Search with Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue

1. Go to UTL LibrarySearch Advanced Search
2. Enter any of the Subject Heading found below exactly as it appears in the Search Box 
3. Choose Subject from the Search Filters drop-down menu on the left
4. Press Enter or click on the Magnifying Glass icon

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Subject Headings

• motion picture industry asia, central history
• motion picture producers and directors asia, central
• motion pictures asia, central history

Interdisciplinary databases

• Google Scholar (incl. substantial film content)
• ProQuest (incl. substantial film content)
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE

Film-specific databases

• The American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1975, with full or short records for films from 1976 to present. Use the AFI Catalog to find detailed production information about specific films (incl. release dates and other production-related information), as well as citations to contemporaneous reviews from newspapers (e.g., New York Times); trade & industry publications (Variety); popular magazines (Motion Picture Herald, Photoplay); and review publications (Monthly Film Bulletin), among others.
  Note: There are no direct links to online content from the AFI Catlog. See How to Find Journal Articles below, for instructions on how to use a citation to find a journal article.
• Film Index International (British Film Institute). Coverage: 1900 - current. The directors selected for inclusion are a) those who have made a fiction film shown theatrically that is over 50 minutes in duration, released between 1928 and 1965, and b) those who have made a fiction film over 60 minutes in duration, post-1965.
  Note: There are no direct links to online content from Film Index International. See How to Find Journal Articles below, for instructions on how to use a citation to find a journal article.
• International Index to Film Periodicals (1972+) Search by keyword, separating each word or phrase by AND
• Film & Television Literature Index (1913-current)
• Film Literature Index (1976-2001).

• Gulnara Abikeyeva. Two epochs of national self-determination in Central Asian cinema: the 60s and 90s. 2006. SMC
• Amos Owen Thomas, Franchising culture for Kazakhstan television: producers’ ambivalence and audiences’ indifference Jump Cut, 52
• Sylvie Dallet, Historical time in Russian, Armenian, Georgian and Kirghiz cinema IN: The Red screen: politics, society, art in Soviet cinema. EBOOK
• Cinemas of the other: a personal journey with film-makers from the Middle East and Central Asia (2006) EBOOK
• Cinemas of the other: A personal journey with film-makers from Central Asia (2012)
• Cinema in Central Asia: rewriting cultural histories

KinoKultura (online journal). Includes articles, film reviews, festival reports, interviews with directors, as well as Special Issues on:

• Central Asia (2004)
• Georgia (2011)