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BCN 205 Film/Television Criticism

Using Search Connectors

Most Important Scholarly Resources

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

• Indexes thoroughly over 270 film and television periodicals, including many foreign titles, and over 300 general periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.
• Provides full text for more than 70 journals.
• Covers 1976-present
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Communication and Mass Media Complete

• Provides indexing and abstracting of articles in several hundred journals in the fields of mass media and human communication.
• Includes and extensively supplements the Mass Media Index formerly created and maintained at Pennsylvania State University.
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Finding Books

Library Catalog

• Use to find books and other materials in the library's collections

Other Articles Databases (use for finding articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers)

Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)  (most important of the general databases)

• This database is a single database from InfoTrac covering a few thousand popular magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas, including broadcasting, communication technologies, documentaries, films media theory, radio, and television. Includes reviews of motion pictures and television programs.
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EBSCO BCN databases

• Includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, and MasterFILE Full Text.
• These databases index a few thousand popular magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas, including broadcasting, communication technologies, documentaries, films, media theory, radio, and television. Includes reviews of motion pictures and television programs.
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ProQuest

• Indexes and abstracts over 2,600 popular magazines and scholarly journals covering all subjects including films and television. Includes reviews of motion pictures and television programs.
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Film Catalogs

American Film Institute Catalog

• Describes all U.S. films made between 1893 to 1970 (except 1959 to 1960).
• Includes film titles, cast (and names of characters they played), subjects, genre, release year, plot summaries (for most films), and much more, including references to reviews.
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Index to Motion Picture Credits

• Covers 1977 to date.
• Lists credits primarily for all films that might qualify for any of the Academy Award categories and any films released in Los Angeles. Plot summaries, evaluative descriptions, and references to reviews are not included.

Citing Your Sources

MLA Style

• UNCG's quick guide to citing books, articles and websites
• To cite an article in a database, look at the section entitled Electronic Resources