Check out the Course Reserves.

Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema. PN1993.5.M53 G56 2010

Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Ref. PN1993.5.A65 C66 2001

Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity. PN1993.5.A65 S53 1998

New Turkish Cinema: Belonging, Identity and Memory. PN1993.5.T8 S865 2010

Arab Cinema Directory

Filmography/Bibliography of Palestinian Cinema

Pop Culture Arab world!  Media, Arts, and Lifestyle.  (e-book; print copy: Ginn: DS36.88 .H357 2005)

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)

on Filmmakers

Makhmalbāf, Muhsin (last name first)

 

on Individual National Cinema

Motion pictures Turkey (a country)

Motion pictures -- Iran

Motion pictures Palestine

 

in the Context of Geopolitical Regions

Motion pictures Arab (a region)

Motion pictures -- Middle East.

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

Factiva (including Arabic Language sources)

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.

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

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 and Mass Media

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

 

5. Islamic Studies

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

B. A Few Film and Middle East Studies 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

 

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Islamic Studies

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

The Middle East Journal

Muqarnas

C. Finding Full Text

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.