Covers historical topics and fairly recent events. Use in conjunction with interlibrary loan as needed. For Latinos in the U.S., consult a similar database, again devoted to history journals, America History and Life . U.S.-based search engines and directories can also be useful for locating information in Spanish. See also Academic Search Elite for art reviews and comment post-1990, albeit in English.
Entries are scholarly.
Journal articles on theatre and literature in either Spanish or English can be located by using the standard index to film and theatre criticism, the MLA Bibliography . Use this in conjunction with the library's journal collection, and with interlibrary loan . The Internet Movie Database and Movie Review Query Engine are two free web databases that offer consistently good hits for review of most films, domestic and foreign. Some more scholarly criticism is also indexed here. Trexler Library's MLA Style Examples offers models for citing both print and web sources in the MLA format.