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Film Reviews and Criticism |
This guide suggests resources and
strategies for research on film reviews and criticism.
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Contents of this research guide |
Background
Information | Articles |
Books |
Criticism & Reviews | People |
Organizations | Web Resources
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Find Background Information (Overview Sources)
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Encyclopedias and other reference
works are an excellent place to begin your research. They
provide topic summaries, context, and bibliographies for further
reading. Those with call numbers are in print on the third
floor, while the hyperlinked titles are available
electronically.
General Sources
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Location |
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Chamber's Film Factfinder |
Credo Reference |
| Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings, and
Series |
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791.437503 Ar584e |
| The Film Studies Dictionary |
R 791.4303 B61f |
| Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film |
R 791.4303 G7671s |
| The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies |
ask at reference desk |
Specialized Sources
Use specialized sources to find
information about a particular category or type of film.
| 100 American Independent Films |
R 791.4375 W85o |
| African American
Films Through 1959 |
R 791.4365203 R392a |
| The BFI Companion to German Cinema |
R 791.430943 B4692 |
| The Blue and Gray on the Silver Screen |
R 973.7 K622b |
| The Companion to French Cinema |
R 791.430944 V743c |
| The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood |
R 791.4365206 P2192e |
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The Encyclopedia of Novels into
Film |
R 791.436 T432e |
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Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American
Films:1895 - 1930 |
Credo Reference |
| Film It with Music |
R 791.436 H622f |
| Frame by Frame: A Black Filmography |
R 791.4309093 K698f |
| Frame by Frame II |
R 791.4308996 K698f |
| Frame by Frame III |
R 791.4308996 F8434 |
| Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and
Lesbian Film and Video |
R 791.43653 M966i 1996 |
| Missing Reels: Lost Films of American and
European Cinema |
R 791.4375016 W146m |
| Silent Films, 1877 - 1996 |
R 791.4375 K678s |
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Find Articles |
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Search indexes, abstracts,
and databases to find journal, magazine, and newspaper
articles.
To find historical/source
materials,
such as newspaper and magazine articles written at the
time of the film's release, use the following print sources:
Readers' Guide to Periodical
Literature, 1900+
(located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main
floor)
Art Index,1959-
(located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main
floor)
Humanities Index, 1974 - 1987
(located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main
floor)
International Index to Periodicals, 1907 - 1966
(located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main
floor)
New York Times Index, 1851+
(located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main
floor)
To find recent articles and
scholarly/peer-reviewed articles use the following online
databases. For a complete list of Kent Library's online
indexes and databases, see the
Find: articles page.
Academic Onefile (Gale)
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Humanities Full Text (Wilson)
JSTOR (select Film Studies under Discipline(s) and/or Title(s))
MLA Bibliography (EBSCO)
Proquest Research Library + Newspapers
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Full Text (Wilson)
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Find Books |
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Unlike the reference books listed
in background information, the Kent Stacks houses books on very
specific topics. Other collections include periodicals
(journals, magazines, & newspapers), government documents, and
videos. Use the Kent
Library Catalog to search all of these collections.
Keyword searches allow you
to use your own words as search terms.
Subject heading searches use Library of Congress
subject headings. Printed volumes of these headings are located
near the Reference Desk on the main floor.
Film related subject headings include:
film adaptations--encyclopedias
film criticism
motion pictures
motion pictures--reviews
motion picture plays--history and criticism
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Browse the shelves by call
number. Use the
Dewey Decimal chart to get you in the right subject
areas or try the following:
791.43 - 791.437
Motion pictures
302.234 Social aspects of
motion pictures
384.8 Communication aspects of
motion pictures
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Criticism & Reviews |
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5001 Nights at the Movies |
R 791.4375 K117f |
| British Film Institute Film Classics |
791.4375 B77752 |
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Film Review Annual |
R 791.4375 F487 (Library has
1981 +) |
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Index to Motion Pictures
Reviewed by Variety, 1907-1980 |
R 791.4375 V4271 (companion
to Variety Film Reviews, below) |
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Magill's Survey of Cinema 1st Series |
R 791.4375 M272m |
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Magill's Survey of Cinema 2nd Series |
R 791.4375 M272 |
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Selected Film Criticism |
R 791.4375 Se48 |
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Variety Film Reviews,
1907-1980 |
R 791.4375 V427 |
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People |
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Reference books about important people, such as performers, screenwriters,
producers & directors.
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American Actors and
Actresses |
R 016.79143028 Ar24a |
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Blacklisted: The
Film-Lover's Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist
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R 791.430973 B867b 2003 |
| Contemporary North American
Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide |
R 791.430233 C7675 2002 |
| From Silent to Sound: A
Biographical Encyclopedia of the Performers Who Made the
Transition to Talking Pictures |
R 927.9143028 L622f |
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Halliwell's Who's Who in the
Movie |
R 791.430922 H157h14 |
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New Biographical
Dictionary of Film |
R 927.9143 T3827n4 |
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Organizations |
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Professional organizations
and/or societies often provide very useful topic related
information.
American Film Institute
http://www.afi.com/
Broadcast Film Critics Association
http://www.bfca.org/
Chicago Film Critics Association
http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/
Motion Picture Association of America
http://www.mpaa.org/
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Web Resources |
Film Resources on the Web
http://www.duke.edu/~kennethl/filmsite.html
Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com
Movie Review Query Engine
http://www.mrqe.com
OFCS: Online Film Critics Society
http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/
Rotten Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
Yahoo! Film Awards Site
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film/Awards
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For a list of Web
searching tools, see the
Find: web resources page.
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