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Introduction to World Cinema
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FST 205
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Selected Books and eBooks
The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914PN1993.5.F7 A63 1994
French Film Theory and Criticism: A History/Anthology, 1907- 1939
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European CinemaPN1995.9.S4 B47 2007
This title is available in print and as an eBook.
A History of Italian CinemaPN1993.5.I88 B5655 2009
To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese CinemaPN1993.5.J3 B8 1979
African Cinema: Politics & CulturePN1993.5.A35 D5 1992
The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max ReinhardtPN1993.5.G3 E513 2008
Film Form: Essays in Film TheoryPN1995 .E5
French National CinemaPN1993.5.F7 H39 1993
Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America PN1993.5.L3 K45 2000
A Social History of Iranian CinemaPN1993.5.I846 N34 2012
4 volumes
The Oxford History of World CinemaPN1993.5.A1 O96 1995
This title is available in print and as an eBook.
"Film Europe" and "Film America": Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1939PN1993.5.E8 F545 1999
Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, TheoryPN1995.2 .R66 2001
Empire and FilmPN1993.5.G7 E47 2011
Film and the End of EmpirePN1993.5.G7 F485 2011
A Second Life: German Cinema's First DecadesClick on the title for access to this eBook.
Recommended Databases for FST 205
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliographic and full text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film studies. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, screenwriting and reviews.
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Film Index International
Film Index International is a major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute.
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Film International
Film journal that incorporates work from scholars from a variety of disciplines, as well as journalists, freelance writers, activists, and film-makers.
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JSTOR
Archive of selected scholarly journals in anthropology, art, art history, communication studies, criminology, ecology, economics, education, English, film studies, foreign languages and literatures, geography, geology, history, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, public and international affairs, religion, social work, sociology, statistics, theatre, and other humanities and social sciences.
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Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, art history, creative writing, education, English, film studies, foreign languages and literatures, history, religion, theatre, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
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CineFiles
Free-to-access documents including film reviews, interviews, popular and scholarly articles, publicity materials, program notes, book excerpts, pamphlets, filmmakers’ texts and correspondence, and many other rare archival documents dating from the early 1900s to the present. The collection includes about 60,000 scanned documents.
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Library of African Cinema (California Newsreel)
Films from Africa made by Africans offer restorative images and oftentimes a new film language. The unique films in this collection not only showcase the works of master filmmakers but also innovative new talents who are embracing video technology. To see Africa through African eyes will break stereotypes and enlighten viewers about life in Africa as well as about the issues facing the continent.
[More details]Finding Film Reviews for World Cinema
Many databases have filters or ways to limit your searching by date, document type, title of film, etc. If you need film reviews from a certain time period, look for the date settings in the database and limit it to "reviews".
Access World News
Access World News is a comprehensive resource that includes a variety of news publications worldwide. These sources include major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles as well as newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more. Access World News is updated daily.
[More details]indexes thousands of newspapers from across the world.
International Newsstream
International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
Part of ProQuest Central.
[More details]has many current news articles, as well as archived articles.
InfoTrac Newsstand
InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Local newspapers from North Carolina are included in this resource.
[More details]includes both U.S. and world news sources.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000.
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Newspaper Databases
Complete list of newspaper resources accessable through Randall Library.
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covers 1976-2001, and while it does not have full-text articles, this will help with finding citations for historic articles. Randall Library may carry them in print, or using Interlibrary Loan will be available for those resources not in the collection.
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