Instead of running a general Google or Bing search, try some of these websites selected by your professors and librarians for their particular usefulness and reliability. They aren't necessarily the most popular sites, so they might not show up very high in a page of search results.

It's hard to tell whether online journals are reliable enough for scholarly research -- those listed here pass the mark. Don't hesitate to consult with your professor or a librarian to determine whether a particular source is appropriate to cite in your research.

Citing your sources properly -- especially the films that you refer to and any images you include in your paper -- is important and required.

Purdue University's OWL Writing Lab Citation resources are the best ones out there on the web. Generally, Film Studies courses require that you use MLA style. Detailed information on MLA and other styles, such as Chicago, are available here.

Check out Berkeley's Guide to Citing Film, Video, and Online Media.

Diane can help with citations, too!

Academic Journals

• Bright Lights Film Journal
  • A popular-academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary, looking at classic and commercial, independent, exploitation, and international film from a wide range of vantage points from the aesthetic to the political. 
• Jumpcut
  • A journal that looks at media in its social and political context.
• Film Criticism
  • A peer-reviewed, open-access journal of film and media studies from the University of Michigan.
• Framework
  • An international journal "dedicated to radical and informative analyses of the complexities, histories and intersects of today’s film and media."
• Scope
  • Scope is a fully peer-reviewed online journal edited by staff and students in the Institute of Film & Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. It provides a forum for discussion of all aspects of film history, theory and criticism.
• Screening the Past
  • An international, refereed, electronic journal of screen history
• Senses of Cinema
  • An online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema

Movie Footage

• MIC: Moving Image Collections
  • This site lets you discover, locate and in some cases view moving images from around the world.

Box Office and Script Information

• Box Office Mojo by IMDb
• Film Box Office Database
• Drew's Script Database