Gary Handman
ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
643-8566
This is not a PowerPoint Presentation
What We’ll Be Covering:
•Journal Index and Abstracts
•Reviews and Critical Analyses
•Current and retrospective
•ejournals: licensed and open-source
•Monographs
•Books and eBooks
•Whole Works and Contents
•Dissertations
•Film Credits Databases
•Archival Sources
Online Indexes
•Hundreds of disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and
news-based-- licensed by the library (many via CDL)
•Each indexes dozens to hundreds of journals
•Multiple indexes sometimes under one company
portal (eg: CSA Illumina, EBSCO, Wilson)
•Coverage better for current than retro (in most
cases)…relatively few before 1960
•Some overlap in coverage between dbs
•Full-text availability: varies from database to
database; many are still citation only
•Most citations have UC eLinks (more about which
later)
•Accessible from off-campus via proxy
Online Indexes:
Current Reviews and
Scholarship
Where to start
GH Desert Island
Film Studies Index/Article Database List:
Current
•EBSCO databases
(Academic Search
Complete; Film & TV
Lit Index, and others)
•MLA Bibliography
•International Index to
the Performing Arts
•JSTOR (most retro,
but in 2011, some
current)
GH Film Studies Desert Island List:
Retrospective
•Readers Guide Retrospective
•Internat’l Index to Performing
Arts
•JSTOR
•Historical Newspapers
(ProQuest)
•International Index to the Performing
Arts
•Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
•AFI and BFI Indexes
•Remember: the farther back in
time, the thinner the scholarship
and academic writing…
GH Desert Island List:
Retrospective Film Reviews
Print Sources
•Variety Film Reviews (soon to go
online) Print in MRC, 1907– (online in
2011!!!)
•Hanson and Hanson: Film Review Index
(in MRC)
•Retrospective index to film
periodicals, 1930-1971 (in MRC)
•Readers Guide to Periodical Lit (print)
•SEE Kristen Whissel List!
Ejournals
Including
•Open-source and commercial one-offs
•Publishers’ collections*:
Some can be accessed directly;
Some only thru an index
*e.g. Taylor and Francis;
Caliber (UC Press), Cambridge
Sage; Wiley
Film ejournals:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/filmstudies/filmjournals.html
All ejournals (searchable or browseable by title)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/: ejournals A-Z
OskiCat: Can look up journals by title: links to full text when available
Where Do I find The Most Recent Articles on
Griffith’s Intolerance?
MRC Bibliographies
Take em’ out for
a spin..
UC eLinks
•Books on Buñuel: OskiCat
•Books on Buñuel since 2000: OskiCat with publication
limits
•Chapters or essays on Buñuel in books
•Notes keywords in OskiCat (advanced search)
•MLA and Essay and General Literature Index
•Google Scholar!! (includes Google Books!)
•Ebrary
(electronic books collection)
Archives
Listing of International Archives via LC
http://www.loc.gov/film/arch.html
FIAF (Db of international archival holdings) (UCB/proxy only)
http://fiaf.chadwyck.com/home.do
American Memory Project (LC) (early films, animation, et al.):
http://memory.loc.gov/
Europa Film Treasures
http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/
Film Archives online (European archives)
http://www.filmarchives-online.eu/
Internet Moving Image Archive (ephemera, orphans, PD works)
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
UbuWeb (streamed avant-garde works)
http://www.ubu.com/
•Where do I find out about recent archival film acquisitions in the
broader UC system?
•Where do I find foreign-language film databases (which might
include, say, more French journals from the early twentieth century
than would an English database)?
• I've seen the immense Shakespeare adaptations bibliography on the
Media Resources website; where do I find such a resource for other
authors?
•Scholarship on prisons and silent cinema (e.g. representation of
prisons/figure of prison in silent cinema)
•Information about film screenings in alternative exhibition sites such
as prisons
•Scholarship that references the mug shot in silent cinema
Gary Handman
ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
643-8566