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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
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Reference Materials: +150K pages of informative reference materials and manuals, with a focus on 20th century advice literature and graphic novels
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 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
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
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 - 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.
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Health & Fitness Magazine Archive resides on the ProQuest Platform
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
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 Screen Studies Collection offers a comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies, from ProQuest.
This collection includes the specialist FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute: AFI Catalog and Film Index International.
The World of Archie Comics Archive resides on the Alexander Street Multimedia Platform
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
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 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
| 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 |