Scholarly Databases
- Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) This link opens in a new window CMMC indexes journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and other closely related fields of study. Date coverage: 1915 - present.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window Indexes, abstracts, and provides full text of articles from academic and popular film journals. Also includes several film reference books. Abstracts late 19th century - present; full text 1930s - present.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Date coverage: 1920s - present.
- Screen Studies Collection This link opens in a new window Screen Studies Collection brings the Film Periodicals Database, Film Index International, and the AFI Catalog together in one site.
- Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window Contains critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after Jan. 1, 2000. May be searched simultaneously with Contemporary Authors and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
- Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles. Date coverage: earliest issues of each journal up to the most current five years for most publications and to the present for some.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window Project Muse provides digital access to scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. The scholarly content comes from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. The full text resources include journal articles, book reviews and book chapters.
Key Journals/Magazines
- Cinéaste. 1967-"America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema".
- Film QuarterlyFilm Quarterly has published substantial, peer-reviewed writing on cinema and media for over sixty years, earning a reputation as one of the most authoritative academic film journals in the United States, as well as an important English-language voice of cinema studies abroad.
- Literature Film QuarterlyLiterature/Film Quarterly is the longest standing international journal devoted to the study of adaptation.
- Post scriptAn academic journal that presents original manuscripts on film. Subjects covered include film as language and literature, film as visual art, film and photography, film music, and acting. Essays included focus on the study of film as it relates to the humanities.
- Sight & SoundSight & Sound is the international film magazine that offers a unique insight into the very best of film culture - past, present and future... Sight & Sound continues to bring the best writing on the films that matter – covering a broad range of work in its features, interviews and comprehensive reviews section.
Film Reviews and critiques on the Internet: Selected Resources
Selected Internet Resources for Film Reviews
- Metacritic
Search for the film by title. Once you locate it, click on the link for "critic reviews." The reviews will be listed by the name of the original review publisher. Click on the link that says "read full review." The site will re-direct you to the original review.
- Movie Review Query Engine
Find online movie reviews by entering a film title. A list of results will provide links to the review's original publisher. You can also find reviews by selecting film categories such as current and popular films of the recent past few days, film festival reviews, and AFI reviews.
- Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
Search for movies and TV shows by title, cast/crew, and character. Information provided includes director, genre, cast overview, rating, year released, runtime, plot outline.
- Le Blog Du Cinéma: Actualite, Analyse, critique etc..est un site multi-auteurs, composé d’une douzaine de rédacteurs bénévoles. Ils sont libres de tous droits concernant leurs articles, la ligne éditoriale du site se voulant être très large. De ce fait, la directive que prend chaque article varie selon l’appréciation de son auteur. Il ne reflète en aucun cas la pensée et l’avis général du site.
