Film and television

Finding Journal Articles

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Academic Search Elite Provides full text for over 1,200 journals covering the social sciences and humanities
American Humanities Index:
a collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada.
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre on EBSCOhost Contains full text articles from selected Australian newspapers, journals, and reference books..
Australian Public Affairs (APAIS) - Full text on Informit- index to thousands of social sciences and humanities articles, includes full text articles from 320 journal titles.
Communication & Mass Media Complete on EBSCOhost Available for a 1 year trial during 2004
Electric Library
Contains full text articles from selected Australian newspapers including The Australian and the Herald-Sun.
Expanded Academic ASAP on InfoTrac
Factiva Contains full text articles from hundreds of major newspapers.
MediaScan -on Informit
Media Scan is a bibliographic database featuring articles indexed from daily newspapers including: Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, Herald Sun, Bulletin.
ProQuest 500 International Contains a number of databases containing information on media telecommunications, and the arts. Includes the Proquest ANZ Newstand and the Academic Research Library
World Magazine Bank on EBSCOhost General subject database including over 400 journal titles with over 140 titles in full text.

Browse Online Journals

Online Film journals held at Swinburne Library
Fulltext online Film and Video Journals available through Swinburne Library.
Journals held include:
Afterimage
American Cinematographer
Continuum - (Australian)
Film Comment
Film Criticism
The Film Journal
Independent film & video
Journal of film and video
Journal of popular film and television
Jump cut
Metro - Australian
Rouge: contains scholarly articles on non-mainstream cinema
Senses of Cinema: Melbourne-based online journal
Sight and Sound
Variety
Velvet Light Trap
Video Age International

Film Databases

All Movie Database
The Big Cartoon Database
Bonza: an Australian and NZ film history database compiled by Cinema Studies students at RMIT
British Film Institute - catalogues
Internet Movie Database
UCLA Film & Television Archive
Urban Cinefile (Aust.) includes film reviews, interviews etc
Variety

Film Gateways

100 Years of Movies
BritMovie Website dedicated to British Cinema
Cinema Sites: comprehensive list of news, reviews, studio information etc
CineMedia - The internet's largest film and media directory
The Encyclopaedia Of Fantastic Film and TV
Film Buffs Forecast
Film Sound information on the artistic and technological aspects on the sound and music in film
Greatest Film Site
Innersense Cinema: Independent film making and criticism (Aust.)
MediaSearch Australian film resources
OzFilm: a guide to Australian film
The RML Movie Page Richard Lowensteins mammoth directory of links to Film, TV and production resources
Urban Cinefile: Australian and Overseas film resources