Using Databases
Articles are indexed in many databases. No single database covers all journals. Depending on your topic, you may need to use several databases to find what you need. See Choosing and Using Library Databases for more tips.
Searching for Articles in Databases, Journals, and Blogs
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A multidisciplinary database that indexes over 10,000 publications, with the complete text of over 5,500 periodicals, including a mix of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers. - America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Indexes articles from over 1,700 history journals published worldwide since 1964. - Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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Historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases, including International Index to Black Periodicals, Black Literature Index and Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience (interdisciplinary essays written by leading scholars on the Black Experience). - Black Studies Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
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Indexes both scholarly and popular press journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, including cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues. Formerly titled International Index to Black Periodicals (IIPA). - Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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Complete text of articles from 1959 to the present from publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Covers news, culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish. - Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Combines the core Gale Group literary databases: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Complements Literature Criticism Online. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to selected JSTOR e-books. - Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
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Articles and reviews from a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, circus, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television, and more. Former database title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to Muse e-books published from 2017-present, plus a selected number of other e-book titles. - SAGE Complete Journals This link opens in a new window
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Collection of journals available from SAGE Publications.
- blackfilm.com"Today, blackfilm.com is a respected media outlet and publisher of film, television, theatre, and digital editorial, news and entertainment content. Our mission is to promote and support diversity in filmmaking. We have and will continue to bring groundbreaking films to audiences that might not otherwise be available."
- Deadline: Read the Screenplay SeriesThough primarily an entertainment industry news site, Deadline occasionally posts new film scripts online through the "Read the Screenplay" tag.
- Fabulize Magazine"the first online & print mag for #blerd feminists"
- Film Quarterly"Combining the best of scholarship and journalism since 1959, Film Quarterly publishes in-depth articles, reviews, and interviews on all aspects of cinema, media, and society—from film classics to emergent technologies. Film Quarterly is committed to advancing timely and intersectional approaches to the criticism and analysis of visual culture through exploring new perspectives on issues of diversity, race, gender, sexuality, and transnationalism."
- Flow"an online journal of television and media studies"
- In Media Res"dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship."
- Realscreen"the best in non-fiction"
- Scalawag"Black-led, Black-centered, independent media pursuing liberation in the South" Features articles about pop culture and film under the "Arts and Soul" tab.
Selected Articles
- "Is Viola Davis in it?" black women actors and the "single stories" of historical film
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- "Rock-a-Bye, Baby!": Black Women Disrupting Gangs and Constructing Hip-Hop Gangsta Films
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- "The Subject is Money": Reconsidering the Black Film Audience as a Theoretical Paradigm
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- Beyond Category: Black Souls On-Screen
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- Black Film, New Media Industries, and BAMMs (Black American Media Moguls) in the Digital Media Ecology
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- The Black Image on the White Screen: Representations of African Americans from the Origins of Cinema to The Birth of a Nation
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- The Cinema of Racialized Attraction(s): The John C. Rice–May Irwin Kiss and Something Good—Negro Kiss.
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- Erotic Illegibility and Desire in Representations of Black Sexuality
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- Fandom while black: Misty Copeland, Black Panther, Tyler Perry and the contours of US black fandoms
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- Filming Black Voices and Stories: Slavery on America's Screens
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- From Boys to Men: Hip-Hop, Hood Films, and the Performance of Contemporary Black Masculinity
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- The Marketability of Black Joy: After “I Do” in Black Romance Film
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- On the margins: black directors and the persistence of racial inequality in twenty-first century Hollywood
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- Police Brutality, Over-Policing, and Mass Incarceration in African American Film
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- Protesting on Screen: Black Protest Films in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter
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- White screens, Black fandom: silent film and African American spectatorship in Harlem
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- African American Women’s Representations on Television
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- Between Women TV: Toward the Mainstreaming of Black Lesbian Masculinity and Black Queer Women in Community
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- Blackness, Animation, and the Politics of Black Fatherhood in "The Cleveland Show"
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- Blackness as Riot Control: Managing Civic Unrest Through Black Appeal Programming and Black Celebrity
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- The Changing Misrepresentation of Race and Crime on Network and Cable News
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- Hollywood’s Social Construction of Innocence: Entertainment Media’s Deviant Portrayal of Black Children
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- The Mammy, the Strong, Or the Broken: Politics Of Hair Afrocentricities In Scripted Television
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- A Wholistic View of Black Women on Scripted TV: A Content Analysis
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