Chris Fowler

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Oxford Brookes University: RADAR

 WWW.BROOKES.AC.UK/LIBRARY LIBRARY  Film  A guide to finding information  The aim of this guide is to introduce you to some of the sources of information held in Oxford Brookes University Library, which may be useful to you during your study of Film.  Getting started - Library homepage http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/               Discover Search box  Discover Search box     Looking for a book or print journal? Use this. Find your reading list online and link directly through to the Catalogue for each entry. Need an online journal? Find it here. Hunting for articles or images for your topic? Search a specialist database. Discover Search box Search a range of Library content in one go. A quick and dirty search! Need help? If the Subject Help pages don’t have the answer, contact your Academic Liaison Librarian. 2  Finding books and DVDs Catalogue  The key to finding what the Library holds is the Library Catalogue. It includes details of all the material held in the Library and where to find it. You can access the Catalogue from terminals in the Library, any of the pooled computer rooms or off-campus at:  http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/brookes/  Most stock of relevance to Film students will be found on Levels 2 and 4 of the Headington Library, though other useful materials may be found scattered in several different places in the Library or at our other sites. The Catalogue includes details of books, journals (see below) and audio-visual material and will tell you if an item is out on loan and, if so, when it is due back.  Items on reading lists may have been put in the Short Loan Collection on Level 1; the Catalogue will give you this information.   You can log in to My Loans and Reservations from the Catalogue to see what you have on loan and check whether your reservations are ready for you to collect.  Searching the Library Catalogue  You can search for books using the author and/or key words from the title, eg. Buckland  film studies. Search for journals and magazines by title, eg. Sight & Sound. Search by name for people or institutions to find material by or about them, eg. Martin Scorsese or Studio Ghibli. When you have run a search the side menu gives you the opportunity to focus your search, for example to a particular site, collection or format. When you have found the item you need on the Catalogue check to see that it is on the shelves. If it is, note down the full shelfmark including the letters at the end, eg. 791.43015/BUC. If the item you need is on loan or at another site click the reserve button and place a reservation.  DVDs are shelved alongside the books, according to their director’s nationality. You will also find critical works about the film, biographies of the director and the film script if we have it, all shelved together around the same shelfmark as the film. When you’re looking for a film, you can search by the title, then scroll down the results and choose ‘DVD’ from the ‘Format’ options. If we don’t have a particular DVD, check on BoB (Box of Broadcasts) – see p.3 of this guide. Films on BoB are not listed on the Library Catalogue.  Reading Lists  You can search for an online version of your reading list by module name or number. There will also be a link to it on Moodle. Items on the reading list are linked to the Library Catalogue so one click will tell you the shelfmark and whether the book is on the shelves.  Browsing  You may find it helpful, even inspirational, to go and look at the books on the shelves to see what is relevant to your work. Use the shelfmarks below to direct your browsing.   3  Useful shelfmarks for Film  791.43 Film (general) 791.43655 Action films, crime films, film noir  791.43096 African cinema 791.430973 American cinema 791.433 Animated films 791.43095 Asian cinema 302.2343 Audiences 791.430994 Australian cinema 791.430941 British cinema 778.53 Cinematography 791.43617 Comedy films 791.430971 Canadian cinema 791.430951 Chinese cinema 070.18 Documentary films 791.43094 European cinema 791.43028 Film acting 791.437 Film adaptations 791.430233 Film direction 791.4302330922 Film directors 778.535 Film editing 791.430681 Film finance    384.8 Film industry 778.5 Filmmaking – technical aspects 781.542 Film music 791.430280922 Film stars 791.4301 Film theory 791.430944 French cinema 791.430943 German cinema 791.4309 History of cinema 791.430973 Hollywood cinema 791.436164 Horror films 791.430953 Indian cinema 791.430955 Iranian cinema 791.4309415 Irish cinema 791.430945 Italian cinema 791.430952 Japanese film 791.430993 New Zealand cinema 791.43612 Realist films 791.430947 Russian cinema 791.43615 Science fiction & fantasy films 808.23 Screenwriting 302.2343 Sociology of film 791.430972 South American cinema 791.430946 Spanish cinema 791.4309561 Turkish cinema 791.436278 Westerns 791.43082 Women in cinema  Oversize books are shelved separately near the book sequence.  