LibGuides: Film: Additional Film Resources

Films through the Decades

These books provide an overview of film through the decades of the 20th & 21st centuries. Previous decades can be accessed through this link to WorldCAT: Screen Decades series.

American Cinema of the 2000s
ISBN: 9780813553238
Publication Date: 2012-04-15

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American Cinema of The 1990s by [Select the Title to Access Online]
ISBN: 9780813545783
Publication Date: 2008-10-11

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American Cinema of The 1980s by Stephen Prince (Editor)
ISBN: 9780813543024
Publication Date: 2007-04-25

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Looking for reviews of a film? The following databases and print resources will lead you to film and motion picture reviews.

Film & Television Literature Index Full Text
Film & Television Literature Index Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present and a large number of images from the MPTV Image Archive are also included.
Academic Search Premier
This large multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,770 journals, including full text for over 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni provides access to the full text of hundreds of major business and legal journals, magazines, and U.S. and international newspapers. Company financial, country, tax, medical, federal and state legal information, and accounting information can also be accessed.
New York Times (Historical)
The New York Times (1851-2013) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Literature Resource Center
This group of online indexes provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors, much of it full-text. The database is searchable by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes, or a combination of criteria to create more powerful searches.

Variety Magazine Film Reviews
An entertainment trade magazine. They post many of their publication's film reviews online for free. For a more complete listing of Variety reviews, search the online Film & Television Literature Index listed above.
Movie Review Query Engine
Free online index of movie reviews from both offline and online sources.
The New York Times Film Reviews 1913-1970
Irwin Library Annex (Basement) PN1995 .N48 1971. This information can also be accessed in the New York Times (Historical) Index listed above.

When studying film, primary sources include not only the film itself but analyzing the cultural scene and film artifacts (press releases, media kits) at the time that the film was made. Search the databases below to find magazine, newspaper, and other news/information sources that were published when the film was released.

Readers' Guide Full Text Select
This full-text database provides searchable full text for a broad selection of the most popular periodicals.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
Academic Search Premier
This large multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,770 journals, including full text for over 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.

Cinefiles: The University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Contains scanned images of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the PFA Library's extensive collection covering world cinema, past and present.
The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb)
A large collection of movie scripts - primary source material!

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