Film Studies: Latin America, Caribbean Portugal, and Spain: Books & Films
A selective guide to research resources available at Columbia that are useful in beginning research.
Library Catalogs
- CLIO : library web : Columbia University Libraries online catalog. This link opens in a new window
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Contains catalog records for books, serials, newspapers, music scores, sound recordings, microforms, maps, computer files, archives and manuscripts, videorecordings, and other visual materials added to the Columbia University Libraries since 1981, including some material acquired before that date. Also contains records for the U.S. Government Documents collection in Lehman Library. - Borrow Direct. This link opens in a new window
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Borrow Direct is a rapid delivery service that allows patrons from participating libraries to check the availability of and request books from the combined catalogs of Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Penn, Brown, University of Chicago, and MIT. - WorldCat. This link opens in a new window
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Contains over 48 million records, covering all materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries around the world.
Using Subject Headings
Subject Headings
Search CLIO like a professional. Do a Subject search using the following Subject Headings. Limit your results by refining for format, language or other facets. Identify additional headings by reviewing catalog records of interest.
Motion pictures > Spain (Works about film)
Motion pictures > Latin America
Motion pictures > Mexico > History
Motion pictures > country name
Motion pictures, Spanish (Films ... and also works about films)
Motion pictures, Cuban
Tips for Finding Films in CLIO
Tip: To better search CLIO to identify films and books on films, combine the following terms in quotes with other relevant keywords:
“motion pictures” and “latin america”
“motion pictures” and country