Corbin FYS

Frontier Myth in American Film

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Finding Partisan reviews

Academic Search Premier
Popular reviews and some film criticism. 1980s-present. Some full text.

Film review index
Humanities Ref. 016.79143 F487r
Includes reviews of films made from 1882-1985.

Internet Movie Database
http://imdb.com/
A good place for filmography and maybe some reviews.

LexisNexis Academic
Good source for current reviews. 1980s-present. May include filmographies.

Omnifile
Popular Reviews and some criticism.

Finding Scholarly criticism

books and chapters. . .

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Scholarly film criticism. 1980s-present. Some full text.

MLA
Best online index of scholarly film criticism; now provides links to selected full text.

Trexler Library Catalog
Try a keyword search on film titles and directors, or film genres.

University of California Berkeley MRC
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/
This site includes extensive critical bibliographies for film studies, arranged by genre, director, etc.

WorldCat
Greatly expand your book search by searching all library catalogs in one. Use WorldCat in conjunction with interlibrary loan (see below).

journal articles. . .

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
Free, open-access peer-reviewed journals.

Humanities Index (via Omnifile)
Covers the period 1989-present.

JSTOR
Full text of scholarly journals from most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.

MLA
Best online index of scholarly film criticism; now provides links to selected full text.

Project Muse
A full-text database with journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

University of California Berkeley MRC
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/
This site includes extensive critical bibliographies for film studies, arranged by genre, director, etc.

Citing sources

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