Reviews (of Books, Movies, Plays, etc.)

Complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines, from their inception to 2000. Ideal for scholars studying:

• The economics of the entertainment industry
• Production, marketing and reception of films or music albums
• Factors surrounding the emergence of subcultures such as punk, two-tone or grunge
• Culture, politics and social change in dynamic eras such as the 1960s

Each magazine can be browsed cover-to-cover in full-page, full-text format. Users are able to search for original reviews, interviews, industry news, listings, charts and features relating to the full range of popular media using advanced search and retrieval functionality.

• Includes key trade and mass-market consumer magazines – weekly and monthly issues
• Approximately 2.5 million pages digitized in high resolution color and fully searchable
• Complete backfiles support analysis of trends in popular culture across the entire 20th century
• Covers the entire entertainment industry, including film, television, popular music, radio, theatre, and performing arts, with a focus on the US and the UK
• Cross-searchable with historical databases on the all-new ProQuest platform

Titles include:

• American Film (1975-1992)
• Back Stage (1960-2000)
• Beat, The (1982-2000)
• Billboard (1894-2000)
• Broadcast (1960-2000)
• Broadcasting & Cable (1931-2000)
• Disc (1958-1975)
• Film Journal International (1934-2000)
• Film Weekly (1928-1939)
• Melody Maker (1926-2000)
• Mixmag (1983-2000)
• Musical Express / New Musical Express (1946-2000)
• Musician (1976-1999)
• Muzik (1995-2000)
• Picturegoer (1911-1960)
• R&R (1973-2000)
• Rave (1964-1970)
• Screen International (1975-2000)
• Stage, The (1880-2000)
• Variety (1905-2000)
• Vox (1990-1999)

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), a major African American community newspaper.  Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

1911 - 2002

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), a major African American community newspaper.  Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

1922 - 1993

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), a major African American community newspaper.  Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

1934 - 2005

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), a major African American community newspaper.  Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

1931 - 2003

Online access to all articles in all issues of the literary magazine with the largest circulation in Europe. Publishes intellectual essays combining topicality with depth and scholarship with good writing, on topics ranging from political commentary to science, ancient history, literary criticism and social anthropology. Publishes 24 issues per year, each containing up to 15 long reviews and essays by academics, writers and journalists, along with shorter art and film reviews, poems, and letters to the editor.

Includes full text of every article from every issue published since the LRB began publication. 1979 -

Online access to all issues of one of the premier literary-intellectual magazines in the English language. Publishes 20 issues per year comprised of essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film, many by writers who are themselves major forces in world literature and thought.

Includes full text of every article from every issue published since the NYRB began publication. 1963 -

Searchable full text of book reviews, articles, letters and poems. Does not include original page images, page numbers, illustrations, or advertisements. Searching only; does not permit browsing by issue or date.

1994 - Covers articles, reviews, letters, and poems from all weekly issues published from 1994 up to the issue published two weeks ago. Provides free access to full text for selected articles.

Provides searchable, online access to volumes from ten different series reproducing excerpts from critical reviews of all kinds and periods of literature, including: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

Includes all volumes in all series published through June 2008.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century. Based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project,” a national research effort directed by Professor Nicolás Kanellos, this digital resource is the first in a new American Ethnic Newspapers series, available within America’s Historical Newspapers.

1808-1980