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Cultures & Civilizations: Engagement with Difference Professor Lerner Professor Mahony Fall 2005 Reference Sources Books Articles Starting Points Core Databases for Film Core Databases for Literature Core Databases for Music Core Databases for Religion Other Databases Film Reviews RefWorks Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Sources Biographies | Film | Literature | Music | Religion & Culture Biographies American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999-2002. Reference R 920.073 A512 Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . Contemporary Authors. Gale: 2000- . The E.H. Little Library also has copies of the print volumes from 1967-2003; they are shelved in Reference at call number R 928 C76. Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1984- . Reference R 927.9 C761 Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1978- . Reference R 928.1 D554 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Ed. Steven R. Serafin. 5 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999. Reference R 803 E562 1999 International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Ed. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast. 4th ed. 4 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Reference R 791.43 I611 2000 Film The Complete Film Dictionary. Ira Konigsberg. 2nd ed. New York: Penguin, 1998. Reference R 791.43 K82c2 Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Ed. Roberta E. Pearson and Philip Simpson. New York: Routledge, 2001. Reference R 791.43 C934 Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings, and Series. Richard B. Armstrong and Mary Willems Armstrong. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000. Reference R 791.43 A737m 2001 Feature Films, 1940-1949: A United States Filmography. Alan G. Fetrow. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994. Reference R 016.791 F288 1940-1949 Feature Films, 1950-1959: A United States Filmography. Alan G. Fetrow. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. Reference R 016.791 F288 1950-1959 Feature Films, 1960-1969: A Filmography of English-Language and Major Foreign-Language United States Releases. Harris M. Lentz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001. Reference R 016.791 F288 1960-1969 Film as Literature, Literature as Film: An Introduction to and Bibliography of Film's Relationship to Literature. Harris Ross. New York: Greenwood, 1987. Reference R 016.791 R824f The Film Studies Dictionary. Steve Blandford et al. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. Reference R 791.43 B642f Films of the American Left: A Research Guide. M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. Reference R 791.43 B724f The Films of the Seventies: A Filmography of American, British, and Canadian Films. Marc Sigoloff. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1984. Reference R 791.43 S578f The Films of the Eighties: A Complete, Qualitative Filmography to over 3400 Feature-Length English Language Films. Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991. Reference R 016.791 F288 1980-1989 The Films of the Nineties: A Complete, Qualitative Filmography of over 3000 Feature-Length English Language Films. Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn L. Nowlan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001. Reference R 016.791 F288 1990-1999 Forbidden Films: Censorship Histories of 125 Motion Pictures. Dawn B. Sova. New York: Facts on File, 2001. Reference R 791.43 S729f Guide to American Cinema, 1965-1995. Daniel Curran. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. Reference R 791.43 C976g Handbook of American Film Genres. Ed. Wes D. Gehring. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. Reference R 791.43 H236 International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Ed. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast. 4th ed. 4 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Reference R 791.43 I611 2000 International Film Guide. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1966-1989. Library has 1966 to 1989 Reference R 791.43 I61 The Language of Cinema. Kevin Jackson. New York: Routledge, 1998. Reference R 791.43 J13L The Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1985-1999. Library has: 1988-1999. Reference R 791.43 N251m New York Times Encyclopedia of Film. Ed. Gene Brown. 13 vols. New York: Times Books, 1984. Reference R 791.43 N532 New York Times Film Reviews. New York: New York Times, 1913/68- . Library has 1913 to present Reference R 791.43 N53 The Oxford Companion to Film. Ed. Liz-Anne Bawden. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976. Reference R 791.43 O98 Variety International Film Guide. London: Andre Deutsch, 1990-1996. Reference R 791.43 V299 Literature Dictionary of Oriental Literatures. Ed. Jaroslav Prušek. 3 vols. New York: Basic Books, [1974]. Reference R 890.3 D554 Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Ed. Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 1998. Reference R 892.7 E56 Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Ed. John Clute and John Grant. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. Reference R 809.3 E562 Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Ed. Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 1994. Reference R 820.9 E561 Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Ed. Steven R. Serafin. 5 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999. Reference R 803 E562 1999 Great Literature of the Eastern World. Ed. Ian P. McGreal. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Reference R 895 G786 A Handbook to Literature. William Harmon. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. Reference R 803 H747h9 The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Ed. Jenny Stringer. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996. Reference R 820.3 O98 Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Thomas Riggs. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1999. Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003. Reference R 809 R332 Music Baker's Dictionary of Opera. Laura Kuhn. New York: Schirmer, 2000. Music Library Reference 927.821 A12 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Stanley Sadie. 2nd ed. 29 vols. New York: Grove, 2001. Music Library Reference 780.3 N532 2001 The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Ed. Stanley Sadie. 4 vols. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1992. Reference R 782.1 N532 Music Library Reference 782.1 N532 The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. John Warrack and Ewan West. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992. Music Library Reference 782.1 W286o Religion & Culture Antisemitism: An Annotated Bibliography. Ed. Susan Sarah Cohen. 13 vols. New York: Garland, 1987- . Reference R 016.3 A633 Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy. Ed. Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam. New York: Routledge, 1997. Reference R 181 C737 Countries and their Cultures. Ed. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 2001. Reference R 306 C855 Dictionary of Art. Ed Jane. Turner 34 vols. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996. Reference R 703 D554 Encyclopedia of the Qur'an. Ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. 6 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2001- . Reference R 297 E56 Note: This set is still being published. The Library currently has volumes 1-5 (A-Z). The index volume is forthcoming. Encyclopædia of Islam. Ed. H.A.R. Gibb et al. New ed. 12 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1954-2005. Reference R 956.03 E56 Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Ed. Richard C. Martin. