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.

Applied Theatre Research

Applied Theatre Research is the worldwide journal for theatre and drama in non-traditional contexts. It focuses on drama, theatre and performance with specific audiences or participants in a range of social contexts and locations. – Publisher.

Northwestern University Library now has access to the following Brill Publishing e-books.

Access through the publisher’s website and soon by title via NUcat.

• 1 Esdras : Introduction and Commentary on the Greek Text in Codex Vaticanus
• Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity
• The Age of Courtly Writing : Wen xuan Compiler Xiao Tong
• The Ancient Sailing Season
• Ancient Worlds in Film and Television : Gender and Politics
• Angels of Light? Sanctity and the Discernment of Spirits in the Early Modern Period
• Animals and War : Studies of Europe and North America
• The Architecture and Liturgy of the Bema in Fourth- to-Sixth-Century Syrian Churches
• Arms Transfers, Neutrality and Britain’s Role in the Cold War : Anglo-Swiss Relations 1945-1958
• Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s-1680s
• Asceticism, Eschatology, Opposition to Philosophy
• Atlas of European Values. Trends and Traditions at the turn of the Century
• Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence
• Australia and Taiwan : Bilateral Relations, China, the United States, and the South Pacific
• Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States
• Between Philology and Theology : Contributions to the Study of Ancient Jewish Interpretation
• The Bible in Aramaic. vol. 2 : Based on Old Manuscripts and Printed Texts. Vols Iva-Ivb
• The Birth of the Body: Russian Erotic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century
• Breaking into the Monopoly
• Building God’s Kingdom : Norwegian Missionaries in Highland Madagascar 1866 – 1903
• Byzantine Epirus : A Topography of Transformation.
• Carving Devotion in the Jain Caves at Ellora
• The Ceremonial Sculptures of the Roman Gods
• Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture : Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament
• Christian-Muslim Dialogue : Perspectives of Four Lebanese Thinkers
• Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Volume 4 : (1200-1350)
• The Communal Idea in the 21st Century
• A Companion to Roman Imperialism
• A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages
• A Companion to the Philosophy of Robert Kilwardby
• A Companion to Women’s Military History
• Confucianism as Religion : Controversies and Consequences
• Conquête ottomane de l’Égypte (1517) : Arrière-plan, impact, échos
• Considering the End: Mortality in Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation
• Constantinople to Córdoba : Dismantling Ancient Architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain
• Cultural Tourism and Identity : Rethinking Indigeneity
• David du Plessis and the Assemblies of God
• Drama, Performance and Debate Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period
• Early Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Linguistic Variability
• Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts
• Economic Nationalism and Globalization
• Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich
• Eight Decades of General Linguistics : The History of CIPL and Its Role in the History of Linguistics
• Erzählte Welten im Richterbuch : Narratologische Aspekte Eines Polyfonen Diskurses
• The Economic History of European Jews : Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
• The Figure of Solomon in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Tradition : King, Sage and Architect
• From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans : Studies of a European Disunion, 1991-2011
• Gendered Crime and Punishment : Women and/in the Hispanic Inquisitions
• Global Pentecostal Movements : Migration, Mission, and Public Religion
• Grace and the Will According to Augustine
• Grammatical sketch of the Spanish Arabic dialect bundle
• The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay
• Hebrew Scripture in Patristic Biblical Theory
• Hegel’s Philosophy of the Historical Religions
• Hezekiah in History and Tradition
• The Hallowing of Logic
• Iamblichus and the foundations of late Platonism
• Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods
• In Search of Nature : The Japanese Writer Tayama Katai
• Intellectual Traditions at the Medieval University (2 vol. set)
• International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk
• Islamic Law on Peasant Usufruct in Ottoman Syria
• The Jews in Calabria
• Just War Theory
• Kanonisten und ihre Texte (1234 bis Mitte 14. Jh.)
• La Famille 13 dans l’evangile de Marc
• The Letter before the Spirit: The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle
• The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion in Context
• Letting and hiring in Roman legal thought : 27 BCE-284 CE
• Logic and Language in the Middle Ages : A Volume in Honour of Sten Ebbesen
• Marco Polo Was in China : New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues
• Marx and Singularity : From the Early Writings to the Grundrisse
• Marx’s Temporalities
• Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
• Medical Prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections
• Messages from Georg Simmel
• Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic
• Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time
• Modern Individuality in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy
• Movers and Shakers
• Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc
• The Meanings of Work : Essay on the Affirmation and Negation of Work
• The Medieval Reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (2 vol. set)
• The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual : Temple, Gender and Midrash
• The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
• New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance
• A Newly Discovered Greek Father : Cassian the Sabaite eclipsed by John Cassian of Marseilles
• Nightmare : From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project
• The New Jewish Argentina : Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone
• On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries
• Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany : New Developments in the 21st Century
• Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas
• The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War : Between Voluntarism and Resistance
• Patterns of Daily Prayer in Second Temple Period Judaism
• Paul and His Social Relations
• Paul and The Restoration of Humanity in Light of Ancient Jewish Traditions
• The Periodical Press in Treaty-Port Japan : Conflicting Reports From Yokohama, 1861-1870
• Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation
• Plato and Myth
• Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe
• Prophecy in the Ancient Near East : A Philological and Sociological Comparison
• Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture : Brandenburg-Swedish Relations in the Seventeenth Century
• Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem On the Life and the Passion of Christ : A Coptic Apocrypho
• Psychology and the Other Disciplines : A Case of Cross-Disciplinary Interaction
• Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism
• Puzzling Out the Past
• Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica : Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity
• The Questions of Jesus in John : Logic, Rhetoric and Persuasive Discourse
• Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture
• Reflections on the Early Christian History of Religion
• Religion on the Move! : New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World
• Religious Education in Pre-Modern Europe
• A Typological Grammar of Panare : A Cariban Language of Venezuela

