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Specialized Databases

MasterFILE Premier  Index to general interest subjects in many disciplines, including film and theater. Includes access to full text versions of Plays Magazine, Entertainment Design, and TDR: The Drama Review. (EBSCO-TexShare)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

BHA - Bibliography of the History of Art  Indexes architecture & decorated arts from late antiquity to the present from books, catalogs, dissertations, essays, journals, and proceedings. Published from 1990 to present, in English & French, continuing IRLA and RILA. (Ovid) Remote Access with University Network Account.

Related General Databases

Academic Search Complete  Includes more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals; in addition to full text, offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.  (EBSCO - TexShare)   Remote Access with University Network Account.

Directory of Open Access Journals This service provides full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly, peer reviews journals in many subjects and languages. It includes academic, government, commercial, non-profit private sources. (Lund Universities/TexShare) Free Web Access

Encyclopaedia Britannica The Encyclopaedia Britannica is the largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world. Its broad scope includes statistics, classics, definitions, articles in journals, and maps.  (Britannica - Direct) Remote Access with University Network Account.

Humanities International Complete Scholarly research material from a diverse humanities subject area. Covers dissertations, books, & journals. (EBSCO) Remote Access with University Network Account.

JSTOR   An archive of scholarly journals in full text, starting with the first issues. Covers material from the 1800s up to between 1 and 8 years before current publication. (JSTOR)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Literature Criticism Online Provides access to online editions of Contemporary Literary Criticism, 20th Century Literary Criticism, 19th Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Literature Criticism, and Short Story Criticism. The critical analyses are about authors throughout the ages of literature derived from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers. (Gale - Direct) Remote Access with University Network Account

Project Muse Online collection of full text peer-reviewed journals from scholarly publishers. This collection complements JSTOR. (Muse)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Periodical Abstracts  Contains abstracts to significant articles appearing in leading general and academic periodicals. Indicates libraries that own the periodical. Library access only. (Extended FirstSearch)

Arts & Humanities Citation Index  Provides indexing to arts and humanities topics, related social science and science topics. Citations refer to publishing information. Library access only. (Extended FirstSearch)

Wilson Select Plus  Contains citations & abstracts from: Readers Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts & Wilson Business Abstracts.  (Extended FirstSearch)  Library access only.

WorldCat  Locate books and other materials, such as musical scores & internet resources, in libraries worldwide, including the University of Dallas. Coverage is from 1200 to present. (FirstSearch-TexShare)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Google Scholar Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts & articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities & other scholarly organizations. (Google) Free Web Access

Electronic Books

NetLibrary  A collection of full text reference, scholarly, and professional electronic books (eBooks) available for 24 hour electronic use. (OCLC-TexShare)  Remote Access with NetLibrary Account.

eScholarship Editions From the University of California, the eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. (Univ. of CA) Free Web Access

Online Journals (Current Subscriptions Only)

Camera Obscura
Film Quarterly
Quarterly Review of Film and Video : QRFV
Theater
Variety

Websites

Film

The American Film Institute  This site includes the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.

Film Resources on the Web  Links are subdivided into numerous categories on this major resource.

Filmsound.org  This site is a comprehensive resource for articles and links on the art and analyses of film sound design.

The Greatest Films  This award-winning, unique web site features reviews, commentary and historical background for hundreds of classic Hollywood and other American films in the last century.

Masters of Cinema  Includes broad array of cinema information, including information on major world directors, current film news and articles.

Moving Image Collections  MIC provides archivists, educators, and the general public the ability to discover, locate, and in some cases view moving images from repositories around the world.

Strictly Film School  This resource provides an academic perspective on landmark world cinema.


Theatre

Costume Page  Provides over 2,000 costuming and costuming-related links, organized by subject.

International Theatre Resources  This site features a comprehensive, in-depth collection of theatre links.

Internet Broadway Database  This site is the official database/archive for Broadway theater information.

Musicals101.com  This site includes extensive historical and biographical theater information as well as reviews and reference resources.

Performing Arts Encyclopedia  Produced by the Library of Congress, excellent resource for music, theater or dance research.

Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923  Presents a searchable database of over 16,000 objects representing archival materials from one of the strongest periods in the Performing Arts Library collections

Theatre History Sites on the World Wide Web  This outstanding source of theatre links is maintained by Professor Jerry Bangham, Alcorn State University.

Print Books (Selected List)

Films

The American Movies: the History, Films, Awards, a Pictorial Encyclopedia  Ref PN 1993 .5.U6 M53
Encyclopedia of Television  Ref PN 1992 .18.E53
Film As Literature, Literature as Film  Ref Z 5784 .M9R66 
The Film Encyclopedia  Ref PN 1993 .45.K34 
Film Review Index  Ref Z 5784 .M9F513
Filmed Books and Plays…from 1928 - 86  Ref Z 5784 .M9E563 
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers  Ref PN 1997 .8.I58 
On the Screen, a Film, Television, and Video Research Guide  Ref Z 5784 .M9F535 
Oxford History of World Cinema  Ref PN 1993.5 A1 O96 

Theatre

American Drama Criticism: Interpretations 1890-1977  Ref Z 1231 .D7 P3 
Best Plays of….   Ref  PN 6112 .B4
Cambridge Guide to American Theatre  Ref PN 2220 .C35 
Drama Criticism  Ref PN 1601 .D59
Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage  Ref PN 2285 .Y6 
An Index to One-Act Plays  Ref Z 5781 .L83
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama  Ref PN 1625 .M3
Notable Names in the American Theatre  Ref PN 2285 .N6 
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections…between 1900 and 1985  Ref Z 5781 .O8 
Play Index  Ref Z 5781 .W51
Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama  Ref PN 1625 .G3 
Theatre Companies of the World  Ref PN 2052 .T48 
Theatre World  Ref PN 2277 .N5 A17

Print Journals (Current Subscriptions Only)

American Theatre  Per PN 2000 .A52
Estreno  Per PN 2008 .E8
Film Quarterly  Per PN 1993 .H457
Gestos  Per PQ 6101 .G47
Live Design  Per PN 2000 .T49
Primer Acto  Per PN 2008 .P7a2
Quarterly Review of Film and Video  Per PN 1994 .Q34
Variety  Per PN 2000 .V2
Village Voice  Per AP 2 .V72

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