Henry Buhl Library: Film Studies: Find Books & Journal Articles

Books & eBooks

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Browse HENRY by subject
When you find useful books on your topic, use the subject headings in the catalog records to locate related books.
Use the bibliographies in books to expand your search (tips for determining if a citation is for a book, a journal article, or a chapter in an edited book)
You can also try our list of E-Books & Online Books to locate books that are available through library subscriptions and/or freely available on the web

Here are a few Subject Headings to get you started.

You can use these subject headings as a starting point, but be sure to look for additional terms as well.

Need a book the library does not own?

You can request the book through Interlibrary Loan. Info and a downloadable form are available here!

To search for books available in other libraries, try using

WorldCat -- Search the holdings of more than 10,000 libraries to locate books and identify citation information.

Library of Congress -- Access to the Library of Congress catalog and other online collections.

NOTE: Users do not need to identify a library that owns the book. Simply provide the appropriate information on the form and library staff will do the rest!

Journal Articles

Academic Search Premier
Covers a wide range of subject matter in both popular and scholarly periodicals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.

Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and nearly 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
JSTOR
Archival Database of full text scholarly journal articles, and therefore does not have the most recent publications. Its primary function is to preserve access to journals for future researchers. Journal issues are typically added to JSTOR 3 to 5 years after publication in what is referred to as a moving wall.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text combines the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text for more than 1,000 journals, including many of the leading publications in these fields. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and international in scope, the bibliography covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.
Project Muse
Access to scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
SocINDEX
Full text of journal articles, as well as indexing and informative abstracts for "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895.

Journal articles are very specific. Locating relevant articles is always easier after you have completed your background reading and examined quality books on the subject.

Use more than one article database. Each database indexes a set of journals, conference proceedings, books, etc., but there is no database (not even Google) that indexes everything. To find as much as possible, you will need to use more than one database and try a variety of search terms.

A to Z List of Journals
Always check the A to Z list to see if we have access to the journal title and date of publication you need!

Need an article that the library does not have access to? Use the link below to download a request form.

REQUEST A JOURNAL ARTICLE
Use this form to request an article that we do not have access to