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FILM - MEDIA RESOURCES
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Hot
Spots - Websites
for Individual Films | Associations
and Institutes | Awards-Ceremonies | Critics
and Criticism, Reviewers and Reviews, Theory and Scholarship | Databases,
Directories, and General Film Sites | Discussion
Groups and Chat Rooms | Festivals
| Film
Makers: Actors, Cinematographers, Directors, etc. | Film
Making Resources for Artists | Genres
| History
| Independent,
Alternative, Avant-Garde Films | Local
Movie Guides | Magazines
and Journals | Media
Literacy | Schools
- Programs - Courses | Studios-Theaters
| TV
| Trailers-SoundClips
| World
Film |
TECHNIQUES (FILM LANGUAGES)
Acting
(see "Film Makers: Actors") | Cinematography
(Photography - Mise-en-Scene - Movement) | Editing |
Screenwriting
(Stage, Drama, Literature) | Sound
| Special
Effects |
HOT SPOTS!!
- The American Film Institute. The online home of the American Film Institute--speaks for itself: history, calendar, awards, etc. A directory and search engine on the site. Includes such sites as this one: 100 Years of Movie
- The Internet Movie Database. The most comprehensive and useful of the databases on film currently online. Regularly updated and interactive. Easy access to film titles, directors, actors, other cast members, etc. "The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an international organization whose objective is to provide useful and up to date movie information freely available on-line, across as many systems and platforms as possible. It currently covers over 100,000 movies with over 1,600,000 filmography entries and is expanding continuously. The service is financed by advertising and sponsorship. . . . The database aims to capture any and all information associated with movies from across the world, starting with the earliest cinema, going through to the very latest releases and even movies still in production. It covers filmographies for all professions in the industry; plot summaries; character names; movie ratings; year of release; running times; movie trivia; quotes; goofs; soundtracks; personal trivia; alternative names; certificates; color information; country of production; genres; production companies; distributors; special effects companies; sound mix; reference literature; filming locations; sequel/remake information; release dates; advertising tag lines; detailed technical data; alternative versions; laserdisc availability; languages; reviews; links to official studio pages, fan pages, image and multimedia archives; direct purchase links for movies and associated merchandise; box office grosses; movie posters and Academy Award information." A very exciting and useful, not to mention huge, site for film lovers. CAVEAT: The site contains some errors of fact, probably because it is open to input from the Internet world, and its size makes complete monitoring of information difficult if not impossible.
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Includes information about nominees and winners of the Academy Awards. Links to the Official Academy Award Site as well.
- Tim Dirk's Greatest Films Site. Roger Ebert rated as this as one of the "Top 20 Movie Sites 1997." USA Today called in the hot site of August 1998. A comprehensive, well-planned site for learning about films. Ebert included the site in his "Five Most Dazzling Sites" list (Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine, January 1998): "The Greatest Films of All Time represents an astonishing amount of thought and work by Tim Dirks, who is so modest he doesn't even byline his detailed, evocative essays on great films. The site offers many ways of looking at important films, but the centerpiece is his series of 100 long reviews of classics, including downloadable still photos, highly extensive plot summaries, and a lot of quotes (he must have watched the movies with a tape recorder at his side). This site is useful for film students or others seeking an entry point into film history. He has essays on genres, periods and types of movies, and suggested titles in each area, and his sheer love for the movies comes across in his accuracy and energy. His essay on John Ford's My Darling Clementine, for example, clocks in at 6,500 words and includes a postscript on differences between the real gunfight at the OK Corral and the movie version." The Dirks site even includes a movie quotation quiz. Dirks is manager of public programs at San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation. His site is recommended by Britannica.
- San Diego Film Scene. This page provides links to local San Diego County resources, including movies playing in town, and local film festivals.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies. This University of California, Santa Barbara, site comes highly recommended--an excellent listing of resources for the student of film and media!
INDIVIDUAL FILMS
BLADE RUNNER, directed by Ridley Scott (1982 original cut//1992 director's cut).
- BLADE RUNNER: FilmnPostmodSFnCyberpunk.
- Blade Runner Blade Zone
- BLADE RUNNER: 2019 Off-World.
CITIZEN KANE, directed by Orson Welles (1941). CITIZEN KANE: An essay by Tim Dirks (1996) for the filmsite.com. See also Orson Welles.
