Film Production: Home

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Collections
• AFI catalog: American Film Institute catalog
• Chambers Film Factfinder
• Film index international
• The Film Noir Foundation (FNF)
• UCLA Film & Television Archive

Library Guides for Music Research:

• Music
• Music Engineering
• Music Resources for Diversity, Equity, and Antiracism
• Psychology of Music

• American Music
• Database of Recorded American Music [DRAM]
• Jazz Music Library
• Popular Music Library

• Asian film online
• BroadwayHD
• Filmmakers Library Online (Award-winning documentaries)
• Films from Kanopy
• Opera in video
• PBS Video Collection
• **see also, Finding Videos

• Animation
• Film
• German Film
• Religion & Film
• Russian Film

The Digital Design Studio (DDS) is a creative space and community of practice for critical approaches to media and making.

JumboSearch for Books

A Few film production handbooks:

• The VES Handbook of Visual Effects: Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures (2021)
• The Green Screen Handbook: Real-World Production Techniques (2015)
• The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects: The Art and Techniques of VFX for Directors, Producers, Editors and Cinematographers (2017)
• The foley grail: the art of performing sound for film, games, and animation (2022)

Suggested subject browses for books:

Note: Worldwide Librariessis still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic.)

Journal and Magazine Articles 

A. All-Subject Databases

• JSTOR
• Project Muse

B. Media, Television  and Cultural Studies Databases

• In EBSCOhost databases, select the following to search across
• Communication & Mass Media
• Film & Television Literature Index
• America: History & Life
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Historical Abstracts
• LGBTQ+ Source
• Women's Studies International

**Search by the title of the article in JumboSearch when the full text is not readily available in the databases.

Additionally Databases:

• Performing Arts Periodicals
• Screen Studies Collection (more foreign language publication)
• Index Islamicus (Middle Eastern Studies)

    Newspaper Articles 

• Access World News (rich regional news)
• Factiva (more international news)

**A complete list of Newspaper Collections, current and historical