These online bibliograpies were prepared by Gary Handman of the Media Resources Center at UC Berkeley. Check Tripod for local holdings. Bibliographies are available for many filmmakers at this website.
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Tripod library catalog.
The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.- To locate BOOKS on specific directors and actors, try a keyword or subject search.
- To locate VIDEOS, limit by video, and try an author search for the director or actor.
- You may also want to browse by the GENRE "Silent Films"
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
Research your topic beyond the Tri-Co libraries.
Use EZ-Borrow/Interlibrary Loan to request materials that we do not own.
Use EZ-Borrow/Interlibrary Loan to request materials that we do not own.
Reference & Biographical Sources:
Film indexes online
Provider: ProQuest
This resource brings Film Index International and AFI Catalog together in one site. Searched together, these resources produced by the British Film Institute (BFI) and the American Film Institute (AFI) bring an unparalleled level of detail to research and they offer the most comprehensive and authoritative coverage of films available. Coverage varies.
NOTE: When requesting reviews through Interlibrary Loan, note that citations in this database will be listed in the following style:
MPW 26 Mar 10, p377 (This citation means that a review appears in Moving Picture World, MARCH 26, 1910, p377.)
NOTE: When requesting reviews through Interlibrary Loan, note that citations in this database will be listed in the following style:
MPW 26 Mar 10, p377 (This citation means that a review appears in Moving Picture World, MARCH 26, 1910, p377.)
Biography resource center
Provides access to biographical sources on over 325,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
Silent films, 1877-1996
Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1999.
"This is a detailed critical guide to 646 silent motion picture projects, from Eadweard Muybridge's initial motion photography experiments in 1877 to the 1996 silent film The Taxi Dancer." "Complete casts and credits are provided, along with detailed descriptions and insightful commentaries regarding each film's unique place in motion picture history. Nearly 200 photographs are also included, along with a foreword by silent-era child star Frank "Junior" Coghlan."--BOOK JACKET.
The new historical dictionary of the American film industry
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Historical Articles & Reviews:
The New York times on the Web
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1851-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1851-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1851-present.
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : New York Times.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Readers' guide retrospective
Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Recent Articles, Reviews & Scholarly Work:
International index to the performing arts
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.,
Provides abstracts and full-text to journal articles. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, theater, opera, and broadcasting. Covers 1864-present.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
Art index
Provider: Wilson
Offers abstracts of journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks in the fields of art, architecture, decorative arts and photography. Covers abstracts from 1929-present, full-text articles 1997-present.
MLA international bibliography
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations to journal articles, books, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and other materials. Areas covered include literature, language, linguistics, film, theatre and folklore. Covers 1926-present.
America, history and life
Provider: EBSCO
Provides abstracts of journals, reviews and dissertations on United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers 1954-present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Project Muse
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: FirstSearch
Citations to more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles on arts and humanities in over 5,800 social science and science journals. Records include articles, bibliographies, editorials and reviews. Covers 1980-present.
ARTbibliographies modern
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Database Coverage: 1974-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all areas of modern and contemporary art including photography, sculpture and art history and theory. Covers late 1960's-present.
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Moving Images Collections : documents moving image collections around the world through a catalog of titles and directory of repositories.
Evaluating Your Sources: Scholarly, Popular and Web:
Scholarly journals are written by and for experts in a field. The articles tend to be long and contain many citations and footnotes. Popular magazines are written for a more general audience, and authors tend to be journalists or staff writers. The articles usually don't provide footnotes or detailed citations.
Webpages can be authored by anyone and may not be screened for accuracy.
Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazine Articles (USTA Library)
This page compares the two types of publications on several levels, including language, structure of articles, editorial procedures, and credits.
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins University Library) Discusses the criteria by which scholars in most fields evaluate print information, and shows how the same criteria can be used to assess information found on the Internet.
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Film literature index
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1976-2001.
(Haverford College) Available from 1976-2001.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1976-2001.
Publisher: Ipswich, Mass. [etc.], EBSCO Pub. [etc.]
The most important index for Film Studies. Offers citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews from film and television journals from 30 countries. The journals range from scholarly to popular titles. Covers the years between 1976-2001. (The print version of this index covers 1973-2004.)