Directory of World Cinema: Russia
edited by Birgit Beumers.
PN1993.5.R9 B48 2009

A History of Russian Cinema
Birgit Beumers.
PN1993.5.R9 B48 2009

Russia and its Other(s) on Film: Screening Intercultural Dialogue
edited by Stephen Hutchings.
PN1993.5.R9 R83 2008

Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema
Peter Rollberg.
Bookstacks: PN1998.2 .R578 2009

The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema
edited by Richard Taylor ... [et al.].
PN1993.5.E2 B44 2000

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

B. Sample Searches:

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

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

A Search Scenario:

Your observation is that there seems to be a lack of female protagonists in post-Soviet Russian war films (World War II, 1939-1945).

Here are a few possible ways to contextualize your research:

1. Representation of women in war films throughout the Russian Film History.

2. War films; and, more specifically, women (gender or sex role) in war films.

3. From the perspectives of Film and Women and Women in films.

Sample search results in the Tufts Libraries Catalog:

Russian War Films: on the Cinema Front, 1914-2005./ Denise J. Youngblood.

Gender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen. / Matthew Evangelista.

The War Film. / edited and with an introduction by Robert Eberwein.

The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre. / Jeanine Basinger.

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.

Subject Browses

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

Filmmakers:

Eisenstein, Sergei.

Pudovkin, Vsevolod Illarionovich.

Tarkovskii, Andrei Arsenevich.

Vertov, Dziga

 

 

in the Historical Context of:

motion pictures -- Russia (Federation)

motion pictures Soviet Union

 

in the Political and Social Contexts of:

 

Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union

Motion pictures -- social aspects -- Soviet Union

Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Russia

 

Communism and motion pictures

 

World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union (the Great Patriotic War)

 

Perestroĭka

Glasnost.

 

Motion pictures in propaganda -- Soviet Union.

 

Socialist realism in motion pictures

 

 

 

Advanced Keyword Search (excluding DVDs):

European national cinema, identity/culture in cinema

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

 

Tip: nation* searches for nation, national, etc.

A. Collections of Journals and Subject Databases:

B. Finding Full Text

1. and 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

Two favorite collections of core journals of all disciplines.

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.

 

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.

C. Magazines and Newspaper Articles

D. A Few Core Journals

1. Current:

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

Factiva (more international coverage)

2. Historical

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

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

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

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.

Journal of Eurasian studies

Russian Review

Russian History

Russian Studies in History

Slavic and East European Journal

Find an electronic-journal by title

A Short Guide to Writing about Film by Timothy Corrigan. Ref: PN1995 .C66 2010

Writing About Film (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Tufts Academic Resources Center -- Writing Tutors

 

MLA Style (for citing sources)