designed to bridge the gap between guides and dictionaries that are primarily academic and theoretical and those that deal mainly in technical jargon. Above all, it is aimed at students of film and media who are likely to encounter a wide range of specialist language in a variety of places--in film reviews, critical essays, interviews with filmmakers and stars, and academic and Internet publications. The Film Studies Dictionary contains around 1,000 entries ranging from terms that have always puzzled audiences such as "best boy" and "gaffer" to those required by specialist students of film such as "post-colonial theory" and "third cinema." It uses a system of careful cross-referencing and concise and up-to-date references to further reading for exploration.
The complete film dictionary by Call Number: Jones Ref PN1993.45 .K66 1997ISBN: 0670100099Over 3000 film terms are defined in this comprehensive lexicon. The present work not only covers both film topics and technical terms, but does so more extensively by defining more terms and providing longer entries. With considerable insight the author covers topics from the Hollywood blacklist to basic genres, from major studios to cinema magazines. An impressive work of scholarship and a superior technical guide, this will become the definitive film dictionary.
International Motion Picture AlmanacCall Number: Jones Ref PN 1993.3 I55ISBN: 00747084An annual series of useful information about the films of the previous year. Includes brief biographies of people active in the business, credits for the feature films released during the year, and an index for technical data on the films.
A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 0786495561Publication Date: 2014-04-30Defining more than 10,000 words and phrases from everyday slang to technical terms and concepts, this dictionary of the audiovisual language embraces more than 50 subject areas within film, television, and home entertainment. It includes terms from the complete lifecycle of an audiovisual work from initial concept through commercial presentation in all the major distribution channels including theatrical exhibition, television broadcast, home entertainment, and mobile media. The dictionary definitions are augmented by more than 700 illustrations, 1,600 etymologies, and nearly 2,000 encyclopedic entries that provide illuminating anecdotes, historical perspective, and clarifying details.
