| Books are found in Tisch Book stacks if not noted otherwise. |
| Social, Cultural and Historical Backgrounds |
Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture. DD290.26 .E53 1999
Modern Germany: an encyclopedia of history, people, and culture, 1871-1990. Ref. DD14 .M64 1998
A historical dictionary of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933. DD84 .V56 1997
The encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Ref. DD256.5 .G76313 1991
Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie: (DBE). Ref. CT759 .D48 1995 10 vols |
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| German Films, Filmmakers, and Cinema |
The BFI companion to German cinema. Ref. PN1993.5.G3 B44 1999
West German cinema, 1985-1990: a reference handbook. PN1993.5.G3 H426 1992
West German cinema since 1945: a reference handbook. Ref. PN1993.5.G3 H435 1987
Triviale Tropen: exotische Reise- und Abenteuerfilme aus Deutschland, 1919-1939. PN1993.5.G3 T68 1997
The great German films. PN1993.5.G3 O88 1986
Cinema in the Federal Republic of Germany: the new German film, origins and present situation: a handbook. PN1993.5.G3 P4513 1983
Film in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: der neue deutsche Film: Herkunft: Gegenwärtige Situation: ein Handbuch PN1993.5.G3 P45 1982
Cinema in the Federal Republic of Germany: the new German film, origins and present situation: a handbook. PN1993.5.G3 P4513 1983
A Guide to world cinema: covering 7,200 films of 1950-84 including capsule reviews and stills from the programmes of the National Film Theatre, London Ref. PN1995 .G84 1985
Directory of Eastern European film-makers and films, 1945-1991PN1998.2 .D55 1992
Encyclopedia of European cinema Ref. PN1993.5 .E8 E53 1995
International dictionary of films and filmmakers Ref. PN1997.8 .I58 2000
The film encyclopedia. Ref. PN1993.45 .K34 1994
Magill's survey of cinema, foreign language films Ref. PN1993.45 .M34 1985
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| Film Theory and History |
Cinema Studies: the Key Concepts PN1993.45 .H36 2006
Geschichte des deutschen Films PN1993.5.G3 G385 1993
Becoming film literate: the art and craft of motion pictures PN1994 .L595 2005
Film theory and criticism: introductory readings, 6th ed. PN1994 .M364 2004
Understanding movies, 9th ed. PN1994 .G47 2002
European film theory and cinema: a critical introductionPN1995 .A29 2001
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. PN1994 .M59 2000
The Oxford guide to film studies Ref. PN1995 .O93 1998
Film theory goes to the movies PN1994 .F43915 1993
Film study: an analytical bibliography Ref. PN1994.Z99 M34 1990
From Caligari to Hilter. A Psychological History of the German Film PN1993.5.G3 K7 2004
Weimar Cinema and After: Germany’s Historical Imaginary. PN1993.5.G3 E58 2000
Film in the Third Reich PN1993.5.G3 H8
West German Cinema Since 1945 PN1993.5.G3 H435 1987
West German Cinema, 1985-1991: A Reference HandbookPN1993.5.G3 H426 1992
New German Cinema: A History PN1993.5.G3 E57 1989 |
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| Film and Literature |
Literature and film: a guide to the theory and practice of film adaptation PN1997.85 .L515 2005
Film as literature, literature as film: an introduction to and bibliography of film's relationship to literatures PN1995.3 .R7 1987)
German Cinema: Texts in Context PN1993.5.G3 S54 1995 |
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| Film Criticism and Movie Reviews |
A. Books and videos/DVDs of German films
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Sample searches:
videos/DVDs (films made in Germany or in German language).
books on German films, filmmakers, and cinema.
books on German films, filmmakers, and cinema in different periods.
books on special topics in German films and cinema such as exile, women and film.
criticism and interpretation of film directors and their works.
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B. Film Criticism & Movie Reviews
Access: from the Tisch Library Web Site [http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch/], go to Databases and Articles. |
Film Criticism in Scholarly Journals:
Primary Databases
Film & Television Index
cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
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.
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Multidisciplinary E-journal Collections and Database(s)
Searching in these sources offers a multidisciplinary look at your topic. For example, a search on German cinema in JStor would find articles from journals in such disciplines as Art & Art History, History, Feminist & Women’s Studies, Language & Literature, Performing Arts, and Philosophy, in addition to Film Studies.
 Project Muse and JSTOR
These are two digital collections of core journals in many disciplines. While Project Muse offers more recent issues, JSTOR has more earlier issues.
Expanded Academic ASAP Search Samples and Results |
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Other Subject Databases
Arts, Literature and History
 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).
Art Abstracts 1984- .
Essay and General Literature Index 1985-
International Index to the Performing Arts
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Historical Abstracts
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.
