Research and Course Guides: World Cinema: Home

Best bets

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
film and television theory, preservation & restoration, cinematography, and more; 1950s-present

Media History Digital Library
Classic media periodicals in the public domain; especially good for early 20th century publications

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
literature, language, linguistics, rhetoric, composition, and folklore; 1926-present
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
communication studies, mass media, and journalism; coverage varies, some journals cover early 1900s-present
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
full-text access to more than 300 scholarly journals
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
more than 1,300 full-text scholarly journals

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
subject and general encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, and more

All databases by subject
Film research can touch on many subjects (psychology, business, sociology, etc.)