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- http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/www/#/all-episodes/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Film Studies, German Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
In 2009, film director David Lynch sent his son Austin and collaborator Jason S. on a 20,000 mile, seventy day long road trip, across the United States, during which they filmed ordinary people, talking about their lives and experiences. This website presents the 121 short films which resulted from that trip. Each film is introduced by Lynch Senior and features the interviewee speaking to the camera about his or her life. Although one woman talks about her recurrent nightmare of a faceless man with a goatee beard, the general tone is in the gentler vein of The Straight Story, rather than Lynch’s more surreal outings. What unites the interviewees, despite the wide range of age, background and race, is how compellingly the stories of their lives are told. The end result is a powerful and moving portrait of smalltown America as well as a demonstration of how the medium of the internet can be used creatively and imaginatively without sacrificing any of the traditional virtues of documentary filmmaking.
The filmmakers followed up this project with Interview Project Germany: a similar venture, featuring fifty interviews with German people.
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- https://www.wir-waren-so-frei.de/index.php/Splash/Index/lang/en_US
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- Arts and Humanities
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- German Studies, History
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download, Video Sources
This site presents the photographs, personal recollections and private films of German people, documenting the period between the last May Day rally in the GDR on 1st May 1989 and 2nd December 1990, when the first Bundestag elections of the newly united Germany took place. The result of a project developed by the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, the aim of the project is to capture the personal responses of ordinary people to the historic events unfolding day by day. Searching can be narrowed according to theme, place, event as well as public figures, parties and organisations. A number of exhibitions provide structure to the resource, identifying significant events and themes - such as The Border Opens and grouping the relevant material together with contextual information, maps, dates, and place names. Some of the material is available under Creative Commons licences and the site is available in both German and English.
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- http://www.kracauer-lectures.de/en/winter-2013-2014/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, German Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting
Named after the philosopher, sociologist, and writer Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), this series of podcasts and video lectures, which is hosted by the Goethe University, Frankfurt, aims to present innovative contemporary scholarship on film and media from the fields of film and media studies, art history, cultural studies, and aesthetic philosophy. The lectures also aim to engage with science, theories of technology cultural and media economics, and political theory. The podcasts feature eminent film scholars from Europe and the USA, including Ginette Vincendeau, Thomas Elsaesser and Andras Balint Kovacs and are free to view or can be accessed as an rss feed.
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- https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/podcasts/culture/149-kleist-education-violence
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- Arts and Humanities
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- German Studies, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting
A series of podcasts produced by Warwick University and presented by Dr Seán Allan from the department of German Studies along with Professor Ricarda Schmidt and Dr Steven Howe, University of Exeter. The podcasts consider Kleist’s novels and novellas in the light of how he treats education and how this links to the representation of violence in his work.
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- https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- German Studies, Languages
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, TV/Radio listings, Web Links
This is the website of Germany’s international broadcaster, which provides a wide range of television, radio and online services in thirty languages and is particularly strong in its coverage of culture, education and European social, political and economic matters. The Learn German page, provides access to a range of language courses, suitable for all levels, and including e-learning services, videos, audio courses and podcasts, as well as written materials and worksheets. Amongst the language resources on offer is Langsam Gesprochne Nachrichten, a series of podcasts, with accompanying transcripts, of the news being read slowly in German.
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- http://www.wordsoftheworld.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- French Studies, German Studies, History, Languages, Literature
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download, Web Links
Academics from the University of Nottingham’s School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies present a series of short videos based on a single word which is significant to their research. The site’s homepage presents the words as a kind of crossword puzzle grid, presumably to represent the interdisciplinary nature of the School. The user clicks on a word - Huguenot, Biscuit, Interstitial or Antisemistism - to name but four - and is taken to the video in question. Like other sites designed by Brady Haran, this one features a simple, stylish, slightly quirky approach which allows the enthusiasm of the academics to come across, without obscuring or trivialising the seriousness of their research.
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- http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
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- Arts and Humanities
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- German Studies, Languages
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
This website has Flash animations of the phonetic sounds of English, German and Spanish. The result of a project by the University of Iowa, it is aimed at students of linguistics, phonetics and languages. Each consonant and vowel has an animated articulatory digram, showing a cross-section of how the human tongue, teeth and lips move when speaking, accompanied by audio of the sound itself. Playing alongside the animations are videos showing a person speaking a selection of words, in order to put the sounds in context. There is also an explanatory diagram of the articulatory anatomy, contributing to a well-designed, useful resource.
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- http://www.germananthropology.com/
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- Social Sciences
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- Ethnology, German Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
This online resource was created as part of the research project "The History of Federal German Anthropology from 1945 to 1990”. The core of the site is a collection of video interviews with leading German anthropologists. The interviews are in German, with English subtitles but the website itself is in English. The site’s other resources include a timeline which gives significant dates in German anthropology, and a glossary providing explanations of German anthropological terms.
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- https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/german-studies/goethe
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- Arts and Humanities
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- German Studies, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The results of a project carried out by the Department of German Studies at the University of Warwick, these podcasts feature Goethe’s early poetry read by Berlin-based actor Christian Werwerka. The podcasts are accompanied by the text of the original poem and an English translation.
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- https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/search-results
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Architecture, Classics, Drama, Economics, Education, French Studies, German Studies, History, Law, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Psychology, Social Studies
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The British Academy’s Media Library holds a collection of audio recordings of lectures, discussions, seminars, conversations and other events that have been held at the BA in recent years and streams them for on-demand listening online. As the UK’s national body for for the humanities and social sciences the British Academy hosts an extensive range of lecture series covering areas such as Biblical archaeology, poetry, Shakespeare, philosophy art, history, Celtic studies, law, economics, anthropology, psychology given by eminent people in the field.
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