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Actress Louise Brooks reading a newspaper in the film Pandora's Box

Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929) by filmmaker G.W. Pabst.

Film journals

Link to some important film journals in research databases through the LCC Library catalog below.

Film Studies

This guide collects resources from the LCC Library and the open web for students doing research on films and filmmakers. Use the blue tabs on the left to navigate between pages.

Find Books and Ebooks

The LCC Library has hundreds of books and ebooks about films, filmmakers, film genres, and more — all searchable in the Library catalog.

You can search using keywords such as feminism and film or monsters in film or slapstick.

You can also search using subject terms to identify important content groups. Here are just a few examples of subject terms related to film studies:

feminist film criticism

comedy films -- history and criticism

motion picture history -- California

motion picture history -- India

film noir

horror films

animated films

experimental films

avant-garde (aesthetics)

silent films

You can also search the catalog by using keywords or proper names. For example:

director or filmmaker (such as Jordan Peele, Kelly Reichardt, Quentin Tarantino)

actor (such as Rooney Mara, Sidney Poitier, Philip Seymour Hoffman)

title of film (such as Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Parasite, Children of Men, Godzilla)

genre or thematic term (rom com, science fiction, male gaze, Neo-realism)

technical terms (sound design, montage, high-definition)

If you need help, ask a librarian! We are available by email, chat, and in person in the Library.

Find articles in magazines and journals

Finding articles in a Research Database

LCC Library subscribes to many excellent Research Databases  for articles on topics in film and media. Try the databases below for access to hundreds of relevant magazine and newspaper articles:

Academic Search Complete  Excellent full-text coverage from 8000+ titles for virtually every area of academic study. 

General OneFile Excellent coverage for general topics in art and culture from 6000+ titles.

MasterFILE Premier  Provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full-text information from 1975 to present.

Several magazines and newspapers have excellent content for film research.

The following titles include journalists and film critics who write for general audiences:

New York Times Movie Reviews

The Atlantic

The New Yorker

US Major Dailies searches 5 prominent newspapers at once (LA Times, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal).

New York Times has on-staff film critics providing excellent in-depth coverage of film and filmmakers (not just reviews). Use US Major Dailies database to search, or subscribe to the NYT for free as an LCC student.