About the Milner Library Cinema & Film Studies collection: The cinema and film print collection, books & periodicals, is located primarily on Floor 6 in the PN1993-PN1996 classification areas. Reference materials & current periodicals are located on the main floor of Milner Library. Please use the Milner Catalog for identifying and locating materials of interest.
Contact the Fine Arts Librarian with your questions!
Selected print resources available in Milner Library
Film review resources
Critical film review resources
Cinema web links
Milner Library Learning Resource Center
Selected print resources available in Milner Library:
Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television
The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood
The Film Encyclopedia
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies
Filmmaker's Dictionary
Films by Genre: 775 Categories, Styles, Trends and Movements Defined With A Filmography for Each.
International Dictionary of Films and Filmakers.
Magill's Cinema Annual
Motion Picture Guide
New York Times Film Reviews
The Oxford History of World Cinema
Screen World
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Where can I find current film reviews?
Film reviews, including short to medium length articles, can be found in numerous publications from popular peridocials such as Newsweek or Time to specialized film periodicals such as Sight & Sound.
If you are looking for film reviews from the recent past (20 years) interdisciplinary databases such as Academic Search Premier or Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis) are good places to begin your search. Academic Search Premier covers Time, Newsweek, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Sight & Sound.
Academic Universe provides coverage of New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.
Where can I find film reviews for movies produced more than 20 years ago?
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature article citations dating back to 1900
New York Times Film Reviews, article citations dating back to 1913.
What if I need an in-depth or critical review of a film?
Cineaste, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, and Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, all periodicals that provide a more analytical approach, are indexed in Academic Search Premier, some full text available.
MLA International Bibliography: (1963-present) Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide. Provides citations, abstracts.
Film journals available at Milner Library indexed in MLA: Cineaste; Film Quarterly; Film Criticism.
Art Abstracts: Covers more than 285 periodicals. For older material see Art Index Retrospective. Updated monthly. Provides citations and abstracts.
Film journals available at Milner Library indexed in Art Abstracts: American Film; American Cinematographer; Cineaste; Cinema Journal; Film Comment; Film Quarterly; Film Criticism; Film Culture; Films and Filming; Films in Review; Sight and Sound.
International Index to Performing Arts: Material from more than 140 international periodicals as well as articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Covers nearly all aspects of the world of performing arts. 1864 to present. Provides citations, abstracts.
Film journals available at Milner Library indexed in IIPA: American Cinematographer, American Videographer, Broadcasting & Cable, Camera Obscura, Cineaste, Cinema, Cinema Journal, Classic Images, Film & History, Film Comment, Film Criticism, Film History, Film Quarterly, Films in Review, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Culture, Jump Cut, Literature/Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, Screen, Sight and Sound, Spectator, Television Quarterly, Variety, The Velvet Light Trap, Wide Angle.
Film Literature Index : Annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover. FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
America History & Life: A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Film journals available at Milner Library indexed in America History & Life: Film Heritage; Film & History; Journal of Popular Film and Television. top
Cinema Web Links:
Local interest:
Normal Theater
Other:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Official site. Detailed; including Academy Awards information, events, archives, grants and fellowships;
Index to Motion Picture Credits.
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Official site; Emmy Awards and information about the organization.
Films for the Humanities and Sciences: Literature and Language Arts (Films Media Group)
Educational videos and multimedia programs
Film Literature Index
Annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover. FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
A searchable database of films, performers and synopses.
MIC: Moving Image Collections: A Window to the World's Moving Images
Locate and, in some cases, view moving and other images from image repositories around the world. Part of the National Science Digital Library; sponsored by the Library of Congress, Association of Moving Image Archivists; funded through the National Science Foundation 2002-2005.
Rotten Tomatoes
Movies, reviews, and previews.
Shop PBS: Arts: Drama
Videos and DVD's aired through PBS.
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Information of interest to SAG members.
Spectrocom Industry Links (International Online Film Directory)
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