British Universities Film & Video Council

moving image and sound, knowledge and access

New additions to the Moving Image Gateway

The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,650 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/

The Behavioural Ecology and Evolution Podcast
Also known as the BEEPcast, this excellent monthly podcast is the creation of Dr. Hannah Rowland of Cambridge University, who presents the latest research on the evolved behaviour of animals. The podcast features interviews with new and established experts in the field of animal behaviour. Also available on iTunes. The podcasts are free to download and are in mp3 format.

Centre Audiovisuel Simone De Beauvoir
Founded in 1982 by Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig and Ioana Wieder, the mission of the Centre audiovisuel Simone De Beauvoir is to acquire audiovisual documents on women’s rights, the feminist struggle, and women’s art and creativity and to promote, curate and distribute the various materials. The website has a searchable database and sells a selection of DVDs but most of the material is available for viewing by appointment only at the centre’s premises.

The microsite Genrimages is the result of a project undertaken by the centre to provide online resources for use in the classroom about the rights of women and the depiction of gender roles in films and on television. A selection of interviews with feminist academics, journalists, writers and teachers considers sexual stereotypes and the way the sexes are represented in various media including television, films, video games and children’s literature. Accompanying these interviews are a range of resources including a glossary, timeline, a quiz on the history of women’s rights and links to resources on other sites.

Harvard at Home
A series of freely available videos and programmes which present teaching, research, events and lectures to the Harvard University community and a wider audience. The whole spectrum of academic subjects is represented, from the arts to social sciences, history to current affairs, and literature to science and mathematics. The series seems not to have been updated since 2009 but what there is is of high quality, and most of the lectures are accompanied by notes and slides.

Paley Center for Media
The Paley Center for Media is a not-for-profit cultural organisation based in New York and Los Angeles, which is dedicated to fostering an ongoing dialogue about the significance of television, radio and new broadcasting technologies on the lives of media professionals and the public. The centre’s media collection contains over 160,000 television and radio programmes and advertisements, searchable through an online database which offers synopses, along with production credits for the programmes. Although most of the collection is not online there is, nonetheless, a lot of freely available interesting audiovisual content, made accessible via a selection of curated online exhibitions on the site’s Perspectives on the Collection page. This page feature hand-picked clips and programmes chosen by the centre’s curatorial team, which are presented with contextual essays and notes. The range of subjects covers the whole spectrum of US media history – particularly the post-war period – with interesting items on everything from the media’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, to a history and appreciation of Rod Serling’s classic science fiction series The Twilight Zone. There is also a YouTube channel with videos of events held at the centre, such as this interview with pioneering documentary filmmakers D A Pennebaker, Robert Drew and Albert Maysles.

StatsLife
This is the website of the Royal Statistical Society. The site’s Audio / Visual page features podcasts and videos of lectures, presentations and meetings hosted by the RSS. The society aims to make all of its events freely available online. A wide range of subjects is covered, from the role of statistics in fighting poverty and deprivation, the big data revolution, the use and abuse of statistics, how statistics are used to measure international development, as well as a series of videos giving advice to those thinking of pursuing a career in statistics or studying for an MSc or PhD in the subject.

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