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All Singing All Dancing: Some Strategies for Researching Movie Musicals

All Singing All Dancing: Some Strategies for Researching Movie Musicals. All Singing All Dancing: Some Strategies for Researching Movie Musicals. Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library. Writing About Film…. Scholarly. Current. Pop. Historical. Fan.

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All Singing All Dancing: Some Strategies for Researching Movie Musicals

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  1. All Singing All Dancing:Some Strategies for Researching Movie Musicals

  2. All Singing All Dancing:Some Strategies for Researching Movie Musicals Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library

  3. Writing About Film… Scholarly Current Pop Historical Fan

  4. All Singing All Dancing : Some Strategies for Research Sources for Film & TV Scholarship and Research • Journals, Magazines, Newspapers • Reviews • Critical/ScholarlyArticles • Books • Web Sites • Other online databases

  5. All Singing All Dancing : Some Strategies for Research • Books • 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) • Scholarly apparatus and sources: notes, bibliographies, other documentation • If they’ve been widely cited by other scholars

  6. All Singing All Dancing : Some Strategies for Research • REVIEWS • Current • Historical • Found in: • Popular & fan journals and newspapers (print & online) • Film studies & scholarly journals (print & online) • Web sites • Fan and enthusiast sites • Commercial sites (e.g., studio sites, video distributors) • Academic sites

  7. Reviews: Current • Use: • Expanded Academic Index (fair amount of full-text) • News Index • ProQuest(some full-text) • Lexis/Nexis • Movie Review Query Engine (web: full-text) • Film Review Annual

  8. Reviews: Historical • Use: • Readers Guide (print) • NY Times Index (or NYT Film Reviews 1913-68) (in MRC) (print) • Film Review Index, 1882-1985 (in MRC) (print) • Film Index International(CDROM in Main/Moffitt Only) • Periodicals Content Index (online)

  9. Critical/Scholarly Articles • Current • Historical • Found in: • Film studies & scholarly journals • Popular & fan journals and newspapers (but onlyoccasionally) • Web sites (even less occasionally…except for academic and commercial databases)

  10. Scholarly/Critical Writing • Use: • International Film Periodicals Index (1972—present) (online) • Expanded Academic Index (1980- present) (online) • Modern Language Assn. Bibliography (1963-present) (online) • Film Index International (CD-ROM in Main and Moffitt) • Film Literature Index (Print Index in Media Center) (1977-present) • Art Abstracts ( & AA Retrospective) (1920s-present) (print) • Periodicals Content Index (PCI)

  11. Once You Find a Citation, How Do You Find the Article? Use Pathfinder • Or.. • Some indexes provide holdings info • Some indexes link to full-text • The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932. (Review) Stephen Banfield.       Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television June 1999 v19 i2 p267(2)    View text and retrieval choices (858 words)

  12. Books Use Pathfinder • Search by • Title and/or Subject Keyword • Director Name (as subject) • Movie Title(asTitle and/or • Subject Keyword)

  13. How to Begin searching for books and/or articles? 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

  14. How to Begin? Before you click: THINK Formulate your search in terms of keyword and key phrases: Sex [women, love, relationships] and Death[dying, mortality, fate] in the films [cinema, movie*] of Woody Allen. The representation [reflect* portray*] of gender [sex*] and masculinity[masculin*, male, men] in the films films [cinema, movie*] of Jim Jarmusch. **** Truncation varies from db to db: * # ? emigra* = emigrant, emigrants, emigrate, emigration

  15. Once you find something that looks good using keywords, Be sure to check out the “official” subject headings Pathfinder EAI

  16. All Singing All Dancing:Some Strategies for Researching Movie Musicals • 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).

  17. The databases I just talked about? • http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/reviewtable4.html

  18. …being driven over the edge by your research? Call me: Gary Handman 643-8566 ghandman@library.berkeley.edu

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