Resource Guide:
Reviewing Films
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.
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 Picutres
- Documentary Films
- Film Criticism
- Motion Pictures- plots, themes, etc.
- Motion Pictures and Literature
- Motion Pictures- Evaluation
- Motion Pictures- Reviews
- Walt Disney Company
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.
- This list of journals includes both popular and academic publications. All are accessible full-text from the Von Canon Library’s home page (voncanon.svu.edu > Menu > Journals > then type the journal title in the search box).
- Black Film Review
- Cinema Journal
- Film Criticism
- Film Comment
- Film Quarterly
- Film Review
- Films in Review
- Film Studies
- Hitchcock Annual
- Journal of Popular Film and Television
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 |
|---|---|
| Regarding film criticism and comment | eBook |
| Stanley Kubrick a narrative and stylistic analysis | eBook |
| From Antz to Titanic reinventing film analysis | eBook |
| James Agee: Film writing and selected journalism | PS 3501 .G35 A6 2005b |
| Movies into film: Film criticism, 1967-1970 | PN 1995 .S494 |
| The new york Times film reviews, 1913-1970 | PN 1995 .N42 1971 |
| American movie critics: An anthology from the silents until now | PN 1995 .A448 2006 |
| Now in theaters everywhere: A celebration of a certain kind of blockbuster | PN 1995 .T789 2006 |
| Gender in science fiction films, 1964-1979 | PN 1995.9 .S26 N64 2015 |
| Signs and meaning in the cinema | REMOTE PN 1995 .W64 |
| American film criticism, from the beginnings to Citizen Kane | REMOTE PN 1995 .K293 1972 |
| Directed by John Ford | DVD PN 1998.3 Directed JohnFord |