FTV 222

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Selected Library Resources for Film and Television 222 (Film Genres): "Blaxploitation" & African American Film Culture of the 1970s (Fall 2009)

1 Basics
2 Reference Sources
3 Finding Books
4 Finding Articles in Databases
5 UCLA Film and Television Archive Links & Information
6 Further Assistance

Basics

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Click on the button within the UCLA Library catalog, Next-Generation Melvyl, or article databases to locate full-text articles or request interlibrary loans. (Look at this guide for more information about using UC e-links.) You may also use Citation Linker.

For more resources, see the UCLA Library Film & Television Research Guide

Reference Sources

The following are print and electronic reference sources that will help you get started on researching course-related topics.

History of the American Cinema: Volume 9 "Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam" (1970-1979). Full text from the classic 10-volume set. (Licensed Resource)
Gale Virtual Reference Library Includes selected online encyclopedias, including some related to film genres, film history, and biography. (Licensed Resource)
Black Studies Center Includes Schomburg essays, plus journal and historical newspaper indexing. (Licensed Resource)
African American Experience Reference portal that includes full text biographical information, including coverage of film and television. (Licensed Resource)
African Americans in the Movies: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library. Though location information is specific to UCB, this bibliography lists numerous useful books and articles that can also be found at UCLA and other campuses.
Projecting Ethnicity and Race: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies on Imagery in American Film. Print location. (Use the Name and Subject Index in the back to locate recommended books under the names of individuals, or under "Blaxploitation," "African Americans," etc.)
The Afro-American Cinematic Experience: An Annotated Bibliography & Filmography. Print location. Older bibliography and filmography from 1983. Use the index to locate recommended works on blaxploitation.
Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide. Print location. Contains filmographies, bibliographies, and short interviews with directors.
That's Blaxploitation! Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury). Print location.
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema. Print location. Short entries on genres, films, and individuals.
Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts. 3rd Ed.. Print location. Includes entries on Exploitation movies, and Black Cinema/Blaxploitation Movies.
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. Print location.
Encyclopedia of Black Studies. Print location.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience. Print location. Edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
International Film, Radio, and Television Journals. Print location. Bibliography and history of major film and media journals.
African American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography. Print location.

Finding Books

Identifying and locating books on your topic is most conveniently done through a keyword or subject (heading) search using the UCLA Library Catalog or the UC systemwide MELVYL Catalog. Keyword searching (when available) is the most flexible, usually producing the largest retrieval, while subject searching can often be more precise since it relies on authorized Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Although the advent of online catalogs with keyword search capabilities has sounded the death knell for rigidly structured subject heading/classification schemes, it is still worth considering how language is used to organize materials in a research library. For example, it is possible (and frequently extremely beneficial) to do a subject search in the UCLA Library Catalog or MELVYL using Library of Congress subject headings.

A subject heading is a word or term that describes, often quite broadly, the contents of a book, journal article, videotape, dataset, etc. All nonfiction books and media are assigned one or more subject headings, allowing for multiple points of access to the same item.

Examples of subject headings relevant to this course:

Blaxploitation films--United States--History and criticism

African Americans in motion pictures

African Americans in the motion picture industry--United States

Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States

African American women in motion pictures

African American motion picture producers and directors

African American men in motion pictures

African Americans--Race identity

City and town life in motion pictures

Action and adventure films--United States--History and criticism

Women in motion pictures

Minorities in motion pictures

Sex role in motion pictures

Violence in motion pictures

UCLA Library Catalog

http://catalog.library.ucla.edu The UCLA Library Catalog provides quick and efficient access to the holdings of the UCLA Library. The catalog should be your first stop for books and other monographic materials, periodicals, and media. The UCLA Library Catalog is directly accessible from the UCLA Library homepage; Click on the "search and find" tab. The catalog is the first item on the drop-down menu.

The UCLA Library Catalog offers the following unique features:

Circulation status of material -- the catalog tells you whether a book is available (on the shelf), checked out (and date it's due back), or missing;
Serials information -- catalog lists both print and electronic journals and magazines with UCLA holdings. However, the catalog does NOT search the titles or contents of articles.
Personal circulation data -- the catalog allows you to keep track online of materials you have checked out of the Library. Click on My Account and key in your UCLA Bruin Card number.
Electronic reserves -- from the Services button at the top of the page you can go to course reserves and from there link to a specific course and check to see what, if anything, is "on-reserve" for the class in electronic format.

Next Generation Melvyl

http://ucla.worldcat.org/ A beta project that cross-searches the UCLA Catalog, Melvyl, and WorldCat (several thousand libraries) from a single user interface, including very selective article indexing.

UC MELVYL Catalog

http://melvyl.cdlib.org/ If you want to search the holdings of other libraries in the UC system, the Melvyl Catalog is the best resource. UCLA users can request many of the materials listed in Melvyl via interlibrary loan, including journal articles and books.

Finding Articles in Databases

Magazines and Journals:

Academic Search Complete A general multidisciplinary database that indexes journals across many different fields, with selected full text. (Licensed Resource)
Black Studies Center Includes Schomburg Center introductory essays, as well as journal/magazine article indexing and full text of historical newspapers. (Licensed Resource)
Readers Guide Retrospective Covers indexing of popular magazines from 1890-1982. (Licensed Resource)
Alternative Press Index & Archive API covers indexing for alternative, left, and radical periodicals from 1969-present. (Licensed Resource)
Ethnic NewsWatch Full text articles from the ethnic, minority, and native press in the United States. (Licensed Resource)
International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA Full Text) Selected full text from journals and magazines in the performing arts, including film studies. (Licensed Resource)
Film Literature Index The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to journal articles on film and television, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. (Licensed Resource)
FIAF International Filmarchive Database The FIAF database indexes international film and television journals and magazines, and covers articles written 1972-present. (Licensed Resource)
America: History and Life Indexes articles on the history of the United States, published from 1964-present. (Licensed Resource)
JSTOR Online access to full back-runs of academic journals across disciplines, primarily in the social sciences and humanities. (Licensed Resource)
Project MUSE Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. (Licensed Resource)
MLA International Bibliography Covers modern languages, literatures, folklore, film and more, in articles written 1925-present. (Licensed Resource)
Women's Studies International An interdisciplinary indexing database covering topics related to women and gender. (Licensed Resource)
Google Book Advanced Search The Advanced Search allows users to limit to magazines as a publication type. Google has digitized some historical issues of Jet, Vibe, Ebony, Billboard, and other popular titles.

Newspapers and Reviews Includes links to full text newspapers subscribed to by the UCLA Library, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and international papers. Also includes information about other resources for finding current and historical film reviews. (Licensed Resources)

UCLA Film and Television Archive Links & Information

Film and Television Archive Catalog
News and Public Affairs Collection. UCLA Film and Television Archive's News and Public Affairs Collection (NAPA) consists of over 100,000 news programs and broadcasts taped off air from 1979 to 2003.