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Subject Guides > Media Arts & Design
Film Studies
This guide supports the Digital Video & Cinema program within SMAD, the interdisciplinary minor in Film Studies, and general interest in film topics. This guide focuses on the study of film while the companion guide, Digital Video, focuses on production. Learn more about SMAD's Digital Video & Cinema concentration.
Discover the encyclopedias, dictionaries and directories that will provide facts about film.
Research actors, actresses, directors, cinematographers, and more.
Quick Grid: Film Summaries, Reviews & Criticism
Use this guide to quickly look in the most common sources summaries, reviews and/or criticism.
JMU Libraries has many books about film and television studies, all found within LEO Library Catalog. To get you started, here are a few possible subject headings to search in LEO and the shelf areas to browse.
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Browse by Call Numbers |
Carrier PN 1992 |
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Motion Picture Authorship (Screenwriting) | Carrier PN 1993 to PN 1999 |
Carrier PN 2287 |
Film Studies Resources with Articles (from journals)
Search a database to find articles on specific topics.
Periodical Locator Film Browse
Browse a list of journals, newspapers and magazines about film. Click through to tables of contents for most of them.
Quick Grid: Film Summaries, Reviews & Criticism
Use this guide to quickly look in the most common sources summaries, reviews and/or criticism.
Reviews are written to offer recommendations as to whether to see a film or not. Some can be scholarly, but most are brief. They typically appear in popular magazines and newspapers.
Criticism analyzes a film in detail, discussing themes, cinematography, similar films, direction, acting, and more. Criticism is typically published in books or in scholarly journals.
JMU Libraries has a large number of films on DVD, video and online. Use this guide, within the Research Databases & Resources area of our website, to identify what we have.
Madison Mediagraphies: Feature Films
Media Resources takes the hard work out of finding films by genre with Madison Mediagraphies. Choose a genre (animated, comedy, detective, film noir, horror, musical, silent, war, western and more) and then see a list of films within LEO Library Catalog.
African American Film Directors
Selective list of films in JMU Libraries by African American directors.
Vendor Catalogs and Film Guides
Search or browse for film titles, usually with summaries, that exist anywhere so you can recommend for JMU or purchase for yourself.
Finding Screenplays in LEO Library Catalog
JMU Libraries has a number of classic and popular film screenplays in the collection. To find screenplays in LEO, search for individual film titles. You can also see a list of most, but not all, by searching for motion picture plays or shooting script.
Title search: shawshank redemption
Subject search: motion picture plays
Word search: shooting script
Browsing the Shelves for Screenplays
Screenplays are in Carrier Library at call number PN 1997 (2nd floor Carrier Library).
American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press)
Read entire scripts online. Full text database of approximately 1,000 film scripts, 1903 to date, digitized and thoroughly indexed. Search for individual characters or scenes. These screenplays are also included in LEO, but with fewer search options for identifying ones of interest.
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