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One thousand film scripts are indexed and organized to allow searching by scene, by character, by director, and more. Most have never been published in any format, and about half appear as facsimile images. With more than 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies, this resource is of interest to researchers in sociology, psychology, popular culture, writing, film studies, and history.
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Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
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A unique resource, Art Index Retrospective helps users find contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, track the body of work of an artist or movement, find artists? interviews and other commentary, and much more. Art Index Retrospective allows users to search 55 years of art journalism at a keystroke. Users can research leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, users have access to data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
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The Film Literature Index annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. This version of the database covers the years 1976-2001. [Free Online]
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Academic Search Premier,designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered. Film, as a subject, is included.
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Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written C
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This database indexes and abstracts U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and masters theses. 1861 to present indexed. Abstracts since 1980, and Thesis abstracts since 1980.
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Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
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Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections, covering such topics as Business, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, Music, Ecology & Botany. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR.
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LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard?s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
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Offers reviews of educational media and entertainment resources from 1989 to present. The database covers approximately 100,000 mediagraphic items from over 200 review sources.
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Project Muse® offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Readers' Guide Abstracts is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
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Provides feminist perspective on film, television, and visual media. Full-text (2000-2004)
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Cinema Journal is sponsored by the Society for Cinema Studies and presents recent scholarship by SCS members. The Society for Cinema Studies, founded in 1959, is a professional organization of film and television scholars with over 1000 members in the United States, Canada, and other countries throughout the world.
Full-text (1999 -present)
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Critical Quarterly is internationally renowned for it unique blend of literary criticism, cultural studies, poetry and fiction. The journal addresses the whole range of cultural forms so that discussions of, for example, cinema and television can appear alongside analyses of the accepted literary canon. Full-text (1997-present).
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Film History focuses on the historical development of the motion picture and the social, technological, and economic context in which this has occurred. Its areas of interest range from the technical and entrepreneurial innovations of the early and pre-cinema experiments, through all aspects of the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of commercial and non-commercial motion pictures.
Full-text (2005 - present)
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The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with the evidence produced by the mass media for historians and social scientists, and with the impact of mass communications on the political and social history of the twentieth century.
- Full-text (1999-present)
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The Lion and the Unicorn is a theme- and genre-centered journal of international scope committed to a serious, ongoing discussion of literature for children. The journal's coverage includes the state of the publishing industry, regional authors, comparative studies of significant books and genres, new developments in theory, the art of illustration, the mass media, and popular culture.
Full-text (1995 - present)
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an exciting new journal that deals with crucial issues surrounding the preservation and restoration of film, television, video, and digital moving images. The journal offers detailed profiles of moving image collections, behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve and restore moving images, and theoretical and visionary articles on the future of the field.
Full-text (2003 - present )
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PAJ has been an influential voice in the arts for twenty-six years. Now in an updated format and design, PAJ offers extended coverage of the visual arts (such as video, installations, photography, and multimedia performance), in addition to reviews of new works in theatre, dance, film, and opera.
Full-text (1996 - present)
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Screen is internationally acclaimed as the contemporary media studies journal. Each issue offers the latest developments in film, television, and cultural theory in lively and often provocative articles, plus conference reports, and book reviews.
- Has searchable table of contents online for 1996 and after.
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Wide Angle presents some of today's foremost scholarship in film studies and examines a variety of topics ranging from international cinema to the history and aesthetics of film. Each issue concentrates on a single topic and offers extensively illustrated articles, interviews with prominent filmmakers, and reviews of recent books in the field. The journal's unique thematic approach is well-suited to course work, facilitating assigned reading and classroom discussion on particular film
Full-text (1996-1999)subjects.
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The online catalog for the holdings of Brooklyn College and all CUNY libraries. Electronic books are listed among all books but can be limited to on a Guided Search: select Record Type "Electronic Resource."
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ebrary is an information delivery service that features a growing selection of more than 60,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers.
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NetLibrary offers an easy-to-use information and retrieval system for accessing the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.
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Offers movie news, box office figures - recent and comparative, rankings and by film title, discussion forums, and movie showtimes.
