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Library Databases
Need to find scholarly, peer-reviewed articles related to your research interest and topic? Try searching in some of these databases to get started. Keep in mind that other resources are index and available in these tools as well such as reviews, magazine and news articles, book reviews, and more, so make sure to evaluate your sources. More listed here.
Film and Media Studies:
This will search multiple databases in ProQuest, including American Film Institute Film Catalog[1], the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive[2], Film Index International [3] Performing Arts Periodicals[4], and FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals [5]. You'll find: scholarly articles, trade publications, film reviews, book reviews, dissertations, and more! See descriptions below.
Film Index International is a major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters - Film Index International provides truly international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries.
Variety began as a weekly publication December 16, 1905. Currently, the archives begin March 18, 1906. The archive is currently missing: March 29, 1932-June 14, 1932. The archive contain every issue of Daily Variety, which began publication September 6, 1933. An excellent source when trying to find older film reviews!
Latinx/Latina/o Studies:
Indexes a wide variety of materials (journal articles, books, book chapters) on the Mexican-American, Chicano, and the broader Latino experience. Scholarship is dated from 1960s-present. Use the "Get it at UC" link for full-text if not in database, or try ILL.
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) provides complete bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US since the late 1960s.Use the "Get it at UC" link for full-text if not in database, or try ILL. See the list of journals here.
Multidisciplinary Databases
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
This database is multidisciplinary so it covers many subject areas. It includes access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals as well as abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations
Newspaper Databases
Many more newspaper resources & library databases are available here: https://guides.lib.uci.edu/news/home.
Access news articles published in the Los Angeles Times, 1985 - Present.
Access news articles published in the Los Angeles Times from 1881-1986.
Provides access to current content and significant archives dating back to the 1980s for five of the nation’s most respected national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, in full-text format.
Academic Journals of Interest
Scholarly work on borderlands cinema may be published across a variety of academic journals that intersect with either Latinx and/or Film and Media Studies, not just the ones listed here. But here are a few critical academic journals to consider citing and searching in, in addition to searching on the databases listed above. For a longer list of FMS journals, visit: https://guides.lib.uci.edu/film/journals.
Peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is an international journal that promotes innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within interactive media. The journal serves as a premiere outlet for ground-breaking work in the field of game studies and its scope includes the socio-cultural, political, and economic dimensions of gaming from a wide variety of perspectives.
This journal engages debate and rigorous thinking among humanities scholars of film, television, digital media, and other audiovisual technologies. It covers the aesthetic, political, and cultural interpretation of media and their production, circulation, and reception.
Explores Latino/a culture at the local, national, transnational, and hemispheric levels. This journal illuminates the struggles of Latinas and Latinos for equality, representation, and social justice.
An interdisciplinary publicationof a feminist Chicana/Latina and Native women's academic organization, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS, Women Active in Research and Social Change). It aims to provide space for those historically marginalized and the journal is receptive to all scholarly methods and theoretical perspectives that examine, describe, analyze, or interpret the experiences of Chicanas/Latinas and Native women.