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ProQuest One Entertainment & Popular Culture

ProQuest One Entertainment and Popular Culture Content


ProQuest One Entertainment and Popular Culture provides extensive archival and current resources spanning music, film, television, gaming, comics, and childhood and youth culture, from the 1850s to the present.

The sources include respected and influential industry publications, popular magazines, historic advice literature, iconic film scripts, and engaging video content. These form a large-scale collection of indispensable archival and current resources.

These materials support research in popular culture across film studies, media studies, music and entertainment, cultural studies, and sociology, providing insights into societal trends and the evolution of entertainment.

Components of ProQuest One Entertainment and Popular Culture


Key features:

  • Rich Historical Context: Detailed record of over 150 years of societal changes and the evolution of the entertainment industry
  • Diverse and Varied Content: Popular / trade magazines, historic advice literature, iconic film scripts, and engaging video content offer multiple formats and perspectives.
  • Leading Publications: Access to premier, indispensable titles across the entertainment industry, including Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
  • Support Cross-Disciplinary Research: Relevant to research in the arts, media studies, history, sociology, women’s and gender studies and more.

Content types include:

  • Magazine & Periodical Archives: +135 magazine and periodicals covering all facets of popular culture.
  • Distinguished Publications: prominent, influentia titles such as: Billboard, Le Film Français, The Hollywood Reporter, Computer & Video Games, Rolling Stone, Variety.
  • Reference Materials: +150K pages of informative reference materials and manuals, with a focus on 20th century advice literature and graphic novels

  • Multimedia Video: +200 videos which examine key figures, trends and societal impacts across film, television, fashion, gaming and music
  • Comics and Graphic Novels: 700K pages of dynamic materials related to comics, including American classics, underground and indipendent comics, graphic novels, scholarly writings and how-to guides
  • Film Scripts: catalog of 1,130 timeless and iconic film scripts, that support the analysis of storytelling, filme trends, and cinematic history.

Children's Magazine Archive​

Children’s Magazine Archive presents 15+ digital backfiles of magazines spanning 1866 to 2020. Researchers can immerse themselves in the evolution of childhood, culture, and education through publications that were originally aimed at young readers. Newly accessible, these archives offer researchers a new window on topics such as 20th-century advertising, marketing, popular culture, literature, and media history.

With material ranging from tales of adventure and exploration to thought-provoking articles and engaging visuals, this archive offers a unique lens on the cultural, societal, and educational dynamics of this period.

Coverage: 1866 - 2020

Children’s Magazine Archive resides on the ProQuest Platform

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (EIMA)

The Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (EIMA) is the digital high-resolution archive of over 85 key US and UK trade and consumer magazines covering the broad spectrum of the entertainment industry and media including film, television, popular music, radio, and theatre, and video gaming.

EIMA offers currently Five thematic collections covering Music, Radio and The Stage, Film and Television, and lately Video Gaming. The magazines are included cover-to-cover, from first issue to the year 2000,* (2015 for Collection 3) and the scope encompasses mass-market trade as well as popular titles.

EIMA resides on the ProQuest Platform

Film Scripts Online, Volumes I​ and II

The Film Scripts Online Series makes available accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays. Now film scholars can compare the writer’s vision with the producer’s and director’s interpretations from page to screen.

Most scripts in the series have never been published before and are available nowhere else. Alexander Street developed the collection through arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, StudioCanal, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others.

The Film Scripts Online Series resides on the Alexander Street Multimedia Platform

Health & Fitness Magazine Archive

Health & Fitness Magazine Archive - This premier collection provides backfiles of consumer magazines that have not been readily available in libraries – until now. It offers digital access to the archives of nine leading US and UK publications with coverage from 1869 to 2020. Topics include 20th-century history and society, women’s/men’s studies, body image, fitness and exercise history, history of food and nutrition, and public health.

Titles lnclude:

  • Flex [US] (1983 to 2015)
  • Men’s Fitness [US] (1985 to 2015)
  • Men’s Fitness [UK] (1999 to 2015)
  • Men’s Health [US] (1986 to 2015)
  • Prevention [US] (1950 to 2015)
  • Women’s Health [US](2005 to 2015)
  • Women’s Health Activist [US] (1975 to 2015)
  • Women’s Health Weekly [US] (1994 to 2015)
  • Zest [UK] (1994 to 2014)

Health & Fitness Magazine Archive resides on the ProQuest Platform


The Hollywood Reporter Archive

The Hollywood Reporter Archive is a valuable digital backfile spanning over 85 years, from 1930 (inaugural issue) to 2015, chronicling the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. Comprising approximately 300,000 pages, this archive represents an extensive historical record.

It offers insights into the film industry's technological advancements, economic fluctuations, and regulatory changes, revealing the forces that have shaped it. Through contemporary reviews, critical analyses, and box office data, the archive unearths the emergence of film genres and the ever-evolving tastes of audiences.

Beyond the silver screen, this archive reveals how Hollywood has influenced and mirrored societal attitudes, demonstrating the industry’s wider cultural and social impact. Researchers can also explore trends in celebrity culture by tracing the careers and media coverage of Hollywood stars, exposing their impact on popular culture.

This resource for researchers, educators, and students across various fields, offers archival insights into film history, advertising / marketing, women’s & gender studies, cultural studies, and more.

Coverage: 1930 - 2015

The Hollywood Reporter Archive resides on the ProQuest Platform

Popular Culture Studies in Video​

Popular Culture Studies in Video provides a rich resource for scholars interested in varied popular culture across disciplines.  It provides videos that delve into important key themes and topics such as cinematic evolution, Hollywood influence, televisual narratives, gaming culture, gender representation, cultural icons, artistic influence, sports impact, fashion history, and sociocultural trends.  This selection of engaging videos explores the evolution of popular culture from French cinema to video games. 
 
Popular Culture Studies in Video resides on the Alexander Street Multimedia Platform

The Rolling Stone Archive​

The backfile of Rolling Stone covers the magazine from its launch in 1967 to the present. One of the most influential consumer magazines of the 20th and 21st centuries, it initially sought to reflect the cultural, social and political outlook of a generation of students and young adults. It soon became a leading vehicle for rock and popular music journalism, shaping and chronicling new trends and movements.

Also notable for its commitment to reporting on controversial topics that were largely absent from mainstream media, Rolling Stone was closely identified with a multifaceted 1960s-70s counterculture. Major journalists and authors have contributed including Hunter S. Thompson, Patti Smith and Tom Wolfe.

From the 1980s, coverage expanded to encompass more entertainment topics, such as film and television, making it a leading resource for contemporary reporting and reviews pertaining to wider popular culture. This period also saw the successful serialization of Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities and the publication of one of the first national magazine features about the mystery of AIDS. The archive supports research in 20th and 21st century history, politics, music, cultural studies, media studies, sociology and more.

Coverage: 1967 - present

The Rolling Stone Archive resides on the ProQuest Platform

The World of Archie Comics Archive

The World of Archie Comics Archive provides access to the runs of more than 100 publications from Archie Comics, one of the longest-running, best-known comic stables, spanning the early 1940s to 2020. Alongside the flagship title, Archie, other prominent titles, which have pervaded wider popular culture, include Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Betty & Veronica, and Jughead. These series follow Archie and his friends as they embark on many adventures in the small town of Riverdale.

Also included in this database are some of the earliest superhero comic series originally published in the 1940's and 1950's, such as Blue Ribbon Comics, Top-Notch Comics, and Zip Comics.

The evolution of these publications across more than eight decades offers insight into changes in society and in attitudes pertaining to, for example, issues of race, class, sexuality/gender, and politics. The archives are also key sources for research in many aspects of comics studies and popular culture history, including the development of the genre, comic art/narrative techniques, and the marketing of comics to particular demographic groups.

The World of Archie Comics Archive resides on the Alexander Street Multimedia Platform

Twentieth Century Advice Literature​

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family allows students and researchers to immerse themselves in the values and behaviors of Americans of the past. The collection provides a window into American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave. 

Twentieth Century Advice Literatureresides on the Alexander Street Multimedia Platform

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Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, & Graphic Novels I, II, III​

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first-ever scholarly online collection for researchers and students of adult comic books and graphic novels. This multi-part resource covers the full spectrum of this visual art form, from pre-comics code era works to modern sequential releases from artists the world over.

From the shocking and explicit work of young artists exploring newfound freedoms to intricate and beautiful designs of aesthetic craftsmanship, the comic book has shown itself to be a medium capable of both the offensive and the sublime. Now users can experience the full range of this offbeat art form by exploring 200,000 pages of original material alongside interviews, commentary, criticism, and other supporting materials.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels resides on the Alexander Street Multimedia Platform

Youth & Popular Culture Magazine Archive

Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive, when complete, will provide 250,000 pages of unique digital access to the backfiles of 13 magazines originally published for a teen/pre-teen audience. Coverage spans the years 1940-2020 and sheds light on a host of trends and topics in the history of youth culture, including fashion, rock and roll, sports, sexuality, and dating, as well the media portrayal of youth. Alongside major titles like Teen, the collection features many hard-to-find titles such as Clarity from the 1940s and Petticoat from the 1960s.

Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive resides on the ProQuest Platform

Featured Titles

Title Publication Country Start date Last date
19 United Kingdom 1968 2004
Circus United States 1967 2000
Clarity United States 1940 1943
FLiP United States 1964 1975
Fabulous 208 United Kingdom 1964 1980
Faze Canada 2001 2006
Intro United Kingdom 1967 1968
It's Here! And Now! United Kingdom 1973 1974
Jinty United Kingdom 1974 1981
Letterman United States 2013 2016
Look Now United Kingdom 1972 1973
Petticoat United Kingdom 1966 1973
Teen United States 1957 2009