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- http://www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Media Studies
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- Blogs, Reviews
Blog with a scholarly bent devoted to British television drama, ‘from its earliest days to the present day’. An entire section is devoted to the BBC’s Play For Today, consisting of a chronological list of plays, with credits, stills where available, and essays/interviews about individual plays by David Rolinson (who is the site’s creator) and others.
An essay on Alan Clarke, which makes particular reference to Clarke’s ‘Play for Today’ work has been updated to mention the BFI’s 2016 DVD and Blu-Ray release 'Dissent and Disruption’, a collection of surviving stand-alone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1969 and 1989. Other material on Clarke is available on this mini-site
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- http://tonygarnett.info/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Media Studies
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- Blogs, Producers/Broadcasters
The official website of the writer and television producer. The site gives details of his screen credits, novels and unpublished writings. There are transcripts of speeches on issues related to television drama and interviews given to a variety of individuals and journals. Full text of articles by and about Garnett are also listed.
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- http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Information Sources, Reviews
Launched in 2016 Screen Plays documents British television productions of plays that were originally written for the theatre. In its current ‘soft launch’ version, it features television productions of theatre plays from television’s first thirty years, 1936 to 1965. There is also a selection of later records which will be added over the coming months. The resource will embrace all productions to date by summer 2016. The site also offers information on the audiovisual and print sources that are known to exist for each of the productions: these include archival production files, contemporary newspaper reviews, scholarly writings, practitioners’ autobiographies and the recordings themselves (both those existing only in archives and those available commercially). Searches can be undertaken by title, series, channel, date, production company, theatre company, and theme (e.g. Africa, mental health, pantomine).
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- http://culturalpolitics.net/index/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Media Studies
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- Courses, Information Sources, Reviews
The website provides resources for the critical analysis of popular culture in the US, including the impact of that culture beyond national borders. Resources include sites on various forms of popular culture, including music, film, television, advertising, sports, fashion, toys, magazines and comic books, and the medium in which this message moves, cyberculture.
The site focuses on issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, cultural imperialism and censorship, as shaped by and reflected in various mass media.
This site also includes sections that introduce and give resources for four main types or elements of popular culture analysis: production analysis, textual analysis, audience analysis, and historical analysis (of the first three dimensions as they change over time).
Also included are links to online pop culture courses, to journals treating popular culture, to some other key sites providing pop cultural analysis, and to media activist organisations that work to bring social justice critiques to mass media.
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- https://www.cmstudies.org/default.aspx
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Courses, Funding, Information Sources, Journals
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies is the leading scholarly organisation in the United States dedicated to promoting a broad understanding of film, television, and related media through research and teaching grounded in the contemporary humanities tradition. SCMS encourages excellence in scholarship and pedagogy and fosters critical inquiry into the global, national, and local circulation of cinema, television, and other related media.
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- http://www.google.com/doodles
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Design, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Organisations
Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists. The Archive pages, arranged chronologically, preserve the Doodles of past years celebrating, for example, the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, St Valentine’s Day, the Mexican 2015 elections and Saul Bass’ 93rd birthday. Clicking on the Doodle, some of which are animated and/or interactive, gives interesting information on the illustrator, the creative process and details of the event/celebration behind the logo.
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- https://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Economics, History, Law, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Selected public lectures, seminars, workshops and conferences hosted by the School and its institutes are recorded and can be viewed and downloaded from the web pages, iTunes and YouTube. The videos and podcasts are arranged in broad categories: Culture, Language and Literature; Digital; Economics; History; Law; Music; Philosophy; Politics, Development and Human Rights; Research Training; Sociology and Anthropology. Within the broad categories the titles are listed chronologically; going into individual entries gives a full summary of content.
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- http://www.earlycinema.uni-koeln.de/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Type of resource
- Databases
The German Early Cinema Database contains data related to film supply, distribution, exhibition and reception in Germany between 1895 and 1926. The Film Supply Database, compiled by Herbert Birett, provides information on approx. 45,000 films available on the German market between 1895 and 1920 (irrespective of their country of origin). As much information as possible is given such as original and alternate titles, production country and company, cast, genre, plot synopsis, length, censorship information, shooting locations etc. The Documents Collection contains c.5,000 texts on early cinema in Germany between 1895 and 1914, from a wide selection of non-film sources, such as specialist journals and general newspapers. The Fairground Cinema Database provides information on fairground cinema in Germany and neighbouring countries between 1896 and 1926. The front end of the site is in English, details of the content (films, documents etc) are in German.
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- https://www.eofftv.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Databases, Reviews
A site currently (June 2015) listing over 11,500 titles related to fantasy, horror, animation and science fiction on film and television. The site covers films, television series, music videos, documentaries and advertisements. Each entry typically lists full cast and production credits, sequels, bibliographical references, release and distribution information. Searching an individuals name brings a filmography and potted biography. A daily news summary is provided.
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- http://www.cinematologists.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
Described on the website as "A Podcast and Film Club for Discerning Cinephiles", the Cinematologists is based within and recorded at The School of Film & Television, Falmouth University and led by Dr Dario Llinares and Dr Neil Fox. To date (6/2015) there are 7 podcasts including an introduction and audience discussion of GOODBYE DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-Liang), an introduction and audience discussion of YOJIMBO (Akira Kurosawa,1961) and Dr Fox questioning Dario about his article on Bronson entitled Punishing Bodies: British Prison Film and the Spectacle of Masculinity analysing the prison as aesthetic space and (de)constructions of masculinity made possible by the prison genre.
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