An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000.
Playbill Vault offers an index of Broadway and off-Broadway productions for each theatre season back to the mid Nineteenth Century, and full cast and crew of each production listed back to the early Twentieth Century. It also includes a searchable archive of articles appearing in monthly issues of Playbill over the years.
A full-text database containing complete backfiles of over 2,000 core scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the first issues and dating from the 1800s to within three to five years ago.
Enables users to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.