Historic Entertainment Magazines Online
For primary source film magazines and trade periodicals, these databases now include a number of titles from specific years.
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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EIMA is an historical archive of major trade and consumer magazines in film, television, music, radio, and theater, from their inception to 2000. Includes weekly Variety, Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, Back Stage, Billboard, Broadcasting, Picturegoer, Screen International, Spin, and more. UCLA has access to parts I, II, and III of this database.
- Media History Digital Library This link opens in a new windowFreely available online portal, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
- Domitor Journals ProjectFreely available digitized periodicals of interest for early cinema studies, representing 20 countries.
- Periodicals, Books, and Pamphlets (Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Pictures)Includes digitized copies of some of the Library's historical film periodicals and other primary source publications.
- CinefilesScanned images of reviews, press kits, film festival and repertory theater program notes, newspaper articles, and other ephemera from UC Berkeley BAMPFA Film Library and Study Center.
Selected Historical Trade Magazines at UCLA
These titles are sometimes housed in the Arts Library Cage, and need to be paged from the circulation desk for viewing.
Selected Historical Fan Magazines at UCLA
These titles are sometimes housed in the Arts Library Cage, and need to be paged from the circulation desk for viewing.