LibGuides: Film and Media Studies: Scholarly Articles

Scholarly Articles

Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Covers film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Includes full text of more than 90 journals and indexing for more than 600 publications.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
1926–present. Online database indexing scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, with nearly 400 full-text literature journals and other key criticism and reference resources.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital repository of complete full-text backfiles of several hundred scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, Health & General Sciences, and Ecology & Botany, except for the most recent two to five years.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Access to the full text of approximately 350 scholarly electronic journals in the arts & humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Screen by Society for Education in Film and Television; then Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1969-Present
The leading international journal of academic film and television studies.

Camera Obscura
Provides a forum for scholarship and debate on feminism, culture, and media studies.

Scholarly Articles - Other Disciplines

Film and Media are studied by many disciplines. This means that in addition to databases specifically on Film or Media, other discipline specific databases may cover Film and Media from that perspective. See below some of the discipline specific databases that provide extensive coverage for films.

Anthropological Literature This link opens in a new window
Includes journal articles that analyze Film and Media through an Anthropological lens
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
Includes journal articles that analyze Film and Media through an Anthropological lens
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Includes journal articles that analyze Film and Media through the lens of Art History & Criticism
ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
Includes journal articles that analyze Film and Media through an Art History & Criticism lens
ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
Includes Articles on Religious aspects of Film and Media
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Includes articles on analyzing Film and Media through a Philosophical lens
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Includes journal articles that analyze Film and Media using the lens of Psychology
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Includes journal articles that analyze Film and Media through a Sociological lens