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Ang Lee and King Hu: Some Basic Strategies for Research

Ang Lee and King Hu: Some Basic Strategies for Research. Ang Lee and King Hu : Basic Strategies for Research. Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library. Writing About Film: The Basic Questions. What types of writing are out there?

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Ang Lee and King Hu: Some Basic Strategies for Research

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  1. Ang Lee and King Hu: Some Basic Strategies forResearch

  2. Ang Lee and King Hu : Basic Strategies for Research Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library

  3. Writing About Film: The Basic Questions • What types of writing are out there? • What types of publications contain writing about film? • Who’s doing the writing? • How do you identify what’s out there and where do you find the stuff?

  4. Writing About Film… Scholarly Pop Industry Fan • Reviews • Critical analysis • Biography • Reviews • Pop talk • Biography • Box office and market info • Production info • gossip • Gossip • Fantasy & fetish • General weirdness

  5. What are the Sources for Film & TV Scholarship and Research? For Reviews? (i.e. Where do you find this stuff?)

  6. Film Scholarship/Film Reviews Sources Reviews Critical/ScholarlyArticles Simpson, Craig S. "'Crouching Tiger': the rebirth of myth." Chronicle of Higher Education, March 22, 2001 v47 i28 pB19(1) Acocella, Joan. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." (movie review) . The New Yorker March 26, 2001 v77 i5 p100(2) • Books • Journals, Magazines, Newspapers

  7. Film Scholarship/Film Reviews Sources • Books • Journals, Magazines, Newspapers • Reviews • Critical/ScholarlyArticles • Web Sites (the good, the academic, and the ugly) • Other online databases

  8. Scholarly/authoritative works • Pop schlock and fan works • How Do You Tell em’ apart? • Author’s credentials/affiliations • Publisher (e.g. BFI, AFI, University Presses vs pop press; juried vs pop journals) • Scholarly apparatus and sources: notes, bibliographies, other documentation • If they’ve been widely cited by other scholars

  9. Scholarly Who’s doing the writing? • Film Studies • Women’s Studies • Ethnic studies • Queer Studies • Literature • Political science • History • Area Studies (i.e. areas of national focus) • Others… Who’s Doing It = Where You Look For Resources

  10. More LESS Scholarly (or at least substantive) Books (Some generalizations) Films w/in last 5 years or so Older Films Books about directors and genres Books about individual films (xcept the biggies)

  11. Critical/Scholarly Journal Articles • Current Films (fewer) • Older Films (more) • Found in: • Film studies journals (print & online) • Journals in various disciplines (print & online) • Web sites (occasionally… academic and commercial databases)

  12. REVIEWS • Current Articles • Retro Articles • Found in: • Popular, news, & fan journals and newspapers (print & online) • Film studies & scholarly journals (print & online) • Industry journals (e.g. Variety) • Web sites • Fan and enthusiast sites • Commercial sites (e.g., studio sites, video distributors) • Academic (or at least academically-minded) film sites

  13. How do you locate this stuff? Pathfinder Indexes & Abstracts Inventory of Books and Journals (what the Library owns) Journal articles by discipline

  14. How do you locate this stuff? Journal Articles/Reviews Online & Print Indexes and Abstracts • Film-related (not many exist) • General news • Literary • Other disciplines: e.g. Women’s Studies, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, History…etc. Jumping Off point for Finding Online Indexes: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/filmstudies/reviewslist.html

  15. Reviews: How to Look em’ Up • Search index using title of work (as a phrase) • You can also include director • Try using and review • e.g. Crouching Tiger and review • or • Crouching Tiger and Ang Lee and review

  16. Once You Find a Citation, How Do You Find the Article? • Some indexes provide holdings info [UC eLinks] • Some indexes link tofull-text If neither…use Pathfinder

  17. Full-text! UCB Holdings!

  18. How to Begin searching for books and/or articles on a research topic? Before you click: THINK • Formulate your search in terms of: • KEY WORDS andSYNOMYMS: • --Looks for words anywhere in record: title, subject, abstract and full-text (if avail) • PHRASES: • --Looks for words in the exact order entered

  19. How to Begin? Before you click: THINK Formulate your search in terms of keyword and key phrases: The representation [reflect* portray* depict*] of gender [sex*] roles in the films films [cinema, movie*] of King Hu. **** Truncation varies from db to db: * # ? emigra* = emigrant, emigrants, emigrate, emigration

  20. What to do if nothing is turning up • Tweak your topic: Broaden it / select a different angle • Rethink your search strategy (new keywords, new concepts, etc.) • Bail out completely and choose another topic

  21. Film Reviews and Criticism • http://www.lib.berkeley. edu/MRC/FilmBibMenu.html • Bibliographies on various film topics and individual films compiled by MRC (includes bibs for genres, filmmakers, national cinemas, and individual film).

  22. …being driven over the edge by your research? Call me: Gary Handman 643-8566 ghandman@library.berkeley.edu Review this presentation at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/filmstudies/instruction.html

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