Scene (Intellect, Ltd.)

Scene is dedicated to a critical examination of space and scenic production. The journal provides an opportunity for dynamic debate, reflection and criticism.  – Publisher.

Access restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

Performing Islam

Performing Islam is the first peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal about Islam and performance and their related aesthetics. It focuses on socio-cultural as well as the historical and political contexts of artistic practices in the Muslim world. The journal covers dance, ritual, theatre, performing arts, visual arts and cultures, and popular entertainment in Islam-influenced societies and their diasporas. – Publisher.

Northwestern University Library now has access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI Collection.

Access and a full title list can be found through the publisher’s website and soon via NUcat.

Arts & Sciences XI will expand JSTOR’s coverage in the humanities, with scholarship in core fields of Language & Literature, History, and Art & Art History. Comprising a minimum of 125 titles, the collection will include important journals in Classical Studies, Architecture & Architectural History, and Music. Other discipline clusters will include Bibliography, Library Science, Religion, Philosophy, Archaeology, Performing Arts, Film Studies, and Linguistics. Interdisciplinary titles will broaden the scope of the collection to include area studies such as American studies, Asian studies, Jewish studies, and African American studies. – Publisher.

South African Theatre Journal

Alternative site.

The South African Theatre Journal ( SATJ ) provides a leading forum for the academic discussion of issues relating to theatre, performance and the media, notably as these manifest themselves in Southern Africa and further afield on the African continent. – Publisher.

John Johnson Collection : An Archive of Printed Ephemera

“The John Johnson Collection provides access to 67,754 scanned items (a total of 174,196 images), including more than 20,700 pieces of theatrical and non-theatrical ephemera from the nineteenth-century entertainment category and more than 11,700 items from the booktrade category. Over 11,200 popular prints are available in facsimile form, along with more than 22,400 items from advertising and over 1,500 from crimes, murders and executions.”

Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty

Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty is the first journal dedicated to the critical examination of the fashion and the beauty systems as symbolic spaces of production and reproduction, representation and communication of artifacts, meanings, social practices, and visual or textual renditions of cloth, clothing and appearance. – Publisher.

Access restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

Eugene O’Neill Review

Eugene O’Neill’s entire life revolved around the stage, and his productivity as a dramatist—some twenty long plays in less than twenty-five years (1920–1943)—remains a remarkable achievement. O’Neill’s plays are known for their intensely personal qualities, their dark realism, and their tragic honesty. – Publisher.