Check out the Course Reserves.

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Contemporary Literary Criticism

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers

Film Art: an Introduction. / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson.
PN1995 .B617 2008 ; DVD at Circulation. 

 

100 Years of Spanish Cinema.
Tatjana Pavlović ... [et al.].
PN1993.5.S72 A15 2009

 

Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre.
edited by Jay Beck and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega.
PN1993.5.S7 C66 2008

 

Spanish Popular Cinema
edited by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Andrew Willis.
PN1993.5.S7 S74 2004  

 

Spanish National Cinema
Núria Triana-Toribio.
PN1993.5.S7 T76 2003  

 

Spain: from Dictatorship to Democracy: 1939 to the Present. Stacks: DP270 .T835 2007

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture. Ref. DP233.5 .E63 1999)

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Stacks: DP48 .C233 1999

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 Literary Writers & Their Works:

"Antonio Buero Vallejo"

Cela, Camilo José

Alfonso Sastre

"Fernando Arrabal" (limit to books)

Martín Gaite Carmen

 

2. on a particular theme, e.g. Censorship

"su:(theater or drama* or literature) and su:(Spain or Spanish) and censor*

 

3. place your topic in the larger historical contexts of .

Spanish literature

Spanish Literature -- 20th Century.

 

Spanish drama

Spanish drama -- 20th century

4. Find Literary Anthologies/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:

Teatro Español Contemporáneo: Antología / [Antonio Buero Vallejo ... et al.]; coordinador César Oliva. (PQ6227 .T4 1992)

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 Filmmakers & Their Works:

"Luis García Berlanga"

Carlos Saura (limit the search to books)

Víctor Erice

 

2. on a particular theme, e.g. national identity

(film* or cinema) and su:Spain and nation* (limit to books)

 

3. place your topic in the larger historical contexts of:

motion pictures Spain (the country)

motion pictures Europe (the region)

A. Use 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 Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

 

 

4. Literature (MLA) and Latin American Studies

 

 

5. Film & Television and Mass Media

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

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

B. Bibliographies and More Articles Like This "Perfect" One

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, (part of Web of Science) for the article you have read.

For example:

Perriam, Christopher. "Metaphorical Machismo - Neruda Love Poetry ." Forum for Modern Language Studies 24: 1 (1988), 58-77.
References: 26 Times Cited: 4

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 26 references that Perriam cited for his article and, in turn, 4 articles that cited his. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

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 Short Guide to Writing about Literature by Sylvan Barnet. Ref: PE1479.C7 B3

Writing about Literature (handout from Writing Center at UNC.)

 

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

Writing About Film (Dartmouth Writing Program)

 

MLA Style (for citing sources)