Subject Terms
When searching any database (the library catalog, article databases, web searches) the following terms will be useful:
- Installation and Art
- Stage Setting and Scenery
- Set Designers
- Scene Painting
- Stage History
- Stage Lighting
- Stage Machinery
- Stage Props
- Stage Management
- Theater Architecture
- Theater Pictorial Works
- Theaters Design and Construction
- Theaters Special Effects
- Theater Production and Direction
LISTSERVs
The following links will take you to registration pages for various listserve groups focusing on theater and film.
ASTR-L Discussion list devoted to theatre history run by the American Society for Theatre Research.
ATHE-NEWS-ONLINE Mailing list run by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Open to non-members.
STAGECRAFT Discussion group devoted to all aspects of stage work, design, production and management.
Recommended Databases
Academic Search Premier
Academic multi-disciplinary database; full text articles in all fields.
AHSearch
Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers in all disciplines.
Project Muse
Full-text of several hundred scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
In the Reference Stacks
The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre, 1900-1975 REF PN2266.B68
The New York Public Library Performing Arts Desk Reference REF PN1584.N49 1994
Theatrical Design in the Twentieth Century REF PN2091.S8T47 1996
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