Skip to Main Content

WRPR 111: Power, Place, and Film (HC)

Writing Program 111: Power, Place, and Film (Ladva) Spring 2024

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 3 below, using keywords  (Any Field in Tripod), rather than subjects, will pick up results from chapter titles, descriptions and all other parts of the records.

       (gender roles) AND (film) [Any Field] Limited to books = 466 results  Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon

        "sex roles" AND "motion pictures" [Subject search] = 91 results   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon   Limited to material published 2010 to present

       (black OR "african american*")[subject] AND "motion pictures" [Subject]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  Books only (media excluded) in the results

      "christopher nolan" [Any Field]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  Newest titles sorted first

        korea* AND "motion pictures" [Subjects]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon  Limited to books and journals only published 2000 to present

**  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.

Going beyond the TriCollege Collections

WorldCat is an important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million titles owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.