Bulletin of the Comediantes publishes notes and articles on early modern Spanish and colonial Latin American drama.
For more information on the journal:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_comediantes/
Scene4 Magazine, featuring articles, interviews, and commentary on the performing and visual arts, has a freely available web archive with issues going back to 2000. A short login is required before searching the content, and subscription is also free.
Researchers interested in the film industry often consult Variety, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and other historical American publications. This week’s spotlighted titles provide similar information published in France and Germany, with useful data and articles on U.S. and international film markets.
Film Francais is a trade journal covering the motion picture and television industries in France. It publishes box office charts, audience ratings, financial reports, economic forecasts, and broadcasting statistics. It also is a key resource for coverage of American films in the European market. This title is housed at the Arts Library, and UCLA is the only UC campus with a current subscription. The magazine has a free website, but it lacks the level of detail and historical coverage found in the print version.
Film-Echo is another popular European trade magazine with box office charts, reviews, industry gossip, and coverage of releases in different regions of Germany. It is also is an excellent resource for examples of American film marketing overseas.
The Sparky Awards is a national contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of sharing. It aims to broaden the discussion of access to scholarly research by inviting college/university students to express their views creatively.
Information available at:
http://www.sparkyawards.org/details/index.shtml
Frequent users of Lexis-Nexis Academic may wish to try out the new Beta site reflecting upcoming changes to the database’s interface. The full release of the new interface will take place in December, so stable links to the old interface are still what you will see from most library links to LexisNexis.
One frequent complaint about the current interface is that the previously existing “performing arts” pre-limit was removed. The new Beta interface has something of a return to the prelimit; if you click on “All News,” the option exists to create a limit to reviews in theater and film, interviews, and more. TV and radio transcripts can also be searched separately.
A new collection of images is now available from the UC subscription to ArtStor. These images contain early 20th-century French fashion plates from La Gazette du Bon Ton. The first release includes 65 images from the magazine, published from 1912 through 1925 chronicling contemporary developments in fashion, lifestyle, and beauty and advanced fashion illustration. More information on the content is available here.
For news on title/issue additions, as well as a new relationship between JSTOR and UC Press, check out the JSTOR Announcement Archive online!
Starting on Wednesday, August 19th, users visiting the primary link to the Melvyl Catalog are being directed to the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot as the default search. Please note, however, that this page still offers a link to current Melvyl. For more information on the page, see the CDL blog.
The UCLA Library subscribes to a number of magazines and journals that are valuable for researchers and yet poorly indexed. I’m starting a new “In the Spotlight” feature of this blog to draw attention to some of these titles.
First up is Geek Monthly, a magazine useful for the study of popular culture, new media and gaming, sci-fi and fantasy, animation, and more. The Arts Library has issues from 2007-present, starting the subscription after the longstanding magazine Cinefantastique ceased in 2006 to publish in print (Cinefantastique continues to have a web presence).
Also in the spotlight this week is Filmfare, the top selling entertainment magazine in India. The Arts Library and SRLF house copies of this title from 1958-present. Filmfare contains stories about movies, television, fashion, music, and more from India, and is also a terrific resource for studying popular print advertisements.
New to UC campuses: the African Writers Series from Proquest. Includes searchable full text works from the classic Heinemann African Studies Series, with genres encompasing drama, short stories, poetry, author biographies and literary works. The African Writers Series currently has 37 plays, with works by Tawfiq al-Hakim, Obotunde Ijimere, Martin Owusu, and more.
All new resources from the California Digital Library are listed here.
This is a UC subscription resource, so off-campus access is limited to UC faculty, students, and staff.
