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Literature Specific Databases

MLA International Bibliography
Coverage is international and includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
In addition, the MLA Directory of Periodicals and their proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors within the Bibliography are included.
Literature Resource Center
Provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and around the world.

Multidisciplinary Databases

JSTOR
Archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering the Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
Project MUSE
Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
Academic Search Complete
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Business Source Complete
Articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics, including SWOT analyses and articles from Harvard Business Review.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Nexis Uni
Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.

Film Statistics

Statista
Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .

Getting Chapters of Books

Edited books contain chapters by multiple authors. You might find these in the MLA International Bibliography, where individual chapters are indexed, or you might find one in the library catalog by looking at Contents notes. If you find a chapter you want to read, you may request it by using interlibrary loan if the library owns only the print book or if the library doesn't own the book at all. In either case, you would use the interlibrary loan request form, Book Chapter. See, Pepperdine Interlibrary Loan. In either case, you will receive an email with a link to the scanned book chapter. Be sure to allow several days for your request to be filled.

Online Books

Bram Stoker by Carol A Senf
ISBN: 9780708323076

Publication Date: 2011-01-01

This study of Bram Stoker focuses on Stoker as a Gothic writer. Identified with Dracula, Stoker is largely responsible for taking the Gothic away from medieval castles and placing it at the center of modern life. The author examines Stoker's contribution to the modern notion of Gothic and thus to the history of popular culture, and demonstrates that the excess generally associated with the Gothic is Stoker's way of examining social economic and political problems.
Bram Stoker's Dracula by William Hughes
ISBN: 9781441128362

Publication Date: 2009-05-09

Dracula (1897) is one of the most commonly studied gothic novels and has been hugely influential through adaptations in fiction, on stage and in cinema. Offering an authoritative, up-to-date guide for students, this book introduces its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife, leading students to a more sophisticated understanding of the text.
Fabulous Monsters by Alberto. Manguel
ISBN: 9780300248845

Publication Date: 2019-10-08

An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles
The Modern Myths by Philip Ball
ISBN: 9780226774213

Publication Date: 2021-05-01

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time--fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them--and still living them--today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called "modern myths." But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes are doing the kind of cultural work that the ancient myths once did.
Gothic Literature by Jessica Bomarito
ISBN: 9780787694708

Publication Date: 2006-01-11

This three-volume set spans all facets of the gothic, including visual and performing arts, society and culture, and themes and settings. Complete with primary source documents and critical material to provide contextual perspective, a related chronology of key events, full-text commentaries, lists of further readings...
Slayers and Their Vampires by Bruce McClelland
ISBN: 9780472026234

Publication Date: 2010-02-11

Exploring how the vampire slayer began, this book goes further to ask why the true history of the vampire slayer has been so long ignored. It is of interest to fans of Dracula, vampire, Buffy, Anne Rice, and Anita Blake lore, and to students of anthropology, sociology, European religious history, and Slavistics.