INTOLERANCE, directed by David Wark Griffith (1916). D. W. Griffith's Intolerance. A fine fan Web site, with several images from the film, by Gilda Tabarez. Last updated December 97, the site provides musical accompaniment to your browsing, and is linked to images and reviews of Griffith's film. Part of a larger Tabarez site entitled "Gilda's Blue Book of the Screen." See also D.W. Griffith below.
DR. STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB, directed by Stanley Kubrick (1963).
- Kubric Multimedia Film Guide on Dr. Strangelove, contains images and audio from the film.
- Dr. Strangelove's Kubrickian Webring. A hot listing of resources--good and bad--connected to Strangelove and Kubrick.
- Cold War / Nuclear Websites: Cold War - Nuclear Age: Then and Now | "Kennedy and the Cold War"--from the "Kennedy Assassination" Website about conspiracies and single-bullet theories. (Includes a "Rashomon to the Extreme" page) | "Just What the Doctor Ordered: Cold War Purging, Political Dissent, and the Right Hand of Dr. Strangelove". A WebEssay by Jeremy Boxen for a Queens University (Canada) Film Studies class. (April95)
- See also Stanley Kubrick (below).
METROPOLIS, directed by Fritz Lang (1926).
- Fritz Lang's Metropolis. A comprehensive personal Website, made by Brazilian Augusto Cesar Baptista Areal. Contains information on the following: Released Versions, Comparing the Versions , Resume of the Story, About music in silent movies, Images from the Movie, Other cities that never were, Links to other Metropolis sites, Pages about Fritz Lang, The totally different soundtracks, and information about Giorgio Moroder.
- Metropolis to Gold. An Obituary of Brigitte Helm, star of Fritz Langs's Metropolis (New York Times June 14, 1996). By Robert McThomas and Peter Herzog
- Metropolis Walkthrough. Personal Website by Jim McCann. Character profiles and images/sounds of the metropolis. Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University.
MODERN TIMES, directed by Charles Chaplin (1936).
- Modern Times and the Question of Technology. A 1995 essay by David Gerstein, part of a larger site called Charlie Chaplin: A Worldwide Celebration.
- "Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century: XIII. The Roaring Twenties." This 1997 essay, by Dr. J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, uses Modern Times to illustrate an analysis of mass production, mass consumption, and income polarization.
- "Synethesis and Reality."
This essay is by Dr. John H. Lienhard, author and voice of The
Engines of Our Ingenuity, is M.D. Anderson Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and History at the University of Houston. Lienhard is known for
his research in the thermal sciences as well as in cultural history. He is an
Honorary Member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He refers to Modern Times in an analysis of the communion of human with machine as it relates to our anxiety about reality. - "Work and Leisure: an essay by Frank Noakes, refers to Modern Times in its analysis of the institutionalization of work and the commidification of leisure.
- "Value-Based Management: A System for Transforming the Corporate Culture." This essay from the Center for Economic and Social Justice uses Modern Times as an illustrative example. Students of business would be interested in reading this article.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1959). The IMDb site for this film provides good information.
POTEMKIN (BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN). Senses of Cinema provides an overview.
RASHOMON, directed by Akira Kurosawa (1950). Criterion Collection site. See also Akira Kurosawa
IMDb. Information about particular films can also be found at the Internet Movie Data Base Web site; just type in the title of your movie in the window.
ASSOCIATIONS AND INSTITUTES
- The Academy of Motion Pictures (A HOT SPOT). Includes information about nominees and winners of the Academy Awards. Links to the Official Academy Award Site as well.
- The American Film Institute (A HOT SPOT). The online home of the American Film Institute--speaks for itself: history, calendar, awards, etc. A directory and search engine on the site.
- American Society of Cinematographers
- Association of Moving Image Archivists.
- Directors' Guild of America
- International Alliance of Theater Stage Employees
- Motion Picture Association of America "The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and its international counterpart, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) serve as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries, domestically through the MPAA and internationally through the MPA." Information about ratings, etc. President and Chief Executive Officer is Jack Valenti.
