Subject Guide
Databases Specific to Religion or Film
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.
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American Film Institute CatalogIncludes the entire print version, as well as new content and updates for all previous records. Also included are records for the Institute’s Top Ten Films for the years 2000 to 2010.
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ATLA ReligionThe American Theological Association's Religion Database covers journals, multi-author books, and book reviews in Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. This is the online edition of Religion Index One and Two, and Index to Book Reviews in Religion.
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Communication & Mass Media CompleteProvides full text, indexing, and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric, and discourse.
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Screen Studies CollectionA comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. This collection includes the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute: AFI Catalog and Film Index International.
In-Depth Sources for Picking Topics
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Category: Films about Religion (Wikipedia)A list of sub-categories which might help you identify a theme.
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Film CriticismFilm Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication bringing together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies since 1975.
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JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media StudiesJCMS: 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.
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Journal of Religion and FilmThe 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.
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Journal of Religion and Popular CultureThe 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.
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List of Religious Films (Wikipedia)One of the things Wikipedia is good at is lists. Usually. This one could use some additions.
Scholarly Indexes
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MLA BibliographyThe standard index to scholarship in English, American, and world literature. Includes articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations.
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Film & Television Literature IndexA bibliographic database that provides indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.
Multidisciplinary Full-Text Databases
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Academic Search PremierTufts' largest single collection of full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Very current. And a very good complement to JSTOR.
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JSTORCovers about two dozen key journals in classics from volume 1, issue 1 to three to four years ago. All full text, all scholarly material. A very important resource, but if you want current material go to Academic Onefile.
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Project MuseProvides electronic access to the full text of Johns Hopkins University Press' 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Find Articles in JumboSearch
Want to discover everything that Tisch Library has on your topic? Try searching for your topic in JumboSearch, which simultaneously searches across most of the library's resources, including journal articles in databases, online, and in print.