Research Guides: ENGL 357: A Star is Born: Race, Gender, and Celebrity (BMC): Finding Articles in Databases

Finding Scholarly Articles

Screen Studies Collection
Current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. Includes the following specialist indexes and filmographies: American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog, Film Index International (FII), and FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database.
ProQuest Arts and Humanities Database
Having problems finding info on your star or film? Widen your search by using this database.
Google Scholar Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports in all disciplines. Linked to Tripod.

Tripod Library Catalog
- Use Tripod to find resources available from the TriCo Libraries.
- Search for books, e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more

Borrowing Beyond the Tri-Co
Request books and articles that are not available in Tripod through E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan. Note that E-Z Borrow is the first place to look for books not in Tripod. It usually takes just three days for E-Z Borrow books to arrive. Books not in E-Z Borrow can come from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) which may take as little as four or five days to arrive.

ProQuest Performing Arts Database‎
Scholarly & popular film journals, 1864-present. Includes "Variety" back to 1972.
SEARCH TIP: Limit by "Document Type" to Review.
ProQuest Research Library
Scholarly & popular journals, 1971-present.
SEARCH TIP: Limit by "document type" to review. Enter the title of the film in quotes.
New York Times
1851 to the current date.
SEARCH TIP: In ProQuest Historical Newspapers, limit by "document type" to "review", or "display ad" to find movie advertising. Limit by release date. Enter the title of the film in quotes.
Screen Studies Collection
American Film Institute Catalog includes citations for reviews and production histories in motion picture trade journals.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
General-interest periodicals from the U.S., 1890 - 1982.
SEARCH TIP: Add "Motion Picture Reviews" or "Television Program Reviews" to SUBJECT

See the pages for Chicago and MLA for citation examples and further information.

A citation manager can help you organize and cite your sources, and so can a librarian.