Abstracts and Indexes
Below is a list of article databases and indexes relevant to the study of film noir that UNC-Chapel Hill holds, subscribes to, or supports. Each online source is hypertext linked to its resource description page on the UNC Libraries website.
- Art Index
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Company
Coverage: 1984-present. Updated: Monthly.
General Description: Art Index indexes and abstracts more than 300 key, international arts publications and provides accurate, up-to-date coverage of this multi-faceted, interdisciplinary field.
Film Noir Connection: At the time of the completion of this pathfinder (December 2003), this database contained over 50 relevant references to works about film noir.
- Art Index Retrospective
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Company
Coverage: 1929-1984.
General Description: Art Index Retrospective cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929 and 1984. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world.
Film Noir Connection: At the time of the completion of this pathfinder (December 2003), this database contained thirteen relevant references to works about film noir.
- Film Index International
Medium: CD-ROM (in DAVIS REFERENCE)
Coverage: current through 1998.
General Description: Indexes film periodicals internationally along with press releases and documentation from major film festivals. Based on information compiled by the British Film Institute Library and Information Services and the catalog records of the National Film and Television Archive.
- MLA International Bibliography
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Coverage: 1963-present. Updated: Quarterly.
General Description: Index to articles in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from several thousand journals and series published worldwide. Also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies.
Film Noir Connection: At the time of the completion of this pathfinder (December 2003), this database contained over 200 relevant references to works about film noir.
- New York Times Historical Newspaper
Publisher: ProQuest Company
Coverage: 1851-1998.
General Description: The New York Times, in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers 3,400,000 pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper, from 1851 to 1999. Researchers can use the images to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. They can use the searchable ASCII text that underlies images of articles and pages to search by keyword, using Boolean operators and more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved, including article title, publication, issue date, author, and page number. To see a complete article, a researcher simply clicks on the title in the list and the system displays the image of the full article, "threaded" to include all graphics and continuations on other pages as a single unit. Researchers also can display the complete image of any page in any issue or even browse the database and scan individual issues page by page.Index to articles in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from several thousand journals and series published worldwide. Also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies.
Film Noir Connection: At the time of the completion of this pathfinder (December 2003), this database contained over 1400 relevant references to works about film noir.