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Movie Reviews in Trade and Popular Magazines, and Newspapers:
Expanded
Academic ASAP
For movie reviews in magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Nation, and the trade publication Variety, as
well as film criticism in scholarly journals.
Note: Variety is indexed from 1980 on with full text starting 1997.
Tisch also holds this indispensable trade journal from 1990 to the present
at Current Periodicals and Microforms [Tisch Micro R348].
International
Index to the Performing Arts
Note: The coverage of this database is not always very up to date. Some journals
are two years behind the current time.
Lexis-Nexis Search
examples
For movie reviews in regional, national, and international
newspapers.
New
York Times Historical Archive, 1851-three years before current
date
Find movie reviews in New York times in the earlier years that are not
covered in Lexis-Nexis.
Guides on Film Analysis and Writing about Film
A short guide to writing about film / Timothy Corrigan. [Tisch Book Stacks: PN1995 .C66 2004]
Film Analysis Guide [Yale University, http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/]
"The Film Analysis Guide was developed to meet the needs of faculty and students at Yale who are interested in becoming familiar with the vocabulary of film studies and the techniques of cinema."
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Print Indexes
Film literature index: A quarterly author-subject index to the international periodical literature of film and television/video. [Ref. Indexes Z5784.M9 F45]. v. 1 (1973)- Currently received. See above for online coverage of this index.
For 1973-1975, and 2002 forward, use the print volumes at Tisch Reference Indexes [HUM] Z5784.M9 F45. Otherwise, use the online version. See above.
Film review annual. [Ref. PN1995 .F464] 1982- Currently Received
Film review index [Ref. Indexes (HUM) PN1995 .F467 1986] (
Volume 1 covers the period 1882-1949; Volume 2 covers 1950-1985.)
Index to critical film reviews [Ref. Z5784.M9 B64]
(The coverage ends in December 1971.)
Retrospective index to film periodicals, 1930-1971 [Ref. Z5784.M9 B39]
Web Sites
Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Offers the full-text (in German) of hundreds of works of literature. This website is hosted by the German media group, Spiegel.
Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB)
From the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen; free access to many German-language journal titles.
WESSWEB: German Studies Web
Developed by the Western Europe Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and hosted by Dartmouth College.
German Cinema: A Selected Bibliography of Readings, compiled by the University of California-Berkeley.
The German-Hollywood Connection
Germany Info - Film - created by the U.S. German Embassy. |
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Selected full text journals in the multidisciplinary sources:
Film Studies Journals |
Full Text Coverage |
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Expanded Academic ASAP |
Project Muse |
JStor |
Camera Obscura |
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Cinema Journal (Formerly, Journal of the Society of Cinematologists 1961-1965) |
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1961-2002 |
Discourse |
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Film Comment |
1984 – (abstracts only) |
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Film Criticism |
1996 (abstracts only);
1997- (full text) |
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Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies |
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Film History: An International Journal |
2002 – (full text) |
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Film journal international |
2001- (full text) |
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Film Quarterly: quarterly of film, radio and television ( Formerly: Quarterly of Film, Radio and Television 1951-1957; Hollywood Quarterly 1945-1951.) |
1984 – (abstracts only) |
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1945-2003 |
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media |
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Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |
1992- (abstracts only); 1995-2000 (full text). |
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Journal of Film and Video |
1992- (abstracts only) |
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Journal of Popular Film and Television |
1987 – (abstracts only); 1992- (full text). |
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Literature-Film Quarterly |
1989 - (abstracts only);
2005 – (full text). |
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The Moving Image |
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PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (Formerly, Performing Arts Journal, 1976-1997)
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1998 - (abstracts only) |
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Quarterly Review of Film and Video |
1989 - (abstracts only) |
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The Velvet Light Trap |
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Wide Angle |
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German Studies Journals |
German Politics and Society |
2001 – (full text) |
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1928-2002 |
German Quarterly |
1996 – (abstracts only) |
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German Studies Review |
1987- (abstracts only); |
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Germanic Review |
1993 – (full text). |
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Germano-Slavica (text in English, French and German) |
2000 – (full text) |
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Women in German Yearbook |
2000 – (full text) |
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New German Critique |
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1973-2002 |
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte |
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1932-2000 |
Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft |
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Artibus et Historiae , (in Italian, German, English or French) |
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Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, |
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Note: German Life and Letters, 1997 – (full text) is available from Blackwell e-journals.
Sample German studies journals indexed in Historical Abstracts include:
Archiv für Sozialgeschichte
German Studies Review
German History
German Life and Letters
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
WerkstattGeschichte
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Plus, German Language Sources:
Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur = International bibliography of periodical literature on the humanities and social sciences: IBZ. (Ref. AI9 .I6) |
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