WR121 Genres
This guide is for WR121 students to support their investigations related to writing in a variety of genres.
How to and examples: Film or Movie Review genre
- How to Write a Movie Review: 10 essential tipsFrom New York Film Academy
- Film Review: Genre"Writing Studio." From Duke University.
Finding movies and films in the library
- Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new windowStreaming videos organized by subject, for academic research as well as general interest. Contains many genres, from documentaries to movies to training videos. Publishers include BBC, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection, First Run Features, New Day Films, PBS, etc.
Note: Kanopy does not support Windows 7 and Internet Explorer. If you are having trouble viewing Kanopy videos, you may need to upgrade or change your browser. See What Desktop Browsers and Systems are Supported by Kanopy and How to Troubleshoot Browser Issues for additional help. - Swank Feature Films Collection This link opens in a new windowA collection of feature films being taught by PCC faculty in film courses.
Book Catalog searches
The catalog searches below are just suggestion/examples. Try your own! The searches will take you the PCC Library catalog and bring up links to physical and digital books and films in the PCC Library catalog. Use facets on left side of catalog screen to limit to online resources and by format and/or change the search at the top of the screen.
PCC students can request a scanned chapter (pdf) by using the "Sign in" link, then "Get a digital chapter" in the library catalog record. To find out the chapter names, read the "Contents" section of the library catalog, below the "Summary".
Find Books, Articles, DVDs, and more
Context
Learn more about a place, an issue or a group of people.
- US Major Dailies This link opens in a new windowFull text newspapers from five U.S. national and regional newspapers: New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune
- Gale Ebooks (formerly GVRL) This link opens in a new windowGale eBooks has over 200 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Look here for biology, chemistry, nursing and medicine, sociology, history, education, law, and more.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowProvides online versions of 500 published reference works, including general and specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias. Try the Concept Map to search for terms and topics that are interconnected and displayed in a visual form.
- EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowSearch from a wide range of research databases for magazine and journal articles. Updated daily. View the EBSCOhost handout
Mobile URL: EBSCOhost Mobile - Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new windowA one-stop source for information on current social issues. Includes viewpoint articles on both sides of an issue, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full text magazine and newspaper articles. View the Opposing Viewpoints tutorial
Film making, film reviews, all about cinema and media
The Film Handbook by Call Number: eBook, read onlineISBN: 1136508511Publication Date: 2013The Film Handbook offers practical guidance on a range of traditional and independent 'guerrilla' film production methods, from developing script ideas and the logistics of planning the shoot to cinematography, sound and directing practices. Film professionals share advice of their creative and practical experiences shooting both on digital and film forms. The Film Handbook relates theory to the filmmaking process.
Film: A Very Short Introduction by ISBN: 9780192803535Publication Date: 2012Film is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases.
Writing about Screen Media by ISBN: 9780815393511Publication Date: 2019Writing about Screen Media presents strategies for writing about a broad range of media, including film, television, social media, advertising, video games, mobile media, music videos, and digital media with essays covering topics as varied as: Brazilian telenovelas, K-pop music videos, Bombay cinema credit sequences, global streaming services, film festivals, archives, and more.
PCC students can request a scanned chapter (pdf) by using the "Sign in" link, then "Get a digital chapter", in the library catalog record, linked above. Read "Contents" to see chapters.
Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts by Call Number: eBook, read onlineISBN: 9048555116Publication Date: 2022By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, this collection of writings adds the category of Epistolary Screens to genres of self-expression, both literary (letters, diaries, auto-biographies) and screenic (romance dramas, intercultural cinema, essay films, artists' videos and online media).- A Companion to Television byCall Number: eBook, read onlinePublication Date: 2020From its earliest beginnings through to the present day, television and its influence has been the subject of extensive study, critique, and analysis. A Companion to Television brings together a wide range of perspectives. Original essays define television in its current state, explore why it is still relevant, survey the ways in which television has been studied, discuss how television has changed, and consider what television might look like in the future.
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