Key databases relevant for Film, Television, and Media are listed below. A full list of all our databases can be found on the Databases A-Z page.
- AI in Society explores how AI is transforming the world we live in, and the challenges and debates it brings with it.
- Art, Design & Architecture features hundreds of journal titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
- Art, Race & Gender: supports research and scholarship in the areas of art, art history, women’s and gender studies, and visual culture.
- Arts Professional: news and information service for art sector professionals.
- Box of Broadcasts – BoB TV and radio streaming service for education. This service allows you to view, record, create clips, and share broadcast programmes from over 60 TV and radio channels. Includes all Freeview channels and Film4, Sky Arts, The Horror Channel, The Smithsonian Channel, and many others.
- Broadcast is a resource for the TV & Media industry which provides up-to-the minute industry news, expert analysis and commentary, insider industry information and business critical data
- Business Source Ultimate contains company profiles, case studies, market research reports and peer-reviewed journals.
- Euromonitor Passport provides data and insight on industries, economies and consumers worldwide, which can help you to analyse market context and identify future trends. Make sure you register with your Bath Spa email address.
- Cite Them Right all the guidance you need to reference resources in your academic work.
- The Drum provides insights, guidance, inspiration and solutions for the marketing and media industries. To access more content off-campus you’ll need to create a personal account on The Drum’s BSU registration page using your Bath Spa email address.
- Film and Television Literature Index 115 full-text journals about cinema and television, including both industry magazines and academic titles
- Gale OneFile: News provides access to full-text newspapers.
- Game Development and Animation Collection (Packt) : includes software-focused and hands-on content for students of video game design and digital animation, from Packt Publishing.
- GreenFILE covers all aspects of human impact on the environment including education, law, health and technology in a collection of scholarly, government and general interest titles. Content includes global warming, green building, pollution and renewable energy.
- Image databases: Jstor Images and Bridgeman Education provide good quality images along with reliable information.
- JSTOR: articles from a wide range of journals on all topics.
- Kanopy is a streaming service for educational institutions that provides access to over 18,000 films, including major blockbusters, documentaries and the Criterion collection. Note the Transcript feature for reading the script while viewing.
- LinkedIn Learning allows you to learn software, creative, design, and business skills via video. New courses and videos are added every week.
- The Listener Historical Archive contains transcripts of radio and television programmes since 1926. This resource chronicles the transformative rise of radio and television
- Pop Culture Universe Icons, Idols, Ideas looks at evolving trends, social norms and cultural turning points in US history
- Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond - offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber and the British Film Institute to support moving-image studies. It is an essential resource for academics and students engaged in research and learning in film history, theory, and practice.
- SportBusiness New stories, in-depth reporting and analysis giving a global view of business strategies and sponsorship deals across a range of top sporting businesses and brands.
- Statista is a statistics platform with forecasts on over 400 industries. It also features many thousands of reports on a wide range of subject areas.
- The Television and Radio Index for learning and teaching indexes over 350 television and radio stations, including terrestrial, cable and satellite television, local and national radio. Over 3,000 programmes a day are indexed, or over one million a year.
- Video Gaming - Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive: core US and UK popular and trade magazines covering video games, film, music, broadcasting, and theatre.
- WGSN forecasting service, primarily for fashion but also for other societal trends, with useful articles and insights
- Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive holds backfiles of 13 magazines from the UK, US and Canada with coverage spanning 1940 to the 2000s
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