Check out the Course Reserves.

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)

Filmmaker:

Almodóvar, Pedro

 

in the Broader Contexts of:

motion pictures Spain (the country)

motion pictures Europe (the region)

 

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.

 

Author	Marsh, Steven.
Title	Popular Spanish Film under Franco: Comedy and the Weakening of the State.
Publisher	Basingstoke [England]; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Subject	Motion pictures -- Spain -- History.
	Fascism and motion pictures -- Spain.
	Comedy films -- Spain -- History and criticism.

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

B. 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.

C. 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)