Media and Film

Comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications from 1984 to the present, including periodicals, published in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Subjects include advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history.

Allows the user to view or listen to over 1 million TV and radio programmes, record from 60+ channels, create clips, search transcripts, compile playlists and more. You will need to select log in via UK Federation, then select University of Sussex from the dropdown list. (New users will need to register their Sussex email address.)

Now known as Humanities Index.
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.

Access to the entire archive of the Daily Mirror, from 1903 to the present day.

Offers streamed films of leading British theatre productions for educational use in schools, colleges and universities. Each production is supported by additional content, including interviews with the creative and production teams and written study guides.

A cross-platform, multiple-devices, online-or-offline ebook system for academic and research libraries. You will need to login to access EBC Library.

Detailed information about the documentation collections of the world's foremost film archives, libraries, and educational institutions.

Contains over 400,000 article citations from more than 330 periodicals. Offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals.

Detailed information on books, pamphlets, programmes, and other materials published since 1966 by FIAF archives.

Credits and holdings information for international silent-era film. For preservation and scholarly research, provides identification information on over 40,500 works. Database has features and short films.

A searchable digital archive containing articles from the first issues in 1821 for the Guardian and 1791 for the Observer.

You can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.

A comprehensive newspaper database, updated daily, providing full text access to all UK national newspapers, plus regional newspapers, international news providers and a number of trade journals and magazines.

Allows users to access and search Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

Complete archive from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957.

Explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. Contains colour digital images of archival material sourced from key libraries and organisations in Britain and America. Includes material from the Mass Observation Archive. Search archive at the Mass Observation online

High quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

Provides access to a range of audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance. Included are interviews with key figures in theatre history and contemporary practice; masterclasses with specialist actor trainers from around the world; unique footage direct from the legendary practitioners themselves; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions and documentaries previously unavailable to global audiences.

Abstracts and citations for over 22,800 peer-reviewed titles from more than 5,000 international publishers in science, technology, medicine, social science, arts and humanities

Access to thousands of videos across a wide range of subject areas.

The Film Scripts Online Series contains over 1,100 scripts and makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays.

Archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture. Subjects include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. Magazines cover American Craft, Aperture, Apollo, Architects' Journal, Architectural Review, Art Monthly, British Journal of Photography, C, Craft Horizons, Eye: the International Review of Graphic Design, Graphis, Ornament, Print, Sculptors International, Sculpture, Southwest Art and more.

Contains material digitally transferred from the BBC NI news archive between 1963-1975. Notable events or broadcasts missing from this period have either not yet been digitised, are absent from the original film collection, or may not have been recorded. To access this resource, select your institution in the "where are you from" box then login. The first time you access it, you will need to create an account by selecting "new user".

Access to more than 100 years of the Daily Mail newspaper online.

Hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies.

500,000 issues from more than 500 historical newspapers. Includes weeklies, dailies and historical significant newspapers. Key titles include the New York Herald, New York Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, South Carolina City Gazette, Dallas Morning News, Kansas City Star, San Jose Mercury News.

The largest online collection of 19th-century U.S. newspapers from the American West. Approx. 2,500 titles published in all 24 states west of the Mississippi River, plus a number of titles published east of the Mississippi for valuable political and economic context.

An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000.

An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000.

The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Collection holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape.

The backfile of GQ magazine, from its launch in 1931 (as Apparel Arts) to the present. One of the longest-running, most influential men's magazines, GQ expanded its initial focus on fashion to cover general men’s-interest subjects.

Features the complete 62-year run of the Listener, the BBC periodical published from 1929-1991.

A collection handbooks covering different subject areas. Provides introductions to key topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship.

A wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Access to ebook collections from Palgrave in Media and Culture (2010-2015).

Complete archive from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957.

Access to 150 years of Punch, the great satirical magazine

Contains a research and learning database providing in one place comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance and social movements.

A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects.

Video clips from the BFI National Film and Television Archive and posters, press books and interviews with film and television personalities.

A catalogue of selected films from the Screen Archive South East collection.

Access to ebooks on humanities, social and behavioural sciences, education, built environment, and law.

Complete digital edition of The Times of London for the period 1785-2008. Includes all articles, advertisements and illustrations or photographs.

Listings for more than 560 TV and radio channels from 1995 onward with data available at least 10 days before transmission. Requires login for access.

Access to the listings of the London Edition from September 1955 - March 1985.

The entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to present. Subjects include textiles and dress, fashion history, popular culture, gender studies, photography and graphic design, marketing and advertising.

Access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Now replaced by C19: 19th Century Index

Contains archives of the foremost titles of consumer magazines aimed at a female readership, including Good Housekeeping and Ladies’ Home Journal, which serve as canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores. In combination, the publications cover topics such as family life, home economics, health, careers, fashion, and culture.