Research Guides: Film Studies: Scholarly Sources

Scholarly Sources for Film Studies

Scholarly articles and books are the primary types of scholarly information in film studies. This page shows where to look for scholarly sources related to film studies. Explore the list of databases below to find article and use Start My Research to find books.

Finding Articles

Film and Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Covers film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews from journals and books. Also, includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present, and thousands of images from the MPTV Image Archive.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text access to scholarly journals and books in arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Academic OneFile Select This link opens in a new window
Index, with abstracts and much full text, to journal and magazine articles in most fields.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A large collection of full-text interdisciplinary scholarly journals and books, with journal content, often extending to the first volume of a periodical. Auraria Library supplies access to these JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences; Life Sciences, Biological Sciences; and the Health & General Sciences Collection.
Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
Contains substantial downloadable essays with chronologies and guides to further reading. Covers literature, poetry, theatre, philosophy, religion, historical and cultural topics, as well as scholarly writings covering major authors, artists, philosophers, topics, and time periods. Addresses subjects and figures as diverse as Gothic Fiction and Arabic Philosophy, Tom Stoppard and Martin Luther, Jane Austin and Stravinsky.

Find Books via Auraria Library

Start My Research
Start My Research is the main search tool of Auraria Library. You can use Start My Research to find articles, books, and more on any topic.

To find books and ebooks, search for by author, title, subject or keyword(s) describing your topic.
Your results will contain both print books and ebooks.
- For print books, write down the call number to locate the book in the Library.
- For ebooks, a green "Full Text Online" icon will appear beside the title. Click on the icon to access the full-text.