Research Guides: Film: Research a film, director, or genre

Alfred Hitchcock, photo from Wikimedia Commons

Search Everything

Searches books, ebooks, articles, journals, and more. To narrow down your search, use the tools on the left-hand side of your results screen.

You can search by keyword, title, or author. You can narrow your search results down by format, language, location, and date.

Examples:

Oliver Stone
film noir
action film
women directors

Or you can browse the shelves. The Freel Library arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. The major section for books about film is listed below. You can find these call numbers in the Reference section on the main floor, and in the language & literature room on the lower level.

PN1993 - PN1999

Essential Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Academic Search Complete is the library's most popular database. It includes multi-disciplinary coverage,full-text access to journal articles and other scholarly materials not typically available through web searches.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Full text for journal articles on television, journalism, film, communications and related fields.
JSTOR
Scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, general science and social sciences dating back to the late 17th century. JSTOR is great for historical research but not for current research.
MCLA's access to JSTOR is made possible by support from the Hardman Family Endowment.
Academic OneFile (Gale)
Academic OneFile is offers extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects
WorldCat
WorldCat searches all material in the MCLA Freel Library collection (books, ebooks, videos, and articles) as well as material in libraries nationwide (delivery in 2-3 weeks). Use the interlibrary loan button to place a request for items not owned by MCLA.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is another resource for finding research articles. Look on the right hand side of the screen for the "Check MCLA Full-Text" links that will bring you to the article in one of our databases. You can also look for the free PDFs listed on the right hand side. If you are off-campus, use these instructions to set it up for full access to library resources.