Use Academic Search to search for articles in thousands of different scholarly journals and general interest magazines. Coverage extends back to the mid-1980s, and in many cases the full text of the article is available.

More than 250 key international, English-language arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. The print volumes begin in 1929. The online versions include indexing from September 1984 to the present. Art Abstracts includes abstracts of articles from Spring 1994.

The database covers 1980 to the present, and the print volumes go back to 1975. This is the only online index that has much coverage of the Film Studies literature. An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100 journals, covering about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively. Those selectively covered are titles in the sciences and social sciences indexed by Science Citation Indexand Social Sciences Citation Index, from which articles of possible interest in the arts and humanities are drawn. Published in three parts:

* Citation Index (through which you can find what later articles have cited earlier books or articles)

* Source Index (an author index)

* Permuterm Subject Index (which offers keyword access to the titles of articles)

CMMC merges CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). CommSearch offered bibliographic references to journals in communication studies -- some from as far back as the early 20th century. It also indexed NCA’s six journals. Mass Media Articles Index provided citation coverage of articles related to mass media and published in research journals, as well as journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias, and handbooks in the area of communications studies. Communication & Mass Media Complete expands upon them in content and scope and it offers full text for titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources.

Indexes 65-80 international periodicals on film and television. The paper version has a separate volume of subject headings for this index. The online version also includes a number of specialized bibliographies.

Humanities Abstracts, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from 400 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art, dance, drama and film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Continues: Humanities Index, Social Sciences & Humanities Index, and International Index to Periodicals.

The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The print volumes go back to 1921 and the database covers from 1963 to the present.

A collection of periodical indexes. Select Art Index, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Essay and General Literature to find film criticism and reviews of films. Type [name of film] Motion Picture to find articles about particular films.

For example: Fargo Motion Picture or Midnight Garden Good Evil Motion Picture Review

(Note: By using SearchPlus you can limit your search to reviews only)