Cinema Studies

Other subscription databases from the Bobst Library with streaming video content.

OntheBoards.tv is an on-demand website and HD-quality contemporary performance films.

Lantern is the search platform for the collections of the Media History Digital Library, an open access initiative led by David Pierce and Eric Hoyt. The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access.

New York Times Article By Sara Aridi, from Oct. 23, 2018

Includes contributions that reflect the global nature of film cultures.

Covers topics that are engaged with the practice, process and production of animation.

Investigates the present and past creative cultures of Europe by exploring its popular imagery, media, new media, film, music, art and design, architecture, drama and dance, fine art, literature and the writing arts.

Provides information about the history, theory, criticism and practice of documentary film.

Provides information about the work of undergraduate film scholars.

Publishes articles on the study of the soundtrack as a unified and coherent entity of aural and visual elements.

Encourages research on individual short films as a basis for a better understanding of the art form as a whole

Classic Mexican Cinema is a collection of popular movie periodicals, covering the 'Golden Age' of Mexican Cinema. The resource includes chief magazines such as Cinelandia (1931-1947)which was published in both Spanish and English in Hollywood, Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and Cine Mundial (1954-1955), with extremely rare copies of El Cine Gráfico from 1935 and of the weekly El Mundo Ilustrado (1902-1910). This collection also includes dozens of film flyers, which were distributed on the streets to lure people into the cinema. Finally, this collection also gives access to the personal scrap books of Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), one of the leading Latin-American filmmakers to this day.

A collection of 57 Russian film periodicals published from 1907-1918, the last decade of the tsarist regime. The collection includes sophisticated, bimonthly periodicals as well as more popular weeklies released by the major Russian film studios. Requires plugin. PDF files only allow reading, not searching.

"A collaboration between MediaCommons and the SCMS’s official publication, Cinema Journal, [in]Transition is the first peer-reviewed academic periodical specifically given over to videographic film and moving image studies."

The IFC Center, the ultimate entertainment space for New Yorkers seeking out the best in independent film, opened in June 2005 in the historic Waverly theater.

New York's leading movie house for independent premieres and repertory programming; a nonprofit cinema since 1970.

Longtime West Village theater known for showing offbeat & foreign movies, plus documentaries.

Popular venue for new indie & foreign films, shown on 5 screens, with on-premises cafe.

Features silent-era producers, directors, co-directors, scenario writers, scenario editors, camera operators, title writers, editors, costume designers, exhibitors, theatre managers to make the point that they were not just actresses.

NAAS is a network of independent art-house cinemas and cultural institutions united by the common goal to develop cinema culture across the Arab world by bringing the best of local, regional and world cinema to our large combined audiences. As committed and experienced promoters of art and cinema from Morocco to Syria, network members establish and enhance valuable synergies -- in distribution, programming, promotion and workshops -- in the face of shared obstacles and individual, local isolation.