4  Print reference works Dictionaries and encyclopaedias  These can be found in Zone D on Level 4 of the Library, most will be for reference use only. They are useful for looking up unfamiliar terms or finding explanations of a subject. Directories, specialised dictionaries and encyclopaedias may be helpful for getting an overview of a film topic, looking up technical terms, or finding details about a specific filmmaker.  Sources include:  Katz, E. The film encyclopedia        791.4303/KAT Pearson, R. (ed.) Critical dictionary of film and television theory.    791.4303/CRI Thomson, D. The new biographical dictionary of film.     791.4303/THO                                        We also have online reference sources available via the Library web site, for example: Kuhn, A. and Westwell G. (2012) A Dictionary of Film Studies. Available via the database Oxford Reference Online   E-resources The Library web site at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/ is a gateway to thousands of electronic resources such as e-books, e-journals and databases.  Go to the Subject Help pages for Film at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/subject-help/film-studies/ to see links to online resources for Film (e-books, e-journals, databases, Internet sites).  Tip: When accessing Brookes Library’s e-resources you’ll be prompted to log with your Brookes student number and password.   E-Books A growing number of our books are now available as e-books, which you can access via the Library web site. You can read these books online and download them for up to a week. For more information, go to the Subject Help pages for Film at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/subject-help/film-studies/and choose E-books.  Tip: Log in when prompted with your Brookes student number and password.   Watching films  Viewing DVDs Most videos and DVDs are available for 1 week loan. Key films  on reading lists may have been put into Short Loan where they can be borrowed for 24 hours. To view films in the Library, you can use the video/DVD players or play DVDs on any of the networked computers – please use headphones.   Box of Broadcasts (BoB) BoB is an online service available to Brookes staff and students which lets you view and record radio and TV programmes. You can: • Watch programmes from the archive. • View a listing of past and forthcoming programmes and record items from this. • Create clips and compile playlists and share these with others.  Tips on accessing BoB:  • Click on the Login button on the BoB home page – you’ll then be prompted to look up your University. • Navigate using options Search; Programme Guide; MyBoB.    5  Finding journals Journals provide one of the best sources of articles, reviews, interviews and features on specialised film topics. We have a few of printed journals devoted to cinema, but the majority of our film journals are online.   • Journal of British Cinema and Television   J 791.4 J (also online) • New review of film and television studies  J 791.4 N (also online) • Screen  J 791.43 S (also online) • Sight and sound J 791.43 S (selective articles online). Monthly journal published by the BFI which includes an extensive review section as well as news, articles and features.  To locate a specific journal article on your reading list: • Go to the Library home page at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/   • For print journals go to the Library catalogue and search for the journal title. The catalogue will tell you the shelfmark of the journal. All our print journals can be found in the mobile shelving in the Basement.  • For e-journals, choose the E-journals by title tab on the Library homepage and look up the journal title on our A-Z list of e-journals. You can also browse by subject at: https://web.b.ebscohost.com/pfi/search/basic?sid=f79284f9-294d-4d2d-9741-55a3d32a7242@sessionmgr105&vid=0&tid=3000EP&sdb=edspub   If you are researching a topic for an essay or a dissertation, the best way to locate journal articles and other publications such as book chapters, is to search one of our electronic databases.   Using databases for research If you have a film topic and need to find out what's been written on it, try searching one of the databases recommended for Film. These can help you to trace journal articles, reviews and other sources in your subject area.  To access these databases: • Go to the Library home page at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/   • Go to the Subject Help pages for Film to see a list of the databases recommended for Film.  • For tips on locating articles, check the guide Finding journal articles for Film Studies available from the Subject Help pages for Film Studies. • For further help, contact your Academic Liaison Librarian.  Some key databases which will help you find journal articles on film topics, genres, directors or specific films are:  Performing arts periodicals database (Full text) A very significant database for the performing arts, containing over a third of a million references to journal articles and reviews on dance, film, musical theatre, opera, performance art, television and theatre. Full text articles are available for about 160 journal titles.  