Research Guides: Film Studies: Film Studies Resources

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Online Resources

Academic Search Complete
A broad multi-disciplinary database encompassing areas in art, science, and humanities.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Free, full text, open access, quality-controlled scholarly journals. Covers all subjects and languages.
JSTOR (Books, journals, primary sources, & Artstor)
Provides electronic, full text access to the back files to hundreds of scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines in humanities, arts and sciences, social sciences, and business
MLA International Bibliography
An index to books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics.

American Film Institute Catalog
Documents all films produced in the United States from 1892 to 1973. Also includes records for the Institute’s Top Ten Films for the years 2000 to 2007.
Film & Television Literature Index
Index, abstracts, and full text of articles related to film and television.

CWRU eJournal Portal
The CWRU eJournal Portal is a research tool that allows you to conveniently access the vast array of journals, periodicals, and magazines the CWRU libraries have licensed.

To find related journals through Journal Search, you can type in a journal’s title or ISSN in the Search bar, or you can browse under the Film subsection of the Music, Dance, Drama & Film category to explore available titles.

Here are some eJournal titles for Film Studies that you can find in Journal Search: