Research Guides: Film and Television: Books, Journals, and DVDs

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BOOKS, DVDs, and SCREENPLAYS

Begin your search for books, journals, newspapers, DVDs, screenplays, and other items held in the Columbia University Library collections by using the Catalog.

You can browse books by subject by searching on the subject term "motion pictures" or other related keywords.

You can search for individual journal and newspaper titles using the Catalog. To search for articles, see the section "Articles".

Featured eBook Collection

Taylor & Francis eBooks
Contains eBook collections in wide range of subject areas. The collection is strong in arts.

BFI Film Classics
"BFI Film Classics, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2022, comprises titles from the award-winning BFI Film Classics book series which introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema from the silent era to the 21st century. Each title offers a sophisticated but accessible argument for the film's 'classic' status, together with discussion of its production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, an account of its technical and aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the author's personal response to the film"--Publisher's description (Bloomsbury), 23 March 2022
BFI film studies
"BFI Film Studies brings together a rich body of titles from BFI Publishing's pre-eminent and foundational list of books on film history, theory, national cinemas, genres, film-makers, and stars. It includes titles published in the BFI Screen Guides, World Directors, Film Stars, BFI Silver and International Screen Industries series, as well as essential companions to film studies such as Pam Cook's The Cinema Book."
Duke University Press.
Duke University Press website, including searchable database of print and electronic books and serials in the humanities and social sciences, and full-text access to electronic collections including e-Duke Books Collection and e-Duke Journals collection.
Ebook Central.
Ebook Central is a collection of thousands of online full text books and other materials in a variety of subject areas.
EBSCO eBook collection
Searchable collection of current electronic books from university and commercial publishers and electronic books in the public domain.
JSTOR.
Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added on an ongoing basis.
Project Muse.
Full-text versions of peer-reviewed journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, as well as thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.

SCREENPLAYS

You can search for published screenplays by searching on individual titles or browse the collection by entering a "subject" search using the subject heading "motion picture plays".

Film scripts online.
Searchable database of film scripts, most of which have never been published before, includes detailed indexing on scenes, characters, and people. Contains bibliographic and biographical information of directors and writers, along with the full text of the movies themselves, from the earliest silent films through to the present. Supports the study of popular culture, film, diversity and gender issues, language and linguistics, writing, American history, anthropology, sociology, and psychology.

DVDs

You can browse the collection of feature films by entering a "subject" search using the subject heading "feature films." Feature films are currently held in DVD and Blu-ray formats and are accessible from Butler Circulation.

See section for Streaming Video.