Research help needed!

[Edge34]

I'm doing a research paper for my Mass Comm class about the 1936 documentary "The Plow That Broke The Plains" from Pare Lorentz. Documentaries....ooooooh. Awesome, right?

Only problem I'm having - I've been searching for the past few days for sources online, and all I've found is bullshit. Either I find websites where I can buy analysis papers, or I find websites that don't offer any information above what one single website I'm already using has.

This is all pretty ridiculous, and will probably be bumped down to like Page 6 before anybody who knows anything about this could help me...but I'm just looking for places to search that I may not have tried yet.

Google is a [censored] sack of [censored] when it comes to this search - even my school's own website has nothing. [censored] this professor...

[Edge34]

BTW,

Just to add - yes, I know this is [censored] obscure and, honestly, its the most ridiculous assignment I've ever been given. Since this is really the only forum I participate in, I figured I'd give y'all a shot. That, and I didn't think it would've fit in any of the other divisions of 2+2...

Thanks anyways, if anybody's ever seen this or done any research on it...

[ThaSaltCracka]

maybe search by the director?

I found this site : blah

[NotInchoateHand1]

Nothing through JSTOR or Project MUSE?

Here's my preliminary work:
Author(s) of Review: Robert Lovely
Reviewed Work(s): The Plow That Broke the Plains
Isis > Vol. 84, No. 4 (Dec., 1993), pp. 768-769
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=002...t;2.0.CO%3B2-F
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The Interpretive Camera in Documentary Films
Willard van Dyke
Hollywood Quarterly > Vol. 1, No. 4 (Jul., 1946), pp. 405-409
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=154...t;2.0.CO%3B2-F
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Review: [untitled review]
Author(s) of Review: Allan M. Winkler
Reviewed Work(s): Propoganda in an Open Society: The Roosevelt Administration and the Media, 1933-1941 by Richard W. Steele
The Journal of American History > Vol. 73, No. 1 (Jun., 1986), p. 230
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=002...t;2.0.CO%3B2-7
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Review: [untitled review]
Author(s) of Review: Ernest Callenbach
Reviewed Work(s): Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film by Robert L. Snyder
Film Quarterly > Vol. 22, No. 1, Tenth Anniversary Issue (Autumn, 1968), p. 80
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=001...t;2.0.CO%3B2-S
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Discussion: Measuring Federal Publicity
James L. McCamy
The Public Opinion Quarterly > Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jul., 1939), pp. 473-475
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=003...t;2.0.CO%3B2-R
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Pare Lorentz, Louis Gruenberg, and "The Fight for Life": The Making of a Film Score
Robert F. Nisbett
The Musical Quarterly > Vol. 79, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 231-255
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4631%28199522%2979%3A2<231%3APLLGA">2.0.CO%3 B2-6
NOTE: This article contains high-quality images.
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The Motion-Picture Program and Policy of the United States Government
Fanning Hearon
Journal of Educational Sociology > Vol. 12, No. 3 (Nov., 1938), pp. 147-162
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=088...t;2.0.CO%3B2-U
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The Documentary Dilemma
Basil Wright
Hollywood Quarterly > Vol. 5, No. 4 (Summer, 1951), pp. 321-325
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=154...t;2.0.CO%3B2-L
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Teaching Social Studies through Documentary Films
Arch A. Mercey
The Journal of Higher Education > Vol. 10, No. 6 (Jun., 1939), pp. 303-308
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=002...t;2.0.CO%3B2-P
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Review: [untitled review]
Author(s) of Review: Albert E. Stone
Reviewed Work(s): Documentary Expression and Thirties America by William Stott
Comparative Literature > Vol. 26, No. 4 (Autumn, 1974), pp. 376-378
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=001...t;2.0.CO%3B2-6
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I can get a lot more if you need it, but thats a random smattering of citations. I suggest you take the current works, pull one up as a PDF on JSTOR and rob its bibliography. The '30s-'50s sources should add a nice perspective, and make it seem like you are quite the researcher.

I didn't hit up any of the other article engines, but let me know if I can be of help...

[istewart]

WTF?

[NotInchoateHand1]

Sorry, I'm in a rare mood. I seem to have mistakenly posted some real content. It'll pass.

[Edge34]

This is incredibly helpful, and I think I'll be able to use some of this stuff. If nothing else its giving me a good jump start. I have no idea why I haven't had anything from jstor or project Muse, but I'll have to hit that up.

I should be even more specific about the research project, its more of an analysis, like "what is the purpose of the film, how does it use documentary technique to send its message, etc...", but this is good stuff to try to fill up some background.

You know you're having a shitty day when you've watched a 25-minute documentary that's 70 years old 3 times in one day...

Thanks man!

[NotInchoateHand1]

Check out the article I posted in full below, its got more of that info.

[pshreck]

Hey inchoate, if I asked for a hand job would you do that too?

[NotInchoateHand1]

For a small fee I'd throw my dick in your mouth, but I wouldn't try to push your luck any further than that.

You are a worthless piece of [censored]. Providing you have the funds, please feel free to drop by anytime.