- Screen Actors' Guild of America
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies. "Founded in 1959, SCMS is a professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image. // The college and university faculty and students who comprise this scholarly organization are involved in various fields of study, including (but not limited to): Film Studies, Cinema Studies, Television Studies, Media Studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Studies, Film and Media History, and Moving Image Studies. // The goals of SCMS are to promote all areas of media studies within universities and two-and four-year colleges; to encourage and reward excellence in scholarship and writing; to facilitate and improve the teaching of media studies as disciplines and to advance multi-cultural awareness and interaction. SCMS is dedicated to serving its members' professional needs and concerns; strengthening the ties between the academic community and those who interact with it, from the media industry to the government to the public at large; and to promoting the preservation of our film, television, video, and other media heritage. // Activities of the Society include an annual meeting and the publication of Cinema Journal. Anyone with an interest in film, television, video and/or new media teaching and/or publication is welcome to join."
- Society of Operating Cameramen
- Writers' Guild of America
AWARDS AND AWARD CEREMONIES.
- Academy Awards. The "official" Oscars Web site.
- Golden Globe Awards. This is the "official" Hollywood Press Association's Golden Globes site. It provides a listing of the current awards, the history, membership, charities, news, and trivia.
CRITICS and CRITICISM, REVIEWERS and REVIEWS, THEORY and SCHOLARSHIP
- CTheory: An International Journal of Theory, Technology, and Culture
- DavidBordwell
- Ebert: Roger Ebert. Brought to you by the Chicago Sun-Times, this site contains a searchable database of Roger Ebert's reviews and links to current Roger Ebert reviews, One Minute Movie Reviews, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies, the Movie Answer Man, and Roger Ebert Features. [See "Siskel and Ebert" below.]
- FeministFilm Reviews/UMaryland
- Movie Review Query Engine
- New York Times Movie Reviews. Some with video.
- ScreenSite: for the student of movies and television
DATABASES, DIRECTORIES, GENERAL SITES
- Around the Table. Frank Parry, Academic Librarian at Loughborough University (UK), discusses some of the many possible sources for Internet information on film and cinema. A fine list of links and useful descriptions.
- Dan's Screen Shot Movie Quiz. A cool game for movie buffs. Says Dan Balogh, the creator, "Welcome to the first internet quiz to use actual shots from movies, which makes looking up the answers in the Internet Movie Database impossible. Look for new screen shots every Sunday. You'll have a week to determine which movies these shots were taken from. // Unlike all other quizzes on the 'Net, I tally scores across the entire month, making the competition more exciting. At the end of the month, the top three scorers are determined and their names displayed proudly not only for the entire month, but for eternity on the quiz's Top Scholar Archive page. Imagine the bragging possibilities!"
- The Internet Movie Database (A HOT SPOT). The most comprehensive and useful of the databases on film currently online. Regularly updated and interactive. Easy access to film titles, directors, actors, other cast members, etc. "The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an international organization whose objective is to provide useful and up to date movie information freely available on-line, across as many systems and platforms as possible. It currently covers over 100,000 movies with over 1,600,000 filmography entries and is expanding continuously. The service is financed by advertising and sponsorship. . . . The database aims to capture any and all information associated with movies from across the world, starting with the earliest cinema, going through to the very latest releases and even movies still in production. It covers filmographies for all professions in the industry; plot summaries; character names; movie ratings; year of release; running times; movie trivia; quotes; goofs; soundtracks; personal trivia; alternative names; certificates; color information; country of production; genres; production companies; distributors; special effects companies; sound mix; reference literature; filming locations; sequel/remake information; release dates; advertising tag lines; detailed technical data; alternative versions; laserdisc availability; languages; reviews; links to official studio pages, fan pages, image and multimedia archives; direct purchase links for movies and associated merchandise; box office grosses; movie posters and Academy Award information." A very exciting and useful, not to mention huge, site for film lovers. CAVEAT: The site contains some errors of fact, probably because it is open to input from the Internet world, and its size makes complete monitoring of information difficult if not impossible.
- The Main Lobby. Filmscouts.com--developed by WebCast Multimedia, Inc. With a real movie theater feel, this site offers sound and video clips and interviews, and well--you'll just have to talk with the usher to find out more.
- The National Film Preservation Foundation. Public Motion Picture Research Centers and Film Archives, the Library of Congress site for an independent, nonprofit foundation formed as a result of a "public-private partnership to benefit the film preservation efforts of American film archives, historical societies and similar institutions." Visit the Web page of the private sector National Film Preservation Foundation.
- UCLA Arts Library Websites for Film
- University of California San Diego (UCSD). UCSD Film and Video Library Film Links
- Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies (A HOT SPOT). This University of California, Santa Barbara, site comes highly recommended--an excellent listing of resources for the student of film and media!