Academic Search Complete (Full text) This is a multi-disciplinary database which includes full-text articles from several film journals.  Art Full Text  A major art database which includes various full-text film journals  6  Communication & Mass Media Complete (Full text) This database provides full-text articles from more than 200 journal titles, including a large number of key film journals.  JSTOR (Full text) Archive of older full-text articles from a range of academic journals in a wide range of humanities and social sciences disciplines.   Newspapers and magazines  Factiva (Full text) An international news database. It includes US newspapers and entertainment magazines such as Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety which are good for film reviews.   LexisLibrary (Full text) Gives access to full-text newspaper articles, including film reviews, from UK national and local newspapers. To search the database for news articles, click on News in the red menu bar on the initial screen.  Getting copies of articles Databases may give you the full text of articles, often in the form of PDF files that you can save or print. In many cases, databases will give you an ‘abstract’ or summary of the article but not the whole thing. The next step is to find out whether the Library holds that article in print or electronic form: • On many databases you’ll see Full Text Finder next to a reference. You can click on this to check whether the article is available as an e-journal and then link to it.  • Alternatively you should check our Library Catalogue or E-journals by title list of our electronic journals to see whether we have the journal you want – see page 5 of this guide. • Note that databases may cover journals and other publications which are not available from the Brookes Library. See p.5 for details of accessing material from other libraries.   Referencing and study skills  Referencing in the Brookes Harvard style Citing your sources - also called referencing - is an essential part of your academic work. The Film Studies field recommends using the Harvard referencing system. Please check with your department about any specific guidelines they produce (e.g. in a course handbook). For help with referencing see these resources, available from the Subject Help pages for Film: • Library guide to using Harvard Citing your references using the Harvard system • Online service Cite Them Right Online – gives further help on referencing and avoiding plagiarism.  EndNote can help you to store your references and create bibliographies. See our EndNote web pages at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/library-services/endnote/ for more information.  Study skills  The guide Exam and study skills for Film lists books and other sources of help that can help you improve your study skills and your exam techniques. It’s available from the Subject Help pages for Film. Useful books on studying university can be found at 378.1702812 and books about writing essays are at 808.066.   Researching for your dissertation or MA • See the guide Literature searching for your Film dissertation available from the Subject Help pages for Film. • The Library guide Researching and writing a thesis or dissertation lists a number of useful books covering study skills and literature searching.  7  • You are welcome to contact your Academic Liaison Librarian for help with finding sources for your essays or dissertation.  Sources beyond Brookes When doing research for an in-depth project such as your dissertation you are likely to come across references to publications which are not held at Oxford Brookes Library. The Interlibrary Loan service will be able to supply you with most other items you need.  We make a charge for every item we provide for you. Journal articles can usually be supplied in 3 working days; other materials will take longer.  Dissertation-level undergraduate students, postgraduates, researchers and staff are entitled to join the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Ask at the Help Zone for an application form or download one from our web pages at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/library-services/borrowing/access-to-other-libraries/ You can search the Bodleian Catalogue SOLO at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley   More information  If you need any more information or help please contact your Academic Liaison Librarian, Chris Fowler by email, telephone or at her office, JHB 310, on Level 3 of the Headington Library.  Chris' full contact details are:   Chris Fowler Academic Liaison Librarian for the  School of Arts Oxford Brookes University Library John Henry Brookes Building Headington Oxford OX3 0BP Tel: 01865 485075 Email: cbfowler@brookes.ac.uk    CF 21-05-18                     

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