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Film and TV

This guide is intended for students who are doing research in film and television, either for classroom assignments, research papers, or exploring a career in film and television.

Books and eBooks - Film and TV

Course Reserves - Film and TV

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Articles - Film and TV

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)

This database has full-text academic articles in almost every subject, including quite a few peer-reviewed and scholarly journals. A good choice for almost any topic.

Credo Reference Academic Core (Infobase)

Includes reference encyclopedias and handbooks, which feature easy-to-read overviews and background information on thousands of topics. Credo also includes videos, illustrations, photographs, visual aids, and maps.

New York Times Digital

DVC students, faculty, and staff have unlimited access to the New York Times digital newspaper subscription. Access content on your desktop, phone, or tablet.

MasterFILE Complete & MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection (Ebsco)

This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags.

Films - Film and TV

Media Studies - Films on Demand

Watch award-winning documentaries and educational programs about film production, film studies, digital media, and more.

Film - Academic Video Online (AVON)

Educational programs from well-known producers like A&E, BBC, and PBS.

Kanopy

Kanopy specializes in feature films and documentaries licensed by DVC Library.

Film Criticism Videos

Richard Williams - Animating Movement

This video takes a look into Richard Williams' way of creating animation films. Throughout the video, the creator talks about Richard's way of drawing scenes which made his movies more fluid and gave the movie a better feel of movement through the scenes. Richard's animations were always done in paper and pen, which would cost more money but resulted in a better product. This could help students who are interested in art and film.

Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy

This video is great for people who want to learn more about different styles of filming comedy action movies. This video would be great for people who want to research ways to capture scenes. The video covers Jackie Chan's filming style and how it changed when he worked with American actors. 

Interstellar - Is it Deep or Dumb?

This video takes a close look at the movie Interstellar and how it tries to answer hard hitting questions about the unknown. This video would be great for someone who is interested in analysis of the film Interstellar. 

The Origins of the Dutch Angle

This video talks about doing specific movements and trends to show the audience a narrative, as well as different angles and how it changes the emotion of the scene and film.

What Game of Thrones Kinda Forgot

 The video focuses on what was left out or the things that were different from the book of game of thrones. This would interest someone who wants to know about staying true to a book when making a show or movie.

David Fincher - Invisible Details

This video would be great for anyone who is interested in David  Fincher's work, how he shot his film and got so many perfect shots.  The video offers  "A look at the hidden visual effects work of David Fincher's filmography."

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