Cinema Studies CST12MSM

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Cinema StudiesCST12MSM

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Todays session will cover

• Doing research for your essays, using
• The library catalogue
• The best databases to find journal articlesALSO
• AV Reserve what, how, where???
• Off campus access of online resources
• Cinema Studies web page designed to help YOU

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Begin at the librarys home page, links to the
catalogue databases
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Catalogue menu
Notice that the catalogue is color-coded
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Three types of references

• A bookRichard Dyer, Heavenly bodies film
  stars and society. New York St Martins P, 1986.
  
• A chapter in a bookPeter Wollen, The auteur
  theory, in Joanne Hollows, Peter Hutchings and
  Mark Jancovich (eds), The film studies reader.
  London Arnold, 2000. 71-77
• A journal articleStuart McKenzie, Warrior
  cast. Artforum International, 33.6 (1995) 64-68
  

Tip always do a title search for title of BOOK
or JOURNAL
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Catalogue Menu
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Search the Reserve Collection

• By course code, e.g. CST12MSM

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From Audiovisual Reserve
Online booking
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Online booking form
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Creating your library PIN
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Your student ID goes here
PIN YOU select the PIN,5 8 numbers long
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Library PINs are usefulYou can

• see what you have on loan
• renew books online
• request a hold on books out on loan, book AV
  reserve items
• self-checking system later this year
• access databases, electronic journals, exam
  papers, electronic reserve, recorded
  lectureseven OFF CAMPUS / AT HOME

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Forget your library PIN??

• You will need to contact the Loans Desk to have
  your old PIN erased
• Then create a new one.
• Then REMEMBER your PIN!

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Searching by subject
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Subject headings

• You can also use directors names and even titles
  of well known films as subject headings,
  e.g.Scorsese, Martin

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Scorsese Martin as a subject heading
6 subject headings ABOUT this director
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Scorseseas a keyword search
There are now more than 50 results
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Why has this title appeared in the list?
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This title includes the name Scorsese
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• You can search phrases and combine keywords
• You can use truncation to search alternative
  forms of a wordExample auteur and motion
  pictureyou retrieve the words auteur, auteurs,
  auteurist, and motion picture, motion pictures

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What about researching one of your essay topics?
e.g.

• Postmodernism and cinema
• You COULD type that in as a keyword search, but
  you would find only

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19 entries
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New keyword searchpostmodern and motion
picture
Sort by date to get most recent titles first
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Now there are 43 references, the most recent
titles first
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Databases finding journal articles
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Select Humanities
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Suggested databases for this subject

• Expanded Academic Proquest Social Sciences and
  Humanities Collection -include many full text
  articles
• FIAF (International Film Archive Database)
• MLA (Modern Language Association) for topics
  relating to auteur theory
• Film Index International (covers beginning of
  20th century to 1998)CD-ROM book at Information
  Desk

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Expanded Academic ASAPkeyword to
cataloguephrases in quote marks
limit to title, citation, abstracts
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Full text article in a journal
Two versions HTML version or PDF You will need
Acrobat Reader for the PDF
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For example, this reference has only this
information
You will need to do a title search in the
catalogue for the journal Sight and Sound
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Searching FIAF(International Film Archive
Database)

• Searching for references to film titles
• Searching for references to directors
• Truncation is an asterisk (), thusauteur

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When searching for information on a particular
film title

• add in the phrase in ft, which will search the
  film title field only
• Put titles of more than one word in quote marks,
  especially when the title includes the word and
  or in

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This is a reference to an article in the Journal
of Film and Video, Spring 1994
Title of article
The library has a subscription to this journal
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Searching for articles on a director select
Subject
Tip Change display and select Complete record
to see subject headings and other important
information
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Library resources for Cinema Studies click on
Subject Resources
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Select Cinema/Media Studies, then follow the
link to Cinema Studies guide to library
resources
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The contents of this page aredesigned to help
you!
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• Val Forbes
• Humanities Social Sciences Team
• Library