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Comedy & Community:
Some Strategies for Research
Comedy & Community:
Some Strategies for Research
Babbalooo, Lucy! I’m so essited!
We gonna learn about library
research
Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
Writing About Film…
Scholarly
Pop
Fan
Current
Historical
Comedy & Community : Some Strategies for Research
Sources for Film &
TV Scholarship
and Research
•Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
•Reviews
•Critical/ScholarlyArticles
•Books
•Web Sites
•Other online databases
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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
Comedy & Community
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
Comedy & Community
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)
Comedy & Community
Reviews: Current
Use:
•Expanded Academic Index
(fair amount of full-text)
•News Index
•ProQuest (some full-text)
•Lexis/Nexis
•Movie Review Query Engine
(web: full-text)
•Film Review Annual
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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:
•Expanded Academic Index (1980present)
•Modern Language Assn.
Bibliography (1963-present)
•Film Index International (CDROM in Main and Moffitt)
•Film Literature Index (Print Index
in Media Center) (1977-present)
•Art Abstracts ( & AA
Retrospective) (1920s-present)
•Periodicals Content Index (PCI)
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
Satirist Nabs Movie Queen! John Waters takes all
of Hollywood hostage in the jolly Cecil B.
DeMented. (The Arts/Cinema)(Review) (movie
review) Richard Corliss.
Time August 14, 2000 v156 i7 p70
View text and retrieval choices (287 words)
Comedy & Community
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:
Sex [women, love, relationships] and Death [dying,
mortality, fate] in the films [cinema, movie*] of Woody
Allen.
The representation [reflect* portray*] of gender [sex*]
and masculinity [masculin*, male, men] in the films films
[cinema, movie*] of Jim Jarmusch.
****
Truncation varies from db to db: * # ?
emigra* = emigrant, emigrants, emigrate, emigration
Comedy & Community
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 bananas by your research?
Call me:
Gary Handman
643-8566
[email protected]