LibGuides: Humanities Research Guide: LIB 212: Contemporary Issues in Social Science

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You may be able to find many free films available through your own local public library. Use these links to find a library near you.

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Below are resources to help you locate and analyze films for your social justice film project in Prof Butler's class.

Free films online

Films for Action has assembled a wide variety of socially-minded documentaries and shows them for free on their site. This is a link to their "Wall of Films" which shows a selection of their feature films, but you can also browse by topic. Note that not all films are feature-length so keep an eye on the length and choose accordingly.

Resources and selected readings

Writing Center at Chapel Hill: Film Analysis provides a brief definition of film analysis compared to literary analysis, provides an introduction to common types of film analysis, and offers strategies and resources for approaching assignments.
Movie Reviews from the New York Times is a searchable collection of the film reviews from the New York Times newspaper. Limit 10 free articles a month.
The Internet Movie Script Database provides full-text access to thousands of scripts from major movies.

Online journals, magazines and other examples of analysis and critique

The library's databases provide access to several major film studies journals including Film Comment, Journal of Popular Film & Television, Film Criticism, Velvet Light Trap, and Cinema Journal. Browse and search individual titles, or search all of the library databases through Academic Search Elite (check student email for login info)
Images is a quarterly journal that publishes articles about movies, television, videos, and other popular visual arts.
Alternate Takes is a website with collected reviews and analysis written by critics, academics, and students of cinema for a broad readership. Films are reviewed on a dual system: first a film review and then a more in-depth "alternate take" on the film. Search or browse reviews.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
More than 130,000 scholarly books that are easy to access online and in full text. Browse by subjects – literature, social sciences, life sciences, engineering and technology – or use the search box.
GoogleScholar This link opens in a new window
A collection of international scholarly literature from across disciplines, many available in full-text but not exclusively.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
The Directory of Open Access Journals contains 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.