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Film and Television Literature Index with Full-Text

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This is a bibliographic and full-text database covering television and film. Subjects include film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals and 100 books. In addition, it includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.
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Academic Search Ultimate

  • Coverage: 1965 - Current
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
EBSCO's Academic Search Ultimate is a multi-disciplinary database that indexes more than 17,000 periodicals and includes full-text articles from more than 10,000 journals, nearly 6,800 more journals than Academic Search Premier. The areas of study Academic Search Ultimate focuses on include, but are not limited to science, engineering, health sciences, biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, religion/theology.

Alexander Street Video Online

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University of Utah Collections include: Dance Online: Dance in Video, Volume I Dance Online: Dance in Video, Volume II Ethnographic Video Online Independent World Cinema Music Online: Opera in Video Theatre in Video Academic Video Online (AVON) Theatre In Video: Volume II

Arts and Humanities Database

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Proquest's Arts and Humanities Database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.

Atlanta Daily World

  • Coverage: 1931-2003
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
African-American newspaper published in Atlanta, Georgia. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Brill Ebooks and Journals

  • Coverage: Ebooks and Journals
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
This platform offers access to all the library’s licensed and open-access content from Brill, a strong publisher in the humanities, social sciences, and international law. Content includes subscribed Brill journals and all ebooks.

British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film

  • Coverage: 1911-1930
  • Access: University of Utah
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Supplied by the British Film Institute and Imperial War Museums, British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film showcases a large collection of newsreels produced by the Topical Film Company and provides a glimpse into the early twentieth century - from everyday interests, such as sport and fashion, to coverage of key events, such as the First World War, the Suffragette Movement, and the establishment of the Irish Free State.
Classic Mexican Cinema Online
- See: Mexican Cinema

Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)

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  • Access: UALC
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  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides access to the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource for the communication disciplines. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles. This database includes full text for over 450 journals.

Digitalia Film Collection

  • Coverage: full collection
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
A diverse selection of movies and documentaries available to stream from around the world. Foreign language films in Bosnian, Russian, German, Spanish, French and Italian to name a few.
Dissertations & Theses Global
- See: Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global

Encyclopedia of Modernism

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The largest and most comprehensive resource available for all those involved in the study of modernism from students to academics. Interdisciplinary and global content about the Modernist period. The content is fully cross-referenced, allowing for greater discoverability between fields, and covers eight key subject areas: Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents. Researchers can browse by subject, movement, or place in order to discover connections between key topics and fields

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive

  • Coverage: 1880-2000
  • Access: University of Utah
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An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.
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Europeana, Europe's Multimedia

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: Freely Available
  • Purchased By: Free
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Europeana is a collection of the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. More than 15 million items are found in Europeana's database, including paintings, drawings, maps, photos, pictures of museum objects, books, newspapers, letters, diaries, archival papers, music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts, and videos such as films, newsreels and TV broadcasts. Some items and topics are famous, like Isaac Newton's book about the Laws of Motion, the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, or objects related to the Berlin Wall. Others are lesser-known works from obscure or unpopular creators. Around 1500 institutions have contributed to Europeana, including the British Library in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Louvre in Paris as well as a number of smaller organisations across Europe.

Film and Television Literature Index with Full-Text

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This is a bibliographic and full-text database covering television and film. Subjects include film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals and 100 books. In addition, it includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.

Film Platform

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NOTE:This database was canceled on February 29, 2024.

FILM PLATFORM connects academic audiences with leading documentary films from across the world. It is meticulously curated by film experts and leading academics to showcase meaningful documentaries of social, political and cultural importance. The publisher works with an Academic Advisory Board to ensure that each of our films upholds the highest educational standards, and speaks directly to todays academic topics and concerns. The catalog is continually expanding to include the newest award-winning documentaries and current film festival favorites. Over 90% of the catalog is exclusively available via Film Platform.

