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Tripod: The Tri-College Online Catalog
To locate BOOKS on specific directors and actors, try a keyword or subject search.
To locate VIDEOS, limit by video, and try an author search for the director or actor.
You may also want to browse the following subject headings:Motion Picture Audiences -- United States
Motion Picture Industry -- United States
Motion Picture Theaters -- United States
Motion Pictures -- United States
Research your topic beyond the tri-co libraries. Over 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Use EZ-Borrow/Inter-Library Loan to request materials that we do not own.
Reference & Biographical Sources - Online
American Film Institute Catalog
Documents every American film from 1893 to 1970 (with gaps in coverage from 1956 to 1960). Search by keywords; film titles; cast, crew, and character names; subject; genre; release year and more. Most records include extensive plot summaries.
Provides access to biographical sources with full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Allows user to search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria.
Historical articles and reviews
Full-page-images and article images from the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files.
PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991
The New York Times Index
B Can RefTable 1
H MGL Ref Room AI21 .N44Personal Name Index to the New York Times
B Canaday Index Z5301.F28 1976
H MGL Ref Room Z5301 .F28 1976The New York Times Film Reviews 1913-1984
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Readers Guide to Periodical Literature 1900-1993
Search under "Motion Picture Reviews"
B Canaday Index AI3 .R48
H MGL Ref Desk AI3 .R22Variety Film Reviews 1907-1996
S McCabe Ref + PN1995 .V34Selected Film Criticism / [1] 1896-1911 -- [2] 1912-1920 -- [3] 1921-1930
S McCabe Ref PN1995 .S426 1982
Recent Articles, Reviews & Scholarly Work
Use the following databases to look for recent articles on your topic. See also Databases by Subject.
Indexing, abstracts and some full text from a variety of academic and general periodicals. Try "Advanced Search" by Subject for film title or director. 1980- current.
Search by film title. If searching for reviews only, limit by "Words in the Subject" to Motion Picture Reviews. 1984 - current.
Internationally comprehensive index to literary and related studies, MLA indexes articles in over 3000 journals.1963- current. Updated quarterly.
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide
Provides subject, title, and author access to approximately 99 percent of all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861
Provides image and full text online access to back issues of scholarly journals. Must select subject areas that you want to search.
Project Muse Scholarly Journals Online
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Some full text.
Select "Guided News Search". Under "Select a News Category", choose "Arts & Sports News." Select "Book, movie, music & play reviews" for reviews or "Entertainment News" for feature articles. Offers full text of the New York Times from 1980 to date. Coverage of other newspapers and journals varies. Updated daily.
Indexes many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. 1980- current..
Abstracts of the Current Literature of Modern Art, photography and design. Includes citations to articles on film from art journals. 1977-current.
Film Literature Index
B Can Ref Z5784.M9 F45 1973-
Indexes over 300 international film periodicals, and is an excellent source for scholarly articles. Covers 1973-2001. Search by title, name or subject. Soon to be online!
Examples of Webpages on History, Widescreen, Classroom films
Google Web Directory: Movie History
Motion Picture Sound 1930-1989
One Hundred Years of Film Sizes
American Memory Collection Finder
Internet Archive: Moving Images
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