Film, Theater, and Performing Arts Databases
(see also
Music,
Media, Television, Communications & Publishing, and
General)
[Indexes]
[Video]
[Online Books]
[Also of Interest]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- Film
& Television Literature Index (Ebsco)
 
- Comprehensive database covering the entire spectrum of
television & film in popular, scholarly, trade, technical,
and international publications. Subject coverage includes theory
& criticism, writing, production, cinematography, technical
aspects, preservation & restoration, news, and reviews.
Includes over 32,500 full text movie reviews from Variety dating back to
1914 and over 24,000 classic color and black & white images of celebrity and
entertainment photography, provided by the Motion Picture & Television Archives.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Video:
- Dance
in Video (Alexander Street Press)
- Contains hundreds of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential
performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary,
experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers
of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies;
experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading
choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of 20th
century dance styles.
- Theatre
in Video (Alexander Street Press)
- Provides complete streaming video of the world's leading plays, featuring an
international range of playwrights, actors, and directors. Productions, spanning
from the 1930s to the 2000s, present works from the ancient Greeks up through the
20th century, including the complete works of Shakespeare - several with
multiple productions for comparative analysis. It also provides many documentaries
about theatre that explore the history, playwrights, individual plays, production,
performance, and major companies through interviews with directors, designers,
writers, and actors as well as rare archival footage.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
Film -
Theater & Performing Arts
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more
(more information).
- Nonbook
Materials Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Selective listing of electronic resources, audiobooks, video recordings, sound recordings,
games, simulations, and much more for collection development, readers' advisory, and curriculum
support, highlighting resources for schools and public libraries. Searches are possible by document
type, author, title, subject, genre, and grade level. Annotations include review excerpts and awards.
Cataloging information is provided for all items.
- St.
James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers the culture of mass appeal - all the experiences in life shared by a
people in common as well as those things created for the majority to be easily understandable
and accessible (often disseminated by the mass media) to them. Includes: social life, music,
print, film, television, radio, sports, art, performance, food, fashion, holidays, hairstyles, and
more, emphasizing American popular culture in the second half of the 20th century. Each entry
analyzes the topic and its significance within the broader cultural context.
- Who's
Buying Entertainment (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Examines how much Americans spend on amusing themselves
by the following demographics: age, income, high-income households, household
type, race and Hispanic origin, region of residence, and education. Examines products
and services such as sports and photographic equipment, sound components and TVs,
videogames, movie and theater tickets, and much more.
- Film:
- Columbia
Companion to American History on Film (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Historical analyses and interpretations of film texts that discuss how the movies have
portrayed the American past. Separate sections cover: historical eras - wars & other major
events - notable people - groups - institutions & movements - places - themes & topics -
and myths & heroes.
- International
Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Detailed essays and commentary provide biographies, filmographies,
comprehensive credits, production information, major awards, and bibliographies for
legendary films, actors, actresses, directors, writers, and other production artists.
- Theatre and Performing Arts:
(For criticism of plays, see also: Literature)
- Dance
in Video (Alexander Street Press)
- Contains hundreds of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential
performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary,
experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers
of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies;
experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading
choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of 20th
century dance styles.
- Harlem
Renaissance (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents the people, places and times that defined an era and documents
the launch of cultural development among African Americans in 1920s Harlem. Emphasizes
literature but also covers music, performing arts, visual arts, and nightlife. Includes
almanac and biographies sections with primary source documents
in sidebars throughout.
- Theatre
in Video (Alexander Street Press)
- Provides complete streaming video of the world's leading plays, featuring an
international range of playwrights, actors, and directors. Productions, spanning
from the 1930s to the 2000s, present works from the ancient Greeks up through the
20th century, including the complete works of Shakespeare - several with
multiple productions for comparative analysis. It also provides many documentaries
about theatre that explore the history, playwrights, individual plays, production,
performance, and major companies through interviews with directors, designers,
writers, and actors as well as rare archival footage.
- Thematic
Guide to Modern Drama (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents essays on thirty-three subjects that weave their way through plays
from the end of the 19th century to the present - with an emphasis on American dramatists
but including those from other parts of the world - and highlights the variety of thought
that exists in response to them. Each essay provides summaries and analyses of
three plays that display contrasting views of the theme.
- Also of Interest:
- MLA
International Bibliography (Ebsco)
- Produced by the Modern Language Association, this detailed index of journal articles, books,
book articles, and dissertations dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations from more
than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers. Provides international coverage of the theory and
criticism of world literatures from the Middle Ages to the present. Also covers the dramatic arts, film,
theatre, folklore, languages, linguistics, the history of publishing, and more, along with the teaching of
these subjects on the college level.
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