DISCUSSION GROUPS and CHAT ROOMS
- FILM MUSIC (FILMUS-L) Discussion Group. This moderated listserv has about 500 subscribers who are interested in film music.
- H-FILM Discussion Group
FESTIVALS
- The Film Festivals Server A comprehensive listing of film festivals around the world, arranged by month, and described alphabetically. Complied by Moving Pictures magazine based in the United Kingdom.
- Senses of Cinema Film Festivals page
FILM MAKERS: ACTORS, CINEMATOGRAPHERS, DIRECTORS, ETC.
ACTORS:
- BACON, KEVIN. KEVIN BACON at Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Designed by a couple of computer scientists at the University of Virginia, this a fun-and-games page. Along with a collection of data related to Kevin Bacon, the site offers a game to link actors and actresses. Lots of fun.
- A Guide to the Movie Stars
- Screen Actors' Guild of America
- U.S. Department of Labor Website on Actors, Directors, and Producers
DIRECTORS (General Directory: Senses of Cinema Great Directors; U.S. Department of Labor Website on Actors, Directors, and Producers)
- ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN.
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general information and good links.provides general information and good
links.
- CAMPION, JANE.
Senses of Cinema provides
general information and good links.
- SERGEI EISENSTEIN:
Senses of Cinema
- D(avid) W(ark) GRIFFITH. Senses
of Cinema. See also the Web sites
below:
- "The Biograph Camera"--a 1939 essay by Billy Bitzer, famed cinematographer-partner of D.W. Griffith. In their introduction to the essay, the Society of Operating Cameramen editors write, "Billy Bitzer and David Ward Griffith had one of the most remarkable relationships in film history. Lasting sixteen years and working so closely together it is often difficult to attribute to one or the other their technical contributions that vastly impacted the motion picture art form. Technological breakthroughs such as the use of the close-up, fade-ins, iris, lighting and the dolly. Bitzer's ingenuity was able to put DW's creative ideas into workable film techniques. Griffith owed much visual aesthetic quality to Bitzer's camera work. He photographed all the master's most important work: NEW YORK HATS (1912); JUDITH OF BETHULIA (1914); BIRTH OF A NATION (1915); INTOLERANCE (1916); BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919).// We purposely have left much of this talented artist's language, from this '39 interview, for the charm and though somewhat dated, you come to know this master of the camera, and you can almost hear his voice.
- D. W. Griffith's Years of Discovery
- Kubrick on Griffith and "His Wings of Fortune". Stanley Kubrick's acceptance speech upon winning the D. W. Griffith award
- HERRMANN, BERNARD. The Bernard Herrmann Web Page contains information about Herrmann's music, recordings, biography--also includes articles and reviews of Herrmann's work, including a page with a collection of contributions by Steven C. Smith, author of the biography A Heart at Fire's Center - The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann. According to the creators of this site, "The Bernard Herrmann Web Pages is a completely independent web site devoted to the life and music of Bernard Herrmann. It was started as a private project trying to catalog all recordings available at the time and has been up and running since September 1994. Since it started it has grown into a fairly comprehensive source of information on the composer and surely the most comprehensive source on the Internet, containing complete music listings and up-to-date news and recordings sections. The web pages are located at one of the web servers of the University of Bergen, Norway."
- HITCHCOCK, ALFRED
- Hitchcock--Master of Suspense. By Patricio Lopez-Guzman, a university student (Monterey, Mexico). According to the page, this site is a 5% best of the web, 4 star Mallegan gigantic website about everything and anything you ever wanted to know about the master."
- CNN's "Hitchcock at100"
- IMDb on Hitchcock
- The MacGuffin Page
-
Senses of Cinema
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KUBRICK, STANLEY.
Dr.
Strangelove (see above)
- Authorized Kubrick Website - Warners
- Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide. Created by Patrick J. Larkin, the site is described as "a source for information regarding the work of film director/producer Stanley Kubrick. The site leaves the interpretation of his films to the viewer and serves mainly images and sounds from Kubrick's films." The site provides resources and links to other websites. "Included for each film is a link to the Internet Movie Database." Good site, with information about several of Kubrick's films, including Dr. Strangelove--Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This site includes images and sounds from the films.
