ENGLISH 109  - LIBRARY RESOURCES
Drama on Stage and Screen

Course Reading
Set texts and course readings held in the Short Loan Collection, Level 1, in the Kate Edger Information Commons.

Find Books
Link straight to the catalogue to find books about a playwright, play, or topics for the course.

Reference Books
For background information on theatre, drama and film, terminology, playwrights and actors. These include online editions of the Cambridge Companions series, and other e-resources.

Find Artcles
Critical journal articles, and play and film reviews by searching a database. Some articles may be full-text.

Internet Resources
Internet sites selected by the Subject Librarian.

Library workshops
Hands-on workshops to learn how to use Library and internet resources
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This book, and others from Blackwell Reference Online, can be accessed from any PC with your NetID and Password.

Linda George
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English Literature

Arts Information Services
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University of Auckland
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When writing your assignment, please ensure that you cite correctly any of the resources used from this page. Can you identify the publication types on your reading list?


Course Reading

To find items in the Short Loan Collection, click the Readings & Exams tab in Library Search. Type the course name, ENGLISH109. Click Search. Sort by title, or use the options in the left-hand panel to refine the results.

Find Books

The following are subject heading searches.

Search Tip: You can also use the The Catalogue to find material on the topics discussed in your course, e.g. metatheatricality. From the results screen, use the options shown in the left hand panel to refine your results

buttons may be shown next to a Subject Heading. This offers alternative or more precise search terms.

drama technique   
drama translating
theater semiotics           
film adaptations
dramatic criticism
film criticism
motion pictures and literature
motion pictures and theater
motion picture plays [this subject heading lists screenplays]
gender identity in literature
feminism and theater
feminist theater

women in the theater
masculinity in literature
Authors’ names may be entered as a SUBJECT HEADING to find books written about their work:


churchill caryl
williams tennessee

Choose the sub-division - criticism and interpretation


 Reference Books

Beaver, Frank Eugene. Dictionary of film terms : the aesthetic companion to film analysis. New York : P. Lang, 2005.

Blandford, Steve, Barry Keith Grant, and Jim Hillier, eds. The film studies dictionary. London : Arnold, 2001.

Bonaddio, Federico. A companion to Federico Garcia Lorca. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007.

Pearson, Roberta E., and Philip Simpson, eds. Critical dictionary of film and television theory. London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2000.
 

Cambridge Companions
The Cambridge Companions series has several titles of relevance to this course. They include those on all periods and genres of theatre and drama, performance, and individual playwrights. From the database you can either search for an individual companion title, or enter a topic or name to search across titles within the Literature and Classics Collection.

Blackwell Reference Online
This is an online collection of reference sources. Either search within a subject set of the database, or link to these individual titles:

Bushnell, Rebecca, ed. A companion to tragedy. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Kinney, Arthur F., ed. A companion to Renaissance drama. Oxford : Blackwell, 2004.

Krasner, David, ed. A companion to twentieth-century American drama. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Luckhurst, Mary, ed.A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Miller, Toby, and Robert Stam, eds .A companion to film theory. Oxford : Blackwell, 2004.

Stam, Robert, and Alessandra Raengo. A companion to literature and film. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Find Articles

Search Tip: You can also use the Articles & More link in Library Search. To ensure the articles meet academic requirements, click Peer-Reviewed Journals in the left hand panel of the results screen. You can continue to refine the search further using this panel, e.g. by date, format, online, from the options provided.

For help with using databases, please contact the Subject Librarian

You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these databases. Databases marked * include film reviews.

*Academic Research Library
To find reviews, click on the More Search Options link. Use the pull-down menu of the Article Type box to highlight the type of review you wish to find.
Type the name of the film/play in the search box, enclosed in " ".

*Film Index International Online - search by film title. Scroll to the bottom of the results to see articles in journals and reviews. Use the Find Full Text button to check Voyager for holdings of the journals.

*Expanded Academic

*IIPA Full Text : International Index to Performing Arts - click Search Articles. Type film title in Keyword box, in Citations Only [select from pull-down menu. Other limits can be applied as required.

Literature Online - use the QUICK SEARCH box. Type in the author's name and click Go. Results will include full text reference material, references to articles in journals [some full text], websites, and biographical material where available.

Internet Resources

You must be logged on with NetID and password to access the following sites.

Bibliography for Caryl Churchill which is part of a larger site German Society for Contemporary  Theatre  and  Drama  in  English.

See also the Film TV & Media Studies subject page on Library website for more sites.


Contact: l.george@auckland.ac.nz
File Last updated: 11th July 2011