Communications 150 - Cinema Art
Online Research Resources

All resources listed are available to Penn State students using an Access ID and password from any Internet connection. For research assistance, contact Judy Sandt at jsandt@psu.edu.

FINDING FILMS, BOOKS, & SCREENPLAYS

• The CAT is Penn State's online catalog. View Details and then use the I Want It button to order items from other Penn State campuses. Videos generally may be borrowed for one week with one renewal.
  Tip: To limit the search to films, choose Advanced Search from the right side of the search page and limit Material Type to Video Material.
  
  
• WorldCat (OCLC) is a catalog of library holdings from across the country. If Penn State owns an item, link to the CAT to borrow it. If not, click Request Item via ILL to request it from a non-Penn State library.

FINDING ARTICLES, REVIEWS, & CRITICAL ANALYSIS

• ProQuest Research Library indexes 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers.
  Tip: To locate a review, use the drop-down menu for Document Type and choose Reviews. It may help to limit the date to one close to the release of the film. For information about a director or actor, enter the name in the Person search box.
  Getting the full article: Click full-text or pdf to link to an article, or use the Get It! button if not available in ProQuest.
  
  
• International Index to the Performing Arts includes articles related to all aspects of the performing arts from more than 210 international journals.
  Getting the full article: Click the Full Text link or use the Get It! button.
  
  
• LexisNexis Academic Universe offers access to reviews in newspaper articles and major radio and television news and discussion programs.
  Getting the full article: Click the title of an article or program transcript for the full-text.
  
  
• Film and Television Literature Index (1987-to date) covers writings about film and tv theory, preservation and restoration; writing, production, cinematography; and reviews. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema & Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more as well as technical publications such as SMPTE and international publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Filmihullu, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio.
  Getting the full article: Use the Get It! button to link to full text in other databases or to order it online.
  
  
• Film Literature Index (1976-2001) contains over 700,000 citations to articles and reviews published between 1976-2001 from 50 film and television magazines and journals from 30 countries and 200 other periodicals.
  Tip: Find articles on a film by locating the title via the browse by production titles link or a director or actor via the browse by person name link.
  Getting the full article: No full text available. Order articles via ILLiad.
  
  
• FIAF International FilmArchive Database offers reviews and articles from many countries from 1972 to the present.
  Getting the full article: Use the Get It! button to link to full text in other databases or to order it online.
  

• New York Times Historical (1851-2004)
  Getting the full article: Click Article Image - PDF to view the article.
  Tip: Limit the Document Type to Review.
  
  
• JSTOR offers articles from hundreds of scholarly journals like Film Quarterly and Cinema Journal and covers all disciplines.
  Getting the full article: Click the title to view an article.
  Tip: Limit to reviews using the advanced search. To print the entire article rather than page by page, use JSTOR's print link at the top of the page.
  
  
• Metacritic is a website that compiles reviews by many of the most respected critics in the media.

For more information contact:
Judy Sandt, Reference Librarian
jsandt@psu.edu
Penn State Lehigh Valley
Last updated, November 2007