Cinema Studies - Finding Books

At the University of Washington:

UW Libraries Catalog
Anyone from around the world can search the University of Washington Libraries Catalog through the World Wide Web. Users can restrict searches to any of the three UW campuses, including Seattle, Bothell, or Tacoma or restrict searches to journals only. This catalog can be searched in various ways, including author, title, subject or keywords.

For your Cinema Studies research, begin with a keyword or a Library of Congress Subject Heading search. You can enter terms such as:

• Film Criticism
• Motion Pictures
• Motion Picture Producers and Directors
• Motion Picture Actors and Actresses
• Motion Picture Studios
• Motion Pictures Reviews

UW Law Library Catalog
Catalog to the holdings of the Gallagher Law Library.

   At Other Libraries:

Center for Research Libraries' Public Access Catalog
Catalog to the Center for Research Libraries; especially strong for archival materials, newspapers and foreign dissertations.

OCLC WorldCat
Union catalog to the major research libraries here and abroad.

OhioLINK Central Catalog Ohio Library and Information Network
Catalog to the holdings of academic libraries in Ohio; useful for chapter information for books published after 1990.

Summit
Union catalog of Northwest academic libraries.

   Dissertations:

Dissertation Abstracts
Citations to dissertations written at U.S. universities from 1861 on. Includes abstracts for those written after 1980 plus some foreign disserations.