Macdonald-Kelce Library: Film Studies: Articles

Databases

Since various aspects of film studies can be housed under a multitude of academic disciplines (including Film Studies, English, Communications, Art History, et al.) the databases below will reflect this in the variety of disciplines they cover.

It is important to remember that film reviews are usually not scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. This is made especially confusing as the terms "film critic" and "film criticism" used when discussing film reviews are not interchangeable with the concept of "critical analysis" in scholarly articles, despite the similar phrasing. If you need film reviews, do not click "peer-reviewed."

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive full-text database provides scholarship across most disciplines. Search for reviews, popular magazine articles, and peer-reviewed articles on specific films, directors, and genres.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals, ebooks, primary sources, and ebooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and business.
Literature This link opens in a new window
Search Gale Literature for a good collection of digitized literature (novels), literary criticism, interviews, biographies, poetry, plays, speeches, and more.
Literature Online This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles, biographies, bibliographies, key criticism, primary texts, and reference resources for English and American literary works.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
This is a humanities focused database that covers scholarly materials on index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present....
International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text. Indices to books and articles date back to 1963.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly journals and ebooks covering the humanities and social sciences broadly, and more specifically topical areas such as ...
literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Books and journals from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. Offers Online Teaching & Learning Resources, Teaching & Content Alerts, content for Courses & Research. Also contains The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition gathers for the first time in one place the collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose. The fully searchable, integrative edition includes all of Eliot's collected essays, reviews, lectures, commentaries from The Criterion, and letters to editors, including more than 700 uncollected and 150 unpublished pieces from 1905 to 1965 and much more.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
One of the most comprehensive databases available online. Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive multi-disciplinary database offering scholarly articles, ebooks, and reference materials in a wide array of disciplines ...
including such subjects as the arts, behavioral sciences, bioscience, built environment, communication studies, computer science, development studies, earth sciences, economics, finance, business & industry, education, engineering & technology, environment & agriculture, environment and sustainability, food science & technology, geography, health and social care, humanities, information science, language & literature, law, mathematics & statistics, media and film studies, medicine, dentistry, nursing & allied health, museum and heritage studies, physical sciences, politics & international relations, social sciences, sports and leisure, tourism, hospitality and events, urban studies.

Film Reviews

Film Studies Journals

Below is a selection of journals available specific to film studies.

See here for a complete listing of film journals we have available.

Citing Articles

See our citation guide for learning how to format article citations in any style.

Using Interlibrary Loan

Search WorldCat or Google Scholar for items worldwide.

If you cannot access the article or book from our library, consider making an Interlibrary loan request. See the Interlibrary Loan guide below for more information.

Article/Book Request Form
Form to manually enter book or article requests. You must sign in with your UTampa login
View Requests

Email questions about requests to ILLRequest@ut.edu
Interlibrary Loan Guide
Google Scholar
A great place to start research that includes many UTampa databases. (PDF Handout Notes)