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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
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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.americanradiohistory.com/index.htm
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- 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
- Subject
- Advertising, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies
- Type of resource
- 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.suttonelms.org.uk/RADIO1.HTML
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, TV/Radio listings
An amateur enthusiast site offering differing levels of comprehensiveness on BBC radio drama. There is information on radio drama by decade from 1943 to date giving title, series, basic credits and transmission times. More recent entries are fuller with information taken and edited from Radio Times. Searches can be made by author, producer, year and theme. There are reviews, articles and lists of missing programmes, BBC World Service Drama radiography is a work in progress compiled by Barry Hodge.
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- http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/Shakespeare
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Dance, Drama, Film Studies, Literature, Music, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, TV/Radio listings, Video Sources
An extensively researched and authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recording. It is international in scope and regularly updated currently holding over 8,000 records dating from the 1890s to the present day. This resource was created through a three-year Resource Enhancement grant from the Arts & Humanities Research Council. The Database encompasses not only ‘straight’ productions of the plays but also parodies, plot borrowings, documentaries, and Shakespeare as represented in music, mime and dance.
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- http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, TV/Radio listings
RadioListings is an episode guide to the speech based programmes broadcast by the BBC, compiled by enthusiast Paul Wells. There are details for some musical programmes, and some listings for other stations, but the main focus is on scripted speech. Currently there are details for over 33,000 programmes, from 1949 to the present day, though the bulk are from 1997 onwards when the BBC put its schedules online. The main index by the programme name but more limited searching is also possible by credits and date of broadcast. The database is updated weekly and revised daily. The majority of data is obtained via a feed from the BBC and this is supplemented by information from other sources.
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- https://www.bl.uk/subjects/sound
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Drama, History, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Web Links
The catalogue to the British L:ibrary Sound Archive’s collection of over two and a half million recordings stretching back to the late 19th century is now available online. The catalogue entries are precise, but it is not possible (as yet) to listen the recordings themselves. The seven main subject areas covered by the collection are Classical Music, Drama and Literature, International Music, Jazz, Oral History, Popular Music and Wildlife Sound. The site includes practical information on accessing the recordings, details of BLSA publications, and a valuable page of external links. In May 2009, a Curator for Radio was appointed and since then a new set of web pages relating to radio have been produced.
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- https://www.meccsa.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Education, Media Studies, Radio Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Discussion Lists, Organisations
The MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education, including film and TV studies, media production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The Radio Studies Network brings together researchers in radio, podcasting, sound art and audio platforms from the UK and beyond. It encourages interested colleagues to join the discussion via their Facebook and Twitter sites.
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- https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Advertising, Design, Media Studies, Radio Studies
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Information Sources
Ad*Access offers a database of over 7,000 advertisements from American and Canadian newspapers, 1911-1955. It covers five main areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, using images from the collection at Duke University. The database is browsable by date, company, product, headline, and keyword, with large searches being conveniently divided into years with the number of hits indicated. The images can be viewed in enlarged form at 72 or 150 dpi, and are accompanied by basic catalogue information.
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- http://independentradio.wordpress.com/
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- Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs
A blog on things of interest to the study of independent radio in the UK, especially the three digitisation projects: LBC/IRN Audio Archive; The Wessex Film and Sound Archive Commercial Radio Collection (1973-1990); The Programme Sharing Archive: The Felicity Wells memorial Collection of independent radio (1973-1990). All three projects are led by Professor Sean Street of the Media School, Bournemouth University, and are hosted by the BUFVC. The blog has been largely dormant since the databases went live.
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