Welcome to your Cinema Studies Research Guide!
This homepage contains resources for cinema studies in general. See other tabs for resources relating to specific classes or subject areas.
Where to search for movies
Use OneSearch - the library's catalog - to search for streaming video, DVDs, and VHS tapes. There are DVD and VHS players for use in Hodges library.
The UTK Streaming Video Guide provides further information about resources for streaming video. A list of streaming video platforms available through UT Libraries can be found here.
- British Pathe (YouTube)This newsreel archive is a treasure trove of 85,000 historically and culturally significance films.
- AP Film Archives (YouTube)Film and video archive of the Associated Press offers 1.7 million global news and entertainment video stories, dating back to 1893
- British Movietone Archives (YouTube)Newsreel archive spanning 1895 to 1986, contains coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science, lifestyle and quirky.
Reference Sources for Film
Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory by ISBN: 9780203992005Publication Date: 2005-12-08
Finding Articles in Databases
- Academic Search CompleteA multidisciplinary database covering magazines and scholarly journals.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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Multidisciplinary section of Web of Science covering scholarly literature in the arts and humanities from 1975 to present. - JSTOR
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A full-text archive of selected scholarly journals. Most titles have an embargo on recently published articles. - Project MuseFull text of scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences.
- Communication & Mass Media CompleteCovers journals in communication and mass media studies.
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
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Includes trade and film fan magazines from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to the 21st century. Covers film, music, radio, television, and theater. - FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals DatabaseResources for film history, theory, and criticism from The International Federation of Film Archives. Citations and select full-text of academic and popular film journals as well as holdings information of silent-era film archives.
- Performing Arts Periodicals DatabaseA guide to the journal literature on film, dance, television, and other performing arts. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
- MLA International BibliographyCovers literature, linguistics, literary theory/criticism, and the dramatic arts (film, television, theatre, etc.)
- Film & Television Literature IndexThe database provides access to hundreds of publications related to film and television studies.
Some articles will be available as full text online, but many appear only as citations or abstracts. Leaving the "Linked Full Text" box unchecked will return the most search results. You may use interlibrary loan to request items that are not available as full text online.
This database replaces the Film Literature Index Online, created by Indiana University, which was retired on December 6th, 2021.
- Lantern The free search platform of Media History Digital Library. Search over 2,772,417 pages of digitized books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound
Movie Reviews
- IMDB (Internet Movie Database)A searchable database of more than 250 million data items including more than 4 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and 8 million cast and crew members.
- MetaCriticFor each movie listed, MetaCritic collects and averages together critiques from professional critics to generate a score. Includes links to the original, full reviews.
- MRQE (Movie Review Query Engine)Large online database of movie review containing over 100,000 titles. Also includes news and user discussions.
- Rotten TomatoesOnline aggregator of movie and TV show reviews from professional critics.
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Browse the Stacks
Cinema Studies books can be found on the 4th floor of Hodges in the PN1993-1999 range.
To find other Cinema Studies-related books, try using the library catalog to search for Subject: Motion Pictures, and use other subjects and/or keywords to narrow your search.
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Contributions to Cinema Studies Research Guide
Blake Wahlert