Library Research Workshop: Close Analysis of film

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Contents:

Reference Sources/Multimedia Projects
Finding Criticism and Films
People and Places to know about in the Yale Library
Related Internet Sites

This web site accompanies a Yale University Library Research workshop for Film Studies 320b, Close Analysis of Film. It will remain online for future consultation.

Sarah Prown
Librarian for Film Studies, Theater Studies and Networked Information
Sterling Memorial Library

1. Reference Sources/Multimedia Projects

Reference sources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, guides, etc.) are excellent sources of cast, crew, and production information. This is just a sampling of the numerous Film Reference sources available in the SML Main Reference Room and on the Internet. The Research Guide in Film Studies lists many more reference sources.

The Multimedia projects listed here provide interesting examples of Close Analysis of Film in multimedia format.

Reference Sources
- The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Ed. Nicholas Thomas. 2nd ed.(Chicago: St. James, 1990-1994) 5 v.
  SML Reference PN1994 +I58
  Contents: v. 1, Films; v. 2, Directors; v. 3, Actors and Actresses; v. 4, Writers and Production Artists; v. 5, Title Index. Includes films and personalities from all periods, places and times. Concise, yet detailed essays that include substantial bibliographies and filmographies.
- Internet Movie Database (http://www.msstate.edu/Movies/)
  The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an international organization whose objective is to provide useful and up to date movie information freely available on-line, across as many systems and platforms as possible. It currently covers over 95,000 movies with over 1,300,000 filmography entries and is expanding continuously. The database aims to capture any and all information associated with movies from across the world, starting with the earliest cinema, going through to the very latest releases and even movies still in production. It covers filmographies for all professions in the industry; plot summaries; character names; movie ratings; year of release; running times; movie trivia; quotes; goofs; soundtracks; personal trivia; alternative names; certificates; color information; country of production; genres; production companies; distributors; special effects companies; sound mix; reference literature; filming locations; sequel/remake information; release dates; advertising tag lines; detailed technical data; alternative versions; laserdisc availability; languages; reviews; links to official studio pages, fan pages, image and multimedia archives; direct purchase links for movies and associated merchandise; box office grosses and Academy Award information.
- TV Guide's Motion Picture Database. (http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/)
  From The Motion Picture Guide (SML Reference PN1995 +N3461), Cinebooks' 23-volume reference landmark, and Ephraim Katz's comprehensive Film Encyclopedia, this search database includes the cast, credits and reviews for more than 30,000 movies released in the U.S., plus filmographies and biographical information on thousands of actors, directors and other filmmakers.
Other Reference Sources
- Research Guide in Film Studies: Reference Sources
- Research Workstation: Subject Guides
- Research Workstation: Databases list
Close Analysis Multimedia Projects
- The Rebecca Project (The Rutgers University Press, NJ, 1995)
  SML Electronic Text Center (SML 509)
  This multi-media CD-ROM, which contains movie clips, photographs, hypertext critical essays and rarely seen primary documents, is designed for interactive use in developing skills in cinema analysis, history and criticism through the examination of the movie Rebecca.
- Rodolfo Valentino : viaggio nel mito = travel through a myth (Vicenza : Ash multimedia, 1997)
  SML Electronic Text Center (SML 509)
  A multimedia analysis and presentation on the life and work of Rodolfo Piero Filiberto Guglielmi (1895-1926), also known as Rodolfo Valentino.

2. Finding Criticism and Films

Finding scholarly criticism and copies of films or other materials that Yale does not own can be a daunting task. Use Orbis and Eureka to locate books and use these periodical indexes (divided by Film, Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and General Humanities indexes) to locate articles. The periodical indexes are located in the SML Main Reference Room, in the SML CD-ROM Reference Center, and online via the Research Workstation (under Databases and Electronic Journals).

Library Research Workstation
Connect to Library Research Workstation
The Yale University Library Research Workstation is the primary gateway to all of the Library's electronic resources, as well as information about the rich print and manuscript collections. Use the Research Workstation to connect to Orbis (Yale's online catalog), as well as many databases, subject guides and online library services.

Orbis/Yale Library Catalogs
Connect to Orbis/Yale Library Catalogs
The collections of the Yale University Library are represented in multiple online catalogs and card catalogs. Together, Orbis, Morris (the Law Library catalog) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) catalog constitute the Yale University Library online catalog.

Use these catalogs to determine what materials (books, journals, archival collections, etc.) are held by Yale, and where these items are located.

Materials published prior to 1977 that do not appear in Orbis (OPAC) can be located using the "union" card catalog in Sterling Memorial Library. More than half of the Library collection is represented ONLY in the card catalog.

There are also numerous Special Library Catalogs that provide unique access to the Yale Library collections. For example, Government Documents, Maps, and Musical Scores are NOT represented in Orbis or the SML card catalog.

The Law Library maintains a separate online catalog called Morris.

Additional materials purchased cooperatively are available through Interlibrary Loan from the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).

SAMPLE ORBIS SEARCHES:
A=GODARD JEAN-LUC
S=GODARD JEAN-LUC
K =GODARD JEAN LUC AND (WOMEN OR WOMAN OR FEMINIS?)

Locating Films, Archives and materials not owned by Yale

Eureka
Connect to Eureka (via telnet)
Connect to Eureka on the Web
Eureka Search Guide
EUREKA offers easy-to-use online access to the Research Libraries Group's RLIN bibliographic database of more than 22 million titles. Use EUREKA to uncover a wealth of resources in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections. EUREKA provides catalog records for books, journals, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you. Use Eureka to locate materials outside of Yale.
*USE LIMIT Command to locate Videos and Archival collections in Eureka

Research Guide in Film Studies: Film/Video Archives and Collections

Indexes - Film

Film Literature Index. v.1- 1973- (Albany, NY: Filmdex, 1974-)
SML, Reference Z5784 M9 F55 (LC)
The major index to film criticism from 1974 to the present. Indexes over 300 international film periodicals. Film title, personal name, and subject indexes are included. Film Literature Index also includes critical articals on television and video (section two).For earlier scholarship, consult the Retrospective Index to Film Periodicals, below.

