About the Film Studies Collection

Find out more about the collection, including strengths, locations, and formats.

Collection Description
Electronic Journals
New Acquisitions
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Collection Description

Print Collection
The Film Studies collection supports teaching and research in the Film Studies Department, the Mass Communications Program, the Graduate School of Journalism, and the exceptionally wide group of other humanities and social sciences disciplines interested in film as as art form and a cultural artifact. The Library collects at a research level in nearly every language of the world. Concentration of the Film Studies collection is in the areas of film history, film theory, and film aesthetics. Less comprehensive are the collections dealing with the economic aspects of film production and distribution, with film technologies and production techniques, and with the craft of film acting. Popular biographies of individual actors, directors, or film industry personalities, and popular works dealing with individual films are also collected sparingly. The major part of the collection is located in the Gardner (MAIN) Stacks, with additional materials in the Moffitt (UNDE, core English-language).

Media Resources Center
The UCB Library's Media Resources Center is one of the strongest collections of video and DVD materials in a US academic library. The MRC collection includes a study-level collection of international cinema works, with particular strengths in contemporary and historical cinematic representations of race, ethnicity, and gender. The MRC non-fiction video collection covers all academic disciplines. The non-fiction collection includes one of the strongest collections of independently produced and/or distributed documentary works in the United States. More information about MRC...

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Electronic Journals

Journals in electronic form, available online either individually or as part of a larger collection. E-Journals only available for the Berkeley campus are listed in Pathfinder. The California Digital Library maintains a list of e-journals available to all UC libraries

Electronic Journals in Film Studies

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New Acquisitions

Monthly lists of new acquisitions in a given subject area.

New Acquisitions

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Purchase Recommendation Form

If you'd like to recommend an item to be added to the collection, please use the Purchase Recommendation Form.

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