Research guides: Visual Culture and Film Studies: Find Articles

Get It @ Waterloo!

Many of our databases have the "Get It @ Waterloo" SFX service enabled.

Click on Get It to see available full text links to the article cited in the record.

If there are no full text links, click on the link to the catalogue to initiate a search for the journal, to see if we have it in print for the year and volume you need.

Databases

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes books, articles, and websites relating to modern languages, literatures, folklore, linguistics, and film.
Coverage: 1926 - present
JSTOR
Provides access to back issues of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences, many of which date from the 1800s.
Coverage: varies (excludes current 3 to 5 years)
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
Indexes academic and popular film journals and articles.
Coverage: 1972 - present
Art Full Text
Articles on art, art history, advertising art, painting, graphic design, architecture, and museum studies.
Coverage: Indexing/abstract from 1929. Full Text 1995 - present
Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
Coverage: 1974 - present
Scope begins with 19th century art movements and covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

Research guides by subject

We want to hear from you. You're viewing the newest version of the Library's website. Please send us your feedback!