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ENGL / HART 239 : Women and Cinema (BMC)
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To locate BOOKS on specific directors and actors, try a KEYWORD or SUBJECT search.
To locate VIDEOS, limit by video, and try an AUTHOR/CREATOR search for the director or actor.
Women in motion pictures
Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures and women
Feminism and motion pictures
Feminist film criticism
Sex Role in motion pictures
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
Research your topic beyond the tri-co libraries. Over 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Use EZ-Borrow/Inter-Library Loan to request books and videos that we do not own.
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Film indexes online
Provider: ProQuest
Similar to the IMDB, but more authoritative!
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.
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.
- NOTE: The citations in this database will be listed in the following style: MPW 26 Mar 10, p377
Biography resource center
Includes full text from International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers .
The Women's companion to international film
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994.
Journal articles, reviews & scholarly work:
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.]
Contains citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. International coverage. Print version covers years 1973-75, 2002-2004.
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.
Women's studies international forum
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1996-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1996-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1996-present.
Publisher: [Oxford ; Elsevier Science.
Indexes Camera Obscura and other journals of interest. Covers 1972-current.
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.
Online bibliographies / links:
Senses of Cinema
"Great Directors" section includes profiles of directors such as Arzner, Benning, Campion, Deren, Rainer, Varda, von Trotta, etc. Also searchable by keyword.
UC Berkeley: Women in Film and Television Bibliographies
British Film Institute: Women and Film Bibliography
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