Check out the Course Reserves.

A critical History of German Film.
Stephen Brockmann.
PN1993.5.G3 B76 2010

 

German National Cinema.
Sabine Hake.
PN1993.5.G3 H28 2008

 

Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: the Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich
Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien.
PPN1995.9.N36 O27 2004

 

Weimar Cinema: an Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era.
edited by Noah Isenberg.
PN1993.5.G4 W357 2009

 

German Cinema: Since Unification
edited by David Clarke.
PN1993.5.G3 G358 2006

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)

Narrower Focuses:

motion pictures Germany (a country)

Wenders Wim (a filmmaker; last name first)

 

Broader Contexts:

motion pictures Europe (a region)

motion pictures Europe Eastern

 

On the Topic of Film Adaptations:

(Advanced Keyword search, limiting to books:

Any Field: And Any Field: And
Material Type:	All Books/Journals

 

Tip: german* searches for german, germany, etc.

 

On the Topic of Women and German Cinema:

Any Field: And Any Field: And Any Field: And
Material Type:	All Books/Journals

Tips:Use Or and ( ) to search any or all of the words;.

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 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, Mass Media, History, Women's Studies and East European Studies

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

 

5. 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

 

Germanic Notes ( English or German)

The Germanic Review (German or English)

German Life and Letters

The German Quarterly

German Studies Review

New German Critique

Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies

 

Find an electronic-journal by title

 

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)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

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