SCRN 4001: Black Women in Film
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Search Strategies
When searching in a scholarly journal, you won't necessarily find reviews, but rather criticisms, interpretations, and analysis of films, genres, themes, etc. These are written by scholars in the field and are different than a review that you might find in a newspaper or website (which are more about recommendations to viewers).
Here are some search strategies when you are searching within a scholarly journal or a larger database (which houses many journals):
- Use quotation marks around the film title: "Black Panther"
- Don't just type in the name of the movie you're interested in... you'll need to add other descriptive words like film, review, motion picture, critical analysis. Each database is different, so if you don't get any good results, try mixing and matching these terms to see if you get more results.
- Narrow your results to scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles by choosing the box on the left titled "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals"
Suggested List of Scholarly Journals
Each of the links below will take you to the library record for the journal listed. You can search within the journal by typing in your terms into the box that says "Search within Publication" in light grey text. This box should be the first item underneath the journals' title.
Scholarly Databases
These are suggested databases that you can use to search for scholarly and/or peer-reviewed articles. Databases are large collections of journals and so you'll get results from many different journals. You will need to narrow your results on the left of the screen - these are called "limiters."
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of the most valuable full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, this database is the leading source of peer-reviewed, full-text for STM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities. This scholarly collection offers unmatched coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
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Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new windowFeaturing full-text articles, indexing and abstracts from an array of publications, this database is a robust resource for art students and art historians. Covers a variety of topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, folk art, film and architecture.• More than 360 full-text periodicals (40 more full-text than Art Full Text)
• 220 full-text books (which are not in Art Full Text)
• Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 790 academic journals, magazines and trade publications and more than 220 books
• A collection of over 63,000 images -
Art Index Retrospective: 1929 - 1984 (H. W. Wilson) This link opens in a new windowThis archival database offers historical literature on a variety of art topics from the years 1929-1984. It provides users access to over half a century of art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. Content includes high-quality indexing of nearly 600 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed, and citations of over 25,000 book reviews.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowCommunication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) offers full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, rhetoric, language, logic, and other closely related fields.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a not-for-profit organization and a shared digital library archive of critical scholarly journal literature. Louisiana State University currently participates in the following JSTOR Collection(s): Arts & Sciences Collections I-XV, Ireland Archive Collection, Life Sciences Collection, University of California Press Collection, University of Chicago Press Collection, Business IV Collection, Lives of Literature Collection, and the Sustainability Collection.
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MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new windowNOTE: This is a collection of popular sources and will not have scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window- Search for the film's title in the "Subjects" field.
- Add "film" to your search string if it was based on literature. -
Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE is your trusted source for the highest quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.
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