Film Scripts Online

  • Coverage: v.I-v.II
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
The Film Scripts Online Series contains over 1,100 scripts and makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays. Now film scholars can compare the writer’s vision with the producer’s and director’s interpretations from page to screen. Most scripts in the series have never been published before and are available nowhere else. Alexander Street developed the collection through arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, StudioCanal, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others.
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Films on Demand

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This database provides access to a large collection of educational films which can be streamed online. Some of the publishers whose films appear in this database are ABC News, American Experience, TED, BBC Films, Frontline, NOVA, PBS, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Ken Burns, The Open University, and California Newsreel, among others. Films may be viewed individually or used by faculty as instructional material for courses.

Gale OneFile: Fine Arts

  • Coverage: current
  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: UALC
  • Maximum Users: unlimited
The Fine Arts & Music Collection places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the R'pertoire International de Littarature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.

Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies

  • Coverage: current
  • Access: UALC
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Pop Culture Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

GDC Vault

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  • Maximum Users: 25

NOTE: To access this database, click the title link above and enter your uNID and password. Once you are on the database site, you will need to click Login in the upper-right corner, then Click Here to Login. The database password will be entered automatically for you.

GDC Vault provides access to an archive of presentation videos, and audio synced with presenter slides, from worldwide Game Developers Conferences going back 20+ years. Browse by event and year, media type, and 20 broad-ranging categories of presentation themes. Or, search the presenter abstracts for specific keywords and phrases.

Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making

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Featuring candid, unedited interviews from the private collection of author and film-maker Nasreen Munni Kabir, Hindi Cinema offers a unique insight into the film industry from the years 1950-2010 through the experiences of leading film-makers.

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective (from H.W.Wilson)

  • Coverage: 1907-1984
  • Access: University of Utah
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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective covers a range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences with indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews. Topics covered include communications & mass media, criminal justice, anthropology, economics, art, film, environmental studies, archaeology, international relations, law, literary & social criticism, literature, music, performing arts, planning & public administration, political science, sociology, religion & theology, gender studies, gerontology, psychiatry & psychology, addiction studies, urban studies, and more.

IBISWorld

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This database contains a variety of industry reports including risk reports, industry summaries, market research, market conditions and forecasts, supply chain information, and competition data. Items can be viewed online or downloaded for offline use.
IBISWorld Industry Research
- See: IBISWorld

Independent World Cinema: Classic and Contemporary Film

  • Coverage: 20th Century
  • Access: University of Utah
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This collection includes 220 independently produced films, from the early 20th century to 2016, ranging in length from 2 minutes to 4+ hours! Distributors include ArtMattan, Film Movement, Milestone Films, Pragda, Oscilloscope, and Zeitgeist. These films support teaching and learning in film studies, cultural history, psychology, gender studies, anthropology, theatre, African-American studies, and more. Showing films from this collection outside of the classroom is allowed, often called Public Performance Rights. Admission fees are not allowed.
InfoTrac Fine Arts & Music Collection
- See: Gale OneFile: Fine Arts
InfoTrac Pop Culture Collection
- See: Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains the full text of over 100 serial titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Also includes the full text of over 50 books & monographs.
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JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: UALC
  • Purchased By: UALC
  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection provides full-text access to all content that the Jstor publishes. The majority of the database is archival content, and new issues are added to the collection periodically. New content may not appear in JSTOR until months or years after its initial publication date, and update frequencies for journals vary by title and publisher. Current Artstor platform expected retirement of the site/URL at the end of July 2024. Artstor content will be migrated to the Jstor platform. Artstor content can be found at https://www.jstor.org/images.

