How to Find Biographical Materials for Your Director
Search for biographical information about women directors worldwide using these SCU databases below.
- Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new windowThis database contains 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.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new windowContains biographies of over 60,000 noteworthy people in British history from the dawn of the common era to the 21st century.
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowSearch this database for literary and film criticism and reviews. You'll also find biographical content for directors. It covers 130,000 authors/creators from all times and places. Updated continually.
Biographies in eBooks
You may also find biographical information for directors by searching for ebooks and books within the library. For example, let's take the renown French director Agnès Varda.
1. Select "Streaming Videos/eBooks" on the Library homepage to quickly search for ebooks in the Library. OSCAR, by comparison, lets you search for print and ebooks (as well as other kinds of titles).
2. Now enter your search terms. To search for your director's name as a phrase, put it in quotes, as shown below. That ensures the two words appear adjacent to one another. See what the ebook results look like for Agnès Varda.
