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HART/ENGL 334 : Orientalism and Cinema (BMC)
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WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
A catalog of books, journals, and other materials held by thousands of libraries worldwide.
Use EZ-Borrow/Inter-Library Loan to borrow materials that we do not own.
Use EZ-Borrow/Inter-Library Loan to borrow materials that we do not own.
Reference Sources:
Film indexes online
Provider: ProQuest
Film Index International and the AFI Catalog together in one site. These resources are produced by the British Film Institute (BFI) and the American Film Institute (AFI.) The AFI Catalog documents around 46,000 American films from 1893-1970. Many records include extensive plot summaries. Film Index International covers around 118,000 films from over 170 countries from 1900 to the present.
Projecting ethnicity and race
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
"This comprehensive annotated bibliography reviews nearly 500 English-language studies published between 1915 and 2001 that examine the depiction of ethnic, racial, and national groups as portrayed in United States feature films from the inception of cinema through the present."
- Other Film reference books can be found on the main floor of Canaday Library in these call number areas: PN1993 - PN1998
Contemporary Articles and Film Reviews - Online Indexes:
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.
Full-page-images and article images from the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. Includes film reviews and advertisements.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Index to journal articles in thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Coverage up to 1995.
Readers' guide retrospective
Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States. Covers 1890 through 1982. Use the print Readers Guide at B Canaday AI3 R48 for coverage up to 1993.
Finding Contemporary Articles and Film Reviews - Print Indexes:
The New York times index.
Publisher: New York, New York Times Co.
B Canaday Periodical Room Index Table (Floor One)
For film reviews from early years look under Moving Pictures. For later years look under Motion Pictures.
For film reviews from early years look under Moving Pictures. For later years look under Motion Pictures.
The New York times film reviews.
Publisher: New York, Times Books, etc., -2002.
1913-1984
B Canaday Folio (Floor B) PN 1995 fN4
Reviews from the New York Times, arranged in chronological order.
B Canaday Folio (Floor B) PN 1995 fN4
Reviews from the New York Times, arranged in chronological order.
Retrospective index to film periodicals, 1930-1971
Publisher: New York : R. R. Bowker Co., 1975.
B Cananday Index (Floor 1) Z 5784 fM9 B39 1975
Selected film criticism
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1982-1985.
B Canaday Reference (Floor 1) PN 1995 S426 1982
Covers 1896-1960
Covers 1896-1960
Variety film reviews.
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., c1983-c1996.
B Canaday Reserve PN 1995 +V34 1907-1933
S McCabe Reference PN 1995 +V34 1934-1996
S McCabe Reference PN 1995 +V34 1934-1996
Recent Articles, Film Reviews & Scholarly Work - Online Indexes:
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 film and television. Covers 1864-present.
America, history and life
Provider: EBSCO
Provides abstracts of journals, reviews and dissertations on United States and Canadian history. Covers 1954-present.
Art index
Provider: Wilson
Select Art Full Text and Art Retrospective. Search by "film title" in quotation marks. If searching for reviews only, limit by Document Type to Film Reviews. Contains abstracts from 1929-present, full-text articles from 1997-present.
ARTbibliographies modern
Holdings:
Database Coverage: 1974-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Includes citations to articles on film from art journals. Covers late 1960's-present.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: FirstSearch
Indexes many of the leading journals in the arts and humanities. Covers 1980-present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
LexisNexis academic
Provider: LN
Full-text of thousands of newspapers and magazines. Select Guided News Search. Under Select a news category choose Arts & Sports News. Under Select a news source, choose Book, movie, music & play reviews for reviews or Entertainment news for feature articles. Includes the full text of the New York Times (1980-current). Coverage of other titles varies.
MLA international bibliography
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations to journal articles, books, and other materials. Areas covered include film, theatre, literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Covers 1926-present.
Project Muse
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered include the humanitiesand social sciences.
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.
Women's studies international
Provider: NISC
Covers 1972-present. Indexes Camera Obscura and other journals of interest.
Online Bibliographies:
The Movies, Race and Ethnicity: Asian Americans
Great page of resources from Gary Handman of UC Berkeley.
Check Tripod for local holdings
Check Tripod for local holdings
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.)