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Finding Films in HoyaSearch
Follow these steps to find films owned by the Library.
- Use Advanced Search in HoyaSearch.
- Search GU Only.
- Limit the Content Type to Video/Film.
- Search for a particular film title, director, or subject.
Images
While there are lots of images out there on the internet, you must keep in mind copyright laws. To learn more about this, see Fair Use Images. This document will also give you an idea of some of the many places you can find reusable content.
- AP Images“AP Images, a division of The Associated Press, is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. Browse AP's comprehensive archive with millions of images in entertainment, sports, news, archival and creative content” (The Associated Press, 2010b).
- The New York Public Library Digital CollectionsThe NYPLS Digital Collections consists of nearly a million digitized items from the Library's collection, including hundreds of photographs and prints related to the Middle East.
- Akkasah Photographic Archive at NYU Abu DhabiThe Akkasah Photographic Archive consists of over 33,000 images drawn from around the Middle East and North Africa, including many that were digitized, catalogued, and preserved in cooperation with owners of private collections.
- Arab Image Foundation (AIF)The Arab Image Foundation’s collection contains more than 500,000 photographic objects from over 250 amateur photographers and 700 professional photographers and studios. The items date from the 1860s to the present.
- ShahreFarangShahreFarang collects, documents, and provides public access to visual material from Iranian daily life and culture.
- Iran in Photographs: Smithsonian Collections OnlineThe Archives of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery contain more than 1,100 original prints and glass-plate negatives by Antonin Sevruguin and other photographers.... the Freer a& Sackler collection [is] the largest public collection of Sevruguin’s photographs outside of Iran. These prints and plates, assembled from the donated holdings of avid collectors and historians, form the core of a rapidly growing collection of early photography of Iran
- UNRWA Film and Photo ArchiveThe archive consists of more than 500,000 images and films taken by UNRWA photographers (and their predecessors) throughout the second half of the twentieth century and start of the twenty-first.
- ArchnetArchnet is an open access resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, conservation issues, visual and material cultures, and other topics related to the built environment with a focus on societies in which Muslims are or have been a significant cultural presence.
- American Center of Research (ACOR) Photo ArchiveThe ACOR Photo Archive collection includes more than 100,000. The Archive provides rich visual resources on Jordan, with a particular focus on archaeology and heritage projects.
- Angelica: Art and Culture This link opens in a new windowThe database is for the exclusive educational use only of faculty and students at Georgetown University. A NetID is required for access. Materials, text and image are copyrighted.
More than 90,000 textual descriptions and 8,000 digital images of thousands of art slides in the collection of the department of Art, Music and Theater. Database will eventually include other humanities-based images found in the University community (e.g., archaeology slides in the Classics department collection).
Poster Collections
- Guide to the Univ of Chicago Middle Eastern Posters Collection 1970s-1990sThe Middle Eastern Posters collection comprises posters produced by government offices and private organizations, primarily in Iran and Afghanistan. Over 300 images of posters are available.
- Poster Collection at the American University of BeirutThe American University of Beirut's Poster Collections include subsections on political posters, art posters, the University, and Arab cinema the collection's focus is on the second half of the 20th century.
- The Palestine Poster Project ArchivesThe Archives numbers some 10,000 posters related to the history of Palestine curated by collector, educator, and Georgetown alumnus Dan Walsh. Many posters in this online collection are also in hard copy in the Booth Family Center for Special Collection's University Art Collection, having been gifted by Dan Walsh.
- Princeton Middle East Film Posters & Lobby Cards CollectionThis collection on popular culture of the Middle East includes more than 2,000 items from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and other countries in the region.
Films
- Kanopy Film & Media This link opens in a new windowThis curated collection of streaming films from Kanopy's "Film & Media Collection" includes documentaries, foreign films, and many classic movies. Distributors include Kino Lorber, First Run Features, and the Media Education Foundation. Films are streamed through a "Netflix-like" website and can be watched anywhere, anytime, in any setting.
- Asian Film Online This link opens in a new windowAsian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity. Such themes are central to any meaningful discussion of contemporary Asian culture and society.
- British Pathé Historical Collection - Israel and the Palestinian TerritoriesBritish Pathé has an extensive collection of historical footage related to Israel/Palestine.
- World Cinema Project (WCP)The World Cinema Project (WCP) preserves and restores neglected films from around the world. The site includes more than 50 films from across the world that have been restored, preserved, and exhibited for a global audience.
Audio & Music Collections
- Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowElectronic collection of music, songs, and aural traditions produced with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings including recordings from across the Middle East & North Africa.
- GharamophoneGharamophone's online archive is dedicated to preserving North Africa’s Jewish musical past, one 78 rpm record at a time.
- Syrian Cassette ArchivesThe Syrian Cassette Archives is an initiative to preserve, share and research sounds and stories from Syria’s abundant cassette era (1970s-2000s).
- Music of Morocco: The Paul Bowles RecordingsThis project contains more than 60 hours of digitized tracks of Moroccan music recorded by American writer and composer Paul Bowles in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
- Iraqi MaqamThis site, run by Zeyad Kasem al-Shalchi, provides useful resources and recordings from the Iraqi Maqam musical tradition.
- Ma3azef — معازفMa3azef is a contemporary Arabic-language publication focused on popular music. It includes critical essays, recordings, and images.
