THEA255 Costume Design 2021
A guide for students, created by Librarian Maryke Barber
Films are a great source of visual research:
- Documentary films show costume and dress for various nationalities and settings
- Fiction films show you designers' ideas about how people dress. If historical accuracy matters, beware of historical revisionism.
Film Databases
- Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new windowStream feature films, documentaries, and more.
Library Film Collections
To find the libraries' films on BluRay and DVD, search OneSearch and limit to Films/Videos.
Need more films? Search other libraries with Worldcat
Theatre on Video
Video
- Digital Theatre +Hundreds of productions from contemporary to classics. Includes plays, musicals, and radio (audio-only) theatre; also documentaries, interviews with theatre makers, and more.
- Films on Demand: Drama and TheaterStreaming documentaries, educational films and performances. Use the left menu to narrow down to Drama, etc.
- Kanopy: Performing ArtsKanopy's streaming videos range from Shakespeare to Broadway. Please use Kanopy for your scholarly needs.
- Theatre in Video This link opens in a new windowContains more than 250 full-length plays and 200 video documentaries and interviews in streaming video. Plays included are the most important productions of the 20th century starting in 1930.
- Theatre films on Blu-Ray or DVDOneSearch - Film will show you what's available in the library's film collection. Note: results will also include the Theatre in Video and Films on Demand databases.
