Subject Guide
This guide provides you with resources to do research in film, television, and media studies. You can find scholarly articles and reviews in the databases listed below.
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Key Resources
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MLA International Bibliography with Full TextProduced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s. The database contains millions of citations as well as full text for 1,000 journals.
Note: to watch the video on how to search, go to MLA International Bibliography on EBSCO -
JSTORDigitized back issues of scholarly journals with a rolling date of five years ago. Covers a wide variety of disciplines.
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Communication & Mass Media CompleteFull text coverage of communication and mass media and related fields.
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Project MuseJournals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Streaming
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KanopyKanopy is a platform that provides access to streaming media, documentaries, films or videos. Includes captions and transcripts. As of April 2019, not all content is automatically available to UIC users to control costs. If you are a faculty member who needs a film activated for a class, please use the request form in Kanopy or send a note to lib-electronic@uic.edu . Please include the class name and number, and the date the film is needed.
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Film PlatformFILM PLATFORM brings some of the finest documentary films in the world to academia. It contains a curated collection of educational films of social, political, and cultural importance by some of the world’s top international filmmakers. Includes captions and transcripts.