SUNY Adirondack Library: Media Arts: Books

Find Books

To find a book about media arts, or about a person who worked in the field:

enter a term or name into the Start Your Research Here search box on the library's home page and
limit it to Books using the dropdown menu (this limit includes physical books and ebooks, if you just want ebooks limit it to Ebooks)
click Search
to limit to just physical books, scroll down the page to Library Location in the left column and click on Circulating Books

You may borrow circulating books for four weeks.

Search tips:

Most of the books that will be useful to you will be in the N & TR sections on the second floor of the Library.
If you do not find an entire book on your person of interest, enter the field in which they participated.
To access ebooks off campus, you will need to log in with your username and password.

This subscription database offers more than 170,000 electronic books.

It requires a SUNY Adirondack username and password for off-campus access.
These books originally appeared in print format. The library purchases these books in electronic format.
Users may print up to a certain number of pages. Note that printing on campus is limited to 20 pages at a time.
Students, faculty and staff may upload chapters to Google Drive, a network account, or a USB.
Students, faculty and staff can also create accounts in Ebook Central to download books to a device, save them in an electronic bookshelf, or use the highlighter and other functions.
Area residents may visit the library to use the library's computers to access Ebook Central.

Please try the following search terms when searching for library materials related to Media Arts:

Graphic Design*

Graphic Art*

Typography

Typographic Design

Computer Graphics

Computer Art

Animation

Advertising

Advertisements

Commercial Art

Visual Communication

Digital Images

Digital Media

Multimedia

Media Art*

SUNY Adirondack library has media arts-related books, including some textbooks, on course reserve.

Books on Reserve
To use, simply search for your course number, instructor, or even title of the book to see if we have a book you need on reserve.

Exploring Movie Construction and Production by John Reich (Genesee Community College)
Exploring Movie Construction & Production contains eight chapters of the major areas of film construction and production. The discussion covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how a movie description reflects the setting, narrative structure, or directing style is used throughout the book to illustrate building blocks of each theme. This approach to film instruction and analysis has proved beneficial to increasing students’ learning, while enhancing the creativity and critical thinking of the student.