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 2004. Encyclopedia of Judaism. Ed. Ed. Jacob Neusner et al. 4 vols. New York: Continuum, 1999-2002. Reference R 296.03 E562 Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Ed. David Levinson and Karen Christenson. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2002. Reference R 950 L665e Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. 15 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005. Reference R 203 E562 Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa. Ed. Philip Mattar. 2nd ed. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2004. Reference R 956.03 E561 2004 Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Ed. David Levinson. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1991. Reference R 306 E56 Historical Dictionary of Hinduism. Bruce M. Sullivan. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1997. Reference R 294.5 S949h Historical Dictionary of India. Surjit Mansingh. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1996. Reference R 954.003 M288h Historical Dictionary of Judaism. Norman Solomon. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. Reference R 922.96 S689h The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism. James G. Lochtefeld. 2 vols. New York: Rosen, 2002. Reference R 294.5 L812i New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Horowitz. 6 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2005. Reference R 901.9 D554 2005 The Library also has a copy of the first edition, the Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener (5 vols.; New York: Scribner, 1973-1974), shelved in Reference at call number R 901.9 D554. The New Encyclopedia of Islam. Cyril Glassé. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2001. Reference R 297.03 G549n New Encyclopedia of Judaism. Ed. Geoffrey Wigoder. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2002. Reference R 296.03 N532 Tools for Finding Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate works about a film, do a subject search for the title of the film; you should then do a regular keyword search too. To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war"). Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Tools for Finding Articles Starting Points Core Databases for Film | Core Databases for Literature | Core Databases for Music Core Databases for Religion | Other Indexes & Databases Starting Points Academic Search Elite (1984 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. InfoTrac OneFile (1980 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also included citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use an exclamation point !. LexisNexis Academic (Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as the text of newswires, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts. Search Syntax Truncation: use an exclamation point. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use an asterisk *. OmniFile Full Text Mega (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Core Databases for Film Film Indexes Online (1893 to present) Contains both Film Index International (FII) and The American Film Institute Catalog (AFI). Includes full production and cast information for films from over 170 countries as well as plot summaries, production notes, and citations to reviews, criticism, and articles on film and film personalities. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Film Literature Index (1973-2001) Indexes articles, film reviews, and book reviews from over 300 film and television periodicals; international in scope. Note: Information from 2002 to the present is only available in the print version of Film Literature Index, which is shelved in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 F4873. MLA International Bibliography (1963 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore. Note: To locate articles from earlier time periods, consult the MLA International Bibliography, 1925-1962 (Reference R 016.4 M16m). Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Core Databases for Literature MLA International Bibliography (1963 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore. For more information, see the MLAIB Search Planner. Note: To locate articles from earlier time periods, consult the MLA International Bibliography, 1925-1962 (Reference R 016.4 M16m). Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Core Databases for Music Music Index (1979 to present) Indexes periodical articles, book reviews, and music reviews about popular and classical music. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: Use a question mark ?. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1969 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, catalogues, dissertations, and films and videos on all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. RILM also covers fields related to music, such as anthropology, art, drama, literature, sociology, philosophy, and physics. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Core Databases for Religion ATLA Religion Database (1949 to present) Indexes journal articles and essays related to world religions, church history, and Biblical studies; also includes some book reviews. ATLA has a strong focus on Western religions. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Index Islamicus (1906 to present) Indexes articles, conference papers, essays, and book reviews on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world; also includes citations to books published since 1976 on Islamic topics. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Proquest Religion (1986 to present) Indexes articles from more than 90 religion periodicals. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Other Indexes & Databases America: History and Life (Prehistory to present [historical time period covered]; 1964 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Contemporary Women's Issues (1992 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, books, newsletters, and reports on all aspects of women's studies, including gender, sociology, education, political science, and health. Search Syntax Truncation: automatic. Phrase searching: automatic. Essay & General Literature Index Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Historical Abstracts (1450 to present [historical time period covered]; 1954 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on world history, excluding the history of the U.S. and Canada. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Time period searches: search by decade or century only. To search for a decade, use the format xxxxD (example: 1940D). To search for a range of decades, use the format xxxxD xxxxD or the format xxxxD OR xxxxD. Note: For more than five decades, search by century (see below). To search for a century, use the format xxxxH (example: 1900H). To search for a range of centuries, use the format xxxxH xxxxH. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals 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. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years. Search Syntax Truncation: use a plus sign +. Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Film Reviews For tips on finding film reviews, please see the Library guide How to Find Film Reviews. Using RefWorks Need help managing your references? Try RefWorks! You can use it to organize your citations, keep track of your notes on books and articles, and generate bibliographies. Find out more; consult our guide on Using RefWorks. Connect to RefWorks Tips & Further Help How to Narrow or Broaden your Search How to Identify a Scholarly Article How to Find Book Reviews How to Find Film Reviews How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips How to Evaluate Web Resources Research Planner (pdf document) Research Log (pdf document)

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