Resources By Subject
Cinema
what are these?
Databases
Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. Over 3,600 journals are peer-reviewed.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
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.
Dictionaries
The American film industry : A historical dictionary
Cinema, a critical dictionary : The major film-makers
Dictionary of African filmmakers (electronic resource)
Dictionary of film terms : The aesthetic companion to film analysis
Dictionary of media and communications (electronic resource)
The dictionary of multimedia : Terms & acronyms
Dictionary of television and audiovisual terminology
The facts on file dictionary of film and broadcast terms
Encyclopedias
Blacks in American films and television : An encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of film themes, settings and series
Encyclopaedia of indian cinema
The encyclopedia of novels into film
The film encyclopedia : [The most comprehensive encyclopedia of world cinema in a single volume]
Magill's survey of cinema : English language films, first series
Magill's survey of cinema--English language films, second series
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.
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) |
Google Search: Cinema
This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.
