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Arab Media & Society A primary resource for all things media in the region. The journal offers quality reporting, research and analysis on a wide array of topics pertaining to the dynamic media landscape across the Arab world. This extends beyond the news, to entertainment, social media, technology, press freedoms and more. Published by the Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo.
Wide Screen Wide Screen is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cinema, television and new media. Every issue includes a range of work, ranging of academic essays to film and book reviews, interviews etc, bringing together a variety of people with their varied interests.

Research Databases

The research databases at the Michael Schwartz Library provide you with access to ARTICLES from peer reviewed journals, trade journals, newspapers, and popular magazines. You can also find research reports, case studies, book and film reviews, conference proceedings,obituaries, excerpts from books, and other resources that are not freely available on the Internet.

Core Databases

Academic Search Complete (1984-) This link opens in a new window Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window Index and cited references for articles in the arts and humanities.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Index, abstracts, and full text for journals in communication and mass media.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window Covers the literature about television and film writing and provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals and nearly 50 books.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world and including all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index.
JSTOR (1838-) This link opens in a new window Provides full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window A completely full-text literary reference database that provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies This link opens in a new window Produced by NISC, this database is a systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa . This database contains more than 639,000 records and coverage spans from 1900 and earlier to present.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Index to articles, books, and dissertations on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.

Additional Databases

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window Index, abstracts, and full text covering scholarly business journals on management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
Gender Studies Database (1972-) This link opens in a new window Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window Contains all of the content available in LGBT Life and full text for significant LGBT journals, magazines, regional newspapers as well as monographs.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (1974-) This link opens in a new window Index, abstracts, and full text covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window Covers over 500 English-language periodicals in the Social Sciences. Full text of 163 periodicals available from 1995 to present.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.

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ARB 335 / WLC 235: Arab Films

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