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Use these Reference databases to find and access articles in a variety of encyclopedias and subject dictionaries:
Selected Reference sources for your class
- Browne, Ray B. and Pat Browne, eds. The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c2001.
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- Olin Library Reference E169.1 D399x 2001 +
- A collection of bibliographic essays on various aspects of American popular culture, including advertising, animation, editorial cartoons, film, magazines, radio, sports, and television. Each chapter "provides a brief chronological survey of the development of the medium; a critical guide in essay form to the standard or most useful bibliographies, reference works, histories, critical studies, and journals; a description of the existing research centers and collections of primary and secondary materials; and a checklist of works cited in the text." (Preface)
- Cayton, Mary Kupiec,and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
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- Uris Library Reference E 169.1 E624x 2001
- A 3-volume encyclopedia that attempts "to comprehend the ever-changing character and rich variety of American thought and expression." (Introduction) Includes articles on advertising, media, visual arts, and technology.
- Cayton, Mary Kupiec, ed. Encyclopedia of American Social History. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1992.
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- Uris Library Reference HN 57 .E56 1992; also Olin Library Reference
- This 3-volume encyclopedia uses the scholarship of historians, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists to present various aspects of
American social history, including periods of social change, patterns of everyday life, family history and science,
medicine and technology.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1978- .
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- Uris Library Reference
PS 129 D55+; selected volumes in Olin Ref PS 129 D55+
- Also available online as part of the Literature Resource Center.
An ongoing set of volumes designed to provide biographic, bibliographic and critical material on major writers of America and Great Britain as well as some writers of Canada, France and Germany. Each volume is arranged alphabetically by the writers covered. There are numerous portraits and often there are appendices containing special information. A list of further readingconcludes each volume. An index to all volumes appears at the end of each latest volume. Olin buys selected volumes.
- Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, ed. New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005.
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- Olin Library Reference CB9 .N49 2005+
- Also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- This six volume set is "designed to introduce a general audience to the
main ideas and movements of global cultural history from antiquity to the
twenty-first century." (Preface)
- Inge, Thomas M, and Dennis Hall, eds. The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture. 4 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
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- Olin Library Reference E 169.1 .G7555x 2002 +
- A collection of bibliographic essays on various aspects of American popular culture, including such topics as comic books, computers, fashion, film, magazines, best-selling books, radio, sports, or TV. Each chapter was "prepared by an authority on the subject, provides a brief chronological survey of the development of the medium; a critical guide in essay form to the standard or most useful bibliographies, reference works, histories, critical studies, and journals; a description of the existing research centers and collections of primary and secondary materials; and a checklist of works cited in the text.
- Payne, Michael, ed. A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996.
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- Olin Library Reference HM 101 D55 1996
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A "reference guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory, which have developed from interactions among historical traditions of thought." (Preface) Entries cover concepts, individuals, and movements that bridge the traditional boundaries between the humanities and social sciences (e.g., hermeneutics, structuralism, post-colonialism, multi-culturalism). Secondary references are provided for each. Indexed, with a general bibliography.
- Pendergast, Tom and Sara Pendergast, eds. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. 5 vols. Detroit, MI : St. James Press, 2000.
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- Uris Library Reference E 169.1 S764x 2000
- Also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- Contains nearly 3,000 essays on topics in the areas of film, music, print culture, social life, electronic media, art and performance, with an emphasis on post-World War II America. Entries are arranged alphabetically, and often provide cultural context as well as factual information. Short bibliographies are appended to each.
- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive. [State College, Pa.] : Accuweather, Inc., c1999-.
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- The Photo Archive is an on-line database containing almost a half-million of Associated Press's current and historical images for the last
150 years. It features state, regional and national photos from North America, as well as international photos. All are available moments
after they move on the AP's spot picture system. The Photo Archive receives an average of 800 photos a day. About a quarter of the
photos are selected for the permanent archive, while the rest are removed after 12 months.
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- ARTstor. New York: ARTstor, 2003- .
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- Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data. Covers the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well asmany other forms of visual culture.
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- Grove Art Online. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, Inc., 1998- .
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Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001).
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- Literature Online (LION). Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., c1999-.
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- A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary references sources.
Includes articles, monographs, and dissertations from the Annual Bibliography of English Language and
Literature; full-text articles from literary journals (with links to JSTOR journals); and biographical information on widely studied authors.
- Literature Resource Center. [Farmington Hills, MI] : Gale Group, c1999-.
A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Draws from Gale Group's core literary databases including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.
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