Cinema

Databases
Web resources
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Professional organizations
Finding books

what are these?
These are social bookmarking services that allow internet users to store, search, and share bookmarks of webpages.

Databases

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 4,500 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study. 

Communication and Mass Media
CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 400 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. This database includes full text for 292 journals, a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and over 3,000 Author Profiles, with biographical data and bibliographic information. Coverage includes topics related to cinema.

Web resources

Internet Movie Database
Basic information on films, including plot summaries and credits.

Cinema Sites
Directory of links to film related resources.

Educational Media Reviews Online

Film Resources on the Web

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Feature films

Film adaptations

Film criticism

Film genres

Motion pictures

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

PN 1993- 1996 Motion Pictures
PN 4699 – PN 5650 Journalism
PN 4784.B75 Broadcast Journalism
PN 2053 Stage management, production, direction
TR 843 – TR899 Cinematography (technical aspects of production
  includes lighting, sound, animation)