Library Guides: Film &amp; Drama: Home

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Welcome to my Subject Page for Film Studies, Drama and Theatre Studies. Here you will find resources and tips to help you become familiar with all that the Library has to offer. Click through the blue tabs to the left to learn more about the Library including:

How to find your books
How to cite your references
How EndNote can help you manage your references

Explore Stella Search, the Library's catalogue, to discover books, journals and journal articles.

For a more focused approach for finding journal articles, use the Library's databases. This will save you time and effort, and you have peace of mind that you are looking at quality material.

Most students in this subject should start with these three databases:

Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Full access to Play texts, Video and Audio. New writers alongside the most iconic names in play writing history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides.
Features the theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and will be continually updated.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus This link opens in a new window
A bibliographical resource with coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day.
Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs.
Film Index International This link opens in a new window
Resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute.
Indexing films from over 170 countries.
LION This link opens in a new window
Over 355,000 works of English and American literature.
Literature Online runs from the 8th Century to the 21st Century and includes 340,000
works of poetry, 6,000 works of Drama, 2,250 works of prose as well as 180+ journals
The Library subscribes to: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920- (ABELL), Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700), Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780), English Drama (1280-1915), English Poetry (600-1900), King James Bible, Modern Poetry (1972-1997), W.B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995).
MLA This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic records relating to: literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Coverage from 1963 to the present.
Provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

Websites

IndieWire Screenplays
Information and networking site for independent-minded filmmakers, the industry and moviegoers (launched July 1996).
Entertainment.ie (News, Reviews)
Irish Film & TV Research Online (School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin)
A website designed to bring together the wide diversity of research material relating to Irish-made cinema and television as well as to Irish-themed audio-visual representations produced outside of Ireland.
It incorporates five searchable databases:
Irish Film & Television Index
Irish Film & Television Biographies
Irish Film & Television Bibliography
Irish Film Censors' Records (1923-38)
Irish Silent Films (9 films)