Library: FILM 111 & 112 (Gunn): Library

Film Databases

SWANK Streaming Video Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 1450+ commercial motion pictures from mostly U.S-based studios. Chrome browser recommended, and the Swank Media Player App is recommended for viewing on mobile devices.
Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
Select films and educational documentaries, featuring PBS, The Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, and others.
Film Platform This link opens in a new window
Now available on the Academic Video Online streaming platform. Documentary films curated by film experts and leading academics to showcase meaningful works of social, political, and cultural importance by some of the world's top international film-makers.

eBooks about Film Genres

Keywords and Advanced Search

Keyword Development

French New Wave Cinema (La Nouvelle Vague)	Werner Herzog
Films: Band of Outsiders, Hiroshima mon amour, Breathless, Les Bonnes femmes, 400 Blows	Films: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Grizzly Man
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, André Bazin, Jacques Demy, François Truffaut	Genres: Documentary, New German Cinema, Fiction, Horror, Thriller
Themes: Iconoclasm, experimental, irony, existentialism	Themes: Frankfurt School, Marxism, nature, truth, Nietzsche

Advanced Search Techniques

Use quotations around titles, proper names, and phrases. Example: "400 Blows", "Werner Herzog", "French New Wave Cinema",
Combine related terms with OR. Example: horror OR thriller
Combine unrelated terms with AND. Example: "Werner Herzog" AND documentary

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Background Databases

Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas This link opens in a new window
A digital library on American and world popular culture, past and present.
Gale eBooks (GVRL Encyclopedias) This link opens in a new window
Contains eBooks, encyclopedias, and specialized sources for research in almost all subjects.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
A full-text scholarly reference collection on all topics, containing ready-reference as well as the resources of the Oxford Companions.

Scholarly Databases

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
EBSCO's largest collection of full-text, peer-reviewed journals, covering the widest variety of topics.
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Literary criticism primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies. Includes formerly separate databases Literature Resource Center + Literature Criticism Online; and a robust collection of online reference books in literary studies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text archives with thousands of scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. Please note: Artstor is now on JSTOR; all image content and features of Artstor are fully integrated into JSTOR. The Artstor website was retired on Aug 1, 2024.

MLA Citation

Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style is used to avoid plagiarism and give credit to others for their work. MLA (8th and 9th edition) requires:

In-Text Citations for each source when paraphrasing and quoting
Works Cited page with full citation details for each source used

Consult the Official MLA Style Guide

In-Text Citation Works Cited Sample Papers

Citing Films

List films by their title. Include the name of the director, the film studio or distributor, and the release year. If relevant, list performer names after the director's name.

Speed Racer. Directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, performances by Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Elia, Susan Sarandon, Ariel Winter, and John Goodman, Warner Brothers, 2008.

To emphasize specific performers or directors, begin the citation with the name of the desired performer or director, followed by the appropriate title for that person.

Lucas, George, director. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Twentieth Century Fox, 1977.