LITERATURE, POPULAR CULTURE, AND FILM
Project Muse: A trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social science books and journals from more than 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost): The most important academic database for deep searching of the scholarship produced about all periods of literature (and in all languages). It also has strong and substantial coverage of scholarship on film, popular culture, folklore,and film. If a Literature Department teaches it, you'll find it covered here.
Screen Studies Collection: A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship, theory, and criticism. This collection includes the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database, a premier resource for film study globally.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
America: History and Life: the premier database for historical scholarship on North American (what is now the United States and Canada), from prehistory to the present.