Drama & Film Resource Guide

Lala Badal
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From Electronic Databases

Academic Complete Ebrary| Usage Help
A growing collection of more than 52,000 titles in all academic subject areas, most published since 2004. NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS ARE REQUIRED TO USE THE ADDED FUNCTIONALITY OF THIS DATABASE: Once on the Ebrary website click Sign In link (upper right corner) to utilize the Bookshelf functionality. Also, Ebrary’s Plug-in has to be dowloaded by clicking on Ebrary Reader button located by the title.

Academic OneFile (GALE)| Usage Help | Tutorial
User Account Tutorial
Premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)| Usage Help
Advanced Search Tutorial
Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection, some dating back to 1965. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

African American Studies Center (AASC)--(Oxford)| Usage Help
AASC Biography Tutorial
Combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field, and includes primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and more.

Arts - ProQuest Research Library| Usage Help | Tutorial
Quick Start Reference Overview
Search periodicals on the arts, including music, theater, film, TV, dance, architecture, art and design in this module of ProQuest Research Library. Combine with the International Index to Music Periodicals Full-text and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: The Arts for a more in depth search.

Biography in Context (formerly Biography Resource Center--GALE)| Usage Help
Biographical Fact Search Tutorial | Creating Citations Tutorial
Biography in Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 525,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Integrated reference materials include biographical narratives, full-text articles, and thousands of images and other media-rich content in context. Updated daily.

Black Drama (ASP)| Usage Help
A full text database of 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of these works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Much of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. Also includes information on related productions, theaters, and production companies, as well as images of selected playbills, production photos and other ephemera.

Black Thought and Culture (ASP)| Usage Help
An electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders, teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trail transcripts. The ideas of nearly 100 people present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.

Cambridge Collections: Shakespeare Survey| Usage Help
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. All issues of the survey are available, up to the most recent Volume 63.

Cambridge Journals Online| Usage Help
Cambridge Journals Online is a full text collection of over 250 titles published by Cambridge University Press, covering over 32 subject areas, ranging from Agriculture, Archaeology and Anthropology, Nutrition, to Psychology and Cognitive Science, Religion and Social Studies.

Cambridge Journals Online Mobile| Usage Help
CJO Mobile (CJOm) is an alternative version of Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) that has been optimised for smartphones and other small mobile devices. The design has been streamlined to speed up access and make navigation easier on a small screen. CJOm was developed for the increasing number of the readers accessing from handheld mobile devices with small displays. Users of larger devices, such as netbooks or iPad™, will find they can take advantage of the rich user experience offered by CJO.

Cinema Image Gallery (Wilson)| Usage Help | Tutorial
NOTE: All Wilson databases moved to the EBSCOhost platform! This database features an unparalleled range of pictures, posters, video clips, and other material from the world of film and television, from the late 19th century to the present day. Content includes over 217,000 superior-quality images, including more than 6,200 posters and lobby cards used to promote movies. There are also links to 160 full movies and biographical materials about notable figures in the industry. Each image is indexed with Title, Director, Actor Names, Genre, Awards (Academy Award, Cannes Film Festival, Screen Actors Guild.)

Directory of Open Access Journals| Usage Help
Collection of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. There are nearly 7,000 journals in the directory, more than 3,100 of which are full-text and searchable at article level.

ebrary Academic Complete| Usage Help
A growing collection of more than 52,000 titles in all academic subject areas, most published since 2004. NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS ARE REQUIRED TO USE THE ADDED FUNCTIONALITY OF THIS DATABASE: Once on the Ebrary website click Sign In link (upper right corner) to utilize the Bookshelf functionality. Also, Ebrary’s Plug-in has to be dowloaded by clicking on Ebrary Reader button located by the title.

EBSCOhost Mobile| Usage Help | Tutorial
Mobile Tutorial
EBSCOhost's application is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices, and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand!

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCO)| Usage Help
Film & Television Literature Index™ with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals and 100 books. Includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present, and more than 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.