Film Index International (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1993- )
SML CD-ROM Reference Center
This CD-ROM, produced by the British Film Institute, includes cast lists, summaries, and citations to articles about 90,000 films and 30,000 persons, 1930-present.

International Index to Film Periodicals (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1972- )
SML, Reference Z5784 M9 +I58 (LC)
SML CD-ROM Reference Center
A subject index to articles, biographies, and reviews found in international periodicals which covers 1972-present. Articles about both film and televsion programs are included in the database. The CD-ROM is published by FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives). There are several indexes available from the title screen of the CD-ROM. They are:

Film Index/TV Index

Individual Holdings of FIAF Member Archives

Silent Films

Latin American Films

Batty, Linda. Retrospective Index to Film Periodicals, 1930-1971. (New York: Bowker, 1975)
SML Reference Z5784 M9 B39 (LC)
Historical index of film scholarship predates the Film Literature Index, above.Indexes 14 English-language film periodicals, as well as articles from the Village Voice

Research Guide in Film Studies: Finding Criticism

Research Guide in Film Studies: Finding Reviews

Indexes - Arts, Literature, Philosophy

Avery Index (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1973- )
Art &Architecture, Reference Z5945 +C65 1973B (LC)
Art &Architecture, CD-ROM
Connect to Avery Index online (via CitaDel Web)
Guide to Searching the Avery Index (via CitaDel)
Index to architectural periodicals in all languages, covers built works, theory, interior design, city planning, and landscape design for all time periods and geographic places. The database--both online and CD-ROM--covers 1978 to the present. The print volumes go back to 1973.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Connect to BHA (via CitaDel Web)
Guide to Searching BHA
Contains records describing the current literature of art, including books, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and journal articles in more than 3,000 periodicals. Produced by the Getty Information Institute, formerly the Getty Art History Information Program, and the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST). BHA incorporates the art indexes RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'art et d'archeologie). The databses covers the years 1973-present and is updated quarterly.

SAMPLE SEARCHES IN BHA Subject | Greenaway, Peter

MLA Bibliography (New York: Modern Language Association of American, 1921- )
SML Reference Z7006 M63 (LC)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
Connect to MLA Bibliography online (via FirstSearch)
The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.The database (online and CD-ROM) 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.

SAMPLE MLA Search su:godard and modern?

Philosopher's Index (Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green University, 1940- )
SML, Reference Z7127 +P45 (LC)
Divinity Stack Reference Z7127 +P45 (LC) (last 20 years in Trowbridge)
SML CD-ROM Reference Center
Indexing and abstracting from books and over 300 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields. Philosopher's Index--both in print and on CD-ROM--contains materials from 1940 to the present.

Indexes - General

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Philadelphia: Insititute for Scientific Information, 1975- .)
SML, Subject Bibliography (L&B) Z5937 +A795 (LC)
Connect to Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science)
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 Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, from which articles of possible interest in the arts and humanities are drawn. The Web of Science database includes the years 1978 to the present, and the print volumes go back to 1975.

SAMPLE AHCI SEARCH: jean-luc godard or godard jean-luc

Expanded Academic Index
Connect to Expanded Academic Index
Indexes articles from over 1500 scholarly journals, magazines and the New York Times from 1985 to the present on all topics. It is available through Orbis as ACAD. There is no print equivalent of this index.

SAMPLE ACAD SEARCH: S=GODARD JEAN-LUC
S=BREATHLESS (MOTION PICTURE)
K=GODARD JEAN-LUC AND MODERN?

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)
Connect to Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)
Guide to searching PCI
PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. PCI Web currently indexes over six million articles in 1,595 journals. Every year, it adds records for more than two million more articles. It will grow to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles.

SAMPLE PCI SEARCH: jean-luc godard or godard jean-luc

Wilson Web Databases
Connect to WilsonWeb online
Search across numerous periodical indexes simultaneously, including: Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Art Abstracts, Book Review Digest, Art Index, Biography Index, and the Essay & General Literature Index. Includes some full-text articles. Access Wilson Databases via the Art Index on the Research Workstation..

SAMPLE WILSON SEARCH: On selection screen, scroll down to "Check Relevant Database"
enter search, eg, godard,jean-luc and modern*
select databases and rerun search in selected databases.

Bibliographies
Bibliographies are reference sources that list articles, books, and other sources on a particular topic. A good bibliography will save quite a bit of research time, since someone has already reviewed the literature on that topic.

In Orbis, search: K=[subject] and bibliography

Notice the Library of Congress Subject Heading

Search the Subject heading in Orbis and in Eureka

3. People and Places to know about in the Yale Library

Reference Questions - Research Services & Collections

InterLibrary Loan

4. Related Internet sites

Research Guide in Film Studies
UCLA Film and Television Archive

Facets Video

Godard Sites

Official Web Site of Jean-Luc Godard

Tout Va Bien -- Jean-Luc Godard

Godard Filmography and Related Links

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's mailing-list:
Send e-mail to Majordomo@newsite.newschool.edu with the following words in the body of the mail: subscribe godard-list

Comments to Sarah Prown (sarah.prown@yale.edu), Librarian for Film Studies, Theater Studies and Networked Information. URL is http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/film/closeanalysis/closeanalysis.html