LibGuides: REL 0103 & FMS 0177: Religion and Film.: Secondary Sources

Specialized Databases

Subject-specific databases can help you to locate scholarly articles in a particular discipline more precisely than a tool like JumboSearch. Subject-specific databases include both religion and film and media studies.

AFI Catalog
Film & media studies | Catalog of American Films | 1893-1974 complete coverage; 1974-present select coverage
ATLA Religion
Religious studies | Abstracts and full-text content
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication studies | Abstracts, index, and some full-text coverage
Film & Television Literature Index
Film & media studies | Abstracts and index
MLA International Bibliography
Language & literature studies | Abstracts, index, and some full-text coverage
Screen Studies Collection
Film & media studies | Abstracts, filmographies, indexes, and some full-text content

Select Journals

Category: Films about Religion (Wikipedia)
A list of sub-categories which might help you identify a theme.
Film Criticism
Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication bringing together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies since 1975.
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is the peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). JCMS's basic mission is to foster engaged debate and rigorous thinking among humanities scholars of film, television, digital media, and other audiovisual technologies.
Journal of Religion and Film
The Journal of Religion & Film is a peer reviewed journal which is committed to the study of connections between the medium of film and the phenomena of religion, however those are defined.
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is a web-based, peer-reviewed journal committed to the academic exploration, analysis and interpretation, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, of the interrelations and interactions between religion and religious expression and popular culture, broadly defined as the products of contemporary mass culture.
List of Religious Films (Wikipedia)
One of the things Wikipedia is good at is lists. Usually. This one could use some additions.

Secondary Sources in JumboSearch

Searching by Subject Terms

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