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Available Streaming Films Based on Literature

If Beale Street Could Talk

The Hunger Games

Fences

Beloved

The Color Purple

The Kite Runner

Literature into Film ENGL 220

Literature into Film ENGL 220 [23:00]
In this video learn how search for book and movie reviews for your ENGL 220 assignment using the Dwight Marvin Library and free internet sources.

OneSearch for Reviews

Search the title of your book/film using quotation marks. This will search the exact terms in the exact order.
Add book review or movie review to the free text of the search.

Gale Literature

Gale Literature This link opens in a new window Simultaneously searches Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, and related reference books from Gale Virtual Reference Center to find full-text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, author biographical information and overviews.

Try both field search "Name Of Work" and Keyword searches. You will most likely see different results!

Websites for Movie Reviews

Literature Available from the Dwight Marvin Library and Available for Free Online

Beloved by Toni Morrison; A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B4 2006
Publication Date: 2006

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Read the short story Brokeback Mountain based on the movie of the same name. The story was published by The New Yorker in 1997.
Fences by August Wilson
Read the full-text of the play Fences from the Internet Archive.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Call Number: PS3562.E353 T6 1982
Publication Date: 2010
A Raisin in the Sun; a Drama in Three Acts by Lorraine Hansberry
Call Number: PS3515.A515 R3 1959
ISBN: 1008529524
Publication Date: 1959
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Call Number: PS3501.L178 W5 1983
Publication Date: 1983

Available Ebook

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Publication Date: 1982

Helpful Reference Books

Novels into Film: Adaptations and Interpretation by Salem Press Editors (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018-09-01
Books to Film: Cinematic Adaptations of Literary Works, Volume 1 by Jim Craddock
Publication Date: 2018

U.S. Major Daily Newspapers

US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window US Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers: The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. Access from 1980 - present.

Looking for a review from The New York Times? Search for a novel or motion picture in the database US Major Daily Newspapers. On the left side of your search results, look for Document Type; limit your results to commentary or reviews.

Literature: Literature into Film

Available Streaming Films Based on Literature

Literature into Film ENGL 220

OneSearch for Reviews

Gale Literature

Websites for Movie Reviews

Literature Available from the Dwight Marvin Library and Available for Free Online

Available Ebook

Helpful Reference Books

U.S. Major Daily Newspapers

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