Film, TV and Stage Design
Discover the best information, whether you’re a new Film, TV and Stage Design student starting your first assignment, or delving into a research project.
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Reading Lists
These are set up by your tutors to guide you to good quality, relevant and useful materials to help you with your studies. They are a great starting point before doing your own research.
Library Search
Key resources for film, TV production, and stage design students
Databases
Databases are searchable collections of good quality, academic material, particularly journal articles. They can be small subject specific or large collections covering a wide range of subject areas. Most databases provide access to full-text items.
| A collection of arts databases that can be accessed via ProQuest. | |
| A great place to start a search on most subjects, providing access to both books and journal articles. | |
| Helps designers understand markets and consumer attitudes, behaviours, and decisions. As well as being visually interesting and inspiring. | |
| Contains journals and magazines covering the arts and entertainment industry. | |
| This database features hundreds of magazines and journal on all aspects of art and humanities. | |
| Provides access to millions of quality, peer-reviewed articles covering a wide range of topics in the sciences and humanities. |
Video
Videos offer a dynamic way to absorb information. They often present complex ideas in an easily digestible format.
| An archive of more than 2.2 million radio and TV programmes that have been broadcast in the UK. You can search for, and watch, anything already in the archive, as well as making use of the TV scheduling service. This allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days. | |
| This collection provides videos of more than 300 classic, contemporary and international theatre productions. There are over 230 interviews exploring the theatre-making process as well as essays, documentaries, lectures, and study guides relating to all aspects of theatre. | |
| Provides access to a large, curated catalogue of more than 30,000 educational documentaries and classic films from leading producers. | |
| Drawing on ten years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality archive recordings never previously seen outside the NT's Archive, the National Theatre Collections provide over 60 filmed performances. | |
| A substantial collection of videos for a wide range of subject areas including, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more. |
Digital Archives
Digital Archives predominantly contain digitised primary sources. These are original documents and objects that give first-hand accounts of a topic or event and are created by people who had a direct connection with the topic or event. These can be government, company or personal papers, newspapers, books or magazines, or films or works of art.
| Prompt books for more than 90% of Shakespeare’s plays, including editions owned by notable actors and directors such as Charles and John Philip Kemble, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and Laurence Olivier. A prompt book is the main copy of a production script. | |
| Offers researchers a comprehensive insight into performance practice in this unique theatre space. Documenting more than 200 productions from 1997-2016 | |
| An archive featuring key periodicals on the history of film and entertainment, from vaudeville and silent films to the 21st century. |
Newspapers
Newspapers are a great source for reviews and comment on film, television, theatre, and performances.
The Library gives students and researchers access to wide-range of Newspapers.
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning offers more than 9,000 professionally produced online courses covering a wide range of technical, creative and professional skills.
Always use our institutional link to log in – you will need your University email address and password. The first time that you log in, you will be taken through a setup process to discover courses tailored to your interests.
Discover more in our video: Using LinkedIn Learning at Salford.
Print Books
You can borrow print books from the Library. The location details below are a guide, it is best to search Library Search for exact location of items:
| Classmark | Subject Area |
| 790 | Film |
Finding information skills
Developing information skills saves time and give you stronger sources for your assessments. Finding information on the Skills website covers everything you need to learn how to search for resources effectively.
Further support
The Skills website has eLearning to help you achieve your study goals - from academic writing support and referencing guidance to help with presentation skills, using generative AI, time management and more.
You can also attend our academic skills workshops. If you need extra support you can contact the Academic Skills Team to ask a question or request a one-to-one appointment.