Research Guide : Film

Follow these steps to successfully find information
for your English 2010 film papers.

To find the release date and director of a film, use either:

Internet Movie DataBase

or

VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever Reference PN 1992.95 .V534

Find books by searching the title of the film or the director's name:

Library Home Page > Books & More >

Library Catalog : books in our library

Utah's Catalog : books in other academic libraries that can be ordered

ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan) : register and order books not in our library

For film studies, the following databases are recommended:

Art Full Text (some full-text)

America: History and Life (limited full-text linking)

Humanities Abstracts (index only)

MLA International Bibliography (index only)

Project MUSE (full-text)

Reader's Guide Abstracts (index only)

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite & MasterFILE Premier
(some full-text)

Newspaper databases may also be helpful for finding reviews:

Lexis-Nexis Academic (includes reviews back to 1980)

ProQuest Newspapers (newspaper coverage)

For off-campus access, present a current DSC ID to a librarian for a username and password.

To order full-text of magazine and journal articles:

UTAD (Utah Article Delivery Service)

Citations: How to write correct works cited lists and use parenthetical citations.

MLA Style Guide

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Ccreated by: Martha Talman Instruction Librarian

Questions or corrections? Contact: talman@dixie.edu

Date Created: 08/30/03 Last Updated: 09/02/03