Cinema subject guide

• Encyclopedias
  

When you are getting started on your topic, explore key figures (directors, actors et cetera) and concepts in specialized encyclopedias.

• Film Index International

• Oxford Bibliographies

Can provide brief introductions, and extensive lists of important sources in many subject areas within Cinema and Media Studies and more.

• Medial - Feature films, shorts, documentaries and experimental videos acquired by Concordia Library. Log in with your netname and password

• Audio Ciné Films - Over 800 films in English and French, from the studios and producers including: Walt Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Sony, Columbia, Tristar, Screen Gems, Universal Studios Canada (MCA), MGM, United Artists

• Criterion on Demand - Over 1,300 feature films in English and French. Includes 1920 classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features. Producers include: Paramount, DreamWorks, Mongrel, Sony Pictures Classics, Alliance, Miramax, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate.
  

• Kanopy Documentaries Collection - Streaming films covering a wide range of disciplines. Due to budgetary limitations, films must be individually requested. Faculty requests for documentaries for teaching and research purposes are generally granted. Note: This resource may not work properly with Chrome. If you experience issues, please try another browser.

• Online video databases - A full list of online video databases that Concordia University Library subscribes to.
  

• Free online videos - Examples of websites that offer to the general public to online videos in a variety of subjects.

Help Resources

Use the How to find videos guide

See demonstrations (Youtube): Searching for Film and Video using Sofia 

Films at the Visual Collections Repository (VCR)

Moving Image Teaching and Research Film Collection: Searchable through Sofia and available for on site viewing at the VCR: Learn more here.

Search the VCR Celluloid Film Collection using the Moving Image Catalogue

Primary sources: trade magazines & newspapers

• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive - covers small selelction of film trade journals
• Media History Digital Archive open access tool covering a selection of early cinema magazines
• Gallica - digital library of French and francophone culture
• American newspapers (historical) - New York Times | Wall Street Journal | Washington Post
• Times Digital Archive - covers London Times from 1785 to 1985
• Google News Archive - full text of open access selection of historical newspapers
• Film Reviews - indexes and listings of references to reviews, etc.

Primary sources: Canada / Québec

• CBCA Complete - interdisciplinary Canadian magazines and newspapers
• CPI.Q Canadian Periodical Index - interdisciplinary Canadian magazines
• Erudit - Full-text Quebec journals
• Eureka - Quebec newspapers
• Repere - Quebec magazines (some fulltext)
• Canadian Film & Video/Film et video canadiens - bibliography covering books, articles, etc from early twentieth century
• Globe & Mail Canada's Heritage from 1844 - full-page archive of The Globe from June 1844 to The Globe & Mail until December 2003
• Toronto Star Historical - full page scans covers 1894 - 2013
• Revues et journaux québécois - numerisés par BAnQ