Film & Theatre

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. This database contains FIAF's “Treasures from Film Archives”; a detailed index of the silent-era film holdings of archives from around the world, a selection of Reference volumes and 60+ journals and 500,000+ article citations.

A major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. Provides a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters.

Mainly consists of peer-reviewed journals in literature, however, many articles discuss plays and film scripts.

Covers the arts and entertainment industry,  including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for 395+ international periodicals, and full text for 160+ of the indexed journals and includes scholarly articles, commentary, reviews, and more.

A national filmography documenting the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1993 with full or short records for films from 1994 to 2015. Every film produced on American soil or by American production companies is indexed from the birth of cinema to the present day. New records are created by the AFI editorial team and added each year. 

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.

Mainly consists of peer-reviewed journals in literature, however, many articles discuss plays and film scripts.

Full text and indexing in art and design, archaeology, anthropology and classical studies, architecture, urban planning, philosophy, geography and religion, modern languages and literatures, music, theatre, film and cultural studies.

Indexes periodicals and provides some full text; covers archaeology, classical studies, art, photography, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology.

An archive of older (at least 2-5 years) issues of core scholarly journals; coverage includes the Biological Sciences, Botany, Business, Ecology, General Science, Humanities, Language, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Social Sciences and Statistics.

Full-text of journals published by Johns Hopkins Press and other scholarly publishers. Topics include literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, social science, mathematics.

North American Theatre Online contains over 40,000 pages of dramatic criticism and interpretation from such sources as O’Dell’s Annals of the New York Stage, the Oxford University Press Companion series, and Greenwood’s American Theatre Companies series. The database features in-depth detailed records for more than 10,000 plays, including many previously unpublished works by major authors.

Theatre In Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

The Shakespeare Collection contextualizes the legacy of this great poet and playwright, containing a selection of over 200 prompt books (annotated working texts of stage managers and company prompters) from the 17th to 20th centuries, the extensive diaries of Shakespeare enthusiast Gordon Crosse documenting 500 UK performances from 1890 to 1953, the First Folio and Quartos, editions and adaptations of Shakespeare’s works from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, more than 80 works Shakespeare is thought to have been familiar with, as well as works composed by Shakespeare's contemporaries.

300+ important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The collection presents classics of the Western canon, modern works by American luminaries, originally commissioned plays, and high profile docudramas—by both renowned and emerging playwrights.

Communication Source was developed from a merger of high-quality EBSCO databases, Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly published by Sage), and includes many unique sources not previously available in other databases. Offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Covers the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature. Includes academic journals, videos, magazines and images.

From ProQuest: Users may search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives from the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites. Content includes access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. Also included: CBS News 60 Minutes, US Hispanic Newsstream, US Major Dailies, US Midwest Newsstream, US North Central Newsstream, US Northeast Newsstream, US South Newsstream

Alexander Street Press Academic Video Online delivers 66,000+ titles spanning a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

A collection of independent, social-issue and environmental films from renowned leaders in documentary film Note: To see which videos the library currently has, click on the Log In link at the website, select San Jose State University, click log in and select My Movies. These titles are also in OneSearch.

Distributes online educational videos including documentaries, films, interviews plus a range of short video series. The videos are arranged by collections: Arts, Business, Communication/Media, Education (K-12), Health, Humanities, Science. Note: SJSU students, staff, and faculty: You will be asked to authenticate on and off campus. Kanopy uses copyright protection and DRM technology to block video streaming over platforms like Zoom. As a result, screen sharing is not permitted for restricted titles—viewers must watch individually, either outside of class or on their own devices during class. When screen sharing via Zoom, only the presenter is authenticated, so others will see a blank screen.

This collection of 1,300+ streaming videos includes documentaries and series from science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business & economics, and more.

American Film Scripts contains 1,000 film scripts—more than 100,000 scenes of human experience—opening an exploration of American culture through the decades. This highly structured archive offers a bibliographic and biographical database of directors and writers, along with the full text of the movies themselves.

North American Theatre Online contains over 40,000 pages of dramatic criticism and interpretation from such sources as O’Dell’s Annals of the New York Stage, the Oxford University Press Companion series, and Greenwood’s American Theatre Companies series. The database features in-depth detailed records for more than 10,000 plays, including many previously unpublished works by major authors.

Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information, providing a comprehensive overview of this growing field. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and it is planned to include contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Black Drama, 1850 to present contains 1200 full text plays written by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries. The resource also includes reference materials for the plays including playbills, photographs, posters, articles and more.

Full text access to the literature of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, as well as Argentinians, Salvadorians, Dominicans, and other Central and South Americans. It represents the most comprehensive collection of Latino Literature yet completed and, when complete, it will include 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 450 plays.

Index to international music and dance periodicals. Includes references to journal articles; reviews of books, recordings, and performances; also obituaries. Covers classical, popular, and world music and musicians; also dance.

Abstracts and indexing for writings on music worldwide, including periodical articles, books, dissertations, collections of essays, conference proceedings, reviews, etc. Covers musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, instruments, pedagogy, performance, dance, and all disciplines related to music.

Indexes over 430 international music periodicals, including full text for 125 journals. Currently includes citations and abstracts for over 600,000 articles on music covering scholarly research and popular publications.

Music research gateway that includes Grove Music, Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford Companion to Music. Articles include biographies of composers and performers; definitions of terms, styles, and concepts; essays on world music, popular music, and jazz; descriptions of musical instruments and their makers, etc.

Resource for music research of world's peoples that contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instrument, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study.

A comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of the SJSU Library's music databases from Alexander Street Press. Included are the streaming audio databases American Song, Contemporary World Music, and the Jazz Music Library.

An online listening service and encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions with more than 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Includes the published recordings of Smithsonian Folkways and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records and other labels. Also included is music recorded around the African continent for the International Library of African Music as well as material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology.  Limited to 3 concurrent users 

Includes more than 250 volumes of reviewed material, images, lesson plans, overviews and more about American and world pop culture and history.

Access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America—vividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects into the middle of the next.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is a scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960’s to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection contains more than 75,000 pages of comic and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this art form.

Full text and indexing to areas of art and design, Archaeology, anthropology and classical studies, Architecture, urban planning, philosophy, geography and religion, modern languages and literatures, music, theatre, film and cultural studies.

Indexes periodicals in archaeology, classical studies, art, photography, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Some full text.

Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in the fields of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.  250 journals+ covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.

Covers the arts and entertainment industry,  including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for 395+ international periodicals, and full text for 160+ of the indexed journals and includes scholarly articles, commentary, reviews, and more.

Humanities International Complete™ provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.

A collection of scholarly humanities titles offered in collaboration with 30+ learned societies, 100+ contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.

An archive of older (at least 2-5 years) issues of core scholarly journals; coverage includes the Biological Sciences, Botany, Business, Ecology, General Science, Humanities, Language, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Social Sciences, and Statistics.

Web of Science is a citation database that covers three major tools: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. The complete database covers thousands of scholarly journals from 1975 to the present across a broad range of disciplines. Because it is a citation index, you can use this tool to find articles that cite a previously published work, allowing you to trace an idea forward and backward in the literature. In addition to cited reference searching, you can search these databases by topic, author, and more. You may also create Journal Citation Reports - select the Databases or the Additional Resources tab. Links to SJSU full-text online and print journal subscriptions and to document delivery services are provided through SJSU GetText Linking.

Coverage includes humanities & social sciences journals and content from H.W. Wilson’s International Index. To be used with other Wilson retrospective and full text databases.