Subject guides: Film and screen studies: Databases

Databases

AFI catalog : American Film Institute catalog (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
An historical filmography of American cinema. Comprehensive coverage of the years 1893-1974, with selected major films from 1975 onwards. Search by keyword, film title, character name, cast and crew production, release information, subject, genre, and songs.
Film & television literature index with full text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Oxford bibliographies. Cinema and media studies This link opens in a new window
Provides peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, and the study of the moving image.
FIAF : international index to film periodicals database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Access to academic and popular film journals, through 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.
Film index international (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute (bfi), provides information about film from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters. International film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists are also included.
Film literature index This link opens in a new window
Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. Search citations or browse by subject headings, personal names, production titles or by corporate names.
Communication & mass media complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
An authoritative research and reference resource for Communication and Media Studies. Includes content from CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
Oxford bibliographies. Cinema and media studies This link opens in a new window
Provides peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, and the study of the moving image.

ProQuest This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary portal allowing cross-search access to many key online databases in disciplines such as business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, and medicine. Resources include scholarly journals, books, video & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more.
EBSCOhost research databases This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary portal to EBSCOhost databases.
Taylor and Francis open access eBooks This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary collection of open access eBooks from Taylor and Francis publishers, including imprints, Routledge, CRC Press and others. Titles are regularly added, and all books and chapters are freely available to read, download and share. Subject coverage is mainly in the in the humanities, social sciences and behavioural sciences.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals, books, and primary sources from a wide range of academic publishers and university presses. Titles span across disciplines, including core areas such as business & economics, social sciences, education, history, language & literature and science.

Film industry data This link opens in a new window
Data contained here allows researchers to assess changes in popular taste, box office performance and trends in genre or factors governing studio decisions and policy. More broadly, this data offers insights into film as a reflection of culture and society.
Music industry data This link opens in a new window
Repository of historical and current music data from Billboard, Official Chart Company, GfK Entertainment and others. Coverage is global and tools allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare and contrast musical trends and interactions.
Entertainment industry data This link opens in a new window
Entertainment Industry Data is a library of Media Statistics, combining both film and music industry figures.

American film scripts online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 1,500 film scripts with detailed indexing of scenes, characters and people. Information allows users to better understand the structure of films, character development, beginnings and endings, plot points and scenes.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals, books, and primary sources from a wide range of academic publishers and university presses. Titles span across disciplines, including core areas such as business & economics, social sciences, education, history, language & literature and science.
MLA international bibliography (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A key index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites and dissertations.
Periodicals archive online (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Contains backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, dating back to 1770. It is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 150 foreign-language titles.

Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new window
Access to video, audio, and text collections, covering a wide variety of subjects. In addition to secondary sources, the portal also contains significant primary source material.
Informit Edu TV This link opens in a new window
Content includes current affairs, documentaries, reality and drama series from free to air TV channels and selected pay TV channels. Pay TV documentaries are included from The History Channel, National Geographic, NITV, BBC Knowledge and Discovery and more.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
An on-demand streaming service offering award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases including titles from Criterion Collection, Universal Paramount, The Great Courses, New Day Films, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, BBC, Media Education Foundation, Ronin, Documentary Education Resources, and more. More than 20,000 films and documentaries are available from a wide range of disciplines.
TVNews This link opens in a new window
News and Current Affairs programs from Australian broadcasters.

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva provides full text access to Australian newspapers, and newspapers and news wires from around the world. Information is sourced from continuously updated newswires from Dow Jones and Reuters, journals and magazines, websites and blogs. Factiva also includes brief company and industry profiles, financial information for listed companies worldwide, and global coverage of financial market data.
Newsbank newspapers : Australia and the world. This link opens in a new window
NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.

Soviet cinema online : archival documents from RGALI, 1923-1935. This link opens in a new window
Covers the period when state control of the Soviet cinema industry - production, distribution and exhibition - was being established between 1923 and 1935. The collection contains administrative, personnel and financial records, transcripts of meetings, statistical reports, documents related to film export, film import, and film production, reviews and film repertoire.
Soviet cinema online : film periodicals, 1918-1942. This link opens in a new window
Includes Soviet film magazines and newspapers, 1918-42, which shed light on the production of Soviet cinematography, as well as on the theoretical and practical concepts developed by the period's leading directors and critics. They also highlight the role of film in Soviet cultural life. Film magazines and newspapers featured articles by leading Soviet directors, as well as members of the avant-garde LEF, leading authors and philologists.

Humanities & social sciences index retrospective : 1907-1984 (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Topics covered include communications & mass media, criminal justice, anthropology, economics, art, film, environmental studies, archaeology, international relations, law, literary & social criticism, literature, music, performing arts, planning & public administration, political science, sociology, religion & theology and gender studies.
Humanities index retrospective : 1907-1984 (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
An index of humanities-related periodicals including citations and book reviews. Topics covered include classical studies, literary & social criticism, philosophy, religion & theology, literature, art, dance, film, folklore, music, performing arts, area studies, communications, gender studies, history and journalism.
Readers' guide retrospective : 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson). This link opens in a new window
Index of general interest periodicals from the United States published in the 20th century. It offers researchers access to information about history, culture, science and seminal developments across nearly a century of U.S. history.

AusStage : the Australian live performance database This link opens in a new window
AusStage enables research on live performance as a wealth-producing creative industry. AusStage is committed to collecting and sharing information about Australian live performance as an ongoing, open-access and collaborative endeavour.
AustLit : the resource for Australian literature This link opens in a new window
AustLit indexes and describes Australian literature published in a range of print and electronic information sources dating from 1780 to the present. It also makes available selected critical articles and creative writing in full text.
Informit search This link opens in a new window
Provides access to specialised databases across a wide range of subjects, including Australasian political, economic, legal, social, aboriginal, health, family, technical and cultural studies.
Trove This link opens in a new window
The Australian National Library's Trove service helps users find and use resources relating to Australia. It provides integrated access to over 45 million items from a range of the National Library's collaborative services and from elsewhere. Metadata is aggregated from Australian sources including: The Australian National Bibliographic Database - containing location information from more than 1,200 Australian libraries, The Picture Australia program, The Australian Research Online program, The Music Australia program, The Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, and The People Australia program, and some overseas sources.
Newsbank newspapers : Australia and the world. This link opens in a new window
NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
Australian newspapers : historic Australian newspapers 1803-1955 This link opens in a new window
Access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of TROVE's Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), for selected years between 1803 and 1955.

Music Australia
Music Australia is now integrated into and accessible from Trove.
Australian Music Centre
The AMC houses and curates the most comprehensive catalogue of Australian music, a living collection of scores, recordings, research papers and other resources across all genres: contemporary classical, contemporary jazz and improvised music, experimental music and sound art.
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The AMC houses and curates the most comprehensive catalogue of Australian music, a living collection of scores, recordings, research papers and other resources covering genres of contemporary classical, contemporary jazz and improvised music, experimental music and sound art.