Hampshire College

Journal Articles for Cultural Studies

America: History and Life

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

ARTstor

Communications and Mass Media Complete

FIAF Film Periodical Index

Film Literature Index

Humanities International Complete

MLA Bibliography

Philosophers Index

Websites for Cultural Studies

In order of usefulness:

• Voice of the Shuttle: Cultural Studies Links to cyberculture, media theory, postmodernism, and other cultural studies resources. Fully searchable. From the University of California/Santa Barbara.
• English Server: Cultural Studies Another huge list of links. Check the specific pages for gender/sexuality ... film and television ... cyberculture ... and cultural theory
• NYPL Picture Collection Covers African Americans, American history, costumes, fashion drawings, dragons, animals, and other subjects, dating from the 1700s through the 1st quarter of the 20th century.
• Media and Communications Site A rich collection of links to studies in media/communications, organized by topic (e.g. gender, pop music, visual images, etc.) from the University of Aberystwyth in Wales.
• UbuWeb is a large public domain web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete, and sound poetry, and a remarkable archive of experimental film and music. This link goes to the list of filmmakers whose work is available.
• Cultural Studies More general links to the many subfields of cultural studies.

More Specific Areas of Cultural Studies

• QueerTheory Queer studies, gender studies, and related fields. Offers links to news, essays, books.
• Ad*Access Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Concentrates on five main subject areas: radio; television; transportation; beauty and hygiene; and World War II.
• AdViews: a digital archive of vintage television commercials   Thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s from The Duke University Archives
• Border Crossings Links to sites relating to the various borders (social, political, geographic, sexual, etc.) that demarcate the postmodern imagination.
• Contemporary postcolonial and postimperial literature in English An introduction to about 100 contemporary postcolonial authors. Geographical and historical background, individual author biographies, and analysis. A work in progress, but a very useful resource.
• Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 A database of over 9,000 images representing a unique collection of advertising history and a significant contribution to the study of American culture. A complement to Ad*Access, listed above.
• Everything Postmodern A good clearinghouse of links maintained by a graduate student at Arizona State.
• Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Thought A good collection of resources and links for critical theory. and postmodern thought and for important comtemporary philosophers. From the University of Colorado, Denver.
• Resource Center for Cybercultural Studies Offers web links, interviews, bibliographies, conferences, etc.
• Masters of Cinema Links to articles and websites of noted international directors and cinemas.