Research Guides: Film Studies: Find Articles

New Database Package - ProQuest Arts Premium

The library now has a subscription to ProQuest Arts Premium, which includes Art/Design/Architecture, Music/Performing Arts, and Screen Studies collections. Search them together or individually using the links below.

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database
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This database is an essential reference work for any film researcher and contains a diverse range of specialist content: the International Index to Film Periodicals contains over 500,000 article citations from more than 345 periodicals. It offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, many of which are seamlessly linked to a growing library of film journals.
Film Index International
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Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute (bfi) it is based on the Summary of Film and Television (SIFT) database collated by the bfi over the past 70 years. Film Index International provides in-depth indexing of over 125,000 films - from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters - and biographical information for more than 800,000 personalities. Its rich content also includes coverage of international film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists.
AFI Catalog
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Since the initiation of the project in 1968, the mandate of the AFI Catalog has been to catalog every American motion picture either produced in the United States or sponsored and financed by American companies as an aid to the preservation of the American national film heritage. Drawing on the expertise of specialist staff at the American Film Institute (AFI), the AFI Cataloging currently covers the years 1893-1974 comprehensively, with additional records covering selected major films from 1975 onwards.

All Graduate Center Databases

The databases you see on this page are just a small subset of all of the databases (collections of resources) available to you through the Graduate Center Library. See the full A-Z list to see all databases from every discipline.

Looking for a specific Journal?

Use the journal title search tool to check whether the library has access to a particular journal through our databases.

More instruction can be found in the Finding Electronic and Print Journals blog post.

Highlights from the New York Public Library

See our guide about the GC and the New York Public Library, for a list of featured resources available remotely.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
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Includes the full text of over 500 journals in communications and media, as well as citations from several hundred additional titles. Useful for a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences.
Art Full Text
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The full-text version of Art Index indexes over 450 journals, providing the full text of over 300 titles beginning with 1997. In addition to art history and architecture titles, many film journals are included.
Art Index Retrospective
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Index of art periodicals from 1929 to 1984.
Film Literature Index
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Indexes all the content of 150 film and television journals from 30 countries and selectively indexes 200 additional periodicals. Includes 700,000 citations of articles, film reviews, and book reviews from 1976-2001. This free resource is not being updated.
Humanities Source
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Over 1,450 full-text journals dating back to 1907. Should be included in any humanities search.

Gale Literary Sources
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Gale Literary Sources searches many Gale literature databases at once (Literature Resource Center, Gale Virtual Reference Library), with added search visualization tools (Term Frequency and Term Clusters).
Essay and General Literature Index
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Contains citations to essays in collections of mostly scholarly works and miscellaneous works published since 1984 in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. While there are no abstracts, complete contents of the volumes are listed. An extremely useful resource for all disciplines because it indexes sources not covered elsewhere. Search simultaneously with Essay and General Literature Retrospective.
Essay and General Literature Retrospective
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Indexes 249,000 essays from collections of essays on many disciplines published in English from 1900 to 1984. Search simultaneously with Essay and General Literature Index.
JSTOR
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The Arts and Sciences I-XII collections of JSTOR offer the full text of over 2,400 scholarly journals including African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, classical studies, ecology, economics, education, feminist and women's studies, film studies, folklore, geography, history, language, literature, Middle East studies, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, sociology. Coverage begins with the first issue of almost every journal and continues through varying periods within the last five years.
Oxford Index (All Oxford Databases)
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Search all Oxford University Press databases to which the Graduate Center subscribes: Oxford Art Online, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford History of Western Music, Oxford Journals Online, Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford Reference Online, and Oxford Scholarship Online. After performing a search, you must check the "Show only full text provided by CUNY Graduate Center" box.
Project Muse
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Full text of over 350 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Graduate Center does not subscribe to Project Muse ebooks, but titles are accessible via the New York Public Library.

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus

The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) produces a package of electronic databases that are available to access onsite at NYPL's research libraries (including the SIBL branch, next door to the Graduate Center on Madison Ave. at 34th St.). Collectively called FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus, it includes:

International Index to Film Periodicals
The main database, the International Index to Film Periodicals, offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present. The database includes almost 400,000 article references from more than 360 titles.
International Index to Television Periodicals
The database International Index to Television Periodicals includes approximately 50,000 article references from 1979 to 2000. Please note that this database is no longer updated and that television-related references from film journals continue to be indexed in the International Index to Film Periodicals.
Treasures from the Film Archives
The database Treasures from the Film Archives contains unique information about silent film holdings in international film archives. It provides filmographic and holdings information on over 53,000 silent shorts and features, fiction and non-fiction, from over 112 of the world's major film archives.

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
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Formerly known as Film/TV Documentation Collections, FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. It is an essential reference work for any film researcher.

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Access is available onsite at NYPL's research libraries, including the SIBL location on 34th and Madison Ave.
FIAF Index Journal List
The list of journal titles, updated quarterly, that are indexed in FIAF's International Index to Film Periodicals.