Subject Guides: Film and Video Studies: Find Article Databases & Film Reviews

Databases

Academic Search Complete
A large scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database, and a good place to start if you want to cast a wide net and see what might be out there on your topic.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Research and reference resource with coverage of more than 500 journals in the communication and mass media fields.
MLA International Bibliography
Index to scholarly research in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Indexes articles from more than 3,500 journals and series. Also includes monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies.
Project Muse
Full-text access to scholarly articles from fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital archive of more than 1,000 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, some dating from the 19th century.

PsycInfo
Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.
Sociological Abstracts
International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Interdisciplinary Search Options

Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London.

Click on Advanced Search, type in the name of a film, and select Review under Document type.
Literature Resource Center
Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.

In the Advanced Search, enter the title of the film or and filter by content type (Reviews & News).
Nexis Uni
Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers.

To find reviews, type "movie reviews" into the search box and the title of the film of interest (e.g., "movie reviews" AND "Get Out").
Readers Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982
Indexes the most popular general periodicals published in the US. from 1890-1982. Search for titles of films, actors, or directors to find reviews.

Times Digital Archive
The Times (London) Digital Archive (1785 - 5 years ago) offers searchable full text, with full page and article facsimiles (PDF) from the newspaper. This resource includes articles, reviews, advertising and classified ads, photos, maps and graphics, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries and birth and death notices. Does not include the Sunday edition.

To find reviews, click on Advanced Search, check the box next to Reviews, and search the title of a film of interest.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Includes Arts and Humanities Citation Index, with 1,700 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

Type the name of the film in the Topic line, click "Add row" and on the second line, select "Document Type" from the drop down menu and click on "Film Review."