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Film and Media Studies: Reference Sources

Film Studies Reference Sources

Here you will find biographical information, literary criticism, and other background information.

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Literature reference database rich with biographical, bibliographical, and critical content about authors from all time periods and genres.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Revised extensively in 2004 to reflect a decade of rapidly changing scholarship, the Guide currently features 52 new entries and subentries.

Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
This database contains biographies from reference sources as well as full-text articles from periodicals, allowing you to search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.