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FRST 290 / FREN 392: Paris through Literature, Painting, Cinema & Photography

This guide is to help guide students with library and web resources for FREN 392: Paris through Literature, Painting, Cinema & Photography (formerly FRST 290 (formerly IDIS 290))

Citing Sources Using the MLA Style Guide

This course requires the use of the MLA Handbook to cite sources (text, images, film) in your work (presentations, papers or posters).  The current version of the style guide is version 8.  You can use Zotero, Endnote and other software to help you with your citations.  Here are some resources to help you.

MLA Handbook
Stauffer Library - Reference Collection
Call Number: LB2369 .M52 2021 ref 
 
Online version of the MLA Handbook.
 
OWL guide from Purdue University: 
MLA Formatting and Style Guide

Here are some examples to help you get started:

One author citation:
Cortázar, Julio. Blow-up and Other Stories. Pantheon, 1985.
 
To cite films, scroll to the section called "Films or Movies."
 

Film citation:
Resnais, Alain, director. Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Argos Films, 1959.

 
Image (make sure you include the date you accessed the image):
 
Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Museo Nacional del Prado, www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-family-of-carlos-iv/f47898fc-aa1c-48f6-a779-71759e417e74. Accessed 22 May 2006.