Step 1: Brainstorm, presearch and write down important information about your example.
1. Title
2. Author or artist or director or production company, etc.
3. Year published or released
IMDb example: Barbie Wikipedia: Barbie (film)
Step 2: How will you watch or read your chosen topic? Search for the title in our catalog to see if we have it available via streaming or physical DVD. You can also search by keywords to find books and book chapters about your topic.
This website you currently use for the UD catalog and to access your library account will retire on June 22. Learn more. Connect to the University of Dayton Online Catalog to search for books and other materials held by the UD University Libraries.
Connect to the University of Dayton Online Catalog to search for books, journals, and other materials held by the UD University Libraries, including Roesch Library, Marian Library, US Catholic Special Collections, Archives, Rare Books, Leisure Reading, Government Documents (GovDocs), Electronic Resources, Learning Teaching Center (LTC), Zimmerman Law Library, Curriculum Materials Center, and Multi-Ethnic Education & Engagement Center (MEC). Easily narrow a search to find print and e-books, theses, dissertations, manuscripts, print and e-journals, music, video, maps, instructional material, and more.
Step 3: Find a review or article published around the time your chosen depiction was released.
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Research diverse perspectives, topics, and trends in this collection of current news sources, including North American and international newspapers, wire services, and broadcast news transcripts. It covers local, regional, and world issues, politics, government policies, sports, industries, cultural activities, schools, and people and events in local communities. Search curricular areas such as Political Science, English, Sociology, Humanities, Business, and International Studies, or more specific subjects such as African American Studies, Communication, Journalism, and Media Studies, Criminal Justice, Planning, Public Policy, and Public Administration, Social Work, and Sociology.
Step 4: Search for scholarly treatments of your modern depiction. What themes have other scholars noticed? You may find examples in articles or books.
Scholarly articles, industry news, and reviews in film and television studies, including full-text content for in-depth research. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
This resource for researchers of film and television provides the most comprehensive collection of full-text from scholarly and popular sources, and spans the entire spectrum of film and television studies. This database contains all types of writing on film and TV, including academic journals, industry & trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines. It covers a wide range of topics, such as film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. It primarily includes indexing, citations, and abstracts, but it also includes some full text documents. This database is the electronic continuation of the print publication "Film Literature Index."
A search tool with a Google-like relevancy ranking to help you retrieve all types of scholarly research sources with one search. New look and functionality coming June 23.
This search tool lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search, simultaneously searching the UD catalog, OhioLINK catalog, and many of the online resources available through the University Libraries, in addition to institutional repositories and open-access resources. With UDiscover, you can access millions of journal articles, e-books, dissertations, conference proceedings, newspaper articles, videos, and primary sources. If you're looking for a variety of sources on your topic, or you're just getting started, UDiscover can help you access more information at once than ever before. It has a Google-like relevancy ranking, but helps you locate scholarly resources.
Scholarly articles, journals, and reports in communication and media studies, covering various aspects of mass communication and related fields. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
This database provides coverage of scholarly literature on all aspects of communication studies, including journalism, mass media, discourse, speech, linguistics, communicative disorders, rhetoric, and advertising. It includes indexing and some full-text for books and conference proceedings. CMMC incorporates CommSearch, formerly produced by the National Communication Association, and Mass Media Articles Index, along with other journals to create a comprehensive research and reference resource for communication and mass media fields.
Access scholarly literature in language, literature, linguistics, & folklore, supporting research across humanities disciplines with indexing and abstracts. Effective May 13, EBSCO databases will debut new features and an updated design. Learn more.
This bibliography directs researchers to more than 3 million citations from journal articles, books, book chapters, monographs, proceedings, series, bibliographies, dissertations, scholarly websites, editions, and translations published from the late 19th century to the present. Subjects covered include criticism, drama, film, folklore (including folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems), history of printing and publishing, language, linguistics (including history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, syntax, and translation), literary theory, literature, radio, television, and college-level teaching of language, literature, rhetoric, and composition.
A digital library with over 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in diverse fields, ideal for research and scholarly exploration.
This archive is a collection of over 12 million full-text scholarly journal articles, e-books, periodicals, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Browse subject areas including Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Medicine & Allied Health, Science & Mathematics, and Social Sciences. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Artstor, Ithaka S+R, and Portico.