LEO: Literacy Education Online MLA Audiovisual Media

Examples of how to document the most common types of audiovisual media are illustrated in this document. However, you might need to use a reference for a source which is not listed on this document.

In such a case, refer to The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Sixth Edition, New York: Modern Language Association, 2003) or the MLA Style Guide to Scholarly Publishing (Second Edition, New York: Modern Language Association, 1998). Choose the example that is most like your source and follow that format.

• Film or video recording
• Music recording
• A sound recording or sound clip
• Television or radio program

Film or video recording

Clueless. Dir. Amy Heckerling. Perf. Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Wallace

Shawn, Brittany Murphy, and Justin Walker. 1995. DVD. Paramount, 1999.

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Music recording

Battle, Kathleen, and Christopher Parkening. Pleasures of Their Company.

EMI, 1986.

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A sound recording or sound clip online

Keillor, Garrison, Rhonda Vincent, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings.

Archived Performance of a Prairie Home Companion. 3 Nov. 2001.

Minnesota Public Radio. 19 Mar. 2004.

<http://www.prairiehome.org/performances/20011103/>.

Path: A Prairie Home Companion; Browse Audio Files and Listen; 2003.

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Television or radio program

Abramson, Larry. "Another Computer Age Nuisance: Spyware." All Things

Considered. 18 Mar. 2004. NPR. 18 Mar. 2004.

<http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1777227>.

 

Star Trek Voyager. 30 Jan.1995. Los Angeles: Universal Television

Service.