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Film Encyclopedias, Guides, and Dictionaries
International Dictionary of Films and FilmmakersCall Number: Print copy: Olin Reference PN 1993.45 I61 2000Publication Date: 2000Vol. I of this four-volume set lists and describes approximately 650 international and historical films. Descriptions include production information, a cast list, a plot summary, an essay of the film's place in film history, and a lengthy bibliography. Vols. II-IV focus on Directors/Filmmakers, Actors and Actresses, and Writers and Production Assistants.
- Oxford Bibliographies: Cinema and Media StudiesProvides peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, and the study of the moving image. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.
Routledge Companion to Film HistoryPublication Date: Routledge 2010Temporary access through Spring 2020. In two parts: 1) a set of eleven essays that approaches film history around themes such as the history of the moving image, film as art and popular culture, and cultural difference; and 2) a critical dictionary that explains concepts, summarizes debates in film studies, defines technical terms, and describes major periods and movements.
Dictionary of Film StudiesCall Number: Print copy: Olin Reference PN1993.45 .K75 2012Publication Date: Oxford UP, 2012Covers all aspects of film studies, including terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism, national, international and transnational cinemas, film history, film movements and genres, film industry organizations andpractices, and key technical terms and concepts in 500 detailed entries.
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Reference Works in Jewish Studies
Encyclopedia JudaicaCall Number: Print version: Olin Reference DS102.8 E496 2007 +Publication Date: Macmillan, 2006Comprehensive work with more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. 2nd ed. 22 vols.
Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish ReligionCall Number: Print copy: Olin Library Reference BM50 .O94 2011+Publication Date: 2nd ed. Oxford Univ. Pr., 2011"...covers more than three millennia of Jewish religious thought, custom, law, and practice, from traditional approaches to Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and post-denominational Judaism. Brief definitions and longer essays, all supplemented with bibliographies, encompass the major figures, folklore, and events in the history of Judaism throughout the world." (publisher)
Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular CulturePublication Date: Greenwood Press, 2008Chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic sources to encourage further research.
Multi-disciplinary Refererence sources
- Oxford Reference Online
- Searchable database of 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works of Oxford University Press. Each topical division contains searchable versions of the latest editions of published dictionaries and encyclopedias.Covers general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professional subjects.
- Sage Reference Online
- A database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American studies, aging & gerontology, anthropology, business and management, communication and media studies, counseling and psychotherapy, criminology and criminal justice, economics, education, environment, family studies, gender & sexuality studies, geography, health and social welfare, history, politics and international relations, psychology, research methods and evaluation, science, philosophy, and theology, social issues, social work and social policy, and sociology, and urban studies and planning.
- New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- This thoroughly re-envisioned New Dictionary of the History of Ideas brings fresh intelligence and a global perspective to bear on timeless questions about the individual and society. A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.