Film Studies  Research Guide For help with your research, visit the reference desk (hours) on the second floor of Barnard Library, or contact a Barnard reference librarian:        Phone: 212-854-3953        Chat: IM BarnardReference        E-mail: refdesk@barnard.edu Request a one-on-one consultation with a Barnard librarian if you have an in-depth research need.

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Finding Books, Videos and DVDs | Useful Reference Works | Major Databases | Selected Web Resources

Links to Related Columbia sites

  Finding Books, Videos and DVDs

• Use CLIO to find books, journals, videos, DVDs, links to online journals, and other media, in the Columbia or Barnard libraries.
• Barnard Library has a large collection of books, journals, and visual media recordings serving courses offered by the Barnard Film Department.
• Useful call numbers for Barnard: PN; these books -- both reference and circulating copies -- are located on the second floor of Barnard Library.
• Keyword searching is useful to identify videos and DVDs by selecting the "limit by format" option
• See Butler Media Center: Collections for a more detailed discussion on searching for various visual formats in CLIO.

  Some examples of Library of Congress subject headings:

   Motion pictures and women
   Documentary films
   Politics in motion pictures
   African Americans in motion pictures
   Motion pictures and literature
   Motion picture industry
   Film genres

  Useful Reference Works
  available in the Barnard Library Reference Area, second floor

Title	Call Number
The Complete Film Dictionary / Ira Konigsberg	PN1993.45 .K66 1997
The Film Book Bibliography, 1940-1975 / Jack C. Ellis, Charles Derry, Sharon Kern	PN1994  .E44 1979g
Film Study: an Analytical Bibliography / Frank Manchel	PN1994 .M34 1990g
Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2006 / Leslie Halliwell	PN1993 .45 .H32  2005g
International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers / ed. Tom and Sara Pendergast. 4vol.	PN1997.8 .I58 2000
Magill's Survey of Cinema: English Language Film / ed. Fank Magill.  4vol.	PN1993 .45 .M3
The Oxford History of World Cinema / ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith	PN1993 .5 .A1 O96 1996

  

	Major Databases available with Columbia ID
	Alt-PressWatch -- full-text articles from alternative press publications
	American Film Scripts Online -- searchable full-text database of screenplays and shooting scripts
	Art Full Text-- citations, some abstracts, and some full text of articles in art periodicals
	FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus -- in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present day.
	Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text --scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television.
	Film Index International -- British Film Institute's scholarly and international index to film studies
	Film Indexes Online -- search both the AFI Catalog and BFI's Film Index International together
	Film Literature Index (FLI)-- citations to articles published in film and television periodicals between 1976-2001
	Humanities Full Text -- citations, abstracts and full text  articles in humanities periodicals
	International Index to the Performing Arts -- multidisciplinary index to the performing arts
	MLA Bibliography -- citations for articles in literature, linguistics, language, and folklore periodicals and other publications
	Selected Web Resources
	All movie guide-- "data and original editorial content for over 215,000 titles and more than 250,000 of the actors, directors, writers ... who created them"
	American Memory -- a rich collection of images and full-text documents relating to U.S. history and culture from the Library of Congress.
	Cineaste -- site for the quarterly film journal on the art and politics of cinema
	Internet Movie Database  -- probably the biggest movie site on the Web
	Masters of Cinema --focuses on - but not limited to - the world's major directors
	Pacific Film Archive -- Berkeley Art Museum; can search records for the film and video collections, as well as CineFiles, the Library's book collection, and more.
	Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers-- gives access to major international film archives
	Society for Cinema and Media Studies-- a professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image.
	University Film and Video Association-- articles, membership and conference information, publications and programs.
	Links to Related Columbia Sites
	Barnard College: Film Studies
	Butler Library Media Center: Resource guides; internet resources
	Columbia University School of the Arts: Film Division
	CU subject guides Film & television studies
	CU subject guides Women's Studies: Fine & Performing Arts

 

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revised 4/30/2008
Heidi Martin Winston, Reference Librarian