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For this assignment, you will need to locate research materials published in magazines and newspapers, and you'll need to know how to locate relevant materials using periodicals databases. You may also want to locate a copy of your film, or books about the film, director, or related information.

Library Catalog (PILOT)
Books
The library catalog is the database you use to find books, as well as other library materials, held by Stevenson Library.

General Periodicals
Since EBSCOhost's Academic Search Complete and Academic OneFile
cover a wide variety of topics, it's a good place to begin doing research using periodicals.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete
Academic OneFile
Newspapers

Newspaper sources provide quick, late-breaking information about newsworthy items and events, including media events. They are sources for political, social, and public commentary. For this research project, you may want to note the biases, reasonings and inferences of the opinions expressed by the reviewer.

NewsBank
Lexis Nexis
EBSCOHost Newspaper source

Other Sources

Reference Books:

Ref PN 1993.45.M33 ed.26 Magill's Cinema Annual
Ref PN 1995.M3 1986 Magill's Survey of Cinema
Ref PN 1993.3 F38 New York Times Film Reviews

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