Check out the Course Reserves.

Italian Renaissance and Baroque Movies

Art Historian’s Guide to the Movies

BFI Screenonline (Shakespeare on screen)

Europa Film Treasures

European Films

Internet Movie Database

Journal of Religion and Film

Medieval Filmography

Medieval History in Movies

Screening the Past

Senses of Cinema

 

Reel Classics

Silent Era

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)

By Filmmakers:

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Rossellini, Roberto

"Lina Wertmuller"

(Paolo or Vittorio or Taviani)

Zeffirelli, Franco

 

By Themes:

Middle Ages in motion pictures

art and motion pictures

 

By Genres:

Historical films -- History and criticism.

Biographical films -- History and criticism.

 

in the Contexts of:

motion pictures Italy (a country)

motion pictures Europe (a region)

 

On the Topic of art in films:

Advanced Keyword search, limiting to books

Subject:
Material Type:	All Books/Journals

 

Sample findings at Tisch:

Art in the Cinematic Imagination.
Susan Felleman.
PN1995.9.A73 F46 2006

 

Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film.
Angela Dalle Vacche.
PN1995.25 .D36 1996

 

Art and Artists on Screen.
John A. Walker.
PN1995.9.A73 W3 1993  

 

Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media. / Richard Burt. PN1995.9.H5 B87 2008

Medieval film. / edited by Anke Bernau and Bettina Bildhauer. PN1995.9.M52 M43 2009

The History of Italian Cinema: a Guide to Italian Film from its Origins to the Twenty-First Century / Gian Piero Brunetta; translated by Jeremy Parzen.
PN1993.5.I88 B69313 2009

Italian Cinema: from Neorealism to the Present / Peter Bondanella.
PN1993.5.I88 B58 2001

Path of Discovery in the Catalogs

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

Writing Short Scripts. PN1996 .P58 1999

The Art of the Storyboard: a Filmmaker's Introduction. PN1995.9 .P7 H42 2008

Filmmaking: Narrative & Structural Techniques. PN1995.9.P7 F63 1992

How to Shoot a Movie and Video Story: the Technique of Pictorial Continuity. Oversize: TR850 .G367 1985

Alternative Scriptwriting: Successfully Breaking the Rules. PN1996 .D36 2002

Creating Unforgettable Characters. PN1689 .S44 1990

How Scripts Are Made. PN1996 .K24 1990

Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique. PN1996 .T46 1999

Writing About Film (Dartmouth Writing Program)

MLA Style (for citing sources)

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, Mass Media, History , and Women's Studies

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

 

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

B. Find "Literature Review"

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area. Here are some examples:

 

An Example of Review of Books:

Harty, Kevin J. "Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film (review)" Arthuriana 21.2 (2011): 125-126.

 

C. Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the 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. Request 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.

A. Current:

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

Factiva (more international coverage)

B. Historical

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

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

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

Digital Images

ARTstor

 

Artifact

 

Flickr

 

Print Images

Art, Renaissance -- Catalogs .

Art, Renaissance -- Exhibitions .

 

Film Stills

Film Stills on the Internet by Emilee Mathews

Film Stills Collections by Emilee Mathews

For the lack of any dedicated resource for film stills, we need to search all relevant databases and on the internet.

For example, these two searches in the Catalog:

film posters

motion pictures pictorial works

(stills) and (film* or cinema* or "motion pictures") limiting this search to Books

Sample Findings:

The Great Movies / Roger Ebert: photo stills selected by Mary Corliss.

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 / edited by Elkan Allan.

Classics of the Foreign Film, a Pictorial Treasury

The Movies; the Sixty-Year Story of the World of Hollywood and its Effect on America, from Pre-nickelodeon Days to the Present

A New Pictorial History of the Talkies

 

Capture the Screen as You View the Movies

Some DVDs include stills gallery as special features.