Webographie
http://www.film-documentaire.fr/home.php
source : Amherst U/Dpartmt Film & Video art
Resources
Film study resources
From the library
Features to Look for in Indexes and Databases
- Title or Source Lists - note coverage dates
- Different search interfaces -Advanced, More Options, Keyword
- Ability to create a marked list
- Format for printing
Searchable full-text of hundreds of newspapers.
- Use the "Guided Search" tab to get past the Basic search form. The Guided Search form allows you to control your search more precisely and to search for specific publications, such as the Los Angeles Times.
- Use the Source List to determine whether a particular publication is included, and link directly to a search form for articles from that publication.
- Use truncation symbols and operators to refine your search. See L-N Help Sheet for more information.
Alternative Press Index - Ref AI3 .A27 (1969-current)
Alt-Press Watch (1994-current)
Citations from alternative, radical, and left publications.
- Search for words and names as they would appear in the text, rather than in subject heading form.
Examples: "Kimberly Peirce" or "Boys Don't Cry"
Contains full-text of selected magazines and newspapers. Contains full-text of the Wall Street Journal, which is not available through Lexis-Nexis.
Includes ABI/Inform Global, a database of articles from business periodicals.
Contains full-text of selected magazines and journals. Has some overlap with ProQuest.
Contains the International Index to Film Periodicals.
- Use FIAF to get citations for articles appearing in scholarly journals such as Cineaste, Film Quarterly, and Sight & Sound.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) 1984-current.
Indexes footnotes in scholarly journals. It is useful for identifying articles that cite a known author, article, book, or film. Please use the "Logout" button when finished.
- You can search for a director and film by using the "Cited Reference" search. Be aware that there may be several variations of film titles, and the cited references often contain misspellings of an author's name.
- Use the "Source List" to decipher abbreviated journal titles that appear in citations, then search for the journal or book title using the VCL online catalog.
- There is an extensive help sheet available for this resource. You may also want to get help at the reference desk.
Evaluating Information You Find on the Internet
imdb.com - the Internet Movie Database
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - http://www.oscars.org/index.html
American Film Institute - http://www.afi.com/
AFI: Silent Film Catalogue - http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/silentHome.aspx?s=1
British Film Institute - http://www.bfi.org.uk/
American Museum of the Moving Image - http://www.ammi.org/site/site.asp/
The Library of Congress Motion Picture and Television Reading Room - http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/
Museum of Television and Radio - http://www.mtr.org/
National Film Registry - 375 films chosen since founding of the National Film Preservation Foundation in 1989 - http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/filmnfr.html
Society for Cinema and Media Studies - http://cinemastudies.org/
Library of Congress American Memory Collections - Several hundred early motion pictures. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/ndlmps.html
Prelinger Archives - More than 1,600 from Prelinger's vast collection of "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
Senses of Cinema - http://www.sensesofcinema.com/
Kino Eye - http://www.kinoeye.org/index_04_02.php
Rotten Tomatoes - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
Metacritic - http://www.metacritic.com/
