Research Guides
Film / TV / Theater
(see also Music)
Books, AV & Magazines / Web Sites / Article Databases / Learning Objects
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Books, AV & Magazines
The MATC Libraries Catalog provides access to books, magazines, reserve material,
audio-visual material, and web resources. Depending on the emphasis, books on entertainment are scattered
throughout the collection, but many are in the 790's. Some subject and keyword terms to search with include drama, feature films, mass media, motion pictures, radio, television, and theater.
The MATC Libraries have many feature films on DVD and videotape, which are searchable through the library's catalog.
The library subscribes to some magazines covering popular culture topics (Use your browser's "Back" button to return to this page):
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Web Sites
Encyclopedia of
Television
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/
The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from
more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic
moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid
television and the quiz show scandal.
Entertainment Weekly
http://www.ew.com/ew/
The print counterpart to the magazine covers aspects of many traditional media: books, theater, movies, video games, and music.
Images: a Journal
of Film and Popular Culture
http://www.imagesjournal.com/
Images is a non-commercial Web site created for everyone who enjoys movies and
popular culture.
Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com
Detailed information about more than 135,000 movies.
Movie Review Query Engine
http://www.mrqe.com
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
This archive holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks, plus more than 9000 hours of special news-related programming.
WWW Virtual
Library for Theatre and Drama
http://www.vl-theatre.com/list4.shtml
Readers will find here links to plays in full text versions online for free.
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The following periodical databases, available by clicking on the title of the
database below, contain many articles on the performing arts and popular culture.
Access from home or work is available for these databases with your MATC network ID and password.
Academic
Universe
Powersearch
Proquest
Online Newspapers
A Learning Object is any digital resource that breaks educational content down into small chunks:
HOWLER -- HOWLER (Help Online with Library Education & Research) is a series of multimedia tutorials designed to guide you through the library research process.
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