Films On Demand - Humanities & Social Sciences Video Collection| Usage Help | Tutorial - NEW
Films on Demand, is a resource produced by Films Media Group that streams educational content directly to the web for classroom instruction and research purposes. Pearson Library subscribes to the Humanities & Social Sciences Video Collection with 4,800 full-length videos. Videos from On Demand could be integrated directly into a course website or a course management system and they can be accessed anywhere within our institution's authentication range. If viewed from off-campus users will be prompted to enter a username and password in order to view the embedded video.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Reference ebooks collection)| Usage Help
This is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Search thousands of reference e-books with more than 1.8 million documents. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

Google Scholar| Usage Help
Search for relevant scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Humanities Full Text - Wilson Web| Usage Help | Tutorial
Full-text Database Tutorial
Contains full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. This database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. (Indexing and abstracting from 1984; full-text from 1994.)

JSTOR| Usage Help | Tutorial
How to Search JSTOR
NOTE: YOU MUST SAVE THE ARTICLE BEFORE E-MAILNG IT.
The JSTOR archive presents high-resolution page images for viewing and printing articles in combination with a linked text file for each article that enables full-text searching. The complete archives of more than 1,000 core scholarly journals in the areas of African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, language and literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics have been digitized starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800's. New titles and fields are being added regularly.

Latino Literature (ASP)| Usage Help
Latino Literature brings together more than 133,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and plays in English and Spanish, written by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latino authors. This database draws from three major sources: the world of Aztlan, the mythical homeland of the Aztecs prior to Cortez; the Spanish heritage of the national homelands of the writers; and the intersection of these two with Anglo culture. These influences create persistent themes, the most common of which are social protest and exploitation; the migratory experience; self-exploration or self-definition, including the exploration of myths and legends; and life in the barrio. Alongside these broad, shared themes, Latino literature also reflects the distinct immigration experiences of discrete groups.

Literature Criticism Online (GALE)| Usage Help
Literature Criticism Online offers centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays covering works from contemporary literature back to classical and medieval times, and including poetry, short stories, drama, and children's literature, all at your fingertips.

LitFinder (GALE)| Usage Help | Tutorial
Guided Tour
LitFinder is a source for exemplary original literature content. This online resource is replete with full-text and primary content vital to literature and language study. It provides access to more than 150,000 full-text poems, stories, plays, speeches and more. The superior content, including world coverage, period pieces, unmatched primary content, citations, easy-to-use functionality and fast access make LitFinder an excellent source for literature scholarship.

Naxos Music Library| Usage Help
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 57.391 CDs with more than 822,716 tracks. The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels, and selections from many others. Among the labels whose catalogs are included in the service are leading independent classical labels such as BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Vanguard Classics, VOX, and of course Naxos. World music content is provided by ARC, Celestial Harmonies and others; and there is also jazz, film music, nostalgia, classic and contemporary rock content.

Oxford Art Online| Usage Help | Tutorial
Guided Tour
Oxford Art Online is an innovative gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.

Oxford Journals Online - SCELC| Usage Help
Oxford Journals Online is a collection of 238 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas (including the Humanities, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Medicine and Law), two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations.

Oxford Music Online| Usage Help | Tutorial
Guided Tour
Oxford Music Online is a gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.

PBS Video| Usage Help
Award-winning national programming and locally produced shows through on-demand streaming (latest version of Flash is required, and available for download at PBS Video). Search from more than 700 programs and series by program, topic or collection. Topics include the arts, history, news, the sciences and more.

Project Muse| Usage Help
(1993-present) Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, user-friendly online access to more than 213,000 articles in 490 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 133 scholarly publishers.

Readers' Guide Full Text (Wilson)| Usage Help | Tutorial
Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega™ includes indexing of over 450 periodicals as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles from over 250 journals as far back as 1994. Subject coverage includes antiques, arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film & television, gardening, health & medicine, history, home improvement, literature, news & current events, photography, popular & classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, science, sports & fitness, transportation, travel and much more.

SAGE Premier| Usage Help
The SAGE Premier package includes leading international peer-reviewed titles, including high-impact research journals published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. SAGE journals cover a wide range of subject areas, including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. SAGE Premier includes access to 550+ SAGE journal titles, comprising over 264,000+ full-text articles.

Shakespeare Collection: Featuring The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works (GALE)| Usage Help
Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the most recent Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference.

