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Find Articles: Film and Cinema

(R) = Restricted to authorized MTA University users
(FT) = Includes or links to Full Text articles
 
Alt-Press Watch (ProQuest) (FT) (R)
Description: Full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Years indexed: Early 1990s - present. Varies by title.
Access:
 
 On-campus | Off-campus
Art Index (R)
Description: Index to periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins by subject, name, and art work. Covers art, architecture, city planning, film, photography, and related fields.
Years indexed: 1929 to present. Updated monthly.
Access:
 
 1929-1983: Z 5937 A78 REF
1984 - present: On-campus | Off-campus
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) (R)
Description: Indexes over 1,140 arts and humanities journals, covering archaeology, art, classics, drama, film, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, religion and others.
Years indexed: 1989 to present. Citation searching from 1975.
Updated weekly (Friday a.m.)
Access:
 
 On-campus | Off-campus | Journal list (.pdf)
Film Review Index
Description: A two-volume index to film reviews, histories and critical commentaries from a wide variety of English-language sources.
Years indexed: v. 1. 1882-1949
v. 2. 1950-1985
Access:
 
 Z 5784 M9 F513 1986 REF
French XX Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature Since 1885 (Part Three: CINEMA)
Description: Indexes books, journals, major bibliographies
and library catalogues. Covers French Literature since 1885.
Years indexed: Updated annually
Access:
 
 Z 2173 F7 REF
Humanities Index (R)
Description: Indexes over 350 scholarly journals and some specialized magazines in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, and religious studies.
Years indexed: 1907 to present. Updated quarterly.
Access:
 
 1907-1984: AI 3 S673 REF
1984 to present: Licence cancelled - September 30, 2009
LexisNexis Academic (FT) (R)
Description: Includes U.S., Canadian and international news, magazines, journals and more.
Years indexed: Varies by Title.
Access:
 
 On-campus | Off-campus
MLA (Modern Language Assocation) International Bibliography (R)
Description: Index to scholarly research in several languages covering topics in language, literature, linguistics, folklore and film. Includes citations from more than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers as well as series, proceedings, theses.
Years indexed: 1925 - Current + JSTOR journals back to 1881 (electronic version, updated nine times per year)

1921 - 1980 (print version)
Access:
 
 1925 - present: On-campus | Off-campus

1921-1980: Z 7006 M68 REF
Project Muse (FT) (R)
Description: Full-text access to the Project Muse Standard Collection of peer-reviewed journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Also serves as an index to addtional Humanities and Social Sciences journals not included in the Standard Collection.
Years indexed: 1963 - present (varies by title, emphasis on recent years).
Access:
 
 On-campus | Off-campus | List of journals
Research Library (ProQuest) (FT) (R)
Description: Broad coverage of a wide range of subject areas, including arts, business, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Includes scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers.
Years indexed: 1971 - present. Varies by title.
Access:
 
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Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Description: Multidisciplinary and general interest index to magazines and journals.
Years indexed: 1901 - 1999
Access:
 
 AI 3 R4 REF
Repère: index analytique d'articles de périodiques de langue française (FT) (R)
Description: A general interest subject and name index to articles, book-, film-, and drama reviews from almost 600 French-language journals from Canada, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Years indexed: 1966 to present
Access:
 
 1966 to 1998: AI 7 P65 REF
1980 - present: On-campus | Off-campus
Sage Journals Online (FT) (R)
Description: SAGE Journals Online provides online access to the full text of more than 560 SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's discipline-specific research databases, are now integrated into SAGE Journals Online.
Years indexed: varies by title
Access:
 

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