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DANC 079 : Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films (SC)
Exploring:
Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema
Bollywood search in Google Scholar
Retrieves books and articles from Google. Use the "Find it at Swarthmore" or "Check Tripod" link to access the resource.
Bollywoodgate
Useful for its many interviews. Also a good place to find plot summaries, directors, actors, etc. in the website's A-Z film listings.
Finding Videos and Books:
Indian Films in the Tri-Colleges
Documentaries about Bollywood in the Tri-Colleges
Books about Bollywood in the Tri-Colleges
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
This is a gigantic catalog of millions of resources owned by libraries all over the world listing books, videos, sound recordings, journals, manuscript collections and websites.
Finding Journal Articles:
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.
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.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: ISI
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Covers 1975- present.
Bibliography of Asian studies
Provides citations to journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festshriften on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Covers 1971-present. Complete citations end with the 1991 records. Since 1992, newly published books are no longer being added.
Anthropology plus
Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.
AnthroSource
Provides full text articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, and bulletins. Covers 1888-present.
Anthropological index online
Offers information on journals kept at the Anthropology Library of the British Museum. Provides citations on a large number of titles in all areas of anthropology. Covers 1957-present.
Gender studies database
Provider: NISC
Provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, newspapers, dissertations and bulletins, in the core areas of women's studies, men's studies, and sexual diversity issues. Includes content from Women's Studies International, the Men's Studies Database and the Sexual Diversity Studies Database. Covers 1972-present.
Film indexes online
Provider: ProQuest
Provides detailed information on films from around the world, including production and cast information, plot summaries, background notes, awards listings, and citations to reviews and other secondary literature. Offers simultaneous searching of the American Film Institute Catalog and the British Film Institute's Film Index International. Covers 1893 - present.
Film literature index
Offers citations to articles from film and television journals from 30 countries. The journals range from scholarly to popular titles. Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
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.
RILM abstracts of music literature
Provider: CSA
Covers material published in music and various other fields as they relate to music. Records appear in over a hundred languages. The majority of citations include abstracts. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest.
Evaluating Sources:
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.
Getting Materials not at Swarthmore:
If something you need is not available on Swarthmore’s campus then it can be requested through our Tri-College Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan services.
Citing Sources:
Guidelines for style and the documentation of sources for scholarly papers in music and dance follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. The manual is not available online but thorough explanations can be found in the Chicago/Turabian Documentation section of the UW-Madison Writing Center website. Citing the notes that accompany sound recordings and scores can be tricky. Williams College has a good citation guide for non-book formats.