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Some Strategies for Finding Film Reviews
Some Strategies for
Finding Film Reviews
Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
Writing About Film…
100+ Years
of Movies &
Movie Writing
Writing About Film…
Scholarly
Pop
Fan
Sources for Film &
TV Scholarship
and Research
•Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
•Reviews
•Critical/ScholarlyArticles
•Books
•Web Sites
•Other online databases
Scholarly Books (Some generalizations)
Older Films
LOTS
Books about
directors and
genres
LESS
Films w/in
Last 5 years
Books about
individual films
Use Pathfinder: Director Name as Subject
Journals/Newspapers
Current
Articles
Retro
Articles
Current films
(reviews)
Older films
(critical analysis)
Current films
Older films
“Giving new life to a beloved but faded
panorama of the Civil War.” Bernard
Weinraub. The New York Times June 25,
1998 v147 pB1(N) pE1(L) col 1 (27 col in)
Gone with the
Wind film
premiere
1939
“Gone with the Wind”
(review)
New Masses, v34, Jan. 23,
1940, pp 28-30
1998
Gone with the
Wind – DVD release
Selcer, Richard F. "Home Sweet Movies: From Tara to Oz
and Home Again." Journal of Popular Film and Television
1990 18(2): 52-63.
Critical/Scholarly Articles
• Current Films
• Older Films
Found in:
•Film studies & scholarly
journals (print & online)
•Web sites (occasionally…
academic and commercial
databases)
REVIEWS
 Current Articles
 Retro Articles
Found in:
•Popular & fan journals and
newspapers (print & online)
•Film studies & scholarly journals
(print & online)
•Web sites
•Fan and enthusiast sites
•Commercial sites (e.g., studio
sites, video distributors)
•Academic sites
How do you locate this stuff?
Online & Print
Indexes and Abstracts
Film-related (not many)
General news
Literary
Other disciplines: e.g. Women’s
Studies, American Studies, Ethnic
Studies
Jumping Off point for Finding Online Indexes:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/
How to Look em’ Up
•Search Using title of work (as a phrase)
•You can also include director
•Try using
and review
•e.g. Moulin Rouge and review or
Moulin Rouge and Luhrmann and
review
Once You Find a Citation,
How Do You Find the Article?
Use Pathfinder
•Some indexes provide
holdings info
•Some indexes link to full-text
The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical
Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through
1932. (Review) Stephen Banfield.
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and
Television June 1999 v19 i2 p267(2)
View text and retrieval choices (858 words)
Film Reviews and Criticism
http://www.lib.berkeley.
edu/MRC/FilmBibMenu.html
Bibliographies on various film
topics and individual films
compiled by MRC (includes bibs
for genres, filmmakers,
national cinemas, and individual
film).
The databases I just talked about?
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/reviewtable4.html
…being driven over the edge
by your research?
Call me:
Gary Handman
643-8566
[email protected]