VM413A: Postmodernism and the Media
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Books
A number of books on the theory of postmodernism have been placed on reserve, and are listed below. In addition, you may want to search the Library Catalog for other items on specific directors, films, or concepts.
Selected Books on Postmodernism and Related Subjects
Berger, Arthur Asa. Making sense of media : key texts in media and cultural studies. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1992.
A Companion to Science Fiction. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Dyson, Michael Eric. Open Mike: Reflections on Racial Identities, Popular Culture, and Freedom Struggles. New York, NY : Basic Civitas Books, c2002.
Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
Film studies : critical approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Lovejoy, Margot. Postmodern currents : art and artists in the age of electronic media. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c1997
Music, culture, and society : a reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Postmodern After-images : A Reader in Film, Television, and Video. New York : Arnold, 1997.
Robertson, Pamela. Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna. Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Journal and Magazine Articles
Citation Indexes
These databases are focused solely on the film and television literature, and each have many articles on postmodernism. Since they do not contain the full article, you will have to track down the text of the article from the citations. Fortunately, the Library subscribes to many of the major film and media journals.
Film and Television Literature Index
Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 film and television publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. After searching, narrow down your results by using the subject headings on the left side. Does provide links to some full text.FIAF International Film Archive
Contains more than 260,000 article references from over 300 academic and popular film periodicals. 1972 to the present.
Film Index International
Good bibliography for people (directors, stars, etc.) and for films. Look for articles under "References," at the end of each entry. You can search by person or by film.Film Literature Index
Contains over half a million citations covering 150 film and television journals from 1976 to 2001.
Full-text Sources
Though these databases have the full text of articles, they do not contain nearly as many film journals. It also may be more difficulty to narrow down your search to only those having to do with film or t. But that may be good if you are looking for more general resources on postmodernism.
Academic Search Premier
A very large multi-disciplinary database that contains articles from a wide variety of publications - from general interest magazines like Time and Newsweek to more scholarly research journals such as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound and Journal of Popular Film & Television.JSTOR and Project MUSE
These databases have the full-text of some great scholarly film journals like Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, Discourse, Film Quarterly, The Moving Image, Public Culture, The Velvet Light Trap, and Wide Angle.International Index to the Performing Arts
This database has the full-text of American Cinematographer, Cineaste, Cinema Journal, Film Criticism, and the Journal of Popular Culture.
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