LibGuides: * Film & Media Studies: Film Research Guide

Streaming Video @ UR

Kanopy (1920 - current)
Kanopy is a streaming video database with over 20,000 movie titles from a large group of film producers including the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber Edu, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, BBC Active Collection, and many others. All films have Public Performance Rights (PPR).
Swank Digital Campus
Swank provides film streaming to academic institutions. Here you will find films from major Hollywood film studios, both “classic” and contemporary.
Instructors: if you would like a Swank film linked to your course’s Blackboard page and need help, contact Tom Clifford tclifford@library.rochester.edu.
Films on Demand: Master Academic Package
Individually selected titles from more than 800 international producers to bring a wide variety of the most relevant videos to suit the unique instructional needs of every subject.

List of all Streaming Video Sources at UR

Moving Image Museums and Archives

Film & Media Studies Databases

FIAF International Film Archive
Good source for film articles in a variety of languages, including some reference works. Also includes Treasures from the Film Archives, a database documenting silent-era films.
Film Index International
Identifies reviews and provides production information about films.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Articles on all aspects of speech, rhetoric, debate, broadcasting, and media studies.

Many major journals have indexing, abstracts and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).
Complete Index to World Film since 1895
Production information on films from 1895 to mid-1998 from over 170 countries.

List of all Film & Media Studies Databases at UR

Locating Film Reviews

New York Times Film Reviews- Search Proquest Historical Newspapers online to find the full text of reviews from 1857- 2007. More current reviews, 1980 - current, are found in Proquest National Newspapers.

Proquest Research- includes Time, Newseek, New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, People, Us Weekly, Entertainment Weekly and many other popular magazines with film reviews.

Rotten Tomatoes- has links to popular reviews

Free Access to Electronic Textbooks

FREE ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS

Many publishers are offering electronic textbooks to students at no cost through the end of this semester due to loss of physical access because of the COVID-19 virus. Click here to link to free resources.

Freely Available Film and Video Resources

American Presidency Project Media Archive
Videos of presidential speeches, remarks, and debates spanning from Herbert Hoover to Donald Trump.
Folkstreams
Documentaries produced by independent filmmmakers focusing on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different kinds of communities.
Living Room Candidate
A complete archive of major presidential campaign ads 1952-2016, provided by the Museum of the Moving Image.
National Screening Room - Library of Congress
Database of fully downloadable videos from the Moving Image Collection at the Library of Congress. Includes short films, documentaries, and newsreel footage.
Open Video Project
A repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
PBS Video
National programming and locally produced shows from PBS.
Public Domain Review
Public domain movies from the early 20th century.
SnagFilms
Streaming documentary films primarily covering social sciences topics.

Film Librarian

Pauline Schwartzman

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Outreach, Learning & Research
Rush Rhees Library, 755 Library Road, Rochester, NY 14627

585-275-9296

Subjects:English, Film & Media Studies