Film Links

Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources (Seattle, WA) 1998-2002.
Annotated directories of Internet Sources.
URL: http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html
...Humanities Gateway: http://www.academicinfo.net/subhum.html
...Film & TV Studies Gateway: http://www.academicinfo.net/film.html

All-Movie Guide. All Media Guide, AEC One Stop Group, Inc., 1992-2002.
Search by Title, Person, or Keyword.
URL:  http://allmovie.com/

American Film Institute, 1967-2002.  AFI.com
URL: http://www.afi.com/

American Memory, Library of Congress: Collection Finder.  2002.
Link to "Motion Pictures" retrieves a list of those in American Memory online collections. The Collection Finder is also browsable by subject.
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/papr/mpixhome.html

Beginning Library Research on Film Studies - Kathy Kerns, Information Center Database Coordinator, Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University Libraries, 2000.
Useful bibliography of sources (geared to Green Library holdings), with some Internet Links.
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/kkerns/filmstud.html [accessed Aug. 2002]
See also:

COCC Library Online Catalog (Central Oregon Community College)
Searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, & more.
URL: http://libcatalog.cocc.edu/
COCC Library Online Databases  (access restricted to Central Oregon Community College students, staff, community), includes EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe & many more.
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/library/databases.html

Black Film Center / Archives.  Audrey T. McClusky, Dept. of African-American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana Univ. Libraries, Indiana Univ., 1996-2002.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html

The British Film Institute  bfi.org.uk (London, UK), 2002.
"The bfi website contains a wealth of information about the world of film and television."
URL: http://www.bfi.org.uk/index.html
 bfi Film Links Gateway "intends to provide a wide reaching but selective collection of websites available on the Internet, relating to film and the media," researched and edited by the Information Unit in the bfi National Library."
URL: http://www.bfi.org.uk/gateway/index.html
The Gateway offers selected annotated links for topics such as:
...Women in Film and TV: http://www.bfi.org.uk/gateway/women/index.html
...World Cinema and Directors: http://www.bfi.org.uk/gateway/world/index.html
Sight and Sound, respected BFI journal, offers in-depth reviews and film commentary, coverage of world cinema, classic cinema, and film and TV issues.
URL: http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/index.html

California Newsreel.  San Francisco, CA; 2002.
Founded in 1968, California Newsreel offers "educational videos on African American life and history, race relations and diversity training, African cinema, Media and Society, labor studies, campus life and much more"--including valuable summaries, reviews, and pedagogical aids.  URL: http://www.newsreel.org/
...Guides and Resources on selected films and topics, plus transcripts.
URL: http://www.newsreel.org/resource.htm
...Media and Society: http://www.newsreel.org/topics/media.htm

Cinema: How Are Hollywood Films Made? Annenberg/CPB Learner.org, 1997-2002.
"Go through the steps of making a film from the screenwriting to directing, producing, acting, and finally editing. Hands on activities include writing part of a comedy script and managing a budget as the producer. Several glossaries, some background on blacklisting, and a lengthy bibliography enhance the content of the site."  [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: Drama & Performance, 2002.]
URL:  http://www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema/

The Cinema Connection.  Frederico Passi (Australia, Social Change Online), 1995-1999.
Collection of links organized by topic.
URL: http://online.socialchange.net.au/tcc/index.html [last accessed Aug. 2002].

CineMedia: "The internet's largest film and media directory."  CineMedia [AFI] & Dan Harries, 1994-2002.  Offers "more than 25,000 links" - search, or browse by categories.
URL: http://afi.cinemedia.org/welcomes/you.html

CinemaSpace -  from the Film Studies Program at Univ. of California-Berkeley.
"CinemaSpace is devoted to all aspects of Cinema and New Media and is the primary link for resources from the UC Berkeley...."
URL:  http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/
...Cinema-Related [Film & Video] Resources
URL: http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/Resources/cinmares.html
Film Studies at UC-Berkeley
URL: http://filmstudies.berkeley.edu/

Collections, Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, Univ. of California-Berkeley; 1996-2002.
Browsable by subject, and Movies are searchable by genre, theme, date, country/language.
URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/VideographyMenu.html
...Bibliographies & Full-Text Articles, by UCSB faculty & students, as well as others - searchable by Film topics, filmmakers, genres, eras, nation, & individual films
URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/FilmBibMenu.html
Film Studies at UC-Berkeley
URL: http://filmstudies.berkeley.edu/

