Communication 497F: Spanish-language Media & Latina/o Cultural Production  Tags: communication  

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For books at UMass, use the Five Colleges Library Catalog and click on the UMass link. Be as specific as possible in your searching. Start with a subject search (use keyword if subject yields no results). You can use broad categories to browse for sub-topics or to later limit (by date, words in subject or words in title) for more focussed results.

The Library subject heading for Latinos is "Hispanic Americans"

Sample searches for this class:

• Hispanic American Mass Media
• Hispanic American Motion Picture Actors and Actresses
• Hispanic American Motion Picture Producers and Directors
• Hispanic Americans and Mass Media
• Hispanic Americans In Motion Pictures

If UMass doesn't have the book(s) you need, try the other Five Colleges. You can order books easilly by clicking on the "Request Item" link.

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1. Use RefWorks to manage your citations and create your bibliography. 
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• Ethnic NewsWatch - Full-text articles from the newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic communities in the United States. Most articles are in English, but many from Latino periodicals are in Spanish.
  
• Film Literature Index - Citations to articles appearing in film journals from 130 countries. Includes both scholarly and popular periodicals.
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• Reader's Guide Retrospective - Citations to articles in 600 popular U.S. magazines. Time Period Covered: 1890-1982. 
• Web of Science - Allows multidisciplinary searches combining arts, humanities, social science and science. Good for seeing who cited whom. Good for academic book reviews.