Publication information for films and television series can usually be found on a screen credit near the beginning or end of the work or on a landing page or navigation menu on the website or streaming service airing the work. When documenting a work in film or television, you should generally cite the production company that made the show or the network that broadcast it. Select the entity that is most prominently displayed or cite both the production company and broadcast network as co-publishers. (Adapted from MLA Handbook ch. 5.58.)
Below are examples of labels describing the contributor's role. Contributors such as directors, performing groups and conductors, as well as those relevant to your research should be listed in the citation. See MLA Handbook ch. 5.39 for information about key contributors and 5.44 for more label examples.
Farrukh. "Tennis, (David Wagner and Nick Taylor with the Paralympic Quad Doubles) [photograph]." Flickr,
5 Sept. 2012. www.flickr.com/photos/swamibu/7939586204/, Accessed 29 June 2023.
Williams, Serena (@serenawilliams). Photo of Serena and Olympia. Instagram, 30 June 2023, https://www.instagram.com/p/CuIUbuNvbJT/?hl=en,
Accessed 7 July 2023.
Snyder, Grant (@grantdraws). "Listen to your Breath [reel] [excerpt from The Art of Living, Abrams Books, 2022]." Instagram, 7 May 2023.
www.instagram.com/reel/Cr0yR9BAEQR/, Accessed 7 July 2023.
"How to Access Free Food Resources on Campus." Wichita State University, https://youtu.be/smfB5TsM3nc, Accessed 29 June 2023.
Traffic. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, performances by Benicio Del Toro and Jacob Vargas, USA Home, 2000.
West Side Story. Directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, performances by Natalie Wood, composed by Leonard
Bernstein, Mirisch Corporation, 1961.
Like Water for Chocolate [Como agua para chocolate]. Screenplay by Laura Esquivel, directed by Alfonso Arau,
performances by Lumi Cavazos, Marco Lombardi, and Regina Torne, Miramax, 1993.
Chaplin, Charles, directing Modern Times. performances by Chaplin and Paulette Goddard, United Artists, 1936.
"Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe." Wednesday, directed by Tim Burton, season 1, episode 1, Netflix,
aired 23 Nov. 2022, www.netflix.com/title/81231974, Watched 6 June 2023.
Kronos Quartet. Nuevo. Nonesuch, 2002.
Beethoven, Ludvig van. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor "Choral." Perf. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Höngen,
Hans Hopf, and Otto Eldmann. Chor. un Orchester der Bayreuther Festpiele. Cond. Wilhelm Furtwängler.
Rec. 29 July 1951. EMI, 1998. Great Recordings of the Century.
The Chris Moyles Show. Hosted by Chris Moyles, Radio X, 25 July 2018.
