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Television, Art, and Images--MLA 8
 

Television shows, specific episode that you watched on television or DVD:
 

“Pretty Much Dead Already.” The Walking Dead, written by Scott M. Gimple, directed by

Michelle MacLaren, AMC, 27 Nov. 2011.

 

Explanation:

 

“Episode title.” Series title, writer of episode, director of episode, studio/producer, original air

date.

Television shows, specific episode that you watched on a streaming service:
 

"Da Boom." Family Guy, season 2, episode 3, Fox Broadcasting Company, 26 Dec. 1999.

Hulu, www.hulu.com/watch/171055.

 

Explanation:

 

“Episode title.” Series title, season #, episode #, studio/producer, original air date. Name of

streaming service, url.

Artwork that you found online:
 

Wise, Fred. Parkside. 2000. Fred Wise Studio, Atlanta. Fred Wise Studio,

www.fredwise.com/#/valentine-watercolors/. Accessed 12 July 2017.

 

Explanation:

 

Artist's name. Name of the work. Date of creation. Institution, City where the work is housed.

Name of website, url. Date of access.

Image you found using Google Images:
 

Jenike, S. David. Photograph of Cincinnati Zoo’s baby hippo, Fiona. HuffPost. 17 Mar. 2017,

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/for-cincinnati-zoos-baby-hippo-fiona-every-day-brin

Gs_us_58cc1818e4b07112b6472d08.

 

Explanation:

 

Creator’s Last name, First name. “Title of the digital image.” Title of the website, Publisher,

Publication date, URL.

 

Note: In the example above, the image did not have a title, so I described it instead and left off the quotation marks. The website and the publisher are the same, so I omitted the publisher name.

 

Example without a named photographer:

 

Tracking map for Tropical Storm Cindy. Digital image. Weather Underground, The Weather

Company, 21 June 2017,

www.wunderground.com/cat6/tropical-storm-cindy-pushes-toward-central-gulf-coast.

Image from website:
 

McGinley, Tara. "The Sad Truth: Nauseatingly Profound Illustrations of What the World Is

Turning into." DangerousMinds, 21 Aug. 2015, dangerousminds.net/comments/the_sad_truth_nauseatingly_profound_illustration

s_of_what_the_world_is_turn>.  Accessed 28 Aug. 2015.