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- http://www.mcc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Reviews
This website publishes work written by students and staff of the film studies department at Queen Mary, University of London. It focuses on contemporary US, German and Russian cinema in the form of in-depth accounts of individual films such as DER UNTERTANG/DOWNFALL, SPRING BRAKERS and THE HURT LOCKER. Each film analysis is accompanied by a ‘film note’, which includes basic production and distribution information as well as box office takings. The site also publishes short guides on a range of different themes including ‘cinemetrics’ (ie measuring and visualising movie data), ‘witchsploitation films’, the ‘sensory ethnographic film’, ‘motion capture’and ‘product placement’.
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- https://www.whosampled.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Music
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
Site dedicated to uncovering direct connections between songs and artists. Created and maintained by a community of over 17, 000 contributors,WhoSampled facilitates the discovery of samples, cover songs and remixes. Genres covered include Hip-Hop, Rap and R&B, Electronic/Dance, Rock, Pop, Soul, Reggae, Jazz and Classical.
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- https://www.oyez.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Law
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
This unofficial multimedia online archive features over 10,000 hours of oral arguments (in audio format) from the US Supreme Court, dating back to 1955. The project was started in 1997 by Jerry Goldman, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The site’s current incarnation features text, images, video and audio, all designed to clarify and explain the often convoluted and difficult to follow sessions of the court and is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the American legal system.
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- http://londonfilm.bbk.ac.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases
The London Project is a study of the film business in London, 1894-1914, organised by the AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies. One of its major outcomes is a database of information about cinemas and film businesses in London before the First World War. Users can search by name of venue or business (eg, cinema, producer etc.), London borough, address (ie. street name) and classification. The information used to build the database has come from contemporary trade papers and directories, newspapers, local government records, Board of Trade files, memoirs and London borough archives.
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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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- https://syrianarchive.org/en
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- Social Sciences
- Subject
- Current Affairs, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
This database was created by two Berliners to document and catalogue atrocities in the Syrian war. As of March 2017 the site has records of nearly 4,000 separate incidents, accompanied by video footage and indexed according to ten categories, including Violation of children’s rights; Use of illegal weapons; Unlawful attacks and Alleged Civilian Casualties from Russian attacks. The resource is intended for journalists, researcher, human rights organisations, activists and any group with an interest in the conflict. It is also intended to function as a repository of evidence for future historians. The United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as lawyers and activists around the world, have all made use of the archive. This article on the Deutsche Welle website, features comments from the site’s creators, who talk about their reasons for making it, along with some of the problems they have faced, particularly the difficulties of verifying sources in a war zone
Please note: the nature of this resource means that some of the footage is extremely graphic.
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Moving image
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- Link
- http://blogs.bard.edu/arendtcollection/
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- History, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Streaming/Download
The Hannah Arendt Collection is a website featuring a selection of digitised materials from the collection held by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The site features a small number of audio clips including Arendt speaking on power and violence and then answering questions about the subject.
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- Link
- 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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- http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/afamfilm/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Web Links
This website is the result of a project undertaken by doctoral students at UCLA to research and compile a relational database of entertainment industry personnel involved in early silent race films in America from 1909 - 1930. The database includes information about the films, along with personnel and production companies. The site includes tutorials on how to use the data, an essay on race film and information about further reading.
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