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Comedy CommunitySome Strategies for Research
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Comedy CommunitySome Strategies for Research
Babbalooo, Lucy! Im so essited! We gonna learn
about library research
Gary Handman Director Media Resources
Center Moffitt Library
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Writing About Film
Scholarly
Current
Pop
Historical
Fan
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Comedy Community Some Strategies for Research
Sources for Film TV Scholarship and Research

• Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
• Reviews
• Critical/ScholarlyArticles
• Books
• Web Sites
• Other online databases

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• Books
• Scholarly/authoritative works
• Pop schlock and fan works

• How Do You Tell em apart?
• Authors credentials/affiliations
• Publisher (e.g. BFI, AFI, University Presses
  vs pop press)
• Scholarly apparatus and sources notes,
  bibliographies, other documentation
• If theyve been widely cited by other scholars

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• REVIEWS
• Current
• Historical

• Found in
• Popular fan journals and newspapers
• Film studies scholarly journals
• Web sites
• Fan and enthusiast sites
• Commercial sites (e.g., studio sites, video
  distributors)
• Academic sites

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Critical/Scholarly Articles

• Current
• Historical

• Found in
• Film studies scholarly journals
• Popular fan journals and newspapers (but
  only occasionally)
• Web sites (even less occasionallyexcept for
  academic and commercial databases)

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Reviews Current
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• Use
• Expanded Academic Index (fair amount of
  full-text)
• News Index
• ProQuest (some full-text)
• Lexis/Nexis
• Movie Review Query Engine (web full-text)
• Film Review Annual

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Reviews Historical

• Use
• Readers Guide
• NY Times Index (or NYT Film Reviews 1913-68) (in
  MRC)
• Film Review Index, 1882-1985 (in MRC)
• Film Index International (CDROM in Main/Moffitt
  Only)

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Scholarly/Critical Writing

• Use
• Expanded Academic Index (1980-present)
• Modern Language Assn. Bibliography (1963-present)
• Film Index International (CD-ROM in Main and
  Moffitt)
• Film Literature Index (Print Index in Media
  Center) (1977-present)
• Art Abstracts ( AA Retrospective)
  (1920s-present)
• Periodicals Content Index (PCI)

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Once You Find a Citation, How Do You Find the
Article?
Yo!Hey man, use Pathfinder!

• Or..
• Some indexes provide holdings info
• Some indexes link to full-text
• Satirist Nabs Movie Queen! John Waters takes all
  of Hollywood hostage in the jolly Cecil B.
  DeMented. (The Arts/Cinema)(Review) (movie
  review) Richard Corliss.
• Time August 14, 2000 v156 i7 p70
• View text and retrieval choices (287 words)

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Books
Use Pathfinder

• Search by
• Title and/or Subject Keyword
• Director Name (as subject)
• Movie Title (as Title and/or
• Subject Keyword )

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How to Begin? Before you click THINK

• Formulate your search in terms of
• KEY WORDS and SYNOMYMS
• --Looks for words anywhere in record title,
  subject, abstract and full-text (if avail)
• PHRASES
• --Looks for words in the exact order entered

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How to Begin? Before you click THINK
Formulate your search in terms of keyword and
key phrases Sex women, love, relationships
and Death dying, mortality, fate in the films
cinema, movie of Woody Allen. The
representation reflect portray of gender
sex and masculinity masculin, male, men in
the films films cinema, movie of Jim
Jarmusch. Truncation varies from db to db
? emigra emigrant, emigrants,
emigrate, emigration


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http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/FilmBibMenu.html
a growing listing of bibliographies on various
film topics and individual films compiled by MRC
(includes bibs for genres, filmmakers, national
cinemas, and individual film).
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being driven totally bananas by your
research? Call me Gary Handman 643-8566 ghandm
an_at_library.berkeley.edu
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