Theatre & Communications Pathfinder:

...a place to begin researching resources in drama & communications in the
Cambridge Campus Library of ARCC
www.anokaramsey.edu/resources/Success/Library/CambridgeLibrary.aspx
Subject keywords for searching MnPALS Library Catalog or the web...

Acting
Actors
Actresses
Amateur theater
Authors & the theater
Body language
Colloquial language
Communication--Psychological
Conversation analysis
Drama
Experimental theater
Film adaptations
Gesture
Greek drama
Improvisation (Acting)
Interpersonal comm*		 Malapropisms
MasquesMelodrama
Mime
Monologues
Motion pictures
Movement (Acting)
Music-halls
Musicals
Oral interpretation
Plays
Playwriting
Performing arts
Set designers
Speech anxiety
Stage fright
Stage lighting
Stage management
Street theater
Theater production & direction 		Library of Congress locations: for browsing CCLibrary shelves. GT510-596  Costume
ML200.7  Minn. musical theater
PA3131-6807  Greek drama
PN1530-1661  Playwriting
PN1851-2000 Mixed media
PN2000-2067  Theater production
PN2071 Improvisation
PN2080 Monologs
PN2189  Experimental theater
PN2287-2289 Actors
PN3151  Amateur theater
PN4121-4145  Oral Interpretation
PN6111-6121 Plays
PQ4155  Improvisation
PR1262-1272  Dramatists
PR2754-3091  Shakespeare
PS625-634  Plays--American
PS3545  American dramatists
PT World theater
Reference sources
--Ref  PN6112 .B45 Best plays
--eBook Biographical dictionary of actors, actresses V.1 (check catalog :V.2-16)
--Ref PN1655 .D77  Drury's Guide to best  plays 
--Ref PN1995.9.F54 F55 Film noir : an encyclopedic ref
--Ref PN1993.45 .H27 1996  Halliwell's film guide 
--Ref  GT580 .C33 Illustrated encyclopaedia of costume & fashion 1550-1920 
--Audiovis PN1995.9.R3 N46  Neorealismo fino al 1954
--Ref  PN2220 .B6 Oxford companion to American theatre
--Ref PN2074 .M39 1999  Theater artist's resource 		 Video Resources
Audiovis  ML1711 .A44 American musical theater  
Audiovis  ML1711 .A64  Amer musical theater : 1970s
Audiovis  PN2091.E4 C67 Conducting light
Audiovis  PN2287.R53 A3 1994  Dudley Riggs
Audiovis PN2071.I5 I57  Intro creative drama/  improv
Audiovis PN2071.M6 M7 Movement for the actor
Audiovis BF637.N66 R43 Reading people: unwritten
Audiovis PN2226.S385 1999  Search/American voice 
Audiovis PN2075.W48  What's/ score: Text analysis
Audiovis  PQ2603.E378 E67 Waiting for Godot 

 

Theater & Communication Periodicals : Communication Websites

--Center for NonVerbal Studies >Entries (loads slowly) 

For  Interpersonal Communications:
PsycJournals Index: >>Advanced/ Enter Jrnl Title >>Publication Title in dropdown menu/>> Search. 
Communications Studies  PJ ft
Western Jrnl of Communication  PJ ft
 Acad Search Premier Index   Select: >>Advanced/ Enter Jrnl Title >>So: Jrnl Name in dropdown menu/>> Search.   >>ILL to request article.
 Proquest News:  (StarTrib, LA Times, Wash Post, NYT,  WSJ) +
For theater:
Search Person or Works  in Literature Resource Ctr for author or play information.
Browse Acad Search Premier for any of the titles below by selecting:
>>Advanced/ Enter Jrnl Title >>So: Jrnl Name in dropdown menu/>> Search.
American Theatre  ASP ft
Variety  ASP ft
Hemingway Review  ASP ft
Modern Language Quarterly  ASP ft
New York Times  (current issue) Select NY region/ Theater
New Yorker (print in lib) Check "Goings On About Town": Theatre)
Plays  ASP ft
Theatre History Studies  ASP ft
TheatreForum  ASP ft

St. P Pioneer Press  (current) Select Local Events / Theater
 Star Tribune (current)  Select Freetime/ Onstage
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Drama Websites
--All Movie Guide Search: movie, actor, dir., writer 
--American variety stage  Library of Congress Multimedia Anthology
--BFI Screenonline Guide to Brit Film & TV History
--CineMedia  Amer. Film Inst. film & media directory
--Costume page How-to, where to find, & in-depth information
--Didaskalia: ancient theater today
--Dramatists Play Service
--Learn Improv
--Internet Broadway DB League of Am Theatres & Producers source
--Inter-play: index to plays in collections, anthologies
--Metacritic film
--O'Neill.com  Eugene O'Neill Archive
--Performing Arts in America NYPL & NEA
--Playbill Online
--Silent Era Carl Bennett
--TheatreCentral (Playbill Online's show listings)
--Vasta.org Assoc.  Theatre in Higher Ed, Voice & Speech Trainers Assoc.
--WWW Virtual Library of Theatre & Drama, Barry Russell, Amazon.com
Citing your sources: Remember to give credit to anyone else's words or ideas.  Need help? Try Documentation Guidelines from Duke Univ. or t A Writer's Reference located in Reference  PE1408.H2778.

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