MUS210: Music in Film
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., "Wizard of Oz"
- "School Daze" AND music
b) Search by Keywords
Use quotation marks to search for specific compound words and names. Be careful with spacing, hyphens and abbreviations.
- e.g., "motion pictures" "musical films" "film score"
- "motion pictures" AND (Hollywood OR USA OR America)
- ("film score" OR soundtrack) AND horror
- "musical films" AND "Walt Disney"
Use an asterisk (*) to tell the database to pull any result containing the root word.
- e.g., CINEM* = cinema, cinemas, cinema's, cinematic, cinematography
- (cinem* OR "motion pictures") AND (music OR "film score")
c) Search by Film Director
- Enter last name, first name (e.g., Guest, Christopher).
- Click on the drop down menu marked Anywhere and select All Authors.
- Click on the Magnifying button to launch the search.
Search Tips
SEARCHING HACK: When looking for journal articles, search for your topic using key words based on your area of focus. Take advantage of the different search boxes in the Advanced Search menus to maximize your results.
Examples:
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Use the following search operators to broaden or narrow your results.
| AND | Use this word between concepts to narrow your results. | e.g. sensory AND perception |
| OR | Use this word between related concepts. | e.g. habitat OR ecosystem |
| NOT | Use this word to exclude terms from your search. | e.g. virus NOT corona |
| Quotations | Use quotes to search for a multi-word concept. | e.g. "International Year of Indigenous Languages" |
| * | Use the asterisk symbol to include alternate word endings. | e.g. cultur* will search for culture, cultural, and culturally |
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Pictured below is an example of how all of the above search operators can be combined to refine a search that will help locate sources describing the experience of women participating in the Black Lives Matter movement in Canada.
Refine Results using Filters
Your initial set of results will be automatically sorted by "relevance". LibrarySearch relevance ranking is determined by:
- Frequency of keywords matched in the record
- Hierarchy of keywords in the record
- Proximity of keywords to one another
- Keywords matched in author, title, subject, or date field
You may want to change this default setting to sort in other ways. Alternative sort options include Date-newest, Date-oldest, Title, or Author. Each of these options are available through the Sort By dropdown menu highlighted in the following image.
Choosing a Filter
Choose any filter option from the left side menu to narrow your search results.
Applying selected filters
Once you have selected one or more filters, you must click the Apply Filters button highlighted in the following image before the list will be updated with your search preferences. You may need to scroll down to the bottom of the filter section to locate the Apply Filters button.
Filter Options
Results can be narrowed by selecting one or more filters from the following filter groups:
| Show Only |
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| New to the Library |
This filter is a great way to keep up to date on the newest items added to the library collection.
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