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Welcome to the Film and Media Studies Research Guide. This guide is designed to support your research process. In this guide, you'll find:

subject-specific materials and resources, such as books, articles, and databases
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FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
Index with some full-text access to the foremost academic and popular film journals.
Film Index International
Information on director, cast, and crew, production and release dates, and includes bibliographic information for selected reviews and other articles.

Game Studies
The international journal of computer game research
Killscreen
A magazine dedicated to advancing the research and practice of game-based culture
International Journal of Computer Games Technology
An open access journal that publishes original research and review articles on both the research and development aspects of games technology covering the whole range of entertainment computing and interactive digital media.
Loading: The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association
From research on video game cultures and industries to educational approaches to the study and development of digital games, and from computer science driven papers on designing and testing games to psychological research on video games and their effects.

Art, Design, and Architecture
Comprehensive survey of publications in the fields of visual and applied arts (coverage from 1976 - current).
Art Index Retrospective
Index to articles about art published in scholarly journals, art dissertations, magazines, and art reproductions (1929 to 1984).
Arts & Humanities Full Text
Academic and popular titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Academic journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
JSTOR
Scholarly books and journals in all disciplines.
Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
Literature, languages, linguistics, folklore, drama and film (1963-)

Media History Digital Library
A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
Statistia - Video Game Industry Statistics and Facts
Large corpus of data on many different factors in the video game industry, including profiles on major media companies.

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Video library on subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Largely documentaries and news footage, with some feature films.
ARTstor
Image database of artwork, architecture, and other artifacts contributed from museums and collections around the world.
Black Film Archive
An evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1898 to 1989 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context.
Digital Theatre Plus
Films of leading theatre productions, interviews with the creative teams, and detailed analysis of play texts.
Films on Demand
Content is provided by the BBC, the Canadian Broadcast Corp, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, and others.

Indigenous Cinema
From the National Film Board of Canada, free streaming of documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works from indigenous filmmakers.

Kanopy Videostreaming
Streaming documentaries and feature films
ontheboards.tv
Films of full-length performances by artists working in dance, theater, music and other fields.

Credo Reference
Reference sources for all subjects, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance
Covers ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance around the globe.
UXL Graphic Novelists
Encyclopedia of graphic novel authors and illustrators.

Nexis Uni
Formerly LexisNexis. Full text access to news, business, and legal sources, including federal and state court cases from 1790-present.
US Newsstream
Includes full-text, next-day access to New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and Wall Street Journal, as well as many other national and regional newspapers.

America's Historical Newspapers
This collection includes the Seattle Times (1923-1984), The Oregonian (1923-1987), "African-American Newspapers 1827-1998", and "Hispanic-American Newspapers 1808-1980"
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Digitized newspapers from all over the country, predominitely covering 1860-1922 with titles from 1777-1963.
Los Angeles Times (Historical)
Full coverage (1881-1996)
New York Times (Historical)
Full coverage (1851-2016)
South Asian Newspapers
Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia. Featuring titles from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Times (London) Digital Archive, 1785-2019
Washington Digital Newspapers
Titles and coverage varies, primarily late 19th century.

American Periodicals Series
Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
British Periodicals
Periodicals published from the 1680s to the 1930s (fully keyword searchable).
Readers Guide Retrospective
American magazine articles published between 1890 and 1982 (citations only).
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2014