LibGuides: Film Studies: Select Film Journals

Film Scripts

Sources from the web

Motion Picture Scripts Database
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This database details the film script holdings of eight Los Angeles area collections.
Drew's Script-O-Rama
Internet Movie Script Database

Film Quarterly
Film Quarterly has published substantial, peer-reviewed writing on cinema and media for nearly sixty years, earning a reputation as one of the most authoritative academic film journals.
Journal of Film and Video
The Journal of Film and Video, an internationally respected forum, focuses on scholarship in the fields of film and video production, history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is the peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).
Film History
Film History focuses on the historical development of the motion picture and the social, technological, and economic context in which this has occurred.
The Moving Image
The Moving Image is an exciting new journal that deals with crucial issues surrounding the preservation and restoration of film, television, video, and digital moving images.

When searching for film reviews in the databases, use both the name of the film and the word review.

Example: "Raising Arizona" AND review

NewsBank This link opens in a new window
Newspapers from around the world including New York Times.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Access to Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Variety, the New Yorker and more.

Select magazines for reviews