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ENG 106: Heroes & Villains

Article Databases

  • Academic Search Premier
    Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete
    The most comprehensive index to communication journals and other materials. Includes full-text for most articles.
  • Film & Television Literature Index
    Bibliographic database that provides indexing for more than 600 publications. Film & Television Literature Index is an index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
  • ProQuest Research Library
    ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

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Streaming Video Databases

Only Academic Video Online will let you make and export clips.
  • Feature Films for Education
    Feature Films for Education is a digital video streaming platform that offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational purposes; focusing on both current and hard-to-find titles, the collection includes literary adaptions, blockbusters, classics, foreign films, and more. Recommend Chrome browser.
  • Swank Digital Campus
    Streaming videos primarily of classic and modern Hollywood films. Additional films may be available upon request by faculty for course reserves.
  • Academic Video Online
    AVON is a streaming video platform providing more than 79,000 titles spanning a wide range of subject areas, including anthropology, business, history, music, and more. The platform allows users to to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection. 
  • Films On Demand: Master Academic Package
    Films On Demand is a digital video streaming service that provides educational content from a wide range of subject areas with an especially good selection of foreign films. This collection contains more than 38,000 titles in dozens of subject areas, and the platform allows users to to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection. 
  • Kanopy
    Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides students and educators access to a large database of over 30,000 films--including award-winning documentaries, training films, indie and foreign films, must-see classics, and blockbuster movies. Films are activated on-demand for faculty and graduate students.

Marvel Universe

In the Richter DVD collection, Science Fiction/Fantasy:

2008 Iron Man -   I766 .B5335 v.1  
2008 The Incredible Hulk - I537 .L484  
2010 Iron Man 2 - I766 .B5335 v.2
2011 Thor - T467 .T3956 v.1
2011 Captain America: The First avenger -
            C378 .J646  
2012 The Avengers - A946 .W443
2013 Iron Man 3 -  I766 .B5335 v.3  
2013 Thor: The Dark World - T467 .T3956 v.2
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier -
             C378 .R877  
2014 Guardians of the Galaxy - G837 .G866  
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron - A946 .W434
2015 Ant-Man -  A586 .R443
2016 Captain America: Civil War -  C378 .R878
2016 Doctor Strange - PN1995.9.S26 D63 2017  
2017 Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2 -  G837 .G866 v.2
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming - S653 .W388
2017 Thor: Ragnarok - T467 .W358
2018 Black Panther - B533 .F454
2018 Avengers: Infinity War -  PN1997.2 .A94 2018
2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp - A586 .R444 
2019 Captain Marvel - C378 .B634 
2019 Avengers: Endgame - A946 .R878  
2019 Spider-Man: Far From Home - S653 .W389 
 

Need more help?

  • Terri Robar

    Communication, Media, Geography, and Maps Librarian

    trobar@miami.edu

Creative Studio

The Creative Studio provides expert support and consultation in the use of digital audio, video, and graphic design technology, as well as web development and image creation techniques. With the wide variety of creative software available in our studios, our large and small format printing services, and the available equipment loan program, we have everything you need to create fresh and original digital content.

Available Services

  • Chat Service – available on our website during staff hours Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm
  • Learn – virtual consultations, student tutoring, workshops, and other help. Visit our Learn website for more information, links to schedule a session, and more.
  • Equipment – equipment loans are available through Richter, Architecture, and Calder Medical library. Music equipment is currently being loaned out from Richter. Learn more and make a reservation on our equipment website.
  • Printing & 3D Printing – print photos and posters as well as order 3D prints. Visit the websites linked for instructions and pricing.
  • Computers – specialized software is available at Richter and Music libraries. Learn more and reserve your spot on our computers website.
  • And more! – check out video games by requesting them in our catalog, learn about our VR and Magic Leap equipment, have vintage materials digitized, and learn more about downloading Adobe CC.