For a complete list of databases available for Film and Media Studies Criticism, please visit the Film and Media Studies Library Subject Guide. Below are the most common databases used for Film and Media scholarship.
Film Index International covers film history, cinema studies, Hollywood, movie industry, and covers all aspects of film studies including silent film, art house, and blockbusters. Coverage is international in scope, indexing films from over a hundred countries. It is produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute.
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) produces the International Index to Film Periodicals– a database for researching film history, theory, and criticism. FIAF indexes coverage of academic and popular film journals by searching the International Index to Film Periodicals from 1972 – present. This database also includes FIAF’s “Treasures from Film Archives” which is a detailed index of silent-era film holdings of archives globally.
