Welcome! This course guide is for students in Professor Benamou's FMS13-CLS129: Latinxs in the Media class. There are many resources on this guide that will help you with your assignment. Navigate this page by clicking any of the links to find resources, tips on searching, and more!
Bibliographies + Books: | Journal Articles & Databases: | Other Helpful Links: |
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Bibliographies:
Published bibliographies are excellent starting points in the research process. UCI Libraries subscribes to a resource called 'Oxford Bibliographies Online' (OBO) which offers authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas. These entries are annotated bibliographies that offer you comprehensive lists of the best scholarship across a variety of subjects. Here are a few examples related to this course:
Latino Studies:
Film; US Spanish language Radio; Telenovelas; Spanish-Language Newspapers; Public Radio; Popular Culture
Cinema + Media Studies:
Latina/o Americans in Film and Television; Immigration and Cinema; Latina/o Representation and Border Cinema; Spanish Language Television
African American Studies:
Afro-Latinos
Latin American Studies:
Popular Culture and Globalization
Encyclopedias:
Encyclopedias are highly recommended as a starting point for your research on a particular topic. Encyclopedias will give you introductory information to help you broaden or narrow your topic, while also providing keywords and terms needed to conduct further research.
A list of recommended Latinx Film & Television books:
A list of recommended books on Latinx Studies:
UC Library Search is the easiest way to find and discover books. To make it a bit easier, when you enter keywords into UC Library Search, use the filters on the left-hand side and select "books" and "book chapters" as the format, and also pay attention to publication year.
Search for thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.
Google Books contains millions of digitized books beyond UCI Library. You can use it as a "discovery tool" . For example, you can keyword search an artist's name to see where they appear in various chapters of books. Only public domain (out of copyright) books are available as full-text in this tool, so check the library for the full-text copy.
Finding Books in the Library Stacks
Sometimes, it is nice to browse the print collection available locally on campus. Because this course can be interdisciplinary in nature, you may be looking at multiple sections in the library (history, social sciences, humanities, communication, film studies, and more). Here are a few starting points to browse the library stacks:
Class H: Social Sciences | Examples: |
HT51-1595 | Communities. Classes. Race. |
HM1206-1211 | Communication. Mass Media |
Class E: History of the Americas | |
E151-909 | United States |
Class F: History of the Americas | |
F1201-3799 | Latin America. |
F1201-1392 | Mexico |
F1421-1440 | Central America |
F2202-3799 | South America |
F2251-2299 | Colombia |
F2501-2659 | Brazil |
F3051-3285 | Chile |
Class P: Language and Literature | |
PN1993-1999 | Motion Pictures |
PN1990-199.92 | Broadcasting (Radio, Television) |
PN4699-5650 | Journalism. The periodical press, etc. |
A list of recommended Latinx media scholars, filmmakers, and curators recommended by your professor. When you click these links, you'll see that it takes you to UC Library Search (it is an author subject search), showing you books and articles published by each individual.
Noriega, Chon A., 1961-
(Film producer, scholar, curator, film & art history)
Valdivia, Angharad N.
(Scholar: Latin American Studies, Cinema/Media, Gender Studies)
Casillas, Dolores Inés
(Spanish-language media; Chicana and Latina Popular Culture; Racial Politics of Language)
Aparicio, Frances R.
(Latino/a literary studies; Cultural Politics of U.S. Latino/a languages; Latino/a music and dance; cultural hybridity; Latinidad)
Rodriguez, Clara E., 1944-
(Images of Latinos in the US Media; Hispanics in the US; History and Culture of Latino communities in the US)
Cepeda, María Elena
(Latina/o/x media & popular culture - intersectional approaches to music; music video; social media; style politics)
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances
(19th- and 20th-century Caribbean and US Latino Literatures and Cultures; Popular Culture; Visual Studies)
Jimenez, Lillian
(Film director; founding Chair of the National Association of Independent Latino Producers)
López, Ana
(Melodrama and performance in the Golden Age Cinemas of Latin America, telenovelas, Cuban American media)
Beltrán, Mary C.
(U.S. television/film history, mixed race + media culture, U.S. Latina/o representation in media production)
Castañeda, Mari
(Latinx/ethnic media studies, global communications, community based learning and civic engagement)
Parédez, Deborah, 1970-
(Latino/a art and culture, especially poetry)
Baez, Jillian M
(Latinx media and popular culture, transnational feminisms, issues around citizenship)
These are just a few recommended journals to consult. You can run a keyword search within these journals, or pay attention when you're searching on databases to the publications that you're seeing, noting some of these journals in particular.
