Asian American Stage & Screen (DR 49/149) |
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| Library Research Sources and Strategies Prepared by Chao Chen, Reference Librarian, Tisch Library |
 617-627-2057; chao.chen@tufts.edu homepage |
A. Background Information
1. Social, Cultural & Historical Backgrounds
2. Critical Biographies
B. Asian American Stage and Screen
1. Drama and Film Studies: Terms, Concepts, and Methodologies
2. Books
3. Film and Drama Criticism in Scholarly Journals
4. Movie and Theatre Reviews in Trade Journals, Magazine and Newspaper Articles
A. Background Information
1.
Historical, Social, and Cultural Context
The following sources can help you verify facts, locate background information, or place your research questions in a wider context. (All titles listed here are found in Tisch
library by their locations and call numbers)
Asian Americans: contemporary trends and issues (Stacks: E184.A75 A84325 2006)
Remapping Asian American history (Stacks: E184.O6 R46 2003)
The Columbia documentary history of the Asian American experience (Stacks: E184.O6 C63 2002)
The Asian American encyclopedia (Ref. E184.O6 A827 1995)
Dictionary of Asian American history (Ref. E184.O6 D53 1986)
A companion to twentieth-century American drama (Stacks: PS350 .C655 2005)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American literature. (Ref. PS21 .E537 2004)
2. Critical Biographies
Asian American writers: (Ref. PS153.A84 A845 2005). Also online (a volume in Dictionary of Literary Biography)
Asian American autobiographers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook (Book Stacks: PS366.A74 A85 2001)
Distinguished Asian Americans: a biographical dictionary (Book Stacks: E184.O6 D57 1999)
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select
CLC--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.
B. Asian American Stage and Screen
1. Drama Studies
Drama
Dictionary. (Ref. PN1625 .H6)
Dictionary of the Theatre : Terms, Concepts, and Analysis. (Ref. PN2035 .P313 1998 )
The
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance (Ref. PN2035 .O94 2003)
Oxford Companion to American Theatre (Tisch
Ref. PN2220 .B6 1992)
Modern drama scholarship and criticism, 1981-1990: an international bibliography. (Ref. PN1851.Z99 C37 1997)
Contemporary Dramatists 5th ed. (Ref.
PR737 .C57 1993)
Critical Survey of Drama, 2nd revised edition
(Ref. PN1625 .C68 2003)
Tip: Consult the latest
volume of the set for its Geographical Index to Dramatists and Categorized Index to Dramatists
Drama Criticism (Ref. PN1601 .D59 2005)
Tip: Consult the latest
volume of the set for its Cumulative Topic Index and Cumulative Nationality Index
Film Studies
Cinema Studies: the Key Concepts (Stacks: PN1993.45 .H36 2006)
Becoming film literate: the art and craft of motion pictures (Stacks: PN1994 .L595 2005)
Film theory and criticism: introductory readings, 6th ed. (stacks: PN1994 .M364 2004)
Understanding movies, 9th ed. (Stacks: PN1994 .G47 2002)
Critical dictionary of film and television theory (Ref: PN1993.45 .C75 2001)
How to read a film: the world of movies, media, and multimedia: language, history, theory; 3rd ed. (stacks: PN1994 .M59 2000)
The Oxford guide to film studies (Ref. PN1995 .O93 1998)
Film theory goes to the movies (Stacks: PN1994 .F43915 1993)
Film study: an analytical bibliography (Ref. PN1994.Z99 M34 1990)
2. Books
Use Tufts Library Catalog and WorldCat to find books and other publications at Tufts and beyond.
Access to all catalogs and databases listed in this guide:
from the Tisch Library Web Site [http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch/],
go to Databases and Articles.
The * is a truncation symbol to include various forms of the word, e.g., theater, theatre, theatrical; (drama* or theat*) is searching for either or both terms.
Search result:
Among the 25 results, also this book:
Search result:
3. Film and Drama Criticism in Scholarly Journals
MLA International Bibliography 1963-
This modern languages and literatures database also includes topics such as literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater).
Bibliography of Asian Studies
An index of Western-language articles, monographs, and book chapters published since 1971.
Film Literature Index (FLI) 1976-2001
FLI always has been the best, most comprehensive index to the periodical literature of film – from scholarly, trade, literary, and news sources. The years of 2002-2004 of this "Author-subject periodical index to the international literature of film", are shelves in the Tisch reference collection by the call number, [HUM] Z5784.M9 F45.
Film & Television Literature Index
International Index to the Performing Arts
Web Site:
Asian Film Connections (University of South California)
Basic Database Searching Technique: the Boolean Search Logic as shown in the following examples:
Search Sample One:
Search Sample Two (an advanced search in Bibliography of Asian Studies):
"subject" is asking that those keywords match the subject indexing terms in the database; the * is a truncation symbol to include various forms of the word, e.g., "film, films, filmmaker....; (film* or cinema*) is searching for either or both terms.
Other Subject Databases
Tip: Use more than one source/database (each with its own particular academic discipline/subject focus and extensiveness of coverage) for a comprehensive and in-depth research on your topic. Example, you may also approach film research as language and literary studies or examine film studies topics as in the context of dramatic, visual or performing arts. Or, you will be applying a special critic method or theory, such as feminist and women’s studies, in looking at your film or filmmaker. Example, journals may be included in one relevant database, but not another. Or different database covers different years of a shared journal. For instance, Film Quarterly is covered in JStor from 1945 to 2003, while Expanded Academic ASAP (and some other databases listed below) offers indexing from 1984 to the current year. |
Multidisciplinary E-journal Collections and Database(s) |
4. For Movie and Theatre Reviews in Trade journals, Popular Magazines, and Newspapers:
Online Sources
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Print Indexes
Film review annual. [Ref. PN1995 .F464] 1982- Currently Received
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