Film and Popular Culture Resource Guide: Periodical Databases

Project Muse contains more than 300 full-text scholarly journals from university presses and scholarly societies. In addition to history, literature, and sociology, Project Muse also has the category of 'Film, Theater, and Performing Arts.'

JSTOR is a collection of older, full-text, scholarly journals. For some journals, the coverage extends back over 100 years. Scholarly articles on topics related to film and/or popular culture can be found in journals from several sections, including: sociology, language & literature, history, African American studies, and Latin American studies.

The Wiley Online Library offers the full-text of journals published by Wiley and what was formerly Blackwell publishing. Most notably it contains the full-text of The Journal of Popular Culture beginning with volume 1, issue 1, from the Summer of 1967. Users may also browse the journal titles listed in the Communication and Cultural Studies category.

The Communication Studies section of Sage Journals Online contains the full-text of journals such as Media, Culture, & Society, (1979 - present), and Games and Culture, (2006 - present).

This full-text database of The New York Times (1851 - 2009) consists of scanned images of the actual paper. In addition to searches for articles, users can also search for advertisements, editorial cartoons, obituaries (a good source of biographical information), and reviews.

ASC and Business Source Complete (from EBSCO) cover topics in the social sciences and business, respectively. Both are good starting points for searching for film reviews or articles on trends and well known personalities in politics, business, and culture.

Like the two Ebsco databases above, Academic OneFile are wide ranging collections of primarily full-text articles from both scholarly and popular journals.