New E-Resources at Northwestern

World History in Video

World history in video is an online collection of streaming video that gives users access to critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. Upon completion the collection will include more than 1750 documentaries that offer a survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall. World history in video covers Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.

Theatre in Video

Theatre In Video 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.  This release includes 258 videos, equaling approximately 304 hours.

Silent Film Online

Silent Film Online database brings together more than 500 films which together represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Carefully curated with ASP’s Video Advisory Board, the database covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. High quality versions of films have been selected for the collection from leading distributors such as Kino Lorber, Lobster Films, Flicker Alley, and Image Entertainment.

New World Cinema

The collection includes approximately 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative. All films were presented at major film festivals, many were nominated for awards, and many have major awards. Collectively the films in the database have won more than 1,000 awards.

Health and Society in Video

Health and Society in Video defines and explores today’s latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and their impact on society– with hundreds of premium documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews. This release provides 260 titles, equaling approximately 198 hours, growing regularly.

Black Studies in Video

In partnership with California Newsreel, the oldest non-profit social issue documentary film center in the country, this collection includes cutting-edge racial justice and diversity films that inspire, educate and engage audiences. Additionally, Black Studies in Video features access to the SNCC Legacy Video Collection, a series of formal addresses, panel discussions and programs that took place at a conference and reunion unfolding over four days at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

Science as Culture

Our culture is a scientific one, defining what is natural and what is rational. Its values can be seen in what are sought out as facts and made as artefacts, what are designed as processes and products, and what are forged as weapons and filmed as wonders. Science as Culture explores how all these shape the values which contend for influence over the wider society. – Publisher.

Popular culture in Britain and America II – Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest

Part II includes:

Music: artist files, record company documents, chart lists, fan magazines, photographs and posters from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Press kits and lobby cards for popular movies and television from Bowling Green State University

Full-colour mail order catalogues and advertising proofs

The complete run of Gandalf’s Garden magazine

Original video footage spanning 1950-1975 featuring key personalities from JFK, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe to the Beatles and Rolling Stones

Further photographic material sourced from the Mirrorpix archives

Documents from the Labour Party archive charting social change and important records on the Troubles in Northern Ireland from the National Archives

Important documents from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament archives held at Warwick University and student unrest

Critical Philosophy of Race

Critical Philosophy of Race will examine issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. The journal is sponsored by the Rock Ethics Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. – Publisher.

Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization

Cartographica delivers cutting-edge international research in all aspects of cartography (including the production, design, use, cognitive understanding, and history of maps), geovisualization, and GIScience. – Publisher.

Review of Religious Research

The Review of Religious Research (RRR) publishes contemporary, empirical social science research on religion, primarily in the areas of sociology, social psychology and psychology. – Publisher.

LGBT Thought and Culture

(also known as Gay and Lesbian Thought and Culture)

LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and, in future releases, archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection includes materials ranging from seminal texts, letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbians, gays, transgendered, and bisexual individuals and the community. It features select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers and is seeking to represent the major winners of both the Stonewall Book Awards and Lambda Literary Awards, many of which are no longer in print.

At completion, the collection will offer 500 hours of high quality video content and 150,000 pages of printed works and archival materials essential to students and scholars of cultural studies, history, women’s and gender studies, political science, psychology, anthropology, American studies, social theory, sociology, and literature.

The Journal of Social Studies Research

The Journal of Social Studies Research (JSSR) is an internationally recognized peer-reviewed journal designed to foster the dissemination of ideas and research findings related to the social studies. – Publisher.

Popular Music and Society

Popular Music and Society publishes articles, book reviews, and audio reviews on popular music of any genre, time period, or geographic location. Popular Music and Society is open to all scholarly orientations toward popular music, including (but not limited to) historical, theoretical, critical, sociological, and cultural approaches. – Publisher.

First Amendment Studies

and the earlier title: Free Speech Yearbook

First Amendment Studies (formerly Free Speech Yearbook ) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original essays, which make a significant contribution to theory and/or policy, on all aspects of free speech. – Publisher.