Film & Broadcasting

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Academic Search Complete :: Multidisciplinary database of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals dating back to 1975

Communication and Mass Media Complete :: authoritative source for research in communication and mass media

Communications Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) :: article abstracts, books, and other resources related to human communication studies

Communication Studies: A SAGE Full Text Collection :: Full text of 16 communication journals

Ethnic News Watch :: Database of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press

International Index to the Performing Arts :: Indexes international periodicals on the performing arts

JSTOR :: Historical journal articles in the humanities, social sciences, business, ecology, and general science

Lexis-Nexis :: Provides a variety of legal, reference, medical, and governmental resources

Social Sciences Full Text :: Indexes journals from anthropology, family studies, political science, sociology, international relations, and women's studies, 1983-present

Westlaw Campus Research :: Search court cases, statutes, regulations, legal guides, and news articles

Click here for a list of communication, journalism, film, and broadcasting journals available at the James C. Kirkpatrick Library.

Note: Consult Quest for a complete list. In addition to being available in print, some of these journals are also available electronically.

Brightlights Film Journal :: an online fan-run film site; each issue contains six or seven major articles; most writing is for a serious audience

Broadcasting & Cable :: news, blogs, and content from the print publication

Broadcast Education Association :: an organization for professors, industry professionals and graduate students interested in teaching and research related to electronic media and multimedia enterprises; the site includes a list of research web sites and an extensive list of media sites

C-Span :: created by cable television as a public service C-Span covers many public service events and provides public access to the political process

Current Nielsen Ratings :: weekly posting of the most-watched shows

Federal Communications Commission :: an independent government agency charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, wire, television, satellite, and cable

Film Music Society :: promotes the preservation of music used for film and television

FilmSound.org :: a site dedicated to promoting and encouraging the art of creative sound design

International Broadcasting Bureau :: provides the administrative and engineering support for U.S. government-funded non-military international broadcast services including VOA, Alhurna, RadioSawa, Radio Fonda, RFE, Radio Free Asia

Metacritic :: a compilation of reviews from critics and publications for film, dvd, music, games, books, and tv

National Association of Broadcasters :: a great list of links to broadcast & telecommunication industry web sites is listed under Research & Information

National Broadcasting Society :: an organization for students and professionals working within the electronic media field; site includes an online newsletter and an extensive list of links

Old-time radio :: provides information about programming produced from the beginning of radio to the 1960s.

Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers :: a web portal maintained by the Library of Congress; serves as an international catalog for moving images; the site contains several useful links to additional resources

Scope :: a free on-line journal of film studies from the U.K.

Televisionbroadcast.com :: daily television industry news

Variety :: the trade paper of the American film industry