PWR 1El: Watch now: rhetorics of film and television: E-books and databases
A guide to resources for PWR 1EL: Watch now: rhetorics of film and television. Pei, E.
Watch now: rhetorics of film and television
This is a guide to resources for PWR 1EL: Watch now: rhetorics of film and television.
E-books
Crash Cinema by Mark Goodall; Jill Good; Will Godfrey
ISBN: 9781847181480Publication Date: 2007-04-01Crash Cinema: Representation in Film is a collection of essays that emerged from Crash Cinema an annual symposium that is an integral part of the Bradford Film Festival at the National Media Museum (UK).Media Worlds by Faye D. Ginsburg (Editor); Lila Abu-Lughod (Editor); Brian Larkin (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520232310Publication Date: 2002-10-23This volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media--film, television, video--are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies.Oxford bibliographies. Cinema and media studies by Krin Gabbard
ISBN: 9780199791286Publication Date: 2011-The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies by Robert Kolker (Editor)
ISBN: 0195175964Publication Date: 2008-09-08The Oxford Handbooks are a major new cross-disciplinary initiative from Oxford University Press. Each volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research.The Oxford handbook of adaptation studies by edited by Thomas Leitch.
ISBN: 9780190657031Publication Date: 2017This collection of forty new essays, written by the leading scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from outside the field, is the most comprehensive volume on adaptation ever published. The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies offers specific suggestions for how to read, teach, create, and write about adaptations in order to prepare for a world in which adaptation, already ubiquitous, is likely to become ever more important.Cinema, Television and History by Johnny Walker; Laura Mee
ISBN: 1443868876Publication Date: 2014-01-01Including essays from established and up-and-coming scholars, Cinema, Television and History: New Approaches rethinks, recontextualises and reviews the relationship between cinema, television and history. It is a book about how historical events are interpreted and adapted across cinema and television as the basis of a story, as much as it is about the endeavours of the practising historian through the exploration of the archive.The Sports Film by Bruce Babington
ISBN: 9780231169653Publication Date: 2014-03-18After covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film, and explores issues such as gender, race, spectacle and silent comedy.- Journal of cinema and media studies by Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2018-Quarterly journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies covering television and motion pictures. Online access starts with 1997.
- Motion Picture PeriodicalsThis link will take you to a SearchWorks list of film centered magazines and periodicals that have online access.
- FactivaA database of major newspapers including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and the Times of London.
Streaming services
- KanopyKanopy is a leading distributor of tertiary educational videos (streaming videos and DVDs) within Australia and this database is a portal to videos which they make available for individual purchase. Major subjects covered include: The arts, business and training, health sciences, media and communication, natural sciences, social sciences, and teacher education. Users can search, browse and see previews of videos. Includes also some feature films, including the Criterion collection.
- Docuseek2Provides streaming access to documentary and social issues films and videos.
- Academic video online: premiumAcademic Video Online: Premium includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Academic institutions will find the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. Academic Video Online: Premium contains the full contents of more than 27 Alexander Street collections.--Collection product page.
- Swank motion picturesStraaming service for classic Hollywood films.
- Digital theatre plusProvides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play. Updates vary.
- Digitalia film libraryThe Digitalia film library includes collections devoted to Latin American, Cuban, Brazilian, European and French cinema, as well as subject collections
- OntheBoards. TVOntheBoards.tv offers high-quality videos of full-length performances by some of today's most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization.
Article databases
- Academic search premierA multidisciplinary database which provides full-text for over 4,650 scholarly publications, more than 3,600 of them peer-reviewed. Includes topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study. Abstracts and indexing provided for 8,200 journals in the collection. Coverage is from 1965 to the present.
- ProQuest. Research libraryProvides online access to an extensive collection of full-text articles from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology. User interface available in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.
- FIAF international index to film periodicals plusFIAF index to film periodicals plus is a bibliographical index covering the foremost academic and popular film journals up to the present day. Some of these journals are available in full text. FIAF plus includes the following databases: International index to film periodicals (1972- ); International index to television periodicals (1979-1998); Treasures from the film archives; International directory of film and TV documentation collections; Bibliography of FIAF affiliates' publications; and the full text of five key reference works.
- Film & television literature index"Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews"
- Film literature indexAuthor-subject periodical index to the international literature of film with expanded coverage of television periodical literature.
Some search terms to use in SearchWorks and databases
Try these terms when searching in SearchWorks or in the article databases. Use the limiters on the left side of the results page (topics, date, language, etc.) to further limit your results.
- Motion pictures
- Television programs
- Mass media and culture
- Film adaptations
- Sports films
- Television broadcasting of sports
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