GC Library: Drama &amp; Theater Arts: Articles & Databases

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Search GC Library's recommended databases and online journals to find college-level articles you need for your research. Log in with your GC account for off-campus access. If the article you are looking for is unavailable through Galveston College Library, submit an Interlibrary Loan Request.

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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. It provides access to over 5,300 full-text periodicals, including approximately 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.

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Digital Theatre +
Provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions, musicals, and operas.

Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
Fine Arts (Gale OneFile)
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts is a periodical database that places articles in the hands of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews from the most prestigious publications, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more.

•More than 36,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
•Nearly 80,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
•More than 250,000 author biographies
•More than 460 literary journals
•Nearly 900,000 book reviews
•More than 98,000 classic and contemporary poems
•More than 26,000 classic and contemporary short stories
•More than 9,600 author interviews
•More than 7,400 classic novels

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MasterFILE Complete
MasterFILE Complete provides full-text periodicals covering an extensive range of subject areas including business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues, DIY, and fashion.

This database also contains full text for more than 870 reference books, 73,000 primary source documents, 70,000 Associated Press videos, and an Image Collection of 1.6 million photos, maps & flags. MasterFILE Complete now offers PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.

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