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- http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Film Studies, Media Studies
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Databases, Information Sources, Journals, Producers/Broadcasters, Reviews, TV/Radio listings, Web Links
Website giving detailed information on American and British television programmes including single plays and drama. DVDs cannot be bought directly from the site but there are links to Amazon and YouTube. The site includes reviews, interviews, biographies, obituaries and articles on the history of television broadcasting.
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- http://www.thefilmspace.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Courses, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
This site was created by Ian Wall and James Lennox, who were responsible for Film Education, which ceased to exist as an active organisation in April 2013 (although it still maintains a website and a library of online resources). This resource aims to build on the achievements of Film Education and ‘to encourage and build an understanding and appreciation of the moving image, in all its forms, amongst children and young people in full-time education’. The site features advice and resources for teachers, news of training and events and a number of the interactive CD and DVD ROMs which Film Education produced. These can now be downloaded free of charge from the CD-ROM page. As of March 2017, the resource also includes InCinema 2016 an educational resource based on the Film Distributors’ Association Yearbook 2017 and including up to date research, statistics, film campaign imagery and other information aimed at students of Film and Media Studies, aged 14-18. The resource can be downloaded as a zip file.
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- http://www.htw.info/resources.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Media Studies
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Web Links
A website created by enthusiasts which is devoted to the history of the major UK broadcasting channels, with particular focus on graphics, idents and presentation. There are special sections for each of the four largest UK terrestrial TV broadcasters in launch date order (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5). There are also sections on TV AM and local television, features on early BBC broadcasts for schools, and an essay on television hardware. The features are all illustrated with well-chosen (if frustratingly small) screen shots. A Resources page gives a useful selection of links to archives and broadcasters, sites about broadcasting technology and a list of sites similar to HTW, that is, sites produced by fans and enthusiasts, rather than academics.
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- https://www.chomsky.info/index.htm
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- Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Languages, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
- Type of resource
- Reviews, Video Sources, Web Links
The official website of American linguist, cognitive scientist and political theorist and activist, Noam Chomsky. Simply designed and clearly laid out, the site has biographies, a bibliography and links to transcripts of interviews, articles, interviews and reviews. The Audio and Video page has hundreds of links to recordings of talks, interviews and speeches with Chomsky, dating back to the early 1970s, including this debate, filmed at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1971, between Chomsky and French philosopher Michel Foucault on the subject of human nature.
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- http://podacademy.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Podcasting
A platform for podcasts covering the arts, social sciences, business and economics, and science and the environment, this independent, not-for-profit initiative was set up in 2011 by a group of academics, journalists and IT specialists and aims to keep abreast of research in the academy as well as work that throws light on events in the news, thus combining rigorous scholarship with an up-to-the-minute accessibility. Recent podcasts include Laura Mulvey’s Death 24x a second in which she analyses the relationship between stillness and the moving image in cinema; an interview with Angela Phillips, Reader in Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London and chair of the ethics committee of the organisation, Media Reform on the background to the Leveson Inquiry; and a look at Youth unemployment in the UK with author Callum Biggins who has written about the subject for the London-based liberal think tank CentreForum.
All the podcasts are accompanied by a full transcript and the site also features a blog and links to other educational sites.
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- http://facets.org/blog/category/film_portal/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Type of resource
- Video Sources, Web Links
Facets Film Portal aims to provide information and links to films that can be viewed free of charge online. The site has a list of categories: Art Cinema; Avant Garde; Classic Canon; Cult; Documentary; Facets Exclusives and Short Films and offers descriptions and contextual information about the films as well as links, often to YouTube, where the film in question can be viewed. The site is an offshoot of Facets Multi-Media, a Chicago-based media arts organisation which runs a video library and cinematheque as well as film education programmes for children and adults.
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- https://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Databases, Information Sources
The Screen Plays: British Theatre on Television Project is based at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) in the School of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster and runs from June 2011 to May 2014. Funded by the AHRC, the Project is concerned with all plays written for the theatre that have been produced for British television since 1930. It will publish a database of these productions, a book and journal articles, and will organise screenings, conferences and other events. This blog features news of the project’s activities, with reviews, research discoveries, drafts of ideas, etc. for discussion.
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- https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Distributors, Video Sources
Close-Up is a membership organisation that aims to make film culture and history accessible through its extensive film lending library, regular screenings and the online publication of Vertigo magazine. The Library’s collection of over 14,000 titles specialises in early cinema, classics, world cinema, documentaries, experimental films, video art and independent films. It includes rare films exclusive to Close-Up and by independent filmmakers not represented by distributors, who are welcome to submit their films. Filmographic details in the online library database are also available to non-members.
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- http://www.davidbordwell.net/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Blogs
This is the homepage for the influential film academic David Bordwell who, together with his wife Kristin Thompson, has written many of the most enduring of Film Studies textbooks written in the last 30 years. The site, which includes a blog by the two authors, brings together a broad range of film-related information along with articles and reviews.
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- http://www.industrytrust.co.uk/
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- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Law, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Copyright, Information Sources
The Industry Trust works with its member companies (from film studios to retailers) to spread the word about the positive role of copyright. The Trust’s website contains a Q&A on the Digital Economy Act, links to the best and most trusted legal download sites and "FindAnyFilm.com", as well as a copyright clinic, a summary of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act in relation to DVD and film piracy, and advice on copyright theft.
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