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Arleen Zimmerle, Media & Reference Librarian (BMC)

Sections:

Finding Books and Videos
Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
Contemporary Articles and Film Reviews - Online Indexes:
Contemporary Film Reviews - Print Indexes:
Recent Articles, Film Reviews & Scholarly Work - Online Indexes:
Specialized Databases

Related Subjects:

History - Primary Sources

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HIST 319 : Film, Propaganda, and Power (BMC)

Finding Books and Videos:

Tripod library catalog.

The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

To locate BOOKS ,

try a searching by various keywords, i.e.,

Propaganda, Film, Nationalism, etc.

or a subject search:

Motion Pictures in Propaganda
Motion Pictures Germany History
Nationalism in Motion Pictures
Motion Pictures Political Aspects
Historical Films History and Criticism
Motion Pictures Soviet Union
Sex Role in Motion Pictures
Cold War in Motion Pictures

To locate VIDEOS, limit by video, and search by title of film. Contact Arleen Zimmerle for additional assistance with locating videos.

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.

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.

Film reference books can be found on the main floor of Canaday Library in these call number areas: PN1993 - PN1998

Biographical Sources:

Biography resource center

Includes full text from the International Dictionary of Films and Filmakers.

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.

Contemporary Film Reviews - Print Indexes:

Film review index

Publisher: Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1986-1987.

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.

Historical abstracts

Provider: EBSCO

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-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.

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.

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.

Specialized Databases:

Women's studies international

Provider: Ebsco

Provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, newspapers, dissertations and bulletins, in the core areas of women's studies. Covers 1972-present.

Contemporary women's issues

Provider: Gale

Provides full-text access to journal articles, newsletters, research, government and international agency reports on women in over 150 countries. Covers 1992-present.

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.)