Resources for Film Reviews and Criticisms
- Los Angeles times (1881-2010) This link opens in a new windowThe Los Angeles Times provides historical analysis of the development of California and the Pacific Rim with a focus on immigration issues and the development of the American West, coverage of the early days of the film industry, and coverage of Native American culture and society.
- New York Times with index This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full page and article images with searchable full-text from 1851 to 4 years ago.
- Academic search complete This link opens in a new windowContains full-text peer reviewed journal articles as well as newspapers, blogs, wire services, and general interest periodicals from across all academic disciplines.
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowFeatures thousands of U.S. and global news sources, including wire services, popular magazines, newspapers, and much more.
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (1–4) This link opens in a new windowAn archival research resource of U.S. and British trade magazines covering film, music, radio, and theater for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. It also includes film fan magazines and music titles.
- ProQuest historical newspapers This link opens in a new windowProQuest Historical Newspapers provides searchable access to full-text and full-images from some of America's most important newspapers.
- Times digital archive, 1785-2019 This link opens in a new windowFull text of the Times of London from 1785 to 1985.
- Ethnic newswatch This link opens in a new windowProvides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses in America from 1959 to present.
- Reader's guide retrospective This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the important events of the 20th century. Coverage includes 1890-1982.
Film Review Websites
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Film Reviews and Film Criticism
Film reviews are written by journalists, film critics, or other industry persons and are published in various sources including newspapers, magazines and online.
Film criticism is an analysis and evaluation of a film and the medium written by academics and film scholars. Criticisms are usually published in scholarly journals.