Cross-Cultural Film Guide: Films from Africa, Asia and Latin America at The American University.  Patricia Aufderheide, School of Communication, American Univ. Library, Washington D.C., 1992-2001.
URL: http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/aufderheide/aufderhe.html
American University Library: http://www.library.american.edu/index.html
Prof. Aufderheide's Home Page:  http://www1.soc.american.edu/faculty/aufderheide/
Prof. Aufderheide's Syllabus: Cross Cultural Cinema:
URL: http://www1.soc.american.edu/faculty/aufderheide/Syllabi/jxcult.htm

Dept. of Film Studies, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara, 2002.
The web site of the UCSB Film Studies Dept., established in 1972, offers useful resources for research and teaching.
Root URL: http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/
URL: http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/dep.htm
...Film Studies 46: Introduction to Motion Pictures, Spring 2002
URL: http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/46/
...Study Questions - Film Studies 46, Spring 2002
URL:  http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/46/study_question_links.htm

Film Adaptation of Literature.  Cora Agatucci, Humanities Instructional Resources, Humanities Dept., Central Oregon Community College, 2002.
Feature: Masterpiece Theater Companion Web Sites | Annotated Articles & Links
 URL : http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Film/filmadaptation.htm

FilmFestivals.com.  Film Festivals Entertainment Group, 2002.
A portal site for festivals and film news, "Filmfestivals.com’s mission is to be the premiere online entertainment destination dedicated to showcasting film festivals around the world and fostering new film and filmmaking talent."
URL: http://www.filmfestivals.com/index.shtml

Film Interviews.  The Guardian/NFT Interviews.  [Manchester, U.K.] Guardian Unlimited, Guardian Newspapers Ltd., 2003.
URL: http://film.guardian.co.uk/Guardian_NFT/0,4052,69908,00.html

filmlinc.com--The Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2002
Offering a rich online resource, the Film Society of Lincoln Center sponsors Film Comment magazine, the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films at Museum of Modern Art, the Walter Reade Theater, and more.  Root URL: http://www.filmlinc.com/
...Film Comment's Archive of online articles: http://archive.filmlinc.com/fcm/fcmarchive.htm
...New York Film Festival: http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
...New Directors/New Films: http://www.filmlinc.com/ndnf/ndnf.htm
...Walter Reade Theater: http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/wrt.htm

Film Studies:  Index of Online Resources.  Cora Agatucci, Humanities Instructional Resources, Humanities Dept., Central Oregon Community College, 2002.
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Film/index.htm

Film Studies: Resources. Sharon Black, Communications Librarian, Annenberg School for Communication Library , Univ. of Pennsylvania Library, 1998-2002.
List of selected web sites.
URL: http://www.library.upenn.edu/resources/subject/humanities/film/film.html

Film Studies - Univ. of Utah College of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT), 2002.
URL: http://www.film.utah.edu/
...Resources: Links
URL: http://www.film.utah.edu/links.html

Film & Media Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2002
"The film and media studies list has been developed to meet the needs of students and teachers of one of the newest, and most popular, subjects in the humanities. A broad range of student textbooks and academic monographs are available."  Searchable.
URL: http://publishing.cambridge.org/hss/film/

Film Studies on the Internet - Sharon Nuttycombe and Gail Mazure, School of Library and Information Studies, Univ. of Alberta, Canada, 1995.
Annotated Subject Guide, a project developed for LIS 538: Digital Librarianship, 1995.
[New] URL: http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/guides/films/film.htm [last accessed Aug. 2002]
[Old] URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/films/film.htm  [last accessed Aug. 2002]

Film Studies Program.  www.filmclass.com  David Tetzlaff, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theater; Film Studies Program, Connecticut College (New London, CT).  No date.
Home Page: http://www.filmclass.com/
While access seems to be restricted to many pages on this site, a useful detailed syllabus of films and readings for Film Studies 101 - Introduction to Film Studies: How to Read a Film was accessible (Aug. 2002):  http://www.filmclass.com/flm101/Resources/study.html

