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Media, Journalism, Screen and Music

A subject guide to assist RMIT students who are studying in the media, journalism, screen and music disciplines.

Find books, e-books and chapters

Login and search LibrarySearch using keywords that describe your topic, then refine your results to books and chapters.

•    Combine your keywords with AND to find all search terms.
•    Use OR to find any words or synonyms.
•    Find “exact phrases” with quotation marks.
•    Add an asterisk to part of a word to find different endings and plurals.

An example search:
Media AND (film OR cinema OR screen) AND Australia*

Search terms

Try these keywords and subject headings to search for relevant books and e-books:

Media

  • Journalism

  • Communication

  • Communication research

  • Mass media

  • Digital media

  • Print media

  • Motion pictures, radio, television

  • Freedom of speech

  • Communication law

  • Copyright

  • Computer crimes

  • Telecommunications

  • Business communication

  • Advertising

Journalism

    Broadcast media

  • Journalism

  • Editing

  • Reporting and news gathering

  • Photojournalism

  • Communication

  • Mass media

  • Freedom of publication

  • Journalism style manuals

Music industry

  • Digital audio

  • Globalization and music

  • Music industry

  • Sound recording and reproducing

  • Music

  • Digital audio technology and music

  • Music dictionaries

  • Music research

  • Basic principles of music

  • Music performance

  • Recording of music

  • World music

  • Folk music

  • Rock music

Screen studies

  • American Cinema

  • Australian Cinema

  • Feature Films

  • Motion Picture Authorship

  • Motion Picture Industry

  • Motion Pictures

  • Movies

  • Playwriting

  • Screenplays

  • Screenwriters

  • Screenwriters interviews

  • Screenwriting

  • Television authorship

Browse the shelves

You can also browse the shelves using these call numbers:

Media

  • 070.4: Journalism

  • 302.2: Communication

  • 302.2072: Communication research

  • 302.23: Mass media

  • 302.231: Digital media

  • 302.232: Print media

  • 302.234: Motion pictures, radio, television

  • 323.443: Freedom of speech

  • 343.099: Communication law

  • 346.0482: Copyright

  • 364.168: Computer crimes

  • 384: Telecommunications

  • 651.7: Business communication

  • 659: Advertising

Journalism

  • 070.19: Broadcast media

  • 070.4: Journalism

  • 070.41: Editing

  • 070.43: Reporting and news gathering

  • 070.49: Photojournalism

  • 302.2: Communication

  • 302.23: Mass media

  • 323:445: Freedom of publication

  • 808.06607: Journalism style manuals

Music industry

  • 006.5: Digital audio

  • 306.4842: Globalization and music

  • 338.4778: Music industry

  • 621.3893: Sound recording and reproducing

  • 780: Music

  • 780.28565: Digital audio technology and music

  • 780.3: Music dictionaries

  • 780.72: Music research

  • 781.1: Basic principles of music

  • 781.43: Music performance

  • 781.49: Recording of music

  • 781.6: World music

  • 781.62: Folk music

  • 781.66: Rock music

Screen studies

  • 070.18: Documentary films -- production and direction

  • 741.58: Animation

  • 778: Cinematography & video production

  • 778.535: Film editing

  • 782.85: Music in film

  • 791.43: Motion pictures (film)

  • 791.430994: Australian cinema

  • 791.45: Television

  • 808.066791: Motion picture authorship

  • 808.225: Television authorship

  • 808.23: Screenwriting

e-books

See the Library's e-book guide for tips on using e-books.

Alex Stitt, The film house, n.d., RMIT Design Archives.

Search skills

Assignments: get started- find out how to research your topic to find suitable information.