Film Studies Research Guide
Databases

Online databases and periodical indexes help you search for full-text articles or article citations in Film Studies.  Available on Library computers to all. Available off campus to UMass Amherst students, faculty, staff, and affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT username and password when prompted.

Suggested Film Studies databases and periodical indexes follow. (See Database Locator for the Library's complete database list.)

Primary

Film Literature Index
Citations to articles appearing in film journals from 130 countries. Includes both scholarly and popular periodicals.

International Index to the Performing Arts
Citations to articles in journals covering the performing arts.

Secondary

Academic Search Premier
Indexes hundreds of scholarly journals. Full-text is available for some articles while only the citation and abstract are available for other articles.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes scholarly journals in the Humanities which can be searched by topic, author, source, address or by cited reference.

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Abstracts and full-text of articles from several hundred sources in communication, including Film Studies.

JSTOR
Full-text scholarly journals. From the earliest issue of each journal to between two and five years prior to the present.

Lexis/Nexis
Full-text articles from tens of thousands of periodicals, including many film trade publications.

Project Muse
Full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, including film.

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