Skip to Main Content

Film: Preliminary Research

World History

Modern World History (Infobase/FOF) This link opens in a new window Covers the people, places, and events from the mid-15th century to the present.
World History: Modern Era (Abc-Clio) This link opens in a new window

American History

African-American History (Infobase FOF) This link opens in a new window
American History (Abc-Clio) This link opens in a new window
American History (Infobase FOF) This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
American Indian History (InfoBase FOF) This link opens in a new window

GVRL eBOOKS

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
~ GVRL is an digital collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research available 24/7 with no checkout.
~ Browse, search or download articles, chapters or titlesTitles can be browsed, searched and downloaded anytime from any Internet-connected device.
Digitally reproduced from trusted, authoritative reference works
~ Gale Virtual Reference Library offers you a collection of premier reference books that you can view and search online.
~ Select a book to browse its table of contents. When the book is part of a series, you will first need to select a specific volume.

American Decades Series: 1920-1929 by Vincent Tompkins (Editor); Victor Bondi (Editor); Judith Baughman
ISBN: 9780787650766
Publication Date: 2000-12-01
Bowling, Beatnicks, and Bell-Bottoms - 1940s to 1950s by Cynthia Johnson and Lawrence W. Baker
ISBN: 1414411650
Publication Date: 2012-05-24
Science and Its Times by Neil Schlager
ISBN: 9780787639327
Publication Date: 2000-04-07

Cinema Books from GVRL
The Emergency of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907
The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915
An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1918-1928
The Talkies: America's Cinema Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1930
Boom or Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s
Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959
History of American Cinema: The Sixties
Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979
A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbows, 1980-1989
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film

eLibrary

eLibrary This link opens in a new window
A massive collection of multidisciplinary periodical and digital media content, designed for middle and high school students, undergraduates at community colleges and universities, instructors, and librarians. Editorially created pages provide valuable context for both common and more unusual topics of research. All content is 100% full-text, including documents from books, magazines, journals, newspapers, photographs, transcripts, and videos. The collection covers a wide range of subjects.

Multidisciplinary

Explora Secondary (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window

GOOD RESEARCH STARTER!

Topic-centered database
Reference books, magazines, journals
High school-college level materials

Britannica School Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window