Film and Media Arts

These are your best-bet databases to use to search for articles on film and media studies topics.

When you search these databases for articles, you can try several strategies.

• Search for the title of a specific film.
• Search for the name of a filmmaker or actor.
• Search for a geographic region (e.g. "asia" or "united states" or "paris"), a film genre (e.g. "comedy" or "horror"), or a time period (e.g., "post-war" or "fifties" or "1940s").
• Search for concepts related to how the film is made (e.g., "lighting," "music or soundtrack or score," etc.)
• Search for concepts related to your topic.  For example, you might search for "immigrants or immigration or migrants or migration," or "women or gender," or "trauma or PTSD or war"
• Search for different combinations of everything above!