LibGuides: Film Studies: Databases &amp; Journals

Recommended Starting Points

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides indexing and full text of journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Indexing and abstracts for more than 660 titles. Includes full text for 350 journals. Features over 5,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most cited and most frequently searched for authors in the database.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
An archival research resource containing trade and popular magazines covering all aspects of the music industry, theatre and broadcast radio in the US and UK. CWU has access to Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 1: Music, Radio and The Stage, and Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 2: Cinema, Film and Television (Part 1). Coverage: 1880-2000.

Academic Search Complete
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracting for more than 9,300 journals.
Artstor
Explore Artstor’s collections of high-quality images, curated from leading museums and archives around the world. Artstor’s diverse collections are rights-cleared for education and research, and include Open Access content as well as rare materials not available elsewhere.

Note: Artstor is now on JSTOR. Your existing Artstor user account will work on JSTOR.
JSTOR
Contains the complete back issues of over 600 core scholarly journals in the natural and applied sciences, as well as the arts, humanities, and the social sciences.
Sage Reference Online
Handbooks and encyclopedias in the social and behavior sciences. CWU has access to the following titles: 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook; Encyclopedia of Journalism; Handbook of Collaborative Management Research; The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research; The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies; The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication; The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management.

American Cinematographer
Magazine published monthly by the American Society of Cinematographers focused on the art and craft of cinematography, covering domestic and foreign feature productions, television productions, short films, music videos and commercials.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
Academic journal set up in 1995 to address the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies.
Filmmaker
Quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film.
Film Philosophy
An academic journal looking at world cinema, aesthetics, and film studies from a philosophical point of view. An archive is organized by volume, and full-text articles are available from every issue.
Film Quarterly
Founded in 1959, the journal contains in-depth review essays on contemporary cinema as well as an extensive book review section.
The Hollywood Reporter
Founded in 1930, The Hollywood Reporter focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
Journal of Film and Video
Official academic journal of the University Film and Video Association.
Journal of Popular Film and Television
An academic journal that examines commercial film and television. Discussions include genres, television networks, series television, studios and directors. Also features articles on social and culture backgrounds of films and programs.
Studies in Australasian Cinema
Scholarly journal devoted to the screen cultures of, and film scholarship from, the Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific region.
Studies in European Cinema
An outlet for research into any aspect of European cinema.
Studies in French Cinema
Research on French and francophone cinema, exploring the cultural and technical aspects of French cinema from a range of perspectives.
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
Publishes research on pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post- Soviet film, its aesthetic development, and its position between ideology and industry.
Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas
Dedicated to the study of Spanish-speaking and Latin American cinemas, including the cinemas of Spain and Spanish-speaking South, Central and North America including the Caribbean, as well as Brazil.
Variety
Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences.

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press platform)
Academic Video Online (AVOn) on the Alexander Street (a ProQuest company) platform is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 67,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Academic Video Online (ProQuest platform)
Academic Video Online (AVOn), searchable as part of the ProQuest One Academic database on the ProQuest platform, makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. Search for award-winning films including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners and access content from PBS, BBC, 60 MINUTES, National Geographic, Annenberg Learner, BroadwayHD™, A+E Networks’ HISTORY® and more.
Asian Film Online (Alexander Street)
Through a selection of narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity. Note: The content in this database can also be found by searching Academic Video Online.
Documentary Educational Resources (DER) Premium
Documentary Educational Resources (DER) is the premier source for classic and contemporary ethnographic films, which explore modern cultural struggles and artistic traditions and offer a longitudinal view of changing communities, cultures and identities. DER Premium provides the most comprehensive access to the DER streaming collection.
Films On Demand Video Collection
Access to individual streaming video titles.

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Indigenous Cinema
The National Film Board (NFB) of Canada has compiled 200 indigenous-made films and made them accessible by online streaming free of charge. Films can be searched by title, director or subject.
PBS Video Collection: Fourth Edition
This collection provides streaming access to more than 1,200 documentaries and series from PBS. Subjects range from science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business & economics, and more. Highlights include Frontline, NOVA, Nature, American Experience, and films by Ken Burns and Michael Wood.
Victorians on Film
Discover the British Film Institute’s Victorian Film Collection and the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection, as well as a selection of special early large format films. This material provides a glimpse into the lives of the late Victorians and Edwardians captured between 1895 and 1913 by some of Britain’s earliest film pioneers and innovators.

Game Studies
This online journal features articles by scholars from various academic disciplines discussing theories of games and gaming.
Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific E-journal
Japan Focus is a peer-reviewed online journal on subjects ranging "widely across the geopolitics, political economy, history, society, culture, and international relations of the Asia Pacific." The journal regularly features a number of articles on film and media in Asia.
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research
MedieKultur is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal of media and communications studies aimed at scholars, teachers, students, and professionals. It publishes research into mediated communication in various contexts: political, economic, cultural, historical, aesthetic, and social.
Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism
This online, refereed publication, a joint venture of the Universities of Warwick Reading, and Oxford, aims to create a forum for film- and television-related analysis, debate, and discussion.
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
Participations is an online, peer-reviewed journal of audience research and reception studies. It is published twice yearly and back issues are archived within the website.
REFRAME: Research in Media, Arts, and Humanities
"REFRAME aims to offer a range of scholarly and related creative and critical content – from relatively ephemeral or responsive forms of research output... through to fully peer-reviewed online serials and book publications, and digital archives and assemblages."