LibGuides: English Literature: Film & Video

Streaming Video

Kanopy
Includes the Criterion Collection
NOTE: UT Austin does NOT have access to all the films in the Kanopy library.

This streaming service has a catalog of over 30,000 titles covering various educational topics and feature films for some 800 producers including Criterion, Documentary Educational Resources, New Day Films, Media Education, California Newsreel, PBS and others.
Titles streamed by Kanopy are available either directly from the library catalog or from the UT Kanopy interface linked above. Some titles on the UT Kanopy interface are not immediately available to UT community for streaming. Those titles for which we do not hold streaming rights could be requested by filling in a request form. This form would appear on your screen and forwarded to a staff member for consideration. Given our limited funds, we emphasize study and research needs when making purchase decisions.
Film Platform
Coverage varies. Unlimited.

This streaming service provides access to over 350 critically acclaimed documentaries of social, political, and cultural importance. Being a global company, Film Platform’s catalog includes many international titles on various topics and in a wide selection of languages. Full access is available either through the library catalog (by title) or directly on the Film Platform UT portal.
Theatre in Video
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.

Contains streaming video of more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries. Also includes the full text of plays, their history of performance, production background, reference materials and ephemera. Users have the ability to bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include those online links in papers and course reserves. The included plays are predominately 20th century masterpieces, as well as many Shakespeare productions.
Users may also make isolated clips from the videos and save them in a free account available for registration set up within the database.
Information on basic system requirements for both PC and Mac platforms is available on the site.
BBC Shakespeare Plays
1978 - 1985. Unlimited users.

Provides streaming access to the highly acclaimed BBC television productions of all 37 Shakespeare plays. Filmed between 1978 and 1985, the videos include performances by some of Britain's most distinguished actors and actresses and are widely used in education. Each play may be viewed in its entirety or by acts, and all videos have optional closed captioning.
Viewing these videos requires a high-speed Internet connection, audio capabilities, and the Flash browser plug in (free download).
Docuseek2 Essential Collection
1950 - present. Unlimited users.

The Docuseek2 Essential Collection provides exclusive educational streaming access to almost 800 important films from renowned leaders in documentary distribution, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, KimStim, the National Film Board of Canada, and Terra Nova Films.

See our Film & Video Resources pages for more info on our streaming services. You can search for films on DVD or VHS in the library catalog.

Film Studies

Radio, Television, and Film (RTF) Library Guide

Library Databases for Film Studies Research (journals and articles)

MLA International Bibliography
1926 - present. Unlimited users.

Updated ten times per year. Indexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from over 4,400 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Produced by the Modern Language Association.
For help searching the MLA International Bibliography, please see the MLA's video tutorials.
Film & Television Literature Index
1990 - present. Unlimited users.

Updated monthly. Covers the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema & Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, as well as technical publications such as SMPTE. Mirroring the international film & television industries and cultures, FTLI also includes publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Filmihullu, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio.
Film Literature Index
1976 - 2001. Unlimited users.

Updated annually. Fully indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries and selectively indexes 200 other titles for articles on film and television. Titles range from the scholarly to the popular. Includes more than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Indiana University a grant in 2002 to convert the print version of the Film Literature Index to electronic form. Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews.