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  1. TV Tropes Streaming

    Link
    https://tvtropes.org/
    Category
    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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  2. Bard Box Streaming

    Subject
    Drama, Literature, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download, Web Links

    Bardbox collects ‘some of the best and most interesting of original Shakespeare-related videos on YouTube, Vimeo and other video hosting sites’. As of March 2017 the number of results returned from a search for ‘Shakespeare’ in YouTube is nearing two million: for this reason the approach of BardBox is necessarily selective. Luke McKernan, who maintains the site, selects videos specifically created for distributon on YouTube, Vimeo, Daily Motion and other sites, and posts the content along with his own comments and details of cast, credits, date and links. An inspired and inspiring resource.

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  3. Hay Player Streaming

    Link
    https://www.hayfestival.com/archive/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    History, Literature, Social Studies
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Festivals, Streaming/Download

    Online archive featuring audio recordings of talks, interