Media Studies

Best Database Choices for Media Studies

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All Media Studies Databases

Academic Onefile

Large general database of articles from scholarly journals and a few newspapers (NY Times, 1995-) covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

American Film Scripts Online

This edition of American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) contains 497 scripts by 605 writers together with detailed on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.

Film & Television Literature Index

Finds reviews of films and articles on theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, and technical aspects of both film and television in the US and internationally.

Film Index International

Film Indexes Online brings Film Index International and AFI Catalog together in one site. Film Index International is a filmography that gives fully international coverage of around 118,000 films and 685,000 film personalities from over 170 countries. It also includes coverage of international film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists. AFI Catalog is a resource for American films providing a detailed view of American feature films produced during the last century. It provides full production and cast information as well as extensive plot summaries and notes.

IIPA: International Index to the Performing Arts

A performing arts journal resource with nearly 300,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to current, covering film, theatre and dance.

JSTOR Journal Storage Project

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present. Humanities and social science articles are also listed in Periodicals Index Online and Periodicals Archive Online which have more articles from similar journals.

Lexis Nexis Academic

News and business information from sources around the world; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Includes many newspapers. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.

MLA Bibliography 1963 to the present

An index to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations in language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Search and see full text of articles from the New York Times (1851-2001), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1997), the Chicago Tribune (1890-1984) and the Washington Post (1877-1987). For more recent issues, use Factiva.

Theatre in Video

Streaming video of over 350 produtions of plays from Aeschylus through Shakespeare and Beckett to Sam Shepherd. Also documentaries about productions and interviews with authors, directors, and actors. Viewing requires individual registration.

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