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- https://ifiplayer.ie/collections/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The IFI Player presents a freely available selection of material from the collections of the Irish Film Archive. Feature films, animations, documentaries, adverts, amateur films, travelogues and newsreels tell the story of Irish social, political and cultural history in moving images. The site features a wealth of fascinating material - from this award winning film about W.B. Yeats to a Telecom Eireann advert in which Bob Geldof warns of the idiocy of vandalising public telephones. Other films explore the Troubles, the events of Easter 1916, the Irish emigrant experience in America, the Irish landscape, tourism and religion. Users can search by keyword, browse by genre, or explore the curated collections section. Some of the films are accompanied by classroom worksheets for teachers and students.
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- https://adaptationpodcast.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This podcast promises ‘in-depth discussion on films and the original material they’re based on’. Each episode features analysis and discussion of a film or television programme which has been adapated from a literary source. Chatty and discursive rather than academic but nonetheless an intelligent podcast which is based on an inclusive approach to literary adapations, including comic-books, video games and popular genres as well as classic literature.
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- https://animation.filmarchives.jp/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This site celebrates a century of Japanese animation, with a fascinating selection of short films, spanning the years 1917 - 1941, all available to view online. The 64 films, curated by The Film Centre at Tokyo’s National Museum of Modern Art, include the oldest surviving Japanese animated film - 'The Dull Sword’, from 1917 - which was believed to be lost until a print was found in 2008 in an Osaka antique shop. The other films include public information films, propaganda, fairy tales, fables and historical drama. Although most of the site in its current form is in Japanese only, all the films have English titles and subtitles.
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- http://www.criticalcommons.org
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
This American film studies resource describes itself as a ‘public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts’. Critical Commons encourages users to upload footage but differs from sites such as YouTube in that it accepts only content which is accompanied by a commentary or brief essay which places the media in a critical context in order to give it an educational value. The site makes use of ‘fair use: a concept in American law which allows the use of copyrighted material without having to notify or contact the rights holder, so long as the use is for limited and ‘transformative’ purposes. Useful for teachers and students in film and media studies.
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- http://www.luxonline.org.uk/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Film Studies, Women’s Studies
This resource is an extensive, freely available, collection of clips, essays, biographies and other writings about British-based artists’ work in film and video. Users can browse by artist, work title, or via themes such as abstraction and installation. The site also features a historical timeline of key events in artists’ film and video from 1900- present day, and virtual tours created by leading curators and writers (such as novelist Ali Smith on Margaret Tait). The site has not been updated since 2009 so some of the links may be out of date but the core content of the resource remains valuable and relevant.
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- http://www.feminist-archives.leeds.ac.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
Based at Leeds University, this website is the result of a project which looks at the gendered histories of archives and their relationship to history-making and feminist activism. There is a particular emphasis on Women’s Libraries and Feminist Archives, and their role in shaping women’s lives. The site features a series of video interviews with the partners and participants in FAFF’s Archiving Women in Film & TV project in which feminist filmmakers discuss their own archives, while academics and archivists talk about the opportunities and challenges for creating and curating archives of women’s film & TV history.
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- http://www.joanie4jackie.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Web Links
This site archives the feminist film fanzine, or ‘video chainletter’ created by Miranda July and a network of female filmmakers during the 1990s and early 2000s. Originally called ‘Big Miss Movieola’, then changed to ‘Joanie4Jackie’ following legal threats from the owner of the Movieola brand, the project began when July issued a ‘challenge and a promise’ to other filmmakers: ‘Lady, you send me your movie and I’ll send you the latest Big Miss Moviola Chainletter Tape’. In addition to digitised versions of the chainletter tapes themselves, the site features extensive contextual material, including posters, letters, press, documentary films about the project and interviews with participants.
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- http://www.womensvoicesnow.org
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
Website of a community organisation based in California which advocates women’s rights through film. The site features a selection of free to view films which have played at the organisation’s festival. The criteria for selection includes ‘films that are relevant to our global community and which tell unique stories and amplify voices of women from around the world’. The films on the website are arranged into categories (Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Narrative Feature, Narrative Short etc.) and reflect the organisation’s global reach, with films about women’s lives and experience in the USA, UK, Afghanistan, Brazil, Rwanda, Egypt, Iran, Mexico and Turkey, to name a few.
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- http://artincinema.com/
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- Art, Film Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Festivals, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Web Links
English-lamguage site featuring news, biographies and filmographies covering experimental and avant garde cinema in Eastern Europe, from the 1930s to the present day. Countries covered are the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania. The site features a selection of videos (mainly short films) as well as documentaries, lectures and recordings of events about the avant garde and experimental film . There are links to other sites dealing with experimental film in the above countries, as well as information about festivals, galleries and exhibition spaces.
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- https://search.alexanderstreet.com/avon
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Architecture, Art, Business Studies, Design, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, History, Literature, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Politics and Government, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Social Welfare, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
Academic Video Online: Premium is the largest and most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 50,000 video titles spanning all academic subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 12,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street. From Jan 1 2016, it includes the new “AVON-to-Own” feature, where subscribing libraries receive perpetual rights to videos they select at the end of each annual term commensurate with the amount of the subscription, using an entire year of usage data to support selections. Subscribing libraries also receive Alexander Street’s Media Hosting Service at no charge.
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