Blough-Weis Library: Film Studies Research Guide: Journal Articles / Film Criticism

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Find citations to critical literary and language scholarship from 6400 journals, books, essays, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, bibliographies published worldwide, including coverage of film studies.

Use the links listed below to find even more articles about film studies.

Gale In Context: Biography
Look up directors/actor/screenwriters to find biographical information and citations to book reviews, news articles, and more.

Full-text biographical information from the Who's Who volumes and 250 periodicals; news articles, thumbnail and narrative biographies.
JSTOR
Use the advanced search to narrow your search to 14 journals on film studies.
America: History and Life
Try this source if you are researching a historical film.

1910-present
Citations/abstracts for scholarly journals, books, dissertations covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
Art Full Text

Search full-text articles and abstracts of more than 900 periodicals and art dissertations from 1984-present.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
Project Muse: Film, Theater, and Performing Arts
Search here for articles about film.

Full text database of over 300 scholarly periodicals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Access is also available in Electronic Collections Online via First Search.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Use a Google Scholar search to link to many articles available freely on the web or through the library. You can request articles not available on the web through interlibrary loan to have them delivered to you by email.

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