Materials about a particular video game can be searched using title, or the title plus the search term "video games". You may also try searching with the Title plus the subject term "video games":
Materials about a topic, theme or character as represented in films nearly all have the form: [Topic] in motion pictures or [Topic] in video games. The lists below provide examples of search possibilities.
Film and Television Literature Index with Full TextThis link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Cover the spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
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Humanities SourceThis link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Designed to meet the needs of students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Coverage in Humanities Source includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
Funded by Statewide Allocation
Academic Search CompleteThis link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Funded by Statewide Allocation
Films on DemandThis link opens in a new window(Films Media Group) - Streaming video from large and small production companies covering a wide range of subjects to enhance college courses. These videos include public performance rights that allow them to be used in the educational setting.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)
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Cultural Politics, Popular Culture, FilmCulturalPolitics.net is a not-for-profit matrix of sites curated, written and managed by T.V. Reed, with technical and design support from Jeff Kuure and Blair Beauchesne.
Reed is the Buchanan Distinguished Professor of American Studies and English at Washington State University, and currently Visiting Professor of English and Humanities at York University, Toronto.
IGNAbout: "We are the leading Internet media company focused on the video game and entertainment enthusiast markets. IGN caters to more than 68 million monthly users on our website and in our apps. Our English-language programming is followed by over 9 million subscribers on YouTube and 16 million fans on social networks. Our Snapchat edition reaches millions more each month.
For millions of fans, we have cemented our reputation as the authoritative voice on games and entertainment by delivering sharp opinions and ground-breaking visual content. For you, we offer the creativity, authenticity and relevance to help you engage our vital, premium audience."
KotakuAbout: "Thank you for reading Kotaku, a news and opinion site about games and things serious gamers care about. We’re here to inform you and, sometimes, entertain you.
We aim to be an inclusive site for gamers of any ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. We expect our writers and commenters to treat those they write about as they would if they met them in person. For more on what that means, on the values we embrace and on what lines we expect writers and commenters not to cross, please read this. You might also be interested in Gizmodo Media’s Editorial Code."
Purdue OWL MLA Formatting and Style GuideAbout: "Summary: MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
Contributors:Tony Russell, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli, Russell Keck, Joshua M. Paiz, Michelle Campbell, Rodrigo Rodríguez-Fuentes, Daniel P. Kenzie, Susan Wegener, Maryam Ghafoor, Purdue OWL Staff
Last Edited: 2016-09-12 10:29:40"
