E-Resources -- Media and Communications
Movie and film criticism
- Communication & Mass Media Complete - EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowFind scholarly citations and articles about the communications and mass media fields.
- Gale Databases This link opens in a new windowFind an array of databases in the business, science, and social science disciplines.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFind 500+ major academic research journals in the arts, humanities, business, and sciences.
- MLA International Bibliography - EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowDetailed bibliography of literature, language & linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, & more.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFind scholarly journals from arts, humanities and social sciences delivered full text, with no embargo.
- Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new windowFind an online encyclopedia and/or a specialized reference source.
Best of the Web -- Movies Today
Movie and film criticism
- All Movie Guide“Only able to remember a few details about a film? This site offers a cross-referenced index which allows you to search more than 200,000 feature films and documentaries using an unlimited combination of features or criteria."
- Film 100List of the 100 "most influential people in the history of the movies".
- Film ExpertsREA Film has established a team of U.S. and International film experts who wish to share their expertise by answering your questions ranging from the history of film to the workings of the motion picture industry. " Also features a best film site of the w
- The Internet Movie Database“AKA Cardiff's Movie Database Browser, this searchable database contains information on individual films, actors, directors, composers, and genres. Also has a special section on Academy Award winners and nominees.”
- Motion Picture Association of America“Find information about the MPAA, the history and explanation of the movie ratings system used in the United States and related issues here. The site includes a searchable database to find the rating of a specific movie.”
Biographies of Media figures
- Biography in ContextInstruction Guide
Biography Resource Center contains brief biographies from a variety of reference sources.
- Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new windowFind an online encyclopedia and/or a specialized reference source.
Suggested Books, hard copy
- Cambridge encyclopedia of languagesCall Number: P29 .C64 (REF)
- Dictionary of Media and Communication StudiesCall Number: P87.5.W38 (REF)
- An encyclopedic dictionary of language and languagesCall Number: P29 .C68 (REF)
- Handbook of Language and Ethnic IdentityCall Number: P35 .H34 (REF)
- History of the Mass Media in the United States: an encyclopediaCall Number: P92 .U5 H55
- International Encyclopedia of Communications, 4-volume set (vol 2 missing)Call Number: P87.5.15
- International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 4 volumesCall Number: P29 .I58
- Language and Communication: a cross cultural encyclopediaCall Number: P29. F47 (REF)
- Linguisitical cultures of the world: a statistical referenceCall Number: P35 .P29 (REF
- Linguistics EncyclopediaCall Number: P29 .L52 (REF)
- Webster's New Dictionary of Media and CommunicationsCall Number: P87.5. W45
