Access is available on and off campus to current McMaster University students, faculty and staff.
This database is available at McMaster through April 2025 as part of the ProQuest Access & Build pilot project.
Coverage: 1880 to 2015
Contains primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to the 21st century. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theatre are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Issues have been scanned in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of articles, covers, ads and reviews. Subject coverage includes the film industry, music business, rock and pop, jazz and blues, theatre, television, radio, and video games.
McMaster has access to the following collections: Cinema, Film and Television (Parts 1 & 2), Music, Radio and Stage, and Video Gaming.
- Cinema, Film and Television (Part 1) - features ten long-running and highly influential magazines which document all aspects of cinema going, the film industry and the evolution of television and popular culture between 1905 and 2000.
- Cinema, Film and Television (Part 2) - includes 12 further major consumer and trade publications from the US and the UK on film and television, from 1907 to 2015
- Music, Radio and Stage - includes 15 trade and popular magazines covering all aspects of the music industry, theatre and broadcast radio in the US and UK covering the period 1880-2000
- Video Gaming - consists of the backfiles of more than 40 gaming magazines from the 1980s through to 2020. These titles cover a wide variety of consoles / platforms and aspects of the industry.
