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EN 111 Resources

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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

Abel, Richard. The Cine Goes to Town. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998.

Brode, Douglas. The Films of the Eighties. Secaucus, NJ : Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.

Higson, Andrew. Waving the Flag. Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press (UK), 1995.

Humm, Maggie. Feminism and Film. Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Bloomington : Edinburgh University Press, 1997.

Pick, Zuzana M. The New Latin American Cinema. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.

 

Periodical Databases
 

EBSCO Databases (password required)

  • Ebsco Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked NOTE 13A: Searching the FirstSearch Databases for help in using the databases. 

  • MLA -- Access to MLA Bibliographic Index of books, papers, dissertations on literature and language
  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database.
  • Literary Index -- find sources for information on writers
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

 

Selected Books in Busse Library

Bard eche, Maurice.
The history of motion pictures.
New York: Arno Press, 1970. PN1993.5.A1 B32 1970

Beja, Morris.
Film and literature, an introduction.
New York: Longman, c1979. PN1995.3 .B4

Charney, Leo.
Cinema and the invention of modern life.
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995. PN1995.9.S6 C47 1995

Cook, David A.
Lost illusions: American cinema in the shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979.
New York: Scribner, c2000. PN1993.5.U6 C75x 2000

Harrington, John.
Film and/as literature.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1977. PN1995.3 .H3

James, David E.
Allegories of cinema: American film in the sixties.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1989. PN1993.5 .U6 J27 1989

Jinks, William.
The celluloid literature: film in the humanities.
Beverly Hills, CA: Glencoe Press, [1971]. PN1994 .J5

Lloyd, Ann.
The Illustrated history of the cinema.
New York: Macmillan, [1987]. PN1993.5.A1 I45 1987, Ref.

Nichols, Bill.
Ideology and the image: social representation in the cinema and other media.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1981. PN1995 .N48 1981

Ray, Robert B.
A certain tendency of the Hollywood cinema, 1930-1980.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1985. PN1993.5.U6 R38 1985

Sklar, Robert.
Film: an international history of the medium.
New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993. PN1993.5.A1 S55 1993

 

Selected Websites

 

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