For more information on how to write your Film Studies Paper, please click on the words and images below. For a textual explanation of how to get started, click here.  Please see the tutorials on how to find information at the University of Alberta.

In preparing to look for information,

• determine what is your research question.
  • Define the various problems or questions posed in your initial question: limit, label, question, hypothesize
  • Your thesis should not be too broad nor too narrow and should lead to original ideas with insights
  • Consult reference works for background information on your topic
• Choose a search system to answer your question(s)
  • Find primary and secondary resources
  • Find books, electronic and print indexes, Web resources…
  • Find videos
• Formulate a query depending on the search system
  • Library Catalogue Help
  • Ask Us for help
• Execute the search
• Examine and assess/evaluate the results of your search
  • Peer review 
  • Scholarly and Popular Resources
• Save the results and Extract information
  • Know how to cite and use the resources you found
  • RefWorks
• Reflect, write, reiterate, stop

Please see the tutorials on how to find information at the University of Alberta.

• EUscreen: free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives
• French Television Videos
• Latin American and Spanish Online Videos on the Internet: A Guide to Web Resources
• National Film Board of Canada: Streaming Video is available from the library databases.
• Movie Archive: provides an archive of downloadable movies
• Museum of Broadcast: collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content
• FedFlix: videos of the United States Government, from training films to history.
• Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers from around the world (National Film Preservation Board)
• Moving Image Collections: MIC lets you discover, locate, and even (in some cases) view moving images from around the world.
• Theatre in Video
• The Video Librarian (includes a database of video reviews)