Recommended Film Databases
- Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCovering film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowAbstracts and indexing for art periodicals. Full text of selected titles.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowIndexes research in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields.
- MLA Bibliography This link opens in a new windowIndex to journal articles, essays, books, and dissertations for: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.
Databases in Related Fields
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowNorth American history and popular culture from pre-colonial times to the present including journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Use Historical Abstracts for world history.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowArchive of core journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides citations and summaries of articles from journals published in over 90 countries. It covers all branches of world history from 1450 to the present except American and Canadian history.
- Journal of Cinema and Media StudiesOpen access publications related to cinema and media studies, published by the University of Michigan. Includes the following publications: Archival News (highlights from audio-visual archives); Professional Notes (quarterly lists of recent publications in media studies); In Focus (short essays about film and media): Reviews (reviews of innovative new work): Spotlight (interviews with scholars and groups); Teaching Media (pedagogical practices)
- Collections of Cinema and Media Music (C2M2)A searchable guide to archival collections of film and media music.
For Fun
- Film School Thesis GeneratorType in any film title and get a thesis statement to explore. For the brain-dead and theoretically challenged.
