Subject & Course Guides: Chinese Cinema (EALC 590): Articles & Databases

E-Journals

China Media Research
Table of Contents and abstracts are available from Volume 1 No. 1, 2005 to the present. Asia-Studies.com.
SYNOPTIQUE - An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies
Splinters: Asian Cinema

The Future of a Luminescent Cloud : Recent Developments in a Pan-Asian Style

The Gongfu of Kung Fu Hustle
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Synoptique is a bilingual publication founded in 2004 by students of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. It is dedicated to promoting excellence in critical film writing in accordance with the spirit of innovation and enquiry that has made Film and Moving Image Studies one of Concordia’s signature areas.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
This is an index to film and television literature that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.
Film indexes online
Film Indexes Online provides access to the catalogs of the American Film Institute (AFI Catalog), and the British Film Institute (Film Index International). The AFI Catalog indexes films released from 1893-1958 and 1961-1970. The Film Index International indexes films released from 1900 to the present. Records include information detailing the director, full cast and crew lists, year of release and production information.
International bibliography of theatre & dance with full text
The International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance represents the most comprehensive multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool available to theatre students, educators and professionals. Initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, IBT becomes a valuable component to EBSCO's list of subject-specific secondary databases covering the humanities.

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Pop Culture Universe (PCU) is an authoritative, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present--in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers.

Literature Resource Center
Biographies, bibliographies and analysis of authors of literary discipline. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers with in-depth coverage of most-studied authors.
Book review digest
Indexes and abstracts reviews of English language adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles.
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Reviews are selected from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media. Includes only reviews that have appeared within 18 months of the book's publication. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 15,000 full-text news, legal and business sources. Includes journal articles, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on 80 million U.S. and international companies and 75 million executives. Replaces LexisNexis Academic.

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