Film Studies
Departmental Research Guide

This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

• Academic Search Premier 1984+
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Full text of numerous newspapers, some magazines, and other news sources from the United States and around the world. Useful in finding reviews.
• Project Muse (online full-text journals) (Among the film, theater, and performing arts journals included in this database are Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, Discourse, and Wide Angle. Full text is usually available from from 2000 to present.
• MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography Fall 1963+ While focusing primarily on literature, language, and folklore, this database does include some materials on film and television.
• New York Times Digital Archive 1851 - 2 years ago
• Web of Science 1975+ (Includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
• ingenta (formerly UnCover Plus) Fall 1988+
• Dissertation Abstracts International (Digital Dissertations) 1864+

3. Monographic and Other Materials in the Helm Library and Kentucky Building

The following are recommended for use:

• Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory (Ref PN 1993.45 .C75 2001)
• The Film Studies Dictionary (Ref PN 1993.45 .B49 2001)
• The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (Ref PN 1995 .O93 1998)
• The Oxford History of World Cinema (Ref PN 1993.5.A1 O96 1996)
• Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series (Ref PN 1997.8 .A76 2001)
• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (Ref PN 1997.8 .I58 2000)
• A Guide to Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Made Film and Video (Ref PN 1995.9.L37 G85 1998)
• The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (Ref PN 1998.2 .T49 2002)
• Eye on the World: Conversations with International Filmmakers (Ref PN 1995.9.P7 S75 1997)
• The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers (Ref PN 1998.2 .T53 2002)
• Film Quotations: 11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed (Ref PN 1994.9 .N69 1994)
• The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film (Ref PN 1997.85 .T544 2001)
• Film It with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Movie Musical (Ref PN 1995.9.M86 H57 2001)
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies (Ref PN 1995.9.S26 H38 2001)
• The BFI Companion to German Cinema (Ref PN 1993.5.G3 B45 1999)
• The Academy Awards Index: The Complete Categorical and Chronological Record (Ref PN 1993.92 .S53 1993)

4. Film Studies Periodicals at WKU (2nd Floor Helm)

• American Film (1986-91 only)
• Camera Obscura
• CineAction
• Cineaste
• Cinema Journal
• Film Criticism 
• Film Quarterly
• Jump Cut
• Literature/Film Quarterly
• Journal of Popular Film and Television
• Quarterly Review of Film and Video Screen
• Sight and Sound
• Wide Angle (1979-93 only

• Film Studies at WKU (part of the English Department) http://www.wku.edu/filmstudies/faq.html
• Women Studies Video Library Catalog  http://www.wku.edu/womensstudies/library/films/videolibrary.htm
• Women Studies Video Library Catalog Africa/African Films  http://www.wku.edu/womensstudies/library/films/africainternationalfilms.htm
• German Films on Video in Bowling Green  http://www.wku.edu/~laura.mcgee/videos.htm

5. Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)

• ACV Asian CineVision   www.asiancinevision.org
• African American Cinema Society  www.wsbrec.org
• American Picture Association   www.mpaa.org
• AMIA  Association of Moving Image Archivists  http://www.amianet.org/
• ASIFA  International Animated Film Society  www.asifa-hollywood.org
• Black Filmmakers Foundation  www.dvrepublic.com
• IFTA  Independent Film and Television Alliance  www.ifta-online.org
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies  http://www.cmstudies.org/
• Citing Recommendation
  How to Cite Film, Video, and Online Media  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/mla.html

