Article Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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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. - 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). - Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (EIMA) 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.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Searches film and television articles in the International Index to Film Periodicals (1972-current) and Treasures from the Film Archives, which contains silent film-era listings from archives. - 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.
Selected Journals
- Black American Literature Forum
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This journal features discourse on African American literature topics along with interviews, fiction, and poems, with coverage from 1976 to 1991. - Black Camera
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Black Camera is devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience. It regularly features essays and interviews that engage film in social as well as political distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments. - Black Film Review
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An international publication focusing on films and filmmakers from the African Diaspora, with a focus on independent cinema. It was published from 1984 to 1995. - Liquid Blackness ProjectThe liquid blackness project builds on the study of arts and artists from the Black Diaspora to explore the intersection of aesthetic theory and the most radical agenda of Black Studies. Through research projects, public events, and an online publication, it seeks to mentor the next generation of scholars of color and other scholars fully committed to the agenda of black studies.
- Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (Cinema Journal)
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The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is the peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). The journal was renamed (from Cinema Journal) in October 2018. - Ufahamu: A Journal of African StudiesPublished at UCLA since 1970, Ufahamu is recognized as an important journal in the field of African Studies. Its contents includes material supportive of the African revolution and socially significant works of African history, politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, law, planning and development, literature and other topics about the continent and the African Diaspora. Scroll down the list to get to the first volumes.
Selected Articles
For more articles on filmmakers, please visit the page for Selected Books, Dissertations, and Articles on Individual Filmmakers.
- The Black Film Ambassador: The Ecstatic World of Albert Johnso
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- The Other Side of the Tracks: Nontheatrical Film History, Pre-Rebellion Watts, and "Felicia"
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- “Sometimes It Seems You’re in Another World”: Afrocentric Feminisms of the LA Rebellion
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