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Honors Collegium 87W: Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Graphic Novels, Social Media, and Fantasy Fiction

Your guide to Neil Gaiman-related research at UCLA: Find books, articles, dissertations, and more.

Online Media Journals & Forums

All of these online journals contain emerging scholarship in media studies. Also visit the "Articles" tab to search across many different journals.

What is the Difference Between a Review and a Critical Article?

Reviews are (usually) written for the general public, (usually) by journalists or other non-academics. They tend to appear in newspapers, magazines or online around the time the media work is released, whether that be in theaters, on television, via DVD/streaming, or festivals. Their purpose is to describe the plot, characters, director, etc in order to help determine whether or not a film should be seen.

Criticism is the study, interpretation and evaluation of media with regard to historical context, aesthetics, theory or technical analysis. Criticism is (usually) written by academics and published in books or scholarly journals. Film criticism is often published many years after a film is released.

Key Databases for Film and Television Scholarship