Research Guides: FMST 009: Women and Popular Culture (SC): Finding Articles

Finding Scholarly Articles

Tripod: Articles
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Articles searches millions of journal articles, many of them in full text and available through the Tri-College Libraries. While it doesn't provide access to everything the library has to offer, it is a good starting point for your searches.

ProQuest Performing Arts Database‎
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This database, formerly known as "International Index to the Performing Arts" provides abstracts and full-text to journal articles. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, theater, opera, and broadcasting. Covers 1864-present.
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The most important index for Film Studies. Offers citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews from film and television journals from 30 countries. The journals range from scholarly to popular titles. Covers the years between 1976-2001. (The print version of this index covers 1973-2004.)
GenderWatch
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Offers full-text access to scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books. Includes feminist press and women's publications. Covers 1970-present.
MLA International Bibliography
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Database of scholarly books and articles related to literature, language, linguistics, film, theater and folklore. Includes scholarship from 1926 to the present.
JSTOR
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Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Project Muse journals
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Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Screen Studies Collection
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Provides detailed information on films from around the world, including production and cast information, plot summaries, background notes, awards listings, and citations to reviews and other secondary literature. Offers simultaneous searching of the American Film Institute Catalog, the British Film Institute's Film Index International, and FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals. Covers 1893 - present.

Selected Film & Media Studies Journals

Camera Obscura
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Scholarship and debate on feminism, culture, and media studies. 1976 - present.
Cineaste
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Coverage from 1996 to the present. The print version of this resource is available at Swarthmore College and covers the years 1977 to the present. The magazine also maintains a cumulative index online: Online Cumulative Index, 1967-2011
Cinema Journal
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Cinema Journal is sponsored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and represents recent scholarship by SCMS members. The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, founded in 1959, is the largest professional organization of moving image media scholars. Its members include university faculty, graduate students, archivists, filmmakers, and others devoted to the study of the moving image from the U.S. and 39 other countries.
Feminist Media Histories
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Inter-medial and trans-national in its approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender has played in varied media technologies, and documents women’s engagements with these media as audiences, users and consumers, creators and executives, critics, writers and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators, activists, and librarians.
Feminist Media Studies
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Transdisciplinary forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and communication studies.
Filmmaker
Film Quarterly
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Film Quarterly has published substantial, peer-reviewed writing on cinema and media for nearly sixty years, earning a reputation as one of the most authoritative academic film journals in the United States, as well as an important English-language voice of cinema studies abroad.
FlowTV
Genders
GLQ
Jump cut
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Covers 1974-present
Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
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Feminist, interdisciplinary journal whose goal is to provide a forum for the scholarship and creative work by and about women of color in U.S. and international contexts.
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Senses of Cinema
Sight and Sound
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Covers 1932–present (except for Haverford: 2000–present).
Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society
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Focuses on feminist scholarship, film and publication. 1975 - present.
Velvet Light Trap
Television and New Media
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