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Library’s Home Page

This tab will get you to Course Guides.

http://guides.library.bloomu.edu/HarveyAndrussLibrary

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Accessing the Course Guide through Andruss Library

1. This tab will get you to the list of Course Guides. 2. Then look for Holocaust & Hollywood alphabetically.

Accessing the Course Guide through Andruss Library

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Accessing the Course Guide through Andruss Library

Explains Booleans and Truncations

Accessing the Course Guide through Andruss Library

Links to research subscription databases and useful film review websites

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Accessing the Course Guide through Andruss Library

Accessing the Course Guide through Andruss Library

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Library’s Home Page

This tab leads you “A‐Z Databases”; a more direct way than course guides.

http://guides.library.bloomu.edu/HarveyAndrussLibrary

Library’s Home Page

Avoid “Search Everything” option, you will get more relevant “hits” using the recommended Research Subscription Databases to find articles and news stories: 1. Academic Search Complete 2. Lexis‐Nexis Academic 3. ProQuest http://guides.library.bloomu.edu/HarveyAndrussLibrary

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Library’s Home Page

Go directly to BU to look for books in Andruss Library collection. http://guides.library.bloomu.edu/HarveyAndrussLibrary

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To learn more about film production, reviews etc, the best search engines are: 1. Academic Search Complete 2. Lexis‐Nexis Academic 3. ProQuest 4. Historical Abstracts

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Essential Facts Sample of Essential Facts: Limit strategies

1. Movie Title: Movie title: Conspiracy I set a date range to limit 2. Release date of Release: 2001 my search results typing movie: Director: Frank Pierson “conspiracy” into search 3. Director: Writer: Loring Mandel engines produces 4. Screenwriter(s): Producer: HBO Films in countless hits. Date 5. Producer: association with BBC range: 1 January 2000 to 6. Major cast Major cast members: Kenneth 31 December 2003 members: Branagh, (helped me determine if 7. Film Synopsis: Film Synopsis: story that re‐ there were any pre‐ creates the Wannsee release news stories). I Conference held by Reinhard then made use of Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann Booleans to get relevant to organize the extermination results/hits: AND of European Jews. Wannsee.

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Library’s Home Page

This tab leads you “A‐Z Databases”; a more direct way than course guides.

http://guides.library.bloomu.edu/HarveyAndrussLibrary

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

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Lexis‐Nexis

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Lexis‐Nexis

Lexis‐Nexis

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Lexis‐Nexis

Lexis‐Nexis

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Lexis‐Nexis

Lexis‐Nexis

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Lexis‐Nexis

Lexis‐Nexis

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Lexis‐Nexis

Lexis‐Nexis

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Lexis‐Nexis

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ProQuest

ProQuest

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ProQuest

ProQuest

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ProQuest

ProQuest

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ProQuest

ProQuest

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ProQuest

ProQuest

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ProQuest

ProQuest

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ProQuest

ProQuest

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ProQuest

ProQuest

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Historical Abstracts

Useful for: 1. historical interpretations of the event 2. professional historians’ film reviews and analysis of how filmmakers present history

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Historical Abstracts

Historical Abstracts

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Historical Abstracts

Historical Abstracts

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