Internet Movie Database - IMDb.com, 2002. 
An increasingly valuable searchable database of cross-referenced information on U.S. and foreign film and television, film adaptations of literature, awards, and reviews (especially links to external reviews on individual films' web pages).
URL: http://www.imdb.com/
...IMDb Film Glossary (AKA: Movie Terminology Glossary) offers short "definitions of terms and phrases frequently used in the world of movies, film, acting, and cinemagoing."  Browse by letter of the alphabet.
URL: http://us.imdb.com/Glossary/

Kurosawa, Great Performances (PBS Online)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/kurosawa.html
Great Performances Home: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/index.html
Companion website to the PBS Great Performances broadcast (first aired March 2002) celebrates "A giant of 20th-century cinema"-- Akira Kurosawa, internationally acclaimed Japanese director.  With the participation of Kurosawa's children,  this "definitive two-hour profile" "explor[es] Kurosawa's work in its entirety."  Interviews and excerpts from Kurosawa's autobiography are enhanced by multimedia presentations, comment on & clips from his greatest films, lesson plans for teachers, and recommended web sites, including:
British Film Institute-Kurosawa: http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/kurosawa/index.html
Akira Kurosawa Database: http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~adk/kurosawa/AKpage.html 

MCS: The Media and Communication Studies Site - Dr. Daniel Chandler, Dept. of Theatre, Film, & Television Studies, Univ. of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK - since 1995.
Collections, organized by topic, of web and print resources, including articles.  British-based site recommended by VoS - Voice of the Shuttle (listed below): "extensive resource and links guide, including overview essays written by Chandler": http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2720
URL: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/film.html [accessed Aug. 2002].

Media Studies/Popular Culture > Arts & Humanities > Reference.  Univ. of Virginia Libraries, 2001.  Annotated Links categorized by: Film Studies, Music, Television, & General. 
URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/reference/humanities/popcult.html

Moviemaker: The Art and Business of Making Movies.  Moviemaker Magazine (Los Angeles, CA),  2002.  Online magazine.
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/

PBS Online [Public Broadcasting System], 1995-2002.
Root URL: http://www.pbs.org/
...Search: http://www.pbs.org/search/
...PBS Arts & Culture (programming & related web resources on art, drama, film, literature, photography, & more): http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/arts/
...PBS TeacherSource: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ 
...PBS TeacherSource Arts & Literature: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm 
PBS Online companion web sites to televised programming have grown more extensive and valuable in recent years: look for  film-related links to behind-the-scenes filmmaking, interviews with film and video makers, teacher guides for using film in the classroom, and much more.
A sampling of resources:

Buena Vista Social Club, PBS Presents . . .
Home: http://www.pbs.org/buenavista/index.html
...The Film: "...A selected summary of reviews and articles on the film, Buena Vista Social Club, and listing of the awards it has received to date.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/buenavista/film/
...The Making of the Film: "A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie, the collaboration of director, Wim Wenders,...guitarist/producer Ry Cooder and a cast of extraordinary musicians filmed in Havana, Amsterdam and New York City."
URL: http://www.pbs.org/buenavista/film/making.html

Culture Shock: Born to Trouble: The Adventures of Huck Finn
Root URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/huck.html
...About the Film - Huck Finn Teacher's Guide
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/aboutfilm.html
...Film Index
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/filmindex.html
...About the Book
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/aboutbook.html

Mark Twain. Dir. Ken Burns; Prod. Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan.  Florentine Films, The American Lives Film Project, Inc.; PBS Online, 2001.
Home Page: http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/index.html
...Mark Twain: Making the Film. 
URL: http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/filmmakers/making.html
...Learn More About Mark Twain
URL: http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/index.html

The New Americans (PBS Online, KCET)
Root URL: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/
...Immigrants in Film.  PBS: The New Americans: Teacher Guide.
"Lesson by Chris Davis, who teaches English and history at Clark Magnet High School in Glendale, California";  "holds a B.A. in history and English from the University of California, Riverside and a masters degree in history from the California State University in Los Angeles. A native Californian, he is a third-generation immigrant with family from Russia and England."
URL: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/6.0/html/immfilm.html
...Perceptions & Misconceptions - Film Study
URL:  http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/4.0/4.02film.html

New York: A Documentary Film Online.  Thirteen/WNET New York, PBS Online Educational Broadcasting Corp., 2001.
 "This Web companion features an extensive introduction to the making of this seven-part film...[of] New York City..."
URL:  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/

