Cinema Studies 

Welcome! This selective guide to the literature of cinema is intended as a starting place for researchers, pointing to tools for finding books, scholarly articles, reviews, and collection-related information.  Be sure to visit the Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Center (Ref1) on the main floor of Bobst Library for a great selection of Bibilographies, Dictionaries and encyclopedias. 

Another guide you may want to see is the guide for Television http://nyu.libguides.com/Television

The director James Cameron on the set of his latest film, “Avatar,” a 3-D space adventure to be released in December.

How to Begin a Search

• Phrase information needed in the form of a question
• Decide what kind of information your looking for
  • Scholarly journals
  • Popular periodicals such as New York Times
  • Textbooks
• Decide how much you're looking for. Are you looking for several recent articles, or writing a paper and need background information from textbooks plus journal articles?

Once you've answered these questions you're ready to locate books or select a database to locate journal articles.

***Keep in mind that you will use Bobcat's "Books and More" tab to locate TITLES of books, journals, and videotapes.

To locate THE ARTICLES themselves you will need to find a citation in an index, either by using Bobcat's "Article's & Databases" tab or following the link in BobCaat or go directly to Articles via Databases page http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html

For a more detailed description of how to develop a search strategy, go to:
http://wally.rit.edu/depts/ref/instruction/tutorial/searchstrategy.html.

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