FREN 470/350: Nationality & Identity: Articles & Databases
This guide will help you in Professor Fallon's Spring 2015 course, Nationality & Identity
Databases
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowThe library's largest general interest database. Partial full text.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowExcellent database for finding articles about North American history. TIP: Advanced search allows limiting by historical period.
- Art and Architecture Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window600+ full-text journals on art, architecture, film & photography. Includes scholarly journals, international titles, images, and also books; topics include art theory and criticism, news, exhibition reviews and more.
- Communication & Mass Media This link opens in a new windowOur most comprehensive collection of communication studies journals.
- Dissertations Online This link opens in a new window
- FIAF (International Index to Film Periodicals Plus) This link opens in a new windowCovers 370 academic and popular film and television journals; includes full-text content from over 50 journals.
- FirstSearch Databases This link opens in a new windowSearch a suite of databases (e.g. Article First, WorldCat, WorldCat dissertations) for eBooks, papers, dissertations, journal articles, government publications, and reference works.
- Google ScholarBroad coverage of scholarly material on all subjects. Note the need to evaluate results: it's not all full text, and it's not all scholarly. To link Google Scholar to library resources, click on Settings, then click on Library Links, then search for Hollins and check those boxes.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCompanion to "America & History & Life", this searches for articles, dissertations and more on the history of the world from 1450 onward, EXCEPT FOR the U.S. and Canada. TIP: Advanced search allows limiting by language and historical period.
- Arts & Sciences (JSTOR) This link opens in a new window
- MLA (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new windowThe MLA International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull-text academic journals and eBooks in the arts and sciences by Johns Hopkins Univ. Press and other scholarly publishers.
- Reader's Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new windowReaders' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. Coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982
WHAT IF AN ARTICLE ISN'T FULL TEXT IN MY DATABASE?
First, make sure you're looking at an article. Then click on Hollins JournalFinder. The video below shows you what you'll see.
View the video:journalfinder_movie
Newspapers
Limit your results to French newspapers by clicking on "Geography" in the left sidebar of results.
Journals
Browse editions of journals decided to film and/or French culture OR find a specific journal article from a citation by searching "Journal Finder". Not sure how it works? Here's a video.
SUGGESTED JOURNALS
- Cineaste
- Cahiers du Cinéma
- We do not have Cahiers du Cinéma, but you can browse the table of contents for issues by clicking on the "Archives" tab, then "LES SOMMAIRES". Request useful articles through InterLibrary Loan!
- Film Comment
- Film Criticism
- French Politics, Culture, and Society
- The French Review
- Screen
- Sight & Sound
- Studies in French Cinema
ARTICLE INDEXES
Indexes help you search older magazines and newspapers for film reviews and articles. These are the most important print indexes for film research:
SHELVED ALPHABETICALLY
- Art Index (includes film, 1929-1984)
- Biography Index (1946-2006)
- Film Literature Index (1973-1997)
- International Index to Film Periodicals (1972-1986)
- New York Times Index (1851-present)
- N.Y.T. Obituary Index (1858-1978)
- Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-present) Pre-1977 look under "moving picture plays", 1977 - "motion pictures".
SHELVED IN REFERENCE
- The Critical Index: a Bibliography of Articles on Film in English (1946-1973) Z5784.M9 G47
- Film Review Annual (1987-2000) PN 1995.F 465
- Motion Picture Directors: a Bibliography of Articles (1900-1972) Z5784.M9 S34
- N.Y.T. Film Reviews (1913-1968)PN 1995.N 4
Your Librarian
Rebecca Seipp
Contact:
seipprl@hollins.edu
MSIS, Information Science
The University of Texas at Austin
BA, History
Southwestern University
MSIS, Information Science
The University of Texas at Austin
BA, History
Southwestern University
540.362.6328