Looking for Hitch: A Frenzied Strategy for Research

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Gary Handman ghandman_at_library.berkeley.edu 643-856
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This is not a PowerPoint Presentation
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What Well Be Covering

• Journal Index and Abstracts
• Reviews and Critical Analyses
• Current and retrospective
• ejournals licensed and open-source
• Monographs
• Books and eBooks
• Whole Works and Contents
• Dissertations
• Film Credits Databases
• Archival Sources

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Online Indexes

• Hundreds of disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and
  news-based-- licensed by the library (many via
  CDL)
• Each indexes dozens to hundreds of journals
• Multiple indexes sometimes under one company
  portal (eg CSA Illumina, EBSCO, Wilson)
• Coverage better for current than retro (in most
  cases)relatively few before 1960
• Some overlap in coverage between dbs
• Full-text availability varies from database to
  database many are still citation only
• Most citations have UC eLinks (more about which
  later)
• Accessible from off-campus via proxy

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Online Indexes Current Reviews and Scholarship
Where to start
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GH Desert Island Film Studies Index/Article
Database List Current

• EBSCO databases (Academic Search Complete Film
  TV Lit Index, and others)
• MLA Bibliography
• International Index to the Performing Arts
• JSTOR (most retro, but in 2011, some current)

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GH Film Studies Desert Island List Retrospective

• Readers Guide Retrospective
• Internatl Index to Performing Arts
• JSTOR
• Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
• International Index to the Performing Arts
• Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
• AFI and BFI Indexes
• Remember the farther back in time, the thinner
  the scholarship and academic writing

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GH Desert Island List Retrospective Film
Reviews Print Sources

• Variety Film Reviews (soon to go online) Print in
  MRC, 1907 (online in 2011!!!)
• Hanson and Hanson Film Review Index (in MRC)
• Retrospective index to film periodicals,
  1930-1971 (in MRC)
• Readers Guide to Periodical Lit (print)
• SEE Kristen Whissel List!

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• Ejournals
• Including
• Open-source and commercial one-offs
• Publishers collections
• Some can be accessed directly
• Some only thru an index

e.g. Taylor and Francis Caliber (UC Press),
Cambridge Sage Wiley
Film ejournals http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/f
ilmstudies/filmjournals.html All ejournals
(searchable or browseable by title) http//www.lib
.berkeley.edu/ ejournals A-Z OskiCat Can look
up journals by title links to full text when
available
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Where Do I find The Most Recent Articles on
Griffiths Intolerance?

MRC Bibliographies
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Take em out for a spin..
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UC eLinks

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• Books on Buñuel OskiCat
• Books on Buñuel since 2000 OskiCat with
  publication limits
• Chapters or essays on Buñuel in books
• Notes keywords in OskiCat (advanced search)
• MLA and Essay and General Literature Index
• Google Scholar!! (includes Google Books!)
• Ebrary
• (electronic books collection)

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Archives Listing of International Archives via
LC http//www.loc.gov/film/arch.html FIAF (Db
of international archival holdings) (UCB/proxy
only) http//fiaf.chadwyck.com/home.do American
Memory Project (LC) (early films, animation, et
al.) http//memory.loc.gov/ Europa Film
Treasures http//www.europafilmtreasures.eu/ Fil
m Archives online (European archives)
http//www.filmarchives-online.eu/ Internet
Moving Image Archive (ephemera, orphans, PD
works) http//www.archive.org/details/movies Ubu
Web (streamed avant-garde works) http//www.ubu.c
om/

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• Where do I find out about recent archival film
  acquisitions in the broader UC system?
• Where do I find foreign-language film databases
  (which might include, say, more French journals
  from the early twentieth century than would an
  English database)?
• I've seen the immense Shakespeare adaptations
  bibliography on the Media Resources website
  where do I find such a resource for other
  authors?
• Scholarship on prisons and silent cinema (e.g.
  representation of prisons/figure of prison in
  silent cinema)
• Information about film screenings in alternative
  exhibition sites such as prisons
• Scholarship that references the mug shot in
  silent cinema

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Gary Handman ghandman_at_library.berkeley.edu 643-856
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