6. Web Sites Recommended by Faculty and Librarians

• Academic Information: Film and TV Series Gateway   http://www.academicinfo.net/film.html
• Academy Awards  http://www.oscars.org/
• All Movies.com  http://www.allmovies.com/
• American Film Institutehttp://www.afi.com/
• Atom Films (Short Films)  http://www.atomfilms.com/
• BUBK Links  http://bubl.ac.uk/link/f/filmstudies.htm
• Charlie Chaplin   http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/chaplin/chaplin.html
• CinemaMedia  http://afi.cinemedia.org/
• CINE:  Celebrating Excellence in Film & Video  http://www.cine.org/
• Digital Librarian: Movies  http://www.digital-librarian.com/movies.html
• Do Look Back:  This History of Cinema Veritehttp://popped.ifihadahifi.com/articles98/cinemaverite/index.html
• Film Site   http://www.filmsite.org/
• Filmmaker.com   http://www.filmmaker.com/
• Gay and Lesbian Film Reviews   http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/gayandlesbian.html
• Human Studies Film Archive   http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/guide/film_toc.htm
• IMDB – Internet Movie Database   www.imdb.com
• IndieFilms  http://www.indiefilms.com/
• Masters of Cinema  http://www.mastersofcinema.org/
• Media Resources Center  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/
• Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE)http://www.mrqe.com/lookup
• Movie Scripts and Screenplays  http://www.geocities.com/moviescriptsandscreenplays/
• The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity   http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EthnicImagesVid.html
• National Film Board of Canada  http://www.onf.ca/
• National Film Preservation Board  http://www.loc.gov/film/
• Open Video Project  http://www.open-video.org/
• Palace:  Classic Films  http://moderntimes.com/palace/introduction.html
• Photography Collections Online   http://www.eastman.org/
• Research Sources for Film Studies and Film Researchhttp://www.reference.unh.edu/guides/filmstudies.html
• Screensite  http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Reviews.html
• Slamdance Screenplay Competition  http://www.slamdance.com/screencomp/
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies   http://www.cmstudies.org/
• Splicedwire.com   http://www.splicedonline.com/
• Western Film and Video Festival http://www.wku.edu/Journalism/Broadcasting/film/filmyourissues/fyi.html
• WWW Virtual Library Film History Index  http://vlib.iue.it/hist-film/Index.html
• VOS (Voice of the Shuttle) Film and Video http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=917

Anime and Animation 

• Animation, Anime and Cartoons at Netscape's Open Directory http://dmoz.org/Arts/Animation/
• Animation Arena  http://www.animationarena.com/
• Animation Nation  http://www.animationnation.com
• Animationtrip.com  http://www.animationtrip.com/
• Anime Cubed  http://www.animecubed.com/anime-films/
• An Introduction to Anime  http://www.rightstuf.com/introduction/index.html
• Origins of American Animation  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html

Black Film Studies

• Black Film Center/Archive  http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html
• Midnight Ramble  http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/black/index.html

Film Criticism

• Art Historian’s Guide to the Movies  http://personal1.stthomas.edu/cdeliason/ahgttm.htm
• Filmcritic.com  http://www.filmcritic.com/
• Hollywood Ten and Blacklist  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html
• Henry Sheehan Film Criticism and Commentary  http://www.henrysheehan.com/
• Reviews and Reflections  http://www.wpcmath.com/films/
• Slightly Rebel Film Criticism  http://wwwstu.tcu.edu/~kalong/SRFC/home.html#top
• Theory and Criticism  http://dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Theory_and_Criticism/

Film Noir

• Development of Postwar Literary and Cinematic Noir   http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Film%20Noir.html
• Does Film Noir Mirror the Culture of Contemporary America?  http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/noir/noirxx.htm
• Film Noir   http://www.filmmonthly.com/Noir/noir.htm
• Film Noir   http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html
• Full Text Articles and Essays on Film Noir   http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Noirtext.html
• Introduction to Neo-Noir   http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/NeoNoir.html
• Introduction to Gangster Films of the 1930s  http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Gangster%20Sagas.html
• Martin’s Film Noir Page  http://www.martinsfilmnoir.com/
• 10 Shades of Film Noir   http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus.htm

