Detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series, and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international.
Covers the Arts, Humanities, Language (including Linguistics), Poetry, Music, Classical works, History, Oriental Studies, Philosophy, Archaeology, Architecture, Religion, Television, Theater, and Radio with abstracting and indexing for more than 1,700 journals.
Multi-disciplinary database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 other publications.
Access to the full text of all Johns Hopkins University Press' scholarly journals and ebooks covering such disciplines as psychology, classics, cinema, medicine, literature, history, and more.
Up-to-date information about theatre and performance from ancient Greece to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. In addition to performances in playhouses, covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions.
Includes award-winning productions essential to the study of Drama, Theatre, and Performance, thousands of online resources from leading theatre-makers and scholars, and interviews, essays, and expert insights.
Contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticisms, more than 253,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), more than 460 literary journals, more than 693,000 book reviews, nearly 78,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 19,600 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 6,500 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more.
Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors, and directors.
Dance in Video will contain five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Streaming video service with a collection of over 26,000 films on many subjects from leading producers like Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, New Day Films, HBO California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, BBC, First Run Features, The Video Project, Media Education Foundation, and Documentary Education Resources. Videos only available by instructor request.
Includes award-winning productions essential to the study of Drama, Theatre, and Performance, thousands of online resources from leading theatre-makers and scholars, and interviews, essays, and expert insights.
Theater related materials in Morris Library's special collections and archives. Includes Abbey Theatre collection, Darwin Reid Payne papers, Katherine Dunham collection, and Theater Department papers and photos.
Page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700: from the first book printed in English through to the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare and of the English Civil War.
Over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century. Also includes an extensive collection of criticism and reference materials.
Contains primary source material that reflects a broad view of the times. African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s while The Civil War 1860 - 1865 contains the full text of major articles gleaned from newspapers published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. as well as television and radio news transcripts.
Search the most recent global news, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
Includes over 5 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.
The Alfred Junge collection at the Ransom Center consists of over 170 original designs and 5,000 stills and design photographs made for British films from 1920 to 1960. Junge’s best-known film work is on Black Narcissus (1947), Contraband (1940), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), "I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945), and A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
The Circus collection contains clippings, photographs, posters, and programs pertaining to dozens of American and foreign circuses and showmen such as P. T. Barnum, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto, and Adam Forepaugh. The bulk of the material dates from the mid-nineteenth century to 1940. A wide variety of circus acts are represented, ranging from contortionists and aerialists to sword swallowers and sideshow performers, as are dime museums and Wild West productions, notably Buffalo Bill Cody.
Contains physical and digital materials related to many aspects of Shakespeare and his works. Free online collections inlcude annotated works of Shakespeare, essays, and digital prints of primary sources.
Official, comprehensive database for Broadway theater information, providing records of productions from the beginnings of New York theater until today
The magic posters and playbills digital collection contains selected visual images from the Ransom Center's Harry Houdini collection and Magicians collection pertaining to magicians and the history of magic from 1750 to 1920. Approximately 3,000 magicians are represented in the full collection. This digital collection includes selected posters, playbills, prints, and other ephemera documenting the careers of Harry Houdini, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Harry Kellar, Henry Evanion, and others.
Digital Image Collection. The Performing Arts Glass Plate Negatives Collection, ca. 1890–ca. 1920 (bulk 1900–1910), consists of 95 photographic glass plate negatives. Forty-six images are from twenty theater productions in New York and thirty-four images are from unidentified productions. The photographs show actors in costume, often on a stage set, depicting the action for a particular play.
Database of United States and international theater and fringe festivals "designed to serve both artists looking to perform and audiences seeking live independent productions. ... includes key information for each festival: location, dates, application fees, artist payout structure, ticketing info, application links, deadlines, selection methods, and opportunities for local community involvement."
Searchable catalog of print and electronic materials accessible through Morris Library. Includes books, journals, eBooks, government documents, DVDs, CDs, and more.
Contains Ph.D. dissertations and Master's theses produced by SIUC students. Full text PDFs are included when available. Note: records include an option to buy a print or microform copy of a dissertation or thesis, but Morris Library can loan its print copies of dissertations and theses for free.
Includes dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
Includes more than one million electronic theses and dissertations from across the globe. Faceted searches available by language, continent, country, date, format, and source institution. Not all theses and dissertations included are open-access.
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