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International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of The International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakes, edited by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast (4th ed.; 4 vols; Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2000). Covers films, actors, directors, and production artists and includes biographies, filmographies, credit information, production information, major awards, and bibliographies.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the second edition of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, edited by Michael Groden et al. (2nd ed.; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005). Provides descriptions of theories, ideas, and critics from the time of Plato to the present and also covers developments in other disciplines that have shaped literary theory and criticism. International in scope with an emphasis on Western critical theory.
Reference Universe Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Try this first! Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books.
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, edited by Barry Grant (4 vols; New York: Schirmer Reference, 2007). Covers a wide variety of topics related to film and film studies, including acting, censorship, critical theory, film history, genres, production, studios, and more.

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American Memory Off-Campus access available; no password required.	A collection of over 9 million primary source documents and archival materials related to American history and culture. Includes a wide variety of materials, including manuscripts, government documents, pamphlets, books, and other publications as well as photographs, prints, maps, sheet music, video clips, and sound files. There are over 100 thematic collections in American Memory; you can search across all collections or browse or search individual collections. From the Library of Congress.
Art Abstracts & Art Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1929 to present) Indexes over 370 periodicals, including journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Subjects covered include art history, archaeology, architecture, decorative art, film, folk art, graphic art, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and sculpture.
ebrary Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights. Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary. See also the system requirements for ebrary.
Humanities Abstracts Full Text & Humanities Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
JSTOR Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
PBS Videos (NC LIVE Media Collection) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	An online collection of over 220 educational and documentary programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). Includes selected episodes from "American Experience" and "Frontline," Ken Burns's "Civil War" and "Jazz," and much more. Technical requirements: Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher and a high-speed Internet connection.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope.
Project Muse Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
WorldCat Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries.