Are you graduating soon? It is time to figure out which library resources you will still have access to after graduation. The library provides thousands of resources to the D’Youville University community. Upon graduation, you will lose access to all of the online databases the library provides to you as a student. Many online resources are not freely available, so the library spends a high percentage of our budget per year to provide access to online resources for the college community and sadly, these benefits do not extend to student once they have graduated.
Frantically trying to finish that research paper on Alfred Hitchcock? We have put together a list of some great ebooks in the D’Youville Library collection that offer critical views of movies made by the late, great director.
Nominated for a nonfiction Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America, Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriters he hired to write the scripts for three of his greatest films: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie.
Are you in a research funk? Sometimes, it is hard to know where to start when beginning the research project. Likewise, the research process can easily become daunting. The D’Youville College Library wants to help make the research process straightforward and easy for you, which is why we created a new page within our website to help you find instructional video tutorials.
Who doesn’t love watching videos? Sometimes an instructional video is the easiest way to learn something new in regards to research. We have created a series of instructional videos that highlight search techniques for a variety of our library resources, including several of our most used databases. We have also designed several instructional tutorials on how to use Spartan Search to conduct research. In addition, we have curated YouTube video playlists for many of our library resources to help further assist you with all of your academic research ventures. You don’t have to figure it out on your own. We are here to help!
The D’Youville Library would like to invite you to kick back and take a short break from the stress of your studies this week by watching some scary movies in the comfort of your own home, dorm or remote cabin in the woods.
The Kanopy Collection has a nice selection of horror titles from around the world and they are free to stream on any device.
There is a wide selection of horror/suspense movies in the collection. There is wide variety of types of horror genres including classics from the 1920s-1970s, foreign films, suspense films, supernatural to slasher and more.
Below are five selections that are great for those unsure where to start. These four horror movies (and one comedy/horror) are sure to take your mind off the impending feeling of doom that you may be experiencing for your next exam.
Synopsis: A documentary crew (who are wearing crucifixes) follows four vampire roommates—Viago, Vladislav, Deacon, and Petyr—who share a flat in the Wellington New Zealand. Funnier than the average vampire movie, it also makes you think about some of the more banal parts of a vampires existence.
Synopsis: Zombies, zombies, zombies! Everywhere you look there are zombies. This is the movie that created the modern zombie genre that is still going strong today.
The story follows seven people who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in western Pennsylvania, which is besieged by a large and growing group of “living dead” monsters.
Synopsis: Another classic that help invent a movie genre- but this time with vampires.
This film was released in 1922. It was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1897).
Stoker’s estate sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. A few prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film is now regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema.
Very inventive and eerie visuals throughout this silent movie make it a great background movie to have playing at a party.
Synopsis: The movie follows a parnoid teenager Donnie Darko who is having visions of the end of the world which include a visit from a giant rabbit named Frank.
Writing a clear synopsis of this movie is near impossible, but it has an atomspheric quality that is perfect for the Halloween season.
Although it was originally ignored at its release it has since become a cult and critical favorite.
This 1993 Mexicon horror film was written and directed by the director Guillermo del Toro of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water fame.
It is the story of an antique dealer who finds a mystical jewel shaped like a scarab beetle that gives him eternal youth. Unfortunately there are side effects including a thirst for blood.
The film had a very positive critical response for its acting, production quality and originality.
These movies are just a sampling of the wide range of movies of all types in the Kanopy Collection. Take a look today and have a Happy Halloween!
