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Introduction to Film Studies

FILMSTUD 4 - Winter 2014 - Instructor: Levi, P.
Last Updated: 2-Mar-2015

This guide is designed to help students research their course papers for FILM STUDIES 4, Introduction to Film Studies. The Research Skills section to the left provides a good introduction to basic research procedures. Under the Table of Contents section you will find specific resources for this class including databases and an online citation style resource and citation tips.

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Subjects

Art
Film and media studies

Related guides

Introduction to the Visual Arts
Film studies: basic literature

Suggested databases

Film & television literature index
Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Historical abstracts with full text
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, and history of education. Provides selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955 as well as the full text of more than 300 journals and over 130 books.
America, history and life with full text
Provides full text coverage of the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes nearly 200 journals and 100 books, selective indexing for over 1,700 journals, and abstracts in English of foreign language articles.
Artbibliographies modern
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope of Artbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present.

Chicago Manual of Style

Included below are tips for finding the Chicago citation style in SearchWorks and in database citations. A link to the Chicago Manual of Style ebook is included below.

1. Finding citation style references in SearchWorks: Once you have retrieved a search result and are examining individual records in SearchWorks (click on the title within a results listing to get to that record), note that there is a "Cite this" link above the title. Click on the link to see the proper Chicago bibliography style for that title. Similarly, if you use the "Select" box to save records, when you click on the "Selected Items" link to see the titles you've marked, a "Cite items" link appears above your saved items and shows the proper citation style for the works you've saved.

2. Finding citation style references in databases: Both the Ebsco (Historical Abstracts and America, History and Life) and Proquest (Artbibliographies Modern) interfaces have similar "Cite this" links.

3. Additional examples of how to cite literature using Chicago: The Duke University Art Library has created a Style Examples in Every Format for Art History on how to cite various types of art literature using the Chicago style, giving the citations in both the bibliography and footnote form. Purdue University's Chicago style guide also provides examples for both the bibliography and footnote form, as well as a more general introduction to the Chicago bibliography style.

Chicago manual of style [electronic resource] / University of Chicago Press.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
In particular, Chapters 14 and 15 provide all the details in preparing your bibliography and notes.