- The Kubrick Site
- Kubrick on the Web. Contains some interpretations of specific films in a large FAQ file. Some images and interesting perspectives.
- Senses of Cinema on Kubrick
- Stanley Kubrick--The Master Filmmaker. An extensive site, with biography, filmography, bibliography, quotations, trivia quiz, videos, soundtracks, links, including link to current television showings of Kubrick works.
- KUROSAWA, AKIRA.
See above at Rashomon
- Akira Kurosawa Senses of Cinema site
- Donald Richie's The Films of Akira Kurosawa (excerpt)
- LANG, FRITZ. Senses of Cinema provides general information and good links. See also above at Metropolis.
- LINKLATER, RICHARD.
Senses of Cinema site provides general information and good links.
- SCORSESE, MARTIN. In 1997, Scorsese won the AFI Life Achievement Award. Senses of Cinema provides general information and good links.
- WEIR, PETER. Produced
by David Nicholson, computer science and physics at Dalhousie University
(Canada).
Senses
of Cinema.
- WELLES, ORSON.
Senses of Cinema site provides general information and good links.
- ZHANG, YIMOU. Senses of Cinema provides general information and good link | The Art of Compromise: An Interview with Zhang Yimou
FILM MAKING: FILM and MEDIA RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS
- Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers.
- Flicker, Resources for Film and Video Artists
- Screenwriting resources, by Charles Deemer.
GENRES
- Tim Dirks' page on film genres
- Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Themed Films
- University of Toronto Cinema Studies Film Genre Bibliography
- Yahoo's Directory of Movie and Film Genres
HISTORY
- The Bill DouglasCentre. A University of Exeter (UK) site for the history of cinema and popular culture. "This represents the second largest subject library in the UK (after the British Film Institute), and the third largest freely-accessible collection of artefacts and ephemera. In total the Collection is of the order of 50,000 items, including nearly 15,000 books." The Center offers an M.A. in History of Cinema and Popular Culture. Statement of purpose: "We inhabit a culture dominated by images and sounds – films, television programmes, commercials, music videos, CDs,billboards, computer software. They provide us with entertainment and information about the world we live in. They are also a means of cultural and personal expression, of representing ourselves to others. In short they form the major component of the communicative fabric of our society. This new MA programme is concerned with analysing and understanding the historical processes and conditions which have created our contemporary media world. In particular it is concerned with development and transformation of popular cultural forms over the last two centuries. At the centre of this process stands the cinema, the popular form of the last 100 years. The core modules in this programme will emphasise the history and prehistory of the cinema. The mode of analysis will be interdisciplinary, focussing on the interrelation and interdependence of economic, technological, ideological, political and aesthetic factors in the development of cinema at key historical moments of transition and crisis."
- Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
-
Film History and Criticism: : A Selective Guide to Reference Sources in the UC Berkeley Libraries
- FilmSite on History, by Tim Dirks
- Library of Congress Early Motion Pictures
INDEPENDENT/ALTERATIVE/AVANT GARDE FILMS
- Bright Lights (avant garde issues)
- Flicker. San Francisco's Scott Start (film and video maker, photographer, installation artist) created these pages. (He makes his living with desktop publishing for a large computer software company in Oakland, California;. and with freelance graphic design and consulting.) He writes, "Welcome to Flicker, home page for the alternative cinematic experience. Here you will find films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media information technocracy. // ALSO! Check out Flicker's subjective list of the 10 best experimental films/videos of 1997.
- Floren Avant Garde page (last updated 2001)
- Millenium Film Journal
LOCAL MOVIE GUIDES
- UNITED STATES: Digita City Movie Showtimes . Listings for various cities in the United States for movies. The site includes information about other areas by city: classifieds, people, entertainment, sports, news, services, and shopping.
- SAN DIEGO AREA: San Diego Film Scene. This page provides links to local San Diego County resources, including movies playing in town, cinema clubs, and southern California film festivals. Up to Table of Contents
MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS* (* means this is a scholarly journal). Publications and Resource Guides, A Listing of hotlinks from the U.S.Library of Congress.
- Bright Lights Film Journal
- Cahiers du Cinéma.
