IFS: The Critical Issue: Philosophy, Film, and Music
The resources listed below have been selected to help you complete your research on one of the following topics: the biography of Alfred Hitchcock, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the ideas and techniques Hitchcock used as a director and, fourthly, the life and music of composers who worked with Hitchcock.
No one resource will give you all the information you need in order to successfully complete the assignment. Some of the resources on the list will be appropriate for all topics, while others will only be useful for one or two topics. Do not feel you need to use all the suggestions.
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American Film Institute Catalog - about - Draws its content from six printed volumes and online content that document every American film from 1893 to 1972.
American Film Scripts Online - about - Contains 135 film texts by 201 writers from 1903 to 2002. Includes biographical information on writers.
AP Photo Archive - about - An electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. International in scope.
Biography Resource Center - about - Full-text biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history.
Film Index International - about - Contains data from the British Film Institute covering world cinema from 1930 to the present.
International Index to Film Periodicals - about - Contains: International index to film/TV periodicals, thesaurus, list of periodicals indexed, and the FIAF databases.
International Index to Music Periodicals - about - Index of more than 300 international music periodicals from over 20 countries.
International Index to the Performing Arts - about - Covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast, circus, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more.
JSTOR - about - Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
Literature Resource Center - about - Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from all time periods in many genres. Search by author, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) - about - The full text of the Los Angeles Times, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type.
MLA International Bibliography - about - Indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
Music Index Online - about - Subject and author index to more than 655 international music journals covering every aspect of classical, popular, and world music.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) - about - The full text of the NYT, images of pages and articles, search and limit by date and article type. Use Lexis-Nexis for last two years.
Oxford Music Online - about - Comprehensive encyclopedia covering all musical topics.
Oxford Reference Online - about - Approximately 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Each title may be searched separately and a search may also be made across all.
Project Muse - about - Includes nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers, in full-text.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - about - Index with abstracts in English to all categories of literature about all genres of music. Books, theses and dissertations, articles in journals.
