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- https://media.paleycenter.org
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies, Radio Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Organisations, Streaming/Download
Aiming to lead the discussion about cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public, the Paley Center’s website contains useful resources such as This Day in the Media, a wonderfully curated collection of 365 clips commemorating key dates in media history. There is also a Videoconferencing section, which offers educational materials on a variety of topics. Examples include: Portrayal of Women on Television, The Fine Art of Persuasion; Advertising on Television, Hitchcock, Master of Suspense, and the Golden years of Television. All Regions DVDs of live events, chiefly Q&A with cast and creators of very well-known TV series, are sold via the shop.
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- https://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/5-19-film-education-scheme-2013-2017/bfi-film-academy-scheme
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Type of resource
- Organisations
Open to young people from anywhere in the UK, the BFI Film Academy offers a series of courses for 16-19-year-olds who may want to be part of the future film industry. Courses include: The UK Network Programme, which offers hands-on filmmaking opportunities; the Specialist Residential Academy, which focuses on the skills and knowledge around animation, documentary, screenwriting or VFX; the Craft Skills Residential Programme, which is delivered by the National Film and Television School and last for two years. Many of the short films made through these schemes can be seen via the BFI Film Academy youtube Channel.
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- https://audioboom.com/channel/nosuchthingasafish
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Media Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting
Weekly British podcast series produced and presented by the research team behind the BBC Two game show QI. Each researcher presents their favourite fact that they have come across that week, but has not made it into that week’s QI programme. The most regular presenters of the podcast are James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber, although other QI researchers also make appearances, and there are guest presenters on some episodes. There are over 240 ‘jolly’ episodes, each packed with ‘impressive and silly facts’ (The Guardian). For example, we may learn why the Italian film director Jesus Franco was once deemed by the Catholic Church as the most dangerous director alive or that the first sandwich was not made by the Earl of Sandwich.
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- http://edn.network/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Podcasting, Web Links
EDN is a meeting point for all documentary professionals working in the film and TV industries. It has around 1000 members from more than 60 countries, including production companies, producers, directors and other film professionals, distributors, associations, film institutions & boards, broadcasters, universities and festivals. The key service of EDN are to provide information to its members on co-production and other kinds of collaboration across borders, the international potential of a project, where to take a finished film, distribution, festivals and markets, the EU MEDIA Programme and other funding options, documentary training programmes and production contacts in other countries.
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- http://www.uniquecodeanddata.co.uk/teletext76/bbc1-19790720/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Computing, Media Studies, Social Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This site is dedicated to the preservation, celebration and analysis of Teletext, the television information service introduced to British television in 1974 and familiar to UK viewers as Ceefax on the BBC and Oracle on ITV. Featuring a podcast, articles, archived pages from the service, and even an application that allows you to create your own Teletext page, the site is a labour of love, the pinnacle of which is a teletext time machine: a fully interactive Ceefax service for the 20th July 1979.
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- https://www.americanradiohistory.com/index.htm
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Media Studies, Radio Studies
- Type of resource
- Databases, Journals, TV/Radio listings
This site offers a vast amount of information about broadcasting history, covering (despite the name) television and radio, mainly in the USA and Canada but also venturing as far afield as the UK and Australia. Of particular value to researchers are the wide range of digitised, searchable periodicals and journals which, although the main focus of the site is on the early days of broadcasting also stretch as far as the 21st century. NB. It is not clear to what degree rights have been cleared for some of the material on this site. David Gleason, who maintains the site, operates on a basis of ‘if the owner of the material complains I will take it down’ - rather than seeking permission beforehand.
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- https://tvtropes.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies
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- Databases, Information Sources, Lists
This entertaining and informative site attempts to categorise, index and contextualise tropes - storytelling devices or conventions - as they appear in television programmes, films, games, music, literature, and other media. There are four main indexes: Genre Tropes, Media Tropes, Narrative Tropes and Topical Tropes. Each of these main headings is further subdivided so that under the Narrative Trope heading, for example, one can explore Characters, Conflict, Motifs Settings etc., down to a microscopic level of detail. The site began in 2004, primarily focusing on the television series ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’. Since then it has vastly expanded its scope to cover most types of media. Users can explore by series or trope. Each series entry features a list of tropes associated with that series, whereas users exploring by trope (British Teeth, for example) will find a list of that trope’s appearance in television, film, literature etc. Although the approach is often humorous the site represents an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring or analysing the building blocks of storytelling and narrative construction, in any medium, but particularly television.
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- http://www.newsfortvmajors.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Update, Web Links
This site is maintained by Christine Becker, who teaches film and television studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. The purpose of the site is to keep students of television informed of the latest developments in television, covering news, reviews, politics etc. The focus is on America but Becker also covers the British media, as well as providing information about the media companies who control much of what we see on our television, computer and mobile phone screens: the American networks, but also Facebook, YouTube, Netflix et al.. A useful source of information.
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- Drama, Literature, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download, Web Links
Bardbox collects ‘some of the best and most interesting of original Shakespeare-related videos on YouTube, Vimeo and other video hosting sites’. As of March 2017 the number of results returned from a search for ‘Shakespeare’ in YouTube is nearing two million: for this reason the approach of BardBox is necessarily selective. Luke McKernan, who maintains the site, selects videos specifically created for distributon on YouTube, Vimeo, Daily Motion and other sites, and posts the content along with his own comments and details of cast, credits, date and links. An inspired and inspiring resource.
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- https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Ethnology, Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases
This database is the result of a project at the University of Hildesheim, Germany to study how interaction between people from different cultures has been portrayed in film and television. The website consists of a list of around 150 films, with brief synopsis and credits and then a selection of scenes which have been analysed according to a prescribed list of criteria, such as ‘affectivity’, ‘formality’ and ‘proxemics (space and distance orientation)'. One of the programmes analysed according to these criteria is the British television sitcom ''Allo ‘Allo!' which looks at the depiction and interaction of German, French and English stereotypes.
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Learning on Screen