These databases should be helpful in finding articles relevant to film studies.
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The database provides articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
A scholarly article about film can be about a particular film (e.g., its mood, its effect on viewers, its themes) or about films in general (e.g., their history, their impact on popular culture). Scholarly articles are generally written by professors and other experts and are published in journals that those experts will read. Such articles are usually 1500 words or more. Click the link below to find a scholarly article about the 2009 film Zombieland. This article is 6571 words long and is from a magazine called Journal of The Fantastic In The Arts that was indexed in the Academic Onefile database.
Academic OneFile is a reliable database for finding scholarly articles.
How To Use Academic OneFile:
1. Click on Advanced Search.
2. Leave Keyword in the menu box or try pulling down the menu and using Subject.
3. In the white box next to Keyword, type in "horror movies" in quotation marks to get general articles. OR, type in the name of a particular film like "night of the living dead" in quotation marks. In both cases, be sure to use QUOTATION MARKS.
4. Check the boxes for Full Text and for Peer Reviewed Journals.
5. Then click SEARCH.