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CIN215: Fantasy Film

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Tips for Building your Search

Choosing your Search Terms

Enter search terms on separate lines e.g., enter title of film on the top line, director's last name below, so as to articulate your search request. Take a look at "Search by Subject Headings" to get ideas of terminology that is used for the Fantasy Genre (e.g., Fantasy Films, folklore, supernatural, Myth In Motion Pictures, etc.)

Use Boolean Operators to improve your search:

  • Quotations marks (narrows your search for specific phrases, compound words, or names)

    • "Fairy Tales", "Tim Burton""Howl’s Moving Castle"

  • Asterisk or Wildcard  (widens your search to look for variations of the root word)

    • Myth= MythologyMythologiesMythsMyth'sMythical 

  • AND (narrows your search)

    • dragons AND "motion pictures"

    • Evil AND "Sleeping Beauty"

  • OR (widens your search)

    • film OR "motion pictures" OR cinema

    • fantasy OR myth*

    • "fairy tale" OR fairytale 

    • MGM OR "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"

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