Theatre in Video| Usage Help
This database contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video. Students, instructors, and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include those online links in their papers and/or course reserves.

Wiley Online Library: Journals| Usage Help - NEW
Multidisciplinary e-journals package with access to over 1360 full-text journals, including many formerly published by Blackwell.

WilsonWeb Mobile| Usage Help
WilsonWeb Mobile provides “anytime, anywhere” access to WilsonWeb databases, marrying the versatile searching, trusted information, and practical tools for which WilsonWeb is renowned with smart-phone convenience. WilsonWeb Mobile tools such as the ReadSpeaker text-to-speech converter, emailing of results, library co-branding and more multiply the benefits of having WilsonWeb as near as your cell phone.

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Film Quarterly
International in coverage and reputation, Film Quarterly offers lively and penetrating articles covering the entire field of film studies. Articles include interviews with innovative film- and video-makers, writers, editors, and cinematographers; readable discussion of issues in contemporary film theory; definitive, thoughtful reviews of international, avante garde, national cinemas, and documentaries; and important approaches to film history. The journal's magazine format includes numerous photographs in each issue.

TDR: The Drama Review
TDR--the journal of performance studies--is a forum for writing all kinds of performances in their aesthetic, historical, social, economic, political, and theoretical contexts. TDR covers performance in everyday life, rituals, media, dance, theatre, performance art, popular entertainments, and sports--emphasizing the experimental, the anthropological, the intercultural, and the inter-disciplinary. Long known as the basic resource for keeping up with contemporary performing arts and performance theory, TDR's editors and authors vibrantly present and debate work from every medium, setting, and culture. Each fully illustrated issue includes: scholarly articles on theatre, dance, popular entertainments, rituals, and other genres of performance original contributions to performance theory editorial comments and reports on performances and books articles by social scientists, theorists, artists, and critics interviews with performers, choreographers, directors, and performance artists texts of performance works translations of important new writing on performance.

Web Resources


Movie Reviews & so much more

The Internet Movie Database

Theater Arts Directories

McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies
World Wide Art Resources

Actors and Playwrights

Actors' Equity Association
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular entertainment, 1870-1920

Library of Congress American Memory page. also contains online play texts.

Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide
Elizabethan Pronunciation, Accents, & Speech Resources
Playwrights on the Web
PLAYBILL ONLINE

An excellent source for news about Broadway and regional theater. Also casting news.

Stella Adler Resources
Screen Actors Guild
Writers Guild of American

U.S. & International Theater

Official Site of the Academy Awards
Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising
The Kennedy Center
Tony Awards Online

Costume Research 1600-1800

Costume Gallery's Online Research Library
Costume History
Costume Site
LCH Costume Guide
The Renaissance Tailor: Recreating 16th and 17th Century Clothing
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute: Masks, Costumes, Ceremony Life in Seventeenth Century France

Medea

Ancient Greek Female Costume
Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources
The Euripides Home Page
Ancient Theatre
Perseus Digital Library
Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
The Medea Homepage
Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage

Costume Sites

Costume Chronicles: Women and the Story of Their Fashions
Costume Gallery
Costume Pattern Lending Library
Costume Ring
Costume Site
Costume Society
Costumer's Manifesto
Costumes, Masks, Makeup
Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection
Erte Museum
History of Costume by Braun and Scheider
LACMA Costumes: Textiles

Regency Fashion Page
World Theatre Research Resources

Production, Stagecraft and Design Resources

The Character Shop
ESTA: Entertainment Services and Technology
Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms
Lighting and Electronics
Theatre Design and Tech Jobs Page

Shakespeare on the Web

Baker Shakespearse Theatre
Browse the 1866 Globe Edition of Shakespeare
Folger Shakespeare Library
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Oxford Shakespeare
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Shakespeare Bookshelf from the Internet Public Library
Shakespeare Oxford Society Home Page
Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance

Library Resources
CLU has a selection of monologues, plays, and scenes. these can be located by searching in the Online Catalog under the terms "monologues," "one-act plays," "plays," etc. It is also possible to search by specific title or specific author.

Monologues available via the Web

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