Burgess Library: ACTING: Databases

Databases

Try searching for acting, set building, plays, musicals, and other related terms. Type the term slowly as the database will suggest other words to search. For example, typing acting slowly will cause the database to suggest actiing career, acting techniques, acting in film, etc.

Films on Demand: Archival Films & Newsreels Collection

Throughout modern history, cameras have recorded public events, wars, cultural phenomena, and government programs. This collection includes archival and historical films from multiple sources.
Academic Search Complete

The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals and more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. going back as far as 1887.
JSTOR
As a student, you'll find JSTOR incredibly helpful for your research and learning. It gives you access to a vast collection of reliable, academic content across many subjects, from history to science. Plus, it provides powerful search tools and a workspace to organize your research, making it easier to find what you need and develop essential research skills.
Play Index

Searches over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.