- CinemaS p a c e. Produced through the Film Studies Program at UC Berkeley, "CinemaSpace is devoted to all aspects of Cinema and New Media and is the primary link for resources from the UC Berkeley Film Studies Program. . . . Papers on films . . .include MPEG and QuickTimeClips and gifs." Projects for CinemaSpace include academic papers on film and new media, film Theory and critique, multimedia 'lectures', and references to other sites. (Rev 3/99)
- Film Comment. Published bimonthly by the Film Society. Includes links to film festivals and articles about foreign and domestic films.
- Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television. Site Description: "On December 29, 1970 John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson founded the Historians Film Committee, with the intent to begin publishing a journal on film and history. They published the following statement: 'The Historians Film Committee exists to further the use of film sources in teaching and research, to disseminate information about film and film use to historians and other social scientists, to work for an effective system of film preservation so that scholars may have ready access to film archives, and to organize periodic conferences and seminars dealing with film. A journal of film and social sciences will be established at the earliest practicable date in order to facilitate the exchange of information among scholars and others concerned with film. Efforts will be made to contact interested scholars in other social science organizations with a view toward creating a common association of film researchers. Similarly, contacts will be maintained with foreign scholars concerned with film use." . . . John E. O'Connor edited the Journal until a few years back when he suffered a health problem. Although John's editorial absence in guiding the Journal and persistence in building it from regional, to national and international readership came to a halt, we, his admirers and friends, have picked up the baton. We know the Journal will live up to his expectations. John's present position as Chair of the Journal's Editorial Advisory Board provides the impetus to meet the highest standards. When the American Historical Society established the John E. O'Connor Film Award in 1993, it recognized John's pioneering role in enhancing scholarship, research, and film production in history, film, and the visual image as forms of evidence. . . . With the help of many people, we have just finished production of the first issue in the 1995 year. Yes, we are a bit behind, but as you will notice in the section on "Call for Manuscripts on Special Issues," we are positioned to move ahead quickly, with your help." Last updated: 2 January 2000
- FILM International
- Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
- Kinema: A Journal of History, Theory and Aesthetics of Film and Audiovisual Media
- ScreenSite: Table of Contents. According to the Introductory Page, the primary purpose is to "facilitate the study of film/TV. As opposed to some Web sites that take more of a fan's approach to the media, ScreenSite stresses the teaching and research of film and television and is designed foreducators and students. //It's not that Team ScreenSite feels that all enjoyment of film and television must be crushed from the study of those media. It's just that ScreenSite hopes to nurture thoughtful, critical approaches to media--rather than noodling on about the fullness of some actor's lips or ruminating about the latest Hollywood gossip (unless, of course, you're planning an oral history of the medium)." Has education, research, and filmmaking links. Also includes opportunities to join newsgroup and chat. Sponsored by he University of Alabama (College of Communication and Department of Telecommunication and Film). Last revised: 23 November 1999.
- Senses of Cinema
MEDIA LITERACY
- Center for Media Literacy
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson Interview. PBS-related site. Floren's Jamieson Page.
- Media Literacy Review. University of Oregon Website.
SCHOOLS, COURSES, FILM STUDIES PROGRAMS
Film School Lists at Filmmaker.com | University Film and Video Association | UFVA International Film School Directory.
Individual Colleges and Universities--private and public.
- California State University San Marcos: Film Studies Minor. California State University at San Marcos has recently launched a Film Studies minor. You can find out about it at this site. Program director is Dr. Rene Curry, an expert on directors such as Woody Allen and Julie Dash.
- Columbia School of the Arts. Film, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Writing. See the Film Index here.
- Florida State University Film School
- Johns Hopkins Film and Media Studies
- London International Film School
- Los Angeles City College Department of Cinema and Television
- NYU School of the Arts: Department of Film and Television
- NorthwesternUniversity
- San Francisco State University Cinema Department
- University of California, Berkeley (UCB): Film Studies Page. Includes link to Berkeley's Humanities and Technology Project.
- University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Film and Television Department--School of Theatre, Film, and Television. One of the top film schools in the world--in the vicinity of Hollywood.
- University of California Riverside (UCR) Film and Visual Culture Program.
- University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinema and Television. One of the top film schools in the world--not too far from Hollywood too!
- University of Toronto Cinema Studies. Innis College of U. Toronto. Honors and three year degree programmes in film theory, criticism and analysis. No Film production courses are offered.
Commercial Schools.
- The American Film Institute (A HOT SPOT). The online home of the American Film Institute--speaks for itself: history, calendar, awards, etc. A directory and search engine on the site.
