with Vanya Murray

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WISER Humanities Information Resources for
Film Studies

• with Vanya Murray
• Film Studies Librarian
• Oxford University Library Services
• vanya.murray_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk

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Finding primary and critical materials for
Film Studies

• Films locating DVDs and videos in Oxford
• Books, e-books, reference works and
  dissertations subject searching on OLIS, Taylor
  and Francis e-books, ASLIB Index to Theses and
  Dissertation Abstracts
• Scholarly articles using periodical indexes
  (MLA) and databases (LION and Film Indexes
  International) to locate journal articles
• Film reviews professional and scholarly reviews
  (Lexis-Nexis)
• Screenplays and scripts
• Searching the WWW for film history and criticism

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Locating DVDs and videos in Oxford

• Use WebLearn to find out about film collections
  across the University
• http//www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/human/modlang/eu
  rocine/resources/
• Search for films on OLIS by title initially e.g.
• tjules et jim videorecording
• twjules videorecording

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Locating film books on OLIS using LC subject
headings

• Motion pictures--History
• Motion pictures--Germany--History
• Motion pictures--History and criticism
• Motion pictures, French--Criticism and
  interpretation
• Motion pictures, American--History and criticism
• Historical films--History and criticism
• Silent films--Japan--History and criticism
• Motion picture plays--History and criticism
• Film criticism
• Hitchcock, Alfred 1899- --Criticism and
  interpretation
• Motion pictures--Spain--Chronology
• Cinematography

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E-books and Dissertations

• Taylor and Francis Online e-book Library, via
  OxLIP. Available 24 hours a day two hour time
  limit searchable by keyword option to print 5.
  Do an initial keyword search on film or
  cinema to find relevant titles.
• ASLIB Index to Theses (Great Britain and
  Ireland) and Dissertation Abstracts (USA),
  available via OxLIP. Cover more than 1.5 million
  doctoral dissertations and masters theses, with
  abstracts and some with 24 page previews.

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Scholarly Articles

• Use OLIS to retrieve a list of journals held in
  Oxford (smotion pictures periodicals)
• Use TDNET to access specific electronic journals
• Use the MLA to find journal articles on a
  particular topic (e.g. Italian neorealism)
• Use LION to find journal articles and specific
  information on individual directors
• Use the Film Indexes Online to locate articles
  related to specific films and directors

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Film Reviews

• Film Indexes Online via OxLIP
• Lexis-Nexis via OxLIP
• Internet sites e.g.
• Kamera.co.uk http//www.kamera.co.uk/
• Movie review query engine http//www.mrqe.com/look
  up

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Screenplays and scripts

• Use subject headings on OLIS to locate individual
  screenplays e.g.
• s Motion picture plays
• s Film adaptations
• s Motion picture plays--Technique
• s Motion picture authorship
• s Storyboards
• Also do title keyword searches e.g. twscreenplay
  and sense (to retrieve the screenplay for
  Sense and Sensibility)
• British Film Institute Online Scripts
  http//www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/gateway/categorie
  s/scriptsscriptwriting/online/
• Yahoo Screenplay websites http//dir.yahoo.com/En
  tertainment/Movies_and_Film/Screenplays

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Searching the WWW

• HUMBUL Subject Gateway http//www.humbul.ac.uk
• National film organisations and professional
  bodies
• British Film Institute http//www.bfi.org.uk/
• Instituto Luce http//www.luce.it/istitutoluce/i
  ndex.htm
• Bibliothèque du Film http//www.bifi.fr/
• Deutsches Filminstitut
• http//www.deutsches-filminstitut.de/dframe12.
  htm
• Internet Movie Database! http//www.imdb.com/

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Contact details
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And finally

• Assessment form at http//www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cours
  es/feedback/index.xsp
• Thank you for attending today