Film and Television Literature Index

Today i looked at the Ebsco Database, Film and Literature Index. This database is full of all kinds of literature pertaining to anything film or television related. It is an ebsco product so just like all the rest the sight offers a folder system as welll as citations and other tools. One thing this database offers that is a little different is film reviews. There is a huge collection of films that users can read reviews on. When i was searching I kind of just expected reviews on shows and a basic overview of what they are about who wrote them and so on. I was pleasently suprised to find way more than that. I typed Beauty and the Beast into the seach bar and was returned 215 articles. Some of them contained just general information about the Film but there were others that were about feminism and issues of equality that were suggested in the film. I read through a few of these and they were really intersting. I think a lot of them would be very good essay topics. This is a feature in all ebsco databases but i really like how users can go to certain sections in the work by clicking on the links on the side bar. this could be really helpful when needing direct quotes or specific information. Like other databases there is a refine searhc option where patrons can limit year, author, subject and much more. One more cool thing i found is that full texts can now be translated into 30 different languages. This doesn't really effect the patrons a whole lot but organizations like us can change the way the database looks to our users by visiting the supoprt site. We could change the colors or the layout to make it more personalized. I think this is a good database. It wasn't too exciting but I did find a lot of interesting material.