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Databases

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Academic Search Premier over 4,600 journals  more
Art Full Text full text version of Art Index  more
Biography Reference Bank biographical information from periodicals and reference works   more
Communication and Mass Media Complete over 200 journals   more
Dissertation Abstracts citations, abstracts, recent text   more
Essay & General Literature Index indexes essay collections   more
Gale Virtual Reference Library 200 reference books   more
Humanities Full Text indexes journals since 1984   more
JSTOR 420 scholarly journals   more
Literature Resources from Gale biographies & criticism   more
MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography literature & language index   more
Netlibrary 2,594 scholarly books  more
New York Times Full Text 1851-2003   more
Oxford Reference Online over 100 reference works   more
Project Muse over 240 scholarly journals   more
Readers' Guide Full Text ipopular periodicals  more
Readers' Guide Retrospective indexes periodicals since 1890   more
SAGE Communication Collection 19 journals since 1955   more
Twayne's Author Series biography & criticism   more
WorldCat holdings of thousands of libraries   more
   
Unrestricted, Open-Access Databases

Directory of Open Access Journals
Film Literature Index
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Databases at New York Public Library

NYPL Online Databases and Indexes--Film

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Journals

Subject list of electronic journals in film
Subject list of electronic journals in art and photography
Subject list of electronic journals in theatre
Searchable alphabetical list of electronic journals in all subjects
CUNY+ search for Graduate Center print journals in theatre and film
CUNY+ search for Graduate Center print journals in art
 

Full-Text Journals and Newspapers--Unrestricted Access

All Movie Guide
American Cinematographer
Arts and Letters Daily
Bright Lights Film Journal
Film Threat
Hollywood Reporter
Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
Internet Movie Database
Jump Cut
Movie City News
MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine
New York Times Movie Reviews
Scope (Univ. of Nottingham)
Turner Classic Movies Database

Reference Sources

CUNY+ search for Graduate Center reference books in film

The American Film Institute Catalog. GC Ref PN1998.A57
An Autobiography of British Cinema. GC Ref PN1998.2.A98 1997
Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. GC Ref PN1993.45.C75 2001
Encyclopedia of European Cinema. GC Ref PN1993.5.58 V56 1995
Encyclopedia of Novels into Film. GC Ref PN1997.85 T54 1998
Film as Literature, Literature as Film. GC Ref Z5784.M9 R66 1987
Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style. GC Ref PN1995.9.F54 F55 1992
Gays and Lesbians in Mainstream Cinema. GC Ref PN1995.9.H55 P37 1993
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. GC Ref PN1997.8.I58 2000
Key Concepts in Cinema Studies. GC Ref PN1993.45.H36 1996
The Oxford History of World Cinema. GC Ref PN1993.5.A1 O96 1996
A Political Companion to American Film. GC Ref PN1995.9.P6 P66 1994
Women Filmmakers and Their Films. GC Ref PN1998.2.W66 1998
World Film Directors. GC Ref PN1998.2.W67 1987

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Academic Web Sites

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 (Library of Congress)
Film and TV Music Resources (Univ. of Washington)
Film Studies (American Communication Association)
Film Studies (Univ. of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Film Studies Subject Guide (Baruch College)
General Film/Video Resources (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Graduate Center Film Studies Certificate Program
H-Film Discussion Network (H-Net)
Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies (Library of Congress)
Newsfilm Library at the University of South Carolina (Fox Movietone News archive)
Open Video Project (Univ. of North Carolina)
Origins of American Animation (Library of Congress)
Philosophy Film Database (Australian National University)
Selected Internet Sources in Film (UCLA)

Associations and Museums

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
American Film Institute
American Museum of the Moving Image
American Society of Cinematographers
Anthology Film Archives
Asia Cinevision
Association for Studies in French Cinema
Association of Moving Image Archivists
British Film Institute
British Pathe
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Cinematheque Francaise
Danish Film Institute
Directors Guild of America
Film Forum
Film Music Society
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Film Studies Association of Canada
French Cinema in the USA (Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US)
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
Harvard Film Archive
International Federation of Film Archives
Library of Congress Motion Picture and Television Reading Room
MoMA Film and Media
Motion Picture Association of America
Moving Image Archive
National Film Board of Canada
National Film Registry of the Library of Congress
National Film Preservation Board
National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television (UK)
Popular Culture Association
Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers (Library of Congress)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
University Film and Video Association
Women in Film
Women Make Movies

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