Thank you to everyone who contributed links for the Museum of the Moving Image's film, television, and digital media resource list. I was struck by the range of material out there that I hadn't been aware of. We're working on ways to make these links easily searchable. With the help of some brilliant interns, we've come up with some innovative ideas that I think will be very welcome for students, professors, and members of the public. We're hoping to get the site launched this fall and I will certainly keep you posted about it. After giving the matter a lot of thought, we've decided to employ a two-tiered system of links. The first tier consists of sites akin to hard-copy peer-reviewed journals that students can cite on academic papers with relative confidence. These tier-one sites are either (a) the explicit responsibility of a recognized cultural or scholarly organization or (b) published by a well-known organization that employs peer reviewers. The second tier consists of links that are valuable and generally reliable (i.e., adhere to U.C. Berkeley's Web evaluation standards: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html> ), but that should be double-checked. We decided not to include blogs or personal websites, except in a separate blogroll. If this project has taught us anything, it's that despite the plethora of evaluation guidelines out there, figuring out whether an individual site is actually citeable is confusing even for the savviest student. So if our system of ranking inspires debate, so much the better. The list below consists of links submitted by members of this listserv. The entire list-in-progress is too sprawling to include here, but if you'd like a copy of it, please let me know off-list and I can send it to you as a spreadsheet. (Or you can wait 'til the site is up and running.) Additional contributions are welcome, and so are your recommendations, admonitions, and general comments about what kind of links database would be helpful for you. And, finally, I can't resist a plug for MMI's own online catalog, on which we've been working overtime. I'm biased, of course, but I think it's well worth a look, partifcularly if you're interested in the material culture of the moving image: http://collection.movingimage.us/index.php?globalnav=search§ionnav=r esults <http://collection.movingimage.us/index.php?globalnav=search§ionnav= results> . Your suggestions and reactions are very welcome. Tier 1: Peer-reviewed sites, or those authored by a recognized cultural or scholarly authority Library and Archives of Canada, "Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film" http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/dieppe/index-e.html Library and Archives of Canada, "Virtual Silver Screen" (early Canadian films) http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/silverscreen/002030-1001-e.php Marilyn J. Rose and Jeannette Sloniowski (Brock University), "Crime Fiction Canada" http://www.brocku.ca/crimefictioncanada/ <http://www.brocku.ca/crimefictioncanada/> BFI, "Screenonline: The Definitive Guide to Britain's Film and TV History" http://www.screenonline.org.uk/ <http://www.screenonline.org.uk/> Canadian Communications Foundation, "The History of Canadian Broadcasting" http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html Current Magazine, "History of Public Broadcasting in the United States" http://www.current.org/history/ University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences and Department of Telecommunication and Film, "Screensite" http://www.screensite.org/ Australian Center for the Moving Image, "Learn" (educational resources) http://www.acmi.net.au/learn.htm Australian Film Commission, "Australian Screen" http://australianscreen.com.au/ Australian Film Institute http://www.afi.org.au/ Australian Teachers of Media, "Metro Magazine" http://www.metromagazine.com.au/index.html Australian Film Commission, "National Film and Sound Archive" http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/screensound/screenso.nsf Dina Felluga (Purdue University), "Terms Used by Narratology and Film Theory" http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/narratology/terms/narrati vetermsmainframe.html Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media http://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html Dino Felluga, "Introductory Guide to Critical Theory" http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/ David Bordwell, "Website on Cinema" http://www.davidbordwell.net/ Manfred Jahn (University of Cologne), "A Guide to Narratological Film Analysis" http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppf.htm#F1 University of Chicago, "Chicago School of Media Theory" http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppf.htm#F1 Yale University, "Yale Film Studies Film Analysis Web Site" http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/ Tier 2: Valuable sites that should be double-checked Milestone Films presskits http://www.milestonefilms.com/presskits.php Ron Harpelle, "Lady Lumberjack" (early amateur filmmaking in Canada) http://www.ladylumberjack.ca/ <http://www.ladylumberjack.ca/> The inimitable IMDB http://imdb.com/ <http://imdb.com/> Lois Siegel (Siegel Productions), "Film Fanatics" http://www.siegelproductions.ca/filmfanatics/index.htm <http://www.siegelproductions.ca/filmfanatics/index.htm> Sven E. Carlson, "Filmsound.org: Your Learning Space for Film Sound" http://www.filmsound.org/ Senses of Cinema, Inc., "Senses of Cinema" http://www.sensesofcinema.com/ Film Victoria, "Film Victoria" http://film.vic.gov.au/www/html/7-home-page.asp Australian Film Critics Association, "Reviews" http://afca.org.au/reviews.php Bibliographies, filmographies, finding aids, and (trustworthy) primary-source collections Documentary Educational Resources: ethnographic and documentary films http://der.org/ <http://der.org/> The Moving Image Archive http://www.archive.org/details/movies <http://www.archive.org/details/movies> Creative Arts Television Archive www.catarchive.com <http://www.catarchive.com> BIRTH Television Archive http://www.birth-of-tv.org/birth/home.do DocuSeek Film & Video Finder http://66.167.103.217/wc.dll?docprocess~startsearch <http://66.167.103.217/wc.dll?docprocess~startsearch> Folkstreams <http://www.folkstreams.net/> http://www.folkstreams.net/ <http://www.folkstreams.net/> Documentary Works http://www.documentaryworks.org/ <http://www.documentaryworks.org/> MIRIAM POSNER ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF THE COLLECTION MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE 35 AVE AT 36 ST, ASTORIA, NY 11106 WWW.MOVINGIMAGE.US <http://www.movingimage.us/> TEL 718.784.4520 FAX 718.784.3417 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. 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