Western Film

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Partisan reviews

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

Scholarly criticism

books and chapters. . .

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

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

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

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

WorldCat **RECOMMENDED**
Access: Trexler Library Home Page > books, videos, music
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)
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Covers the period 1989-present.

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

University of California Berkeley MRC **RECOMMENDED**
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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