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Film, Gender & Sexuality
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Library Workshop Goals
Welcome! Use this LibGuide in your Film, Gender, & Sexuality class to help you:
- Find and establish evidence for your conference essay
- Distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources
- Locate primary sources for your research topics
I also recommend exploring "How to Learn Remotely with the Library" (to the left) to get familiar with all of our online services and resources offered not only this Summer quarter, but always!
Activity: Course Tutorial
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Finding Sources for Film TutorialComplete this tutorial to learn about finding sources for film. This tutorial will show you how (and where!) to find biographical information, reviews, interviews and scholarly articles related to the themes of this course.
Featured Resources
The resources below are featured in the tutorial for this course. Get started with your own research below, and then branch out to other tools on the left-hand tabs in this guide.
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Gale in Context: BiographyThis database contains full-text articles from a variety of subject encyclopedias and dictionaries on over 500,000 people from all times and places. Links are also provided to additional full-text biographical information in articles from magazines, newspapers, web pages, and multimedia resources. Updated daily.
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Gale Literature Resource CenterProvides the full text of literary criticism and reviews, biographies, original works of literature, multimedia resources, and links to selected web resources on authors and their works. Covers 130,000 authors from all times and places. Updated continually.
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MLA International BibliographyIndexes scholarly research published in journal articles, books, articles in books, and dissertations in the fields of modern languages and their literatures, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film. Includes the full text of more than 1,000 journals in these fields. Also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals. 1926 - present.
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Film & Television Literature Index with Full TextThis database provides access to articles and other materials related to film and television research. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database includes indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, as well as full text for more than 90 journals.