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RefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool that allows you to format bibliographies and in-text citations automatically; create your own database of citations; import citations directly from library databases; organize your citations into folders; and access your citations from any computer, anywhere in the world.
Learn how to use RefWorks by attending a RefWorks Workshop at the library, signing up for a RefWorks Webinar, or watching the RefWorks Basics Tutorial, which has excellent step-by-step instructions.
Note: From off campus, you may be asked for Brooklyn College's Group Code: RWBrooklynC.
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AFI is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.
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Created to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for
Asian American films, the site provides reviews, news, events calendar, browsable film database, and Minute Movies, supershort Asian American films online.
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A directory of Asian American films arranged by title or director, including films
in production.
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- Contemporary, culturally significant feature films from China, India, Japan, Korea, and
Taiwan are promoted through on-line video clips, press kits, filmographies, and critical
analyses contributed by film scholars and critics from Asia as well as internationally.
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- A database of selected movies based on books. View the database by
title or author of book, title of movie, or the year of its release. Covers
about 500 films made from 1980 through projected releases.
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Links to news on film industry - especially to English and Bollywood cinema.
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drawn from the second edition of "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", there are links to NYT review of each film.
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Website for a repository of films and related materials by and about African
Americans. Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience. Early Black Images
1890's to 1900 link offers short online films and the Helpful Links page is worth looking out.
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A comprehensive journey into documentary filmmaking. Interface by topic, filmmaker, or playlist.
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Launched in December 2000, Cinema Treasures is a groundbreaking website devoted to movie theater preservation and awareness. Seeks to unite movie theater owners and enthusiasts in a common cause?to save the last remaining movie palaces across the country. Links and search enngine.
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aims to provide an introduction to the first decade of motion pictures and the
developments which helped shape cinema as we know it today. Not comprehensive, it concentrates on the major events in cinema's history encouraging further reading and research. There is a useful timeline, technology portion, and A to Z section.
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A privately owned and operated site created to increase public awareness about European feature length films that are currently in (pre-) production or in release in theatres or on DVD around the world. The site offers news and reviews of such films for the general public, hoping to stimulate interest in the diverse output of European filmmakers working today.
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Search for films by performers, author or original source, setting, and producer, etc.
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Links to useful websites for filmmakers.
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IFP (Independent Feature Project) was founded in 1979 on a belief that a truly vital American cinema must include the personal, idiosyncratic, and sometimes controversial voices of filmmakers working outside of
the established studio system. As a not-for-profit organization, its mission is to foster a more sustainable infrastructure that supports independent filmmaking and ensures that the public has the opportunity to see films that more accurately reflect the full diversity of the American culture.
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amazing search capabilities, images, and links.
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- claimsto be the web's largest movie script resource. It includes some television scripts.
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Links to sites about the Latin American film industry.
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Founded in 2001 by four friends with a mutual interest in a particular type of filmmaker. Now five-strong, and living thousands of miles apart from each other in three different countries, they aim to bring pertinent information together in one place for aficionados of World Cinema.
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Film reviews from newspapers, magazines, and the internet
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Links to past film reviews are on the page as well as links to the recent
stories and reviews. Free registration is required.
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Want to locate information on a documentary film, this is a good place to start
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A privately operated site. It has useful Links section, as well as original content.
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Useful links and information relevent to silent movies.
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links to hundreds of free, downloadable scripts, movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic and maybe a few soon-to-be-released movies, television, anime, unproduced and radio shows. Begin by clicking on a category under "Scripts" or use "Search"
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Devoted to the scholarly study of film, television, video, and new
media.
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UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. All materials on UbuWeb are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights belong to the author(s). A great source to view avant-garde film and performance works.
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Established in 1972 to address the under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media industry, Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women.
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ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
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Cinema Image Gallery presents the history of movie-making through a wide range of high-quality images of films in production, and also offers an extensive TV stills archive featuring classic and modern TV.
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A repository (searchable) of digitized video content established and maintained by and is hosted as one of the first channels of the Internet 2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure Initiative, a project that supports distributed repository hosting for research and education in the Internet 2 community. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries.
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