P.O.V. Films: Film Archive. PBS Online, American Documentary, Inc., 1995-2002.  URL: http://www.pbs.org/pov/filmarchive.php

Remembering the Holocaust.  PBS Holocaust Remembrance Site.
 Home: http://www.pbs.org/holocaust/index.html
....Schindler's List (aired April 2001)
URL: http://www.pbs.org/holocaust/schindler/index.html
 ...Schindler's List: Behind the Scenes
 "Hear from director Steven Spielberg and others about Schindler and the making of the film, watch video clips, and review the movie credits."
URL: http://www.pbs.org/holocaust/schindler/behindthescenes.html

See also: Film Adaptations of Literature: Feature (below) - Bookmark link!!

Narrative Matters:  Resources for Studying Narrative in Fiction and Film.  Martin Irvine; Assoc. Professor & Director, Communication, Culture, and Technology Program; Georgetown Univ. 2002.  Course website for English 016, focused "on the nature and meaning of narrative in both written and visual forms," including syllabus, resources & study guide pages for fiction and film texts and theory.
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/016.html

Queen's Film.  Queen's University Department of Film Studies, Kingston, Canada (Derek Redmond, 2002)
URL: http://www.film.queensu.ca/
...Course Materials for several Queen's Univ. lower & upper division film courses.
URL: http://www.film.queensu.ca/Materials.html

Resources for Teaching Film.  Robert E. Yahnke, Professor, General College, Univ. of Minnesota; 2001.  [Last accessed] 19 May 2003. 
Objective and detailed scene-by-scene plot summaries of more than 35 U.S. and international feature films, plus notes and exercises on selected features, and a link to Resources for Teaching Documentary Films offering summaries, notes, and exercises.
URL: http://www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff/yahnke/filmteach/teach.htm

Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies (Institute of Film Studies, Univ. of Nottingham, UK)
URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/index.htm
Institute of Film Studies (Univ. of Nottingham, UK)
"The Institute of Film Studies is part of the School of American and Canadian Studies."
URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film

ScreenSite: For the Study of Film and Television.  Dept. of Telecommunication & Film, Univ. of Alabama, 1994-2002.
Table of Contents: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite/contents.htm
Root URL: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite/
...Bibliographies and Research Guides: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite/res/bib/index.htm
...Course Syllabi collection: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/teach/syl/index.htm

Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema.
URL: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/
A Critical Database of Great Directors
URL: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/index.html

South Asia Film and Media Courses - Syllabi, 1996-1998.  Univ. of Virginia.
URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAvideos/syllabus.html

Tbase: CCT's Theory Base.  Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, Georgetown Univ. 1997-2002.
"A Guide to Theory and Inquiry for Studies in Communication, Culture, and Technology."
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/grad/CCT/launch/tbase/

Visual Anthropology Review
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/VAR/

VoS: Voice of the Shuttle - Web Site for Humanities Research  (Alan Liu, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara)
Alan Liu's venerable & superb collection of electronic resources for studies in the humanities.
URL: http://vos.ucsb.edu/ [last accessed August 2002]
General Humanities Studies: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2712

Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide. Philip McEldowney, Univ. of Virginia, since 1994.
McEldowney's Papers developed for Library Science courses at UNCG [Univ. of No. Carolina-Greensboro], "written mainly from 1993-1995." 
URL: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html

Women's Studies Database: Film Reviews.  Univ. of Maryland, 1992-2002.
URL: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/
 Women's Studies Database at The University of Maryland, "begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues."
URL: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/index.html
...Bibliographies: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/Bibliographies/
...Gender Issues: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/GenderIssues/
...Other Web Sites, directory of web resources organized by topic
URL:  http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/OtherWebSites/
...Reference Room: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReferenceRoom/
...Syllabi collection for interdisciplinary Women's Studies courses
URL: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/Syllabi/

Yahoo! Entertainment > Movies and Film Directory.  Yahoo!, Inc. 2002.
URL: http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film/

See also on this web site: Film Adaptation of Literature
Feature: Masterpiece Theater Companion Web Sites | Annotated Articles & Links
& Film Studies Index:  Online Handouts & Film Reviews

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