- Cyber Film School.com. "No campus. No tuition. No sweatshirt for Mom.Welcome to Cyber Film School, a website where the classrooms are virtual and filmmaking wisdom is passed on through modem lines, not lectures." Robert Stevens, Los Angeles Times. Lots of commercials, but a very cool site. Provides links to the major film sites, and includes Ten-Minute Film School (Robert Rodriguez).
- New York Film Academy
STUDIOS-THEATERS
STUDIOS: Fox Movies | Lionsgate | Miramax | New Line Cinema | New Regency | October Films | Paramount | Sony Pictures Entertainment ( Columbia, Tri-Star) | Twentieth-Century Fox (see Fox Movies above) | United Artists | United International Pictures | Universal Studios | Walt Disney Pictures | Warner Brothers Movies
THEATERS: AMC Theaters | Cinemark Theaters | Laemmle Theaters | Landmark Theaters | Loew's Cineplex | Regal Entertainment Group (Edwards Theaters, Regal Cinema, and United Artists) | UltraStar Movies |
TELEVISION: TV Movies, Movies on TV, Television and Film
AMC (American Movie Classics) | Bravo (Film and Arts Network) | Cinemax | HBO | Independent Movie Channel | PBS | Showtime | Turner Classic Movies. This site tells you which films are playing on television--when and on what channel. Different sorts available, including by actor and filmmaker as well as by title. | UCSD World Cinema Saturdays
TRAILERS-FILM AND SOUND CLIPS
- The Great Train Robbery, at the "Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies" Web site published by the U.S. Library of Congress.
- Movielist
- Movie Trailer Park
WORLD FILM
AFRICA
| ASIA
| AUSTRALIA
| EUROPE
| LATIN
AMERICA |
NORTH AMERICA (see the rest of this page)
ASIA. Asia Cinema Weekly
- CHINA. WWW Library of Chinese film and Movies
- JAPAN. Japanese Movies at the Midnight Eye | Kinema Club--devoted to the study of Japanese moving media
- SOUTH ASIA. SOUTH ASIA: SAWNET--South Asian women's cinema
- SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC. SEAPAVAA (Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association)
AUSTRALIA. Australian Film Commission
EUROPE. The German-Hollywood Connection |
LATIN AMERICA/THE CARIBBEAN. LATIN AMERICA: Cinema & Video in Latin America - LANIC
TECHNIQUES (FILM
LANGUAGES)
TABLE OF
CONTENTS:
Acting
(see "Film Makers: Actors") | Cinematography
: Photography - Directing/Mise-en-Scene (see also "Film Makers: Directors) | Editing |
Screenwriting
(Stage, Drama, Literature, Scripts, Adaptations) |
Sound
(music, dialogue, sound effects) | Special
Effects |
Cinematography - Photography - Mise-en-Scene - Movement: American Society of Cinematographers - Society of Operating Cameramen | General Information: American Widescreen Museum - Wide Screen Comparison page (includes useful visual comparisons of pan-scan and widescreen versions of the latest Star Wars, for example―excellent visual examples to show the varying aspect ratios and what must be done to film when it is "formatted to fit your television screen.") - Widescreen Fansite | Aspect Ratio: Aspect Ratio1 - Aspect Ratio 2 | Essays: "The Biograph Camera" by Billie Bitzer | Movement: The Zoetrope - Early Motion Pictures | Webcams: Earthcam
Editing: American Cinema Editors Society - Australian Screen Editors - Motion Picture Editors Guild | General Information: Floren's WWW Editing Sources
Screenwriting and Stage (Drama/Literature): American Screenwriters' Association - Writers Guild of America | Screenwriting resources, by Charles Deemer | Achievements in Art Direction, Costume, and Make-up Design
Sound: Association of Motion Picture Sound - Audio Engineering Society - Australian Screen Sound Guild -
Cinema Audio Society |
FilmMusic |
Film Sound |
Floren's WWW
Film Sound Resources | The Internet hosts a wondrous number and variety of
sound sites, including journals and specific music or film information.
Special Effects: Nova Online: Special Effects | Visual Effects Headquarters | Up to Table of Contents
Gloria Floren,
Letters Department, MiraCosta College, One Barnard Drive,
Oceanside,
California 92056. U.S.A.
E-mail <film101@miracosta.edu>
Created 31 July 1997 by Gloria Floren. Revised 01 February 2008
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