Ben Halligan requests: > i'm compiling an index of online resources for film and TV suitable for > undergrad study Here are some I have bookmarked: > journals / magazines, such as > > www.sensesofcinema.com > www.ce-review.org/kinoeye/archive_intro.html > www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/ > www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/index.htm http://www.filmgeschichte.de/ A newsletter of the website for early German film http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/ Sight and Sound http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/fcm.htm Film Comment--for subscription info, plus online archive > and databases / info sites, such as > > www.imdb.com > www.bbfc.co.uk > www.melonfarmers.co.uk http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Africanfilm.html Website on African cinema, at UC-Berkeley http://www.newsreel.org/topic.htm Detailed descriptions of films from California Newsreel, including the Library of African Cinema http://www.fespaco.bf/ Official webpage of the bienniel African film festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso http://nyctourist.com/ammi.htm Website of the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html Black Film Center/Archive http://www.eastman.org/ George Eastman House, Rochester, NY http://www.bfi.org.uk/momi/ British Museum of the Moving Image (lots of links) http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/ National Film Preservation Board (lots of links) http://www.afionline.org/ American Film Institute http://www.cinema-sites.com/ Huge database of film-related sites http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/index.html Cognitive Science, Humanities, and the Arts http://www.skinema.com/ Dermatology in the Cinema (I am not making this up! Not for the faint of stomach.) http://www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema/ Cineam: How are Hollywood films made? (Interactive guide to filmmaking from the Annenberg Foundation) http://www.grand-illusions.com/index.htm Deals with optical illusions, etc., including a good dicussion of "persistence of vision" http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/ National Center for Jewish Film http://www.kinexis.com/movies.html The Self-Referential Movies List (hasn't been active for a while, but has good discussions and references) http://www.silentera.com/ Good site for silent film resources http://www.cinemastudies.org/ Official home page for the Society for Cinema Studies http://www.precinemahistory.net "The Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography" http://www.variety.com/ VARIETY's home page, includes link to slang dictionary http://www.rottentomatoes.com A quick resource for reviews of current films. Samplings of online critics rate films on a "tomatometer" from "fresh" to "rotten" Don Larsson > > as good as they can be (www.sokurov.spb.ru/) or as bad as they can be > (www.melaniegriffith.com), i want to avoid site specific to individual > films, film-makers or actresses. > > together, these will be offered to our undergrads next year as a > bibliographic resource. > > if possible, could you nominate any sites that you're aware of (and > recommend) for this resource? > > i'll post my results here in due course. > > with thanks - > > ben halligan > dept theatre, film and tv studies > uni of wales, aberystwyth > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu