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Film Databases

Top Choices

American Film Scripts Online
Nearly 500 film scripts with searchable information on scenes, characters, and people. 1903 to 2002

Baseline
A film and television database of facts, analysis, statistics, news, contacts, and trends. Available only in Library. See Reference Librarian for password.

FIAF International Film Archive
Online version of the International Index to Film Periodicals which contains more than 260,000 article references from over 300 academic and popular film periodicals. 1972 to present

Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text
Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 film and television publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.

Film Index International
Provides in-depth indexing of over 100,000 international films—from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters—and biographical information for over 40,000 personalities. 1900 to present

Film Literature Index
Contains over half a million citations covering 150 film and television journals. 1976 to 2001

JSTOR (Arts and Sciences I and III)
Complete full-text back issues of hundreds of core journals in the Arts and Sciences.

LexisNexis Academic
Newspaper articles, wire services, legal, broadcast, and business news.

Project MUSE, Arts and Humanities Collection
Full text of over 100 journals in classics, culture, education, film, performing arts, history, literature, religion, and theater.

Other Options

Academic Search Premier
Social sciences, humanities, business, general science, and education.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Humanities, social sciences, science, and communications. Includes some full text. 1980 to present

Hollywood Creative Directories Online
Online access to the Producers Directory, Distributors Directory, Agents & Managers Directory, New Media Directory, International Film Buyers Directory. Available only in Library. See Reference Librarian for password.

International Index to the Performing Arts
All aspects of the performing arts from over 130 international periodicals. Includes some full text.

Los Angeles Times
Full text coverage from 1985 to present.

New York Times
via LexisNexis 1980 to present

New York Times Historical Archive
Full-text images of the New York Times from its earliest issues. 1851 to 2003

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. 1890 to 1982

Wall Street Journal
Full-text searchable articles from The Wall Street Journal 1984 to present

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