• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
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      • 100 years of American film
      • Film and the American left: a research guide
      • Film noir: an encyclopedic reference to the American style
      • Film Review Annual
      • Halliwell's film guide
      • Magill's Cinema Annual
      • The new biographical dictionary of film
      • VideoHound's golden movie retriever
    
    
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  • Subject search
    • uses Library of Congress subject headings,
    • film = PN 1865 - 1999
    • start with major headings and then skim the subheadings, e.g.:
      
      
      • Motion Pictures (269 subject headings, 816 entries found)
      • Women In Motion Pictures
      • Feminism and Motion Pictures
      • Love in Motion Pictures
      • Science Fiction Films
      • Motion Pictures -- Social Aspects -- United States
      • Western Films
      • Motion Pictures -- United States -- History
        
        
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    • motion pictures (907 entries found)
      
      
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  • For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
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• Academic Search Premier
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• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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  • over 1,300+ sources
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• JSTOR
  • 440+ scholarly journals, including film
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• Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
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• Project MUSE
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• WilsonWeb
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  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
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• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• Lexis-Nexis Academic
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• Hacker Online
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