Library Search: Fine Art: Image & Film Research

Image & Film Research

Images and video appear easy to find and access, with huge amounts available through online platforms such as YouTube or Pinterest. Using media sourced from platforms like these remains complicated and centres around questions of transparency, trust, and context.

Curated collections, such as the Library's DVD collection or the online streaming service Kanopy, offer more certainty around questions of production, as well as better security of access. Box of Broadcasts content is selected by its users based in UK universities and comes from trusted mainstream producers.

Search the collection by director, genre or specific film title using the search below.

Narrow the search by selecting Locations > DVD Bay to the left of your results.

Blu-rays and DVDs can be found in the centre of the library on the ground floor, organised in numerical sequence.

If you are looking for a particular subject, the numbers match the printed book collection. So you can find Fiction Film at 791.43.

The letters after the number are the first 3 letters from the directors surname. Films by Spike Lee can be found at 791.43 LEE.

If you cannot find what you are looking for, check Box of Broadcasts or Kanopy or ask a member of staff.

646	Fashion & Costume
700.7	Student show reels
709	Art History / Theory
709.2	Artist profiles
720	Architecture
741.6	Graphic Arts and Illustration
745	Design
746	Textiles
747	Interior Design
770	Photography
780	Music Documentary
791.43	Feature Films
791.434	Animation
791.43601	Experimental
791.43655	Documentary
791.4375	Short Films
791.45	TV Series
792	Theatre
793	Dance
822	Shakespeare

Key Film Resources

Kanopy

A streaming service for documentaries and independent film. They have an extensive collection focussed on all forms of Visual Art.

Box of Broadcasts

BoB is on on-demand TV and radio service, with programmes broadcast on free-to-view British channels since the 1990s. You can watch these programmes at any time without a TV Licence, although it is only available in the UK.

Art21

Art21 has over 1000 hours of original art documentary footage, supplemented with transcribed interviews, research materials, educational publications, web pages, books, and digital and analogue artwork reproductions.

Key Image Resources

Artstor

Artstor contains over 2.5 million digital images relating to the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. These are all cleared for educational use and have the information needed for proper citation.