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Classmarks for Film Studies

All classmarks in this collection have a numerical prefix of 3 eg FILM & MEDIA 5th floor

(3) YXP3 Cah

Classmarks for Media Studies

Located primarily on the 5th floor, some aspects of media are on the 7th floor.

Encyclopedias of film  YXP1  History of film (general)  YXP3 

Bibliography of film  YXP2  UK cinema  YXP3e-YXP3ev 

Film Directors  YXP4  French cinema  YXP3f 

Film Criticsm & Comment YXP7

 

Spanish cinema 

YXP3g

 

Film Theory  YXPA  Italian cinema  YXP3i 

Aesthetics & philosophy of film YXPC  German cinema  YXP3k 

Sociology of Film YXPK

 

Polish cinema 

YXP3ly

 

Documentary film  YXPM  Nordic cinema  YXP3m 

Film Genre 

YXPR

 

Russian/Soviet cinema 

YXP3n

 

Early cinema  YXQ  Asian cinema  YXP3o 

Cinema sound 

YXR

 

East Asian cinema 

YXP3r-YXP3t

 

Film industry 

YXS

 

Latin American cinema 

Latin Am (34)PN

1990-3500

 

Film production and direction  YXT  US cinema  US (33) YXP3 

 Journalism  YV-YVNB  Media studies (general)  YZ 

History of Journalism  YV3  History of broadcasting  YZA

The Press 

YVA

 

Radio broadcasting 

YZB

 

News Coverage 

YVG

 

Television Studies 

YZD

 

Theatre studies  YX-YXO  Video & Digital  YZDC 

History of British theatre 

YX3e

 

Internet Sociology (3) KDTI 

Oratory & Rhetoric  YY  Mass Media Sociology (3) KBM

Senate House Library

Research Librarian: Colin J.P. Homiski

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Tel. 020 7862 8457 

Film and Media Studies

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PHYSICAL COLLECTIONS

Collection overview

 

The collection covers all aspects of Film and Media Studies, particular strengths are:

• Historical, critical and biographical coverage of European, U.S., Latin American and

some Asian cinema

• Film theory and criticism, aesthetics and practical aspects of filmmaking such as

screenwriting and film production

• General media and television studies • The history of journalism, newspapers and periodicals 

• Historical, critical and theoretical coverage of the theatre 

• Performance and medial discourse theory 

Collection location

 

• Film theory and criticism books are located in the FILM MEDIA collection (5

th

 floor).

The catalogue would read: FILM & MEDIA 5th floor (3) YXP4 FEL Lup

• Internet and Mass Media are located in the Sociology collection (7th floor)

• Material about film and media is also located within the area collections of Latin

American Studies and United States S tudies (6th floor)

• Recent issues of film and media periodicals are displayed in Display Bays 35-36 in thePeriodicals Reading Room.

 

4th floor. Many older periodicals are held in the closed

access stacks, the catalogue will state the location STACK SERVICE or OFFSITE STORE.

Click on the ’Request’ button from the Library catalogue for staff to fetch these

materials. Stack Service materials are ready within the hour, the Offsite Store takes 48-

72 hours to arrive.

Related collections 

• English collection (5th floor) 

• Music collection (4th floor)

• Social Science collections (7th floor) 

• The Harry Price Library of Magical Literature (Special Collections) holds material on

illusion and early moving images

DVD COLLECTION 

Over 1300 films and operas are available on DVD, these can be obtained from the

Library Service Desk, 4th Floor, South Block, and can be viewed on your own laptop or

on one of the Library’s computers. The online catalogue can be used to search for DVDs

by ‘title’ or by director using ‘author’ search. A DVD catalogue entry would read: SHL

ENQUIRIES DESK 4th Floor DVD [Amelie].

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS 

Electronic resources include subscriptions to digital encyclopaedias, bibliographies, e-

books, e-journals and full-text databases, many of which can be accessed off-site by

Library members. Please check our web pages for access information: 

Databases 

Resources of particular interest in this subject area can be retrieved from the Library’s

catalogue using the following KEYWORD shortcut: ‘FILM ERESOURCE’ or ‘MEDIA ERE-SOURCE’ 

Some of the key databases are:

• Academic Search Complete (full text PDFs from 200 e-journals) 

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index

• Film and Sound Online 

• International Index to Performing Arts (full text from 100 e-journals)

• JSTOR (full text PDFs from 750 e-journals)

• MLA International Bibliography 

• MyiLibrary (ca. 1000 e-books)

• Periodicals Index and Archive Online 

To browse the Library’s A-Z list of electronic resources try:

http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/databases-and-eresources/

Web resources 

There are many useful resources for Film and Media researchers, for example

the British Film Institute (www.bfi.org.uk/). Other social bookmarks are avail-

able from the #film or #media hashtag on Delicious: https://delicious.com/

colin71/film. Freely available digital e-books are continually being added to

the OAPEN (www.oapen.org) the Open Access Publishing in European Net-

works. 

OTHER LIBRARIES

 

For more information about Film and Media Studies holdings in other academic librariesin the London area, please consult the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries

website: www.m25lib.ac.uk.  You can also consult the UK-wide Consortium of University

and Research Libraries catalogue: www.copac.ac.uk. 

CONTACT DETAILS 

For further help, please contact the research librarian, Colin Homiski, tel: 020

7862 8457, or visit him in his Office 510 or email: colin.homiski@london.ac.uk