Resource Guide:
Film Studies
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Internet Movie Database
- Fiction Into Film Database
- American Film Institute
- Movie Review Query Engine
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Acad. of Mot. Picture Arts and Sciences Digital Collections
- Motion Picture Association of America
- Internet Archive Movie Archive
- National Film Preservation Board
- Library of Congress Edison Motion Pictures
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Motion Pictures
- Documentary Films
- Film criticism
- Motion Pictures – France
- Motion Pictures – Moral and Ethical Aspects
- Motion Pictures – Plots, themes, etc.
- Motion Pictures – United States
- Ambiguity in Motion Pictures
- Motion Pictures and Literature
- Politics in Motion Pictures
- Motion Pictures – Dictionaries
- Motion Pictures – Great Britain – Plots, themes, etc.
- Motion Pictures – Iran – Criticism and interpretations
- Motion Pictures – Psychological Aspects
- Film Criticism
- Auteur theory (Motion Pictures)
- Motion Picture Industry
- Motion Pictures and Women
- Motion Pictures – Evaluation
- Motion Pictures – Influence
- Motion Pictures – Periodicals
- Motion Pictures – Reviews
- Film genres
- Cliches in Motion Pictures
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Cineaste
- Cinema Journal
- Film & History
- Film Comment
- Film Criticism
- Film Culture
- Film History
- Film Journal International
- Film Quarterly
- Films in Review
- Jump Cut
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Studying contemporary American film a guide to movie analysis | e-Book |
| From Antz to Titanic reinventing film analysis | e-Book |
| Regarding film criticism and comment | e-Book |
| The films of Ingmar Bergman | e-Book |
| Stanley Kubrick a narrative and stylistic analysis | e-Book |
| The encyclopedia of filmmakers / : volume One A – K | PN 1998.2 .T53 v.1 |
| Women and the new German cinema | PN 1993.5 .G3 K58 1992 |
| Master space : film images of Capra, Lubitsch, Sternberg, and Wyler | PN 1995.9 .P7 B64 1992 |
| The woman at the keyhole : feminism and women’s cinema | PN 1995.9 .W6 M36 1990 |
| Cahiers du cinéma, the 1950s : neo-realism, Hollywood, new wave | PN 1995 .C29 1985 |
| The cinema of cruelty : from Buñuel to Hitchcock | PN 1995.9 .C7 C313 |
| The cinema of John Huston | REMOTE PN 1998.A3 .H84 1977 |
| Masterworks of the German cinema: the Golem, Nosferatu, M… | REMOTE PN 1997 .A1 M27 |
| Children’s films history, ideology, pedagogy, theory | e-Book |
| European film theory and cinema a critical introduction | e-Book |
| Three philosophical filmmakers Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir | e-Book |
| Film language; a semiotics of the cinema | REMOTE PN 1995 .M4513 1974 |
| Signs and meaning in the cinema | REMOTE PN 1995 .W64 |
| American film criticism, from the beginnings to Citizen Kane | REMOTE PN 1995 .K293 1972 |
| Writing the romantic comedy : how to craft a screenplay that will sell | PN 1996 .M49 2000 |
| Film noir : an encyclopedic reference to the American style | REF PN 1995.9 .F54 F55 |
| The great Hollywood musical pictures | REF PN 1995.9 .M86 P37 |
| Genre, the musical : a reader | REMOTE PN 1995.9 .M86 G4 1981 |