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Cinema Without Borders:
Some Strategies for Research
Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
Cinema Without Borders: Some Strategies for Research
Sources for Film Scholarship
and Research
•Reviews
(journals, newspapers)
•Critical/ScholarlyArticles
(journals)
•Books
•Web Sites
•Other online databases
Cinema Without Borders
Books
•Scholarly/authoritative works
•Pop schlock and fan works
How Do You Tell em’ apart?
• Author’s credentials/affiliations
• Publisher (e.g. BFI, AFI, University
Presses vs pop press)
• Scholarly apparatus and sources: notes,
bibliographies, other documentation
• If they’ve been widely cited by other
scholars
Cinema Without Borders
REVIEWS
•Current
•Historical
Found in:
•Popular & fan journals and
newspapers
•Film studies & scholarly journals
•Web sites
•Fan and enthusiast sites
•Commercial sites (e.g., studio
sites, video distributors)
•Academic sites
Cinema Without Borders
Critical/Scholarly Articles
•Current
•Historical
Found in:
•Film studies & scholarly
journals
•Popular & fan journals and
newspapers (but only
occasionally)
•Web sites (even less
occasionally…except for
academic and commercial
databases)
Cinema Without Borders
Reviews: Current
Use:
•Magazine Index (some fulltext)
•News Index
•ProQuest (some full-text)
•Lexis/Nexis
•Movie Review Query
Engine (web: full-text)
•Film Review Annual
Cinema Without Borders
Reviews: Historical
Use:
•Readers Guide
•NY Times Index (or
NYT Film Reviews
1913-68) (in MRC)
•Film Review Index,
1882-1985 (in MRC)
•Film Index International
(CDROM in
Main/Moffitt Only)
Scholarly/Critical Writing
Use:
•Magazine Index (1988-present)
•Modern Language Assn.
Bibliography (1963-present)
•Film Index International (CDROM) Film Literature Index (Print
Index in Media Center) (1977present)
•Art Abstracts ( & AA
Retrospective) (1920s-present)
•Periodicals Content Index (PCI)
Cinema Without Borders
Books
Use Pathfinder
Search by
•Title and/or Subject Keyword
•Director Name (as subject)
•Movie Title (as Title and/or
•Subject Keyword
How to Begin? Before you click: THINK
Formulate your search in terms of:
•KEY WORDS and SYNOMYMS:
--Looks for words anywhere in record: title,
subject, abstract and full-text (if avail)
•PHRASES:
--Looks for words in the exact order entered
How to Begin? Before you click: THINK
Formulate your search in terms of
keyword and key phrases:
The representation of gender [sex*] and masculinity
[masculin*, male, men] in the films [cinema, movie*] of John
Woo.
Border crossing [immigat*, emigrat*], and identity [role*,
self], as a theme in recent films by Latino and Chicano
filmmakers
****
Truncation varies from db to db: * # ?
emigra* = emigrant, emigrants, emigrate, emigration
Once You Find a Citation, How Do You Find the Article?
Yo!…Hey man, use
Pathfinder!
Or..
•Some indexes provide
holdings info
•Some indexes link to full-text
Cinema Without Borders
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu
/MRC/FilmBibMenu.html
a growing listing of
bibliographies on various film
topics and individual films
compiled by MRC (includes
bibs for genres, filmmakers,
national cinemas, and
individual film).
…being driven totally psycho by your research?
Call me:
Gary Handman
643-8566
[email protected]