Check out the Course Reserves.

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature / editor, Verity Smith.

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture. F1408.3 .C283 2004

The Andes: a Cultural History / Jason Wilson.

The Andes Imagined: indigenismo, Society, and Modernity / Jason Wilson.

Culture and Customs of Bolivia / Javier A. Galvn.

Culture and Customs of Brazil / Jon S. Vincent.

Culture and Customs of Ecuador / Michael Handelsman.

Culture and Customs of Peru / Csar Ferreira and Eduardo Dargent-Chamot.

A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

The Cinema of Latin America. PN1993.5.L3 C497 2003

Magical Reels: a History of Cinema in Latin America. PN1993.5.L3 C497 2003

The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema. PN1993.5.B5 S26 1999.

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (libraries worldwide)

B. Searches & Results

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

1. The Regions and the People
--in Film and Literature

Amazon River Region and (indian* or indigenous)

Amazon* and (film* or cinema)

Amazons in literature

"Amazon River Region" and fiction

"Andes Region" and (literature or fiction)

 

2. the Individual Countries
-- in Film and Literature

Bolivia* and (film* or cinema)

Bolivian literature

Motion pictures Brazil

Brazil* and amazon* and ((film* o cinema)

Ecuador* and (film* or cinema)

Ecuadorian literature

(peru or peruvian) and indian* and literature

(peru or peruvian) and (film* or cinema)

Music -- Bolivia

Music -- Brazil -- History and criticism.

Music -- Peru -- History and criticism.

 

3. in the Larger Context of the Region

motion pictures Latin America

Music -- Latin America

4. Literary Anthologies and 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:

Fire from the Andes: Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / edited and translated by Susan E. Benner and Kathy S. Leonard; foreword by Marjorie Agosn. PQ7816 .F57 1998

José María Arguedas

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. Literature (MLA)
MLA is the principal bibliographic tool for literary studies.

7. International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text  

8. HAPI (Scholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Both English and Spanish language materials.)  

9. Latin American Studies (Key titles from the above source)

10. 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

 

 

Bulletin of Latin American Research

Hispanic American Historical Review

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.

D. Requesting 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.

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

Factiva (including Spanish Language sources)

Alt-PressWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch 1960 -

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

Hispanic American Newspapers  (1808  1980)

Latin American Newspapers Series 1, 1805-1922 (45 newspapers)

Latin American Newspapers Series 2, 1822-1922 (250 additional titles)

 

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

Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985)

British Humanities Index (1962- )

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

Writing About Film (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Writing about Literature (Writing Center at UNC.)

MLA Style (for citing sources)