Research Guides: CAMS 218: Contemporary Global Cinemas: Books, Articles, and Other Info

LibKey Nomad

Background, Context, Reference

Oxford Bibliographies: CInema & Media Studies
- This link opens in a new window
A specific subject from its parent resource, Oxford Bibliographies, focusing on bibliographies within the field of Cinema and Media Studies

Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across all of Carleton's online reference sources from Oxford University Press, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and quotations.

Statistics and General Film Information

The Numbers
- This link opens in a new window
Current and historical, domestic and foreign box office, budget, and video sales figures.

Statista This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
A vast statistics portal integrating data and facts onto a single platform, categorized into market sectors.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Includes a very fine-grained collection of data about numerous facets of film production, distribution, and exhibition on a nation by nation basis. Click the link on the left for "CULTURE" to access data sets for "Feature films"
Box Office Mojo
- This link opens in a new window
Current box office figures.
Cineuropa
Information on feature films produced and co-produced in Europe from 2000 until now.
IMDb: Internet Movie Database
- This link opens in a new window

Find a Film

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive streaming video collection including documentaries, newsreels, theater, musical performances, and much more from across the disciplines.
Docuseek Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
Independently made documentary films focusing primarily on global health, environmental, and socio-economic issues.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and transcripts)
A large collection of streaming videos covering all academic disciplines.

Periodicals (Newspapers, Magazines, Journals) and Books

Use Catalyst to do a single search across both Carleton's print and online resources. While not every database we subscribe to is included in this search, it will return a large set of results.

Access World News This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
A comprehensive current news database, contains hundreds of local, regional, national, and international news sources (including the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Minneapolis Star Tribune).
allAfrica This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
Includes content from African news organizations published in English and French (including the archive of the Africa News Service starting in 1997), plus world-wide sources such as Comtex News Network, Radio France Internationale, and the BBC. Covers 1996 - current.
Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
An index of alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines from around the world. It focuses on emerging theories and practices of radical social change, socialism, national liberation, labor, Indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. Covers 1969 - current.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
An archival collection of magazines related to the history of the film, music, and entertainment industries, 1880 - 2015.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Provides citations to articles on film and television, with some full text.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
Searches through citations, subject headings, and some abstracts
The premier database for linguistics and literary studies, this index includes articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, and more. Covers 1926 - current.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
Full-text and full-image articles for major newspapers from the United States (including Historical Black Newspapers); plus ABC (Spain), Le Monde, the Jerusalem Post (formerly the Palestine Post), The Korea Times, London Evening Standard‎, South China Morning Post, and the Times of India. Each paper is available from its first issue through about 2013 (depending on the paper). Earliest papers start in 1827.
ProQuest Newsstream This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
A broad collection of newspaper articles published across the U.S.. Covers 1995 - current for most newspapers. An ELM Database.