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Mapping the Latin American Metropolis

Research Sources & Tips


Page contents: Reserves | Overviews | A Few Titles at Tisch | Books | Journal Articles | Full Text | Popular Press | Request Articles/Books | Writing/Citing

 


I. Course Reserves

Check out the Course Reserves.


II. Critical Biographies & Overviews

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture. F1408.3 .C283 2004


III. A Few Titles at Tisch

Latino Metropolis / Victor M. Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres.

Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and So Paulo

The Last City [with photographs] / Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.

Las Ilaves de la Ciudad: un Mosaico de México / David Lida; prlogo de Juan Villoro.
Previously published magazine articles, each focusing on a person in Mexico City.

Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema / David William Foster


A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture


The Cinema of Latin America. PN1993.5.L3 C497 2003

Magical Reels: a History of Cinema in Latin America. PN1993.5.L3 C497 2003

Brazilian National Cinema. PN1993.5.B6 S45 2007

Cuban Cinema. PN1993.5.C8 C48 2004

Mexican National Cinema. PN1993.5.M4 N63 2005

Mexico's Cinema: a Century of Film and Filmmakers. PN1993.5.M4 M465 1999


IV. The Latin American Metropolis

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog


2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)


B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)


1. by/about the Literary Writers, Filmmakers, etc.


"Roberto Arlt" or "Angel Rama" or "Clarice Lispector"


Fernando Vallejo

 

2. on a particular City

Mexico City (Mexico)

-- Description And Travel

-- Drama

-- Fiction

-- In Art.

-- In Literature

-- In motion pictures.


So Paulo (Brazil)

 

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)


Havana (Cuba)

 

Buenos Aires (Argentina)


"Los Angeles" and ("latin american*" or latino* or latina)

 

3. on Individual Countries


Motion pictures Brazil (a country)

Motion pictures Cuba

Motion pictures mexico

 

4. in the Larger Context of the Region


motion pictures Latin America


Cities and towns -- Latin America.

Music -- Latin America

 

5. Literary Anthologies and Collections

Introductory texts in literary anthologies /collections provide overviews and surveys of an author and his/her works, a literary era, literary style, and so on so forth. The explanatory footnotes enhance an understanding of the works in terms of contemporary culture and literary traditions in which the authors lived and wrote. Hence, the historical significance of the works. For example:


The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories / edited by Roberto Gonzlez Echevarra. PQ7087.E5 O9 1997


Appendix I. Writing and Citing

Movie Reviews vs Film Criticism (Timothy J. Corrigan.)

Writing About Film (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Writing about Literature (Writing Center at UNC.)

MLA Style (for citing sources)


V. More Specific and Current Discussions

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

Expand your search into more databases and from various perspectives

3. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

 

 

4. Film & Television and Mass Media

Limit Your Results

 

 

5. Literature (MLA)
MLA is the principal bibliographic tool for literary studies.

 

6. HAPI (Scholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Both English and Spanish language materials.)  

 

7. Latin American Studies (Key titles from the above source)

 

8. ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)  

 

9. Music Index Online & RILM Abstracts of Music Literature  
 

Limit Your Results

 

 

10. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.


B. A few core journals:

Camera Obscura

Cinema Journal

Discourse

Film & History

Film History

Film Quarterly

Framework

Journal of Film and Video

The Movie Image

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art

Projections

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

Screen

The Velvet Light Trap

Wide Angle

 

 

Bulletin of Latin American Research

Hispanic American Historical Review

C. Finding Full Text

1. Click on the findIt@tufts button button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.


D. Requesting Articles/Books

Set up for your ILliad account


Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.


VI. Popular Press

Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews (in LexisNexis)


Factiva (including Spanish Language sources)

 

Latin American Newspapers Series 1, 1805-1922 (45 newspapers)

Latin American Newspapers Series 2, 1822-1922 (250 additional titles)


Alt-PressWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch 1960 -

 

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985)

British Humanities Index (1962- )