Please also visit the Film and Media Studies Journal page, which lists many other critical film and media studies academic journals and magazines, broadly defined.
These databases are excellent resources for getting started. Try running a few keyword searches in more than one to see what articles and results show up! Some are specific to a field of study while others cover all disciplines.
Latino Studies Databases:
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Provides complete bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US since the late 1960s. Includes everything from political, economic, and social issues to the arts and humanities. See the list of journals here.
This databases Indexes a wide variety of materials (journal articles, books, book chapters) on the Mexican-American, Chicano, and the broader Latino experience. Scholarship is dated from 1960s-present. Use the "Get it at UC" link for full-text if not in database, or try ILL.
Film and Media Studies Scholarship:
Film & Media Studies Databases (ProQuest)
This link will cross-search multiple databases in one search: the American Film Institute Film Catalog, the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, Performing Arts Periodicals, Film Index International, and FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals.
Communication + Media Studies:
This database covers communication (and media) studies. . Use this database to research mass media topics.
Gender Studies:
GenderWatch
Alternative press and other hard-to-find articles about gender and sexuality. Coverage varies: mostly 1990s - current
Multidisciplinary Studies:
This database is multidisciplinary so it covers many subject areas. It includes access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals as well as abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations
Here a few links to news databases that are based in the U.S. Pay attention to dates (listed in the coverage information) as some are historical and some are current. Also, get a free subscription to NYTimes.com and Washington Post!
U.S. Major Dailies
Includes The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. Coverage: 1980s - today.
La Opinion
Spanish language daily newspaper published in Los Angeles. Coverage: 2000 - current.
California Newspapers (Historical)
Coverage: 1850-1922
AltPressWatch
Alternative and independent press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Coverage: mostly 2000 - current.
Alternative Press Index and Archive
An index to alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Coverage varies: mostly 2000s - current
Ethnic NewsWatch
Articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority, and native press in America.
UCI Libraries provides access to a few Latin American news databases that are historical (as early as the 1800s). Here are a couple of them:
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (Historical)
Coverage: 1884-2016
Newspapers in Spanish, English, French, Dutch, and Portuguese.
Latin American Newspapers (Historical)
Includes 35 newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th century in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela
Film & Media Studies Databases
This is a cross-search of multiple databases through ProQuest: the American Film Institute Film Catalog, the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive, Performing Arts Periodicals, Film Index International, and FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals.
Daily Variety Archives Variety began as a weekly publication December 16, 1905. Currently, the archives begin March 18, 1906. The archive is currently missing: March 29, 1932-June 14, 1932. The archive contain every issue of Daily Variety, which began publication September 6, 1933. An excellent source when trying to find older film reviews!
Media History Digital Library (Historical)
A free online archive/database featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
Los Angeles Times, 1985-present
Search for articles in recent editions of the LA Times.
New York Times, 1980-present
Search for articles in recent editions of the New York Times.
Ethnic Newswatch
Articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority, and native press in America.
A free online archive/database featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
Daily Variety Archives contain almost every issue Variety has ever published — that's every page, including articles and ads, front pages and back covers. Each page is a watermarked PDF file. Variety began as a weekly publication December 16, 1905. Currently, the archives begin March 18, 1906. The archive is currently missing: March 29, 1932-June 14, 1932. The archive contain every issue of Daily Variety, which began publication September 6, 1933. An excellent source when trying to find older film reviews!
Independent Voices
Ongoing digitization project. Will include 1,000 alternative magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers. Coverage: 1960s-1980s
Database Searching with Boolean Operators:
AND | narrows the search because it requires that all keywords be in the results | media AND women AND body image |
OR | broadens the search by looking for either of the words | latinx OR latinos OR hispanics OR chicanos OR latinas |
NOT | narrows a search by eliminating a certain aspect of a topic | media NOT radio |
* | Using an asterisk is a form of truncation. Truncating means that you are able to search different forms of the same word at the same time. |
America* = America, Americans, American politic* = politics, political, politic |
If you are a visual or audiovisual learner, these are very easy, short videos on navigating the library database Academic Search Complete, using Google Scholar, and also some great tips on understanding how to use strategies like truncation and boolean operators for better, more relevant results when you research:
Examples of Subject Headings for this Course:
Pop Culture
Latinx Pop Culture (book series)
Mexican Americans in popular culture
Motion Pictures & Television
Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry
Hispanic Americans on television
Mexican Americans in motion pictures
Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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