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Film and Television Research Guide

  Resources for Studies of Film and Television  

Film and Television can be studied from numerous angles.  It is always easiest to use the search engine on the library home page if you know what you want to research (for example, perhaps you want to research feminist analyses of horror films).

However, if you're browsing for a topic or want to do research in specific locations, this research guide will highlight some of the better resources in both the Averett library and the wider internet.

Please use the navigation tabs to the left for assistance in locating journal articles (and journals in general), books, and other online free resources.

For assistance with citation formatting, please see our Easy Cite Tutorial pages, and select the appropriate format.

Performing a basic search

WorldCat toggles sample imageSimply typing your search term into the box and pressing the "Search" button will return a list of all relevant results accessible to Blount Library patrons. 

(You may put initial limits on these results by selecting to search exclusively for "Books" (both physical and digital), "Articles," "Video," or "Journals" by clicking the appropriate tab prior to typing in your search term.)

Once you press the "Search" button, WorldCat will return all possible results, organized from most to least relevant

Assuming you have too many results to work with, the list of toggle options to the left of your results provide numerous means for fine-tuning the results.

Some of the more useful toggles are:

 

  1. Type / Format: Assuming you searched for "Everything" you may use the toggles to restrict results by type.  For example, you may select to view only eBooks.

 

  1. Publication Year: You may restrict by publication year.  You may, for example, only want scientific research published within the last five or ten years.

 

  1. Subject: Clicking 'subject' (which is a collapsed menu in the attached image) will list all areas that returned results.  This can be a useful toggle if, for example, you want results for the television series "Doctor Who," and not results from medical papers in which the words "doctor" and "who" both appear.

 

For more detailed advice on successfully using search terms to find useful academic articles in your field, see our various research guides and tutorials.