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CIN340: The Media Event - Celebration, Accident, & Catastrophe

Search by Directors, Film Title, Keywords

Click on the UTL Catalogue advance search: https://search.library.utoronto.ca/advanced and follow the instructions provided. 

a) Search by Film Title 

Use quotation marks to search for specific titles. Be careful with spacing, hyphens and abbreviations. 

  • e.g., "Best in Show"

 

b) Search by Keywords

Use quotation marks to search for specific compound words and names. Be careful with spacing, hyphens and abbreviations. 

  • e.g., "Media events"  "Rodney King"  

Use an asterisk (*) to tell the database to pull any result containing the root word.  

  • e.g.,   CINEM* cinemacinemas, cinema's, cinematic, cinematography

 

c) Search by Film Director

  1. Enter last name, first name (e.g., Guest, Christopher).
  2. Click on the drop down menu marked Anywhere and select All Authors.
  3. Click on the Magnifying button to launch the search.

Search by Subject Heading

  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

For additional information on subject headings in LibrarySearch, visit How can I use subject headings to improve my searching?

 

 

Subject Headings

  • Events (Philosophy)
  • Narration (Rhetoric)
  • Discourse Analysis, Narrative
  • Motion Pictures
  • Film Criticism
  • Motion pictures--Philosophy
  • Philosophy In Motion Pictures
  • Motion Picture Journalism
  • Politics In Motion Pictures
  • Disaster Films
  • War Films
  • Historical Films
  • Documentary Films
  • Memory In Motion Pictures
  • Political Violence In Motion Pictures
  • Terrorism In Motion Pictures
  • Terror in motion pictures
  • Psychic Trauma In Motion Pictures
  • Realism In Motion Pictures
  • Time In Motion Pictures
  • Space And Time In Motion Pictures
  • Motion Pictures And History
  • Television
  • Television Broadcasting
  • Television Programs
  • Documentary Television Programs
  • Digital Media
  • Mass Media
  • Mass Media--Philosophy
  • Mass media and culture
  • Mass media and globalization
  • Mass media--Influence
  • Mass media--Political Aspects
  • Mass media--Social Aspects
  • Mass media--Social aspects--United States.
  • Mass media and race relations--United States. 
  • Broadcasting; Disasters--Press coverage
  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence
  • Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
  • Riots--California--Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations