Research Guides: Film &amp; Media Studies: Getting Started

Welcome to the Film & Media Studies research guide! Use this guide as a starting point for your research in this subject area.

Highlighted Resources

Film & TV Literature Index
Citations to articles, film reviews, and book reviews from over 300 film and television periodicals; international in scope.
Film Index International
Provides in-depth indexing of films from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters.
Kanopy
Kanopy streaming service offers movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic, and Independent films. Davidson College students, faculty, and staff have unmediated access to certain collections within the Kanopy platform. For a list of titles already licensed by Davidson, please see the Kanopy tab within the How to Find Videos Research Guide.
A one-year license is purchased upon the 4th view of a title for 30 seconds or longer, this license is $135. For mediated collections, faculty can request immediate purchase of required films for a course on the Kanopy platform.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
The full text of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, edited by Michael Groden et al. (2nd ed.; 2005). Provides descriptions of theories, ideas, and critics from the time of Plato to the present and also covers developments in other disciplines that have shaped literary theory and criticism. International in scope with an emphasis on Western critical theory.

Gale eBooks Reference Library
Encyclopedias and reference sources that cover a variety of topics.
Oxford Bibliographies
A collection of online, annotated bibliographies and provides citations to the key literature on a topic.
The library has the following collections:
--African Studies
--Art History
--Atlantic History
--Biblical Studies
--Chinese Studies
--Cinema and Media Studies
--Classics
--Islamic Studies
--Latin American Studies
--Latino Studies
--Psychology
--Public Health
--Renaissance and Reformation