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Moving image: Secondary sources

Moving image resources: DVDs, journals, books and free online collections.

Secondary sources: researching the moving image

 

Summon is usually the best starting point for finding articles, books and dissertations (though not for viewing the artworks themselves). 

 

You may also want to run supplementary searches in two other databases:

 

See these e-book collections:

Many other books about mainstream cinema will be found in Ebook Central. The same books will be found by Summon.

 

For physical copies of books, the key areas of the library are:

  • FIA2.20C.MOV moving image, 20th century
  • FIA2.20C.NEW  new media and digital art art, 20th century
  • FIA2.21C.MOV moving image, 21st century
  • FIA2.21C.NEW new media and digital art art, 21st century
  • FAS5.WES.A.CIN costume in Western cinema

 

Most journal, magazine and newspaper articles will be found by Summon, or the other databases listed above.

However you may want to browse a journal, magazine or newspaper individually, entering its title (not the article title) in the search box below:

You can access these with the search box below:

 

 

 

Use the search box above to find publications such as:

  • Black Camera
  • Black Film Review
  • Camera Obscura
  • Canadian Journal of Film Studies
  • Cinéaste
  • Film & History
  • Film Comment
  • Film Criticism
  • Film International
  • Film Quarterly
  • Journal of Film and Video
  • Moving Image
  • Moving Image Review and Art Journal
  • Music, Sound and the Moving Image
  • Radical Software
  • Studies in Documentary Film

 

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