Film Theory

• Bordwell's Cognitive Film Theory   http://www.geocities.com/david_bordwell/cognitive.htm
• Cinemaspace  http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/
• Constructivism in Cognitive Film Theory  http://www.hanover.edu/philos/film/vol_02/sweeney.htm
• Film and Gender  http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/sections/film01.php
• Film Philosophy Online Writings  http://media.ankara.edu.tr/%7Eerdogan/filmarticlesources.html
• Film Sound Theory   http://www.filmsound.org/
• Film Studies: General   http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/sections/film05.php
• Film Theory   http://www.cinemateca.org/movies/film_theory.htm
• Film Theory List   http://www.aesthetics-online.org/net/film-theory.html
• Forum for the Pscyhoanalytic Study of Film  http://www.cyberpsych.org/filmforum/
• Illuminations   http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
• Narratology Terms used in  Film Theory  http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/narratology/terms/
• Transparency Film and Television Theory   http://transparencynow.com/tablegenrl.htm

Film Theory Essays

• Are TV and Film like a Language which We Read?  http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/mhw0101.html
• Explorations in Film Theory   http://www.eciad.bc.ca/%7Erburnett/Explore.html
• Film Criticism and Grand Theory   http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/0498/0498jo.htm
• Film’s Illusions: Kuleshov Revisited   http://kinema.uwaterloo.ca/ju-952.htm
• Plato’s Theory of Film   http://www.mtsu.edu/%7Ejpurcell/Cinema/plato_film.html
• The Work of Interpretation   http://kinema.uwaterloo.ca/miler991.htm

Foreign Language Films Sites

• BiFi: Bibliotheque du Film   http://www.bifi.fr/
• Britmovie – Home of UK Films www.britmovie.co.uk
• Cinetest Film and Philosophy (German and English)   http://cinetext.philo.at/
• Film Philosophy: International Salon and Journal  http://www.film-philosophy.com/
• London Film Festivalwww.lff.org.uk
• Planet Bollywood  http://www.planetbollywood.com/index2.html
• Reviews of Recent Japanese Films  http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Reviews.html
• Senses of Cinema: The British Film Resource  http://haze.customer.netspace.net.au/theory.htm

History

• American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.  http://www.biographcompany.com/
• COLLATE   Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing, & Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material  http://www.deutsches-filminstitut.de/collate/index.html
• Film History by Decade  http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html
• H-Film  http://www.h-net.org/~film/

Japanese Films

• Akira Kurosawa Database   http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~adk/kurosawa/AKpage.html
• Asian Film Connections  http://www.asianfilms.org/japan/
• Epic Images of Kurosawa   http://www.filmsondisc.com/features/kurosawa/epicimagesofkurosawa.htm
• Film and Photography in Japan   http://www.csuohio.edu/history/japan/japan15.html
• Hayao Miyazaki  http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/miyazaki/
• Midnight Eye  http://www.midnighteye.com/
• Samurai Cinema   http://www.midnighteye.com/features/samurai_cinema_101.shtml
• Samurai Films  http://www.1worldfilms.com/SAMURAIFILMS.htm
• Yasujiro Ozu   http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/ozu.html

Online Journals,  Magazines & News

• Animation World Network  http://www.awn.com
• Bright Lights Film Journal  http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/
• Cineaste  www.cineaste.com
• Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies  http://www.h-net.org/~filmhis/
• Images  http://www.imagesjournal.com/index.html
• New England Film  http://www.newenglandfilm.com/
• New York Times: Movies  http://movies.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html
• Sense of Cinema  http://www.sensesofcinema.com/
• Variety.com   http://www.variety.com/

Science Fiction and Fantasy and Horror Films

• Blade Runner   http://scribble.com/uwi/br/off-world.html
• Horror-wood  http://www.horror-wood.com/
• Celluloid Dinosaurs: A History of Dinosaur Movies  http://www.dinosaur.org/MovieHistory.htm
• Linkoping Science Fiction and Fantasy Archive  http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf_main.html
• Postmodernism and Science Fiction Film  http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffilm/pomodsf.html

Silent Movies

• Silent Era  http://www.silentera.com/
• Silent Movies   http://www.welcometosilentmovies.com/
• Silent Movie Website  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/

Women and Film

• Feminist Film Theory  http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/anneke/filmtheory.html
• Women in Cinema  http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html

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