LibGuides: Film Studies: Journals

Film Scripts

Sources from the web

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

Interlibrary Loan

If you need a resource that we don't have access to, Interlibrary Loan (ILL) can usually borrow it for you! (Please allow at least 7 days for delivery.)

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WorldCat
Find resources from libraries across the globe, including books, serial titles, DVDs, CDs, conference proceedings, and maps.

Select Journals for Film Criticism

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.

Select Databases or Publications for Film Reviews

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
Newspapers from around the world including New York Times.
ProQuest Central Premium
Access to Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Variety, the New Yorker and more.
Life Magazine archive
Full-color scans of the print publication from 1923 to 2000.
Time Magazine archive
Full-color scans of the print publication from 1936 to 2000.

Select magazines for reviews