Contents:

• Find background information
• Find books, DVDs and videos
• Find articles, criticism, and reviews
• Key websites
• Evaluating what you find

• International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers
• Encyclopedia of Chinese Film
• The Chinese Filmography: The 2444 Feature Films Produced by Studios in the People's Republic of China from 1949-1995 - Clapp Ref PN 1993.5 .C4 M37 1997
• Hong Kong Babylon: An Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East (published in 1997) - PN 1993.5 .H6 D36 1997

Use the Wellesley library catalog to find books, videos, and journals (not individual articles).

a few tips:

• to find works by a director, try an author search
• to find works about a director, try a subject search
• to find critical essays, try adding the words criticism and interpretation to a keyword search
• to find DVDs and videos, limit your search (use the drop-down menu next to the search box)

some useful subject headings for this assignment might be:

• motion pictures china
• motion pictures china hong kong
• motion pictures taiwan
  

• if our copy is checked out, click on to the right of the title to request a book quickly (2-4 days)
• If NExpress doesn't have it, click on in our catalog (2-4 days)
• Search WorldCat to find material we don’t own, click on and request through ILL (interlibrary loan)
• In a hurry? Get a BLC card and borrow the book directly from a nearby library

bibliographies and indexes - find citations for articles

• Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Film Literature Index - 1973-2001

these research databases offer full text for many articles

• FIAF International Index to Film Literature Plus - 1970s-present
• MLA International Bibliography - 1963-present

film reviews  

reprints of reviews & citations to reviews

• Film Review Annual - 1982-present
  Clapp Ref PN1995 .F455
• Film Review Index - 1882-1985
  Clapp Ref Z5784.M9 F513 1986
• Reader's Guide Retrospective - 1890-1982

full text of reviews

• New York Times - 1857-present
• Times of London - 1785-present
• Los Angeles Times - 1988-present
• JSTOR - dates vary

• IMDb.com: Internet Movie Database
• MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine
• Film Festival World: U.S. & international
• Portal to Asian Internet Resources
• East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
  

Critically evaluate what you find

Criteria to keep in mind when choosing and using soures:

• Accuracy - Does the author cite her/his sources and are they legitimate?
• Authority - Who wrote the source? Are they credible?
• Objectivity - Does the author have a bias, political or commercial or persuasive?
• Currency - Is this information new or based on outdated sources? Can you tell how current it is?

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Alana Kumbier • last modified: April 2, 2008