GERM 250: Metropolis Berlin (Schmitz-Burgard)

Finding Literary and Film Criticism

When searching for literary or film criticism, there are a few different keyword combinations you can try. 

First, try a combination of Title and criticism or "literary/film criticism." for example if I was looking for works about Döblin's "The Murder of a Buttercup," I would try "The Murder of a Buttercup" and "criticism."

You can also try the Author/Director's name and criticism to find results about the authors whole body of work, or comparisons of different stories. So I might try Döblin and criticism or even Döblin and "short stories" and criticism. 

You can also try the name of the work/author's name with different themes you'd like to examine within the work/s. For example i might try "Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis" and "city symphony" or "Murder of a buttercup" and "Expressionism." Create a list of themes you're interested in and try different combinations until you find likely sources.

Finding Books in Dinand Library

The Library has a variety of books and Ebooks that may be helpful to your research. You can Search the library catalog like you would a database or cross search - try different keyword combinations, search for specific titles or authors, etc. And remember - it's okay to run a search and not finding anything! Just keep trying different keywords and see what kind of results you get. 

*Search Tip: Library books are shelved by topic - if you find one book about your topic, it is probably shelved to a bunch of other titles about the same or similar topics. When going to retrieve a title, take a peek around for other works that might be useful!