Kanopy

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Select film titles available through Kanopy.
LA Sentinel
- See: Los Angeles Sentinel
London Times Archive
- See: Times Digital Archive (London Times)

Los Angeles Sentinel

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  • Maximum Users: unlimited

Los Angeles Times Archive

  • Coverage: 1881-2001
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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Mexican Cinema

  • Coverage: Current
  • Access: University of Utah
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This collection is focused on popular movie periodicals from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. It includes magazines such as Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and Cine Mundial (1954-1955), rare copies of El Cine Gráfico from 1935 and the weekly El Mundo Ilustrado (1902-1910), dozens of film flyers, the personal scrap books of Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements. The sources in this collection were previously accessible only in the archives of the Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City. The database is targeted at scholars and researchers working on film and media studies, Latin American studies, and other aspects of the historical, social, and political impact of cinema.

Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography

  • Coverage: 1926 - Current
  • Access: UALC
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  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals

This database consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It provides access to records in over 3,000 journals and series, as well as a collection of monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

NAACP Papers: Special Subjects

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The NAACP was involved in several subjects that did not rise to the level of major campaigns but were still vital to the organization. This module contains records on those subjects, and in so doing, reveals the wide scope of NAACP activism and interest. These files cover subjects and episodes that are crucial to the NAACP's history, such as civil rights complaints and legislation, the Klan, Birth of a Nation, the Walter White-W. E. B. Du Bois controversy of 1933-1934, communism and anticommunism during the years of the "red scare," the congressional prosecution of Hollywood personalities, the prosecution of conscientious objectors during World War II, NAACP's relations with African colonial liberation movements, NAACP fundraising and membership recruitment, urban riots, the War on Poverty, and the emergence of the Black Power Movement.
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Naxos Video Library

  • Coverage: Varies
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  • Maximum Users: 5
The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 1,300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, and EuroArts, among others, and is continuously updated.
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New York Times Historical Newspaper

  • Coverage: 1851 - 2021
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: Unlimited
This database provides access to the searchable text of the New York Times. Many parts of the text besides the articles themselves are also searchable, including short items like stock quotes, broadcast schedules, display and classified ads. Articles can be displayed in their page context and one can read through an issue page by page.

Platino Educa

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PLATINO EDUCA is an innovative online platform with hundreds of Spanish and Ibero-American films.

Popular Culture in Britain and America

  • Coverage: 1950-1975
  • Access: University of Utah
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The resource allows users to study this period using manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia. The interactive chronology, extensive visual resources and video footage provide valuable contextual background to the materials included in this collection.
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Pro Sound Effects

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Pro Sound Effects® (PSE - CORE6 Complete Bundle) is a database of curated sound effects. The database contains over 1 million sounds and more than 357,000 files. The database draws on the feature films and TV shows across 30 years and from a global network of recordists. Sound files are organized in more than 500 categories and include ambiences, urban and natural soundscapes, animals, vehicles, foley effects, sound design elements and much more. All sounds are royalty free. Access is via a web-based Pro Sound Effects Library Access Portal. The interface permits searching, browsing, and previewing. Users can create playlists or projects, and can download files and sounds.
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Project MUSE

  • Coverage: Varies by Title
  • Access: UALC
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This database provides access to the full text of over 400 scholarly peer reviewed journals by over 100 publishers in the humanities and social sciences.
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global

  • Coverage: current
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: 11 - 15
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers
- See: NAACP Papers: Special Subjects

Socialism on Film

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This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
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Swank Digital Campus

  • Coverage: Varies
  • Access: University of Utah
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Swank Digital Campus streams feature films, documentaries, foreign films, and television episodes from most major movie studios. The core collection includes the 1000 most popular titles for academic users. Additional titles are selected to support specific UofU courses and research.

Times Digital Archive (London Times)

  • Coverage: 1785-2014
  • Access: University of Utah
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  • Maximum Users: unlimited
Digital version of The Times of London archive.

Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation and Everyday Life

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Showcasing the British Film Institute’s Victorian Film Collection and the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection, Victorians on Film provides a glimpse into the lives of the late Victorians and Edwardians captured by some of Britain’s earliest film pioneers and innovators.