Recommended Databases
Here are some recommended databases for Film Studies. If you have a multidisciplinary topic, please consult other subject guides for additional databases.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowMLA is the primary research database for literary studies. It indexes books, journal articles, and other materials from 1963 to the present concerning literature, folklore, linguistics, modern languages, and the dramatic arts.
- Performing Arts Database This link opens in a new windowThe Performing Arts Database offers access to citations, abstracts, and full text of articles from scholarly and professional journals, magazines, newspapers, and other publications. Subjects covered include dance, film, drama, opera, stagecraft, comedy, pantomime, puppetry, magic and television.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAn archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProvides full text to nearly 200 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
- WorldCat Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowSearch for books, articles, and more that are held by Bucknell and beyond.
- Media History Digital LibraryOnline Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting & Sound. Magazine Collections of the Media History Digital Library with over 1.3 million pages scanned! Limited back issues of "Variety" and other industry publications can be found here.
- Research Library This link opens in a new windowCitations of newspaper and periodical articles covering a broad range of subjects, including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
