Film, Theater, and Performing Arts Databases
(see also
Music,
Media, Television, Communications & Publishing, and
General)
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
[Also of Interest]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- Film
& Television Literature Index (Ebsco)
 
- Comprehensive database covering the entire spectrum of
television & film in popular, scholarly, trade, technical,
and international publications. Subject coverage includes theory
& criticism, writing, production, cinematography, technical
aspects, preservation & restoration, news, and reviews.
Includes over 32,500 full text movie reviews from Variety dating back to
1914 and over 24,000 classic color and black & white images of celebrity and
entertainment photography, provided by the Motion Picture & Television Archives.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
- Cambridge
Guide to Theatre (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Chambers
Film Factfinder (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Dictionary
of Media Studies (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more.
- Note: to use ebrary, you must first download and install the
ebrary Reader on your computer (more information).
- International
Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Detailed essays and commentary provide biographies, filmographies,
comprehensive credits, production information, major awards, and bibliographies for
legendary films, actors, actresses, directors, writers, and other production artists.
- St.
James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers the culture of mass appeal - all the experiences in life shared by a
people in common as well as those things created for the majority to be easily understandable
and accessible (often disseminated by the mass media) to them. Includes: social life, music,
print, film, television, radio, sports, art, performance, food, fashion, holidays, hairstyles, and
more, emphasizing American popular culture in the second half of the 20th century. Each entry
analyzes the topic and its significance within the broader cultural context.
- Also of Interest:
- MLA
International Bibliography (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
- Produced by the Modern Language Association, this covers modern
literatures from all over the world, literary theory & criticism, dramatic
arts (film, radio, television, and theatre), folklore (folk literature, music, art,
rituals, and belief systems), languages & linguistics (study, history,
theory, comparative, semantics, translation, etc.), teaching (of language,
literature, rhetoric and composition at college level), and the history of printing
& publishing. Contains more than 2 million records for journals articles
(from over 4,400 journals), books, book articles, published conference papers,
dissertations, curriculum guides, electronic materials, and more, in over 60
languages published from 1926 to the present, with some journals going as far
back as the 1880s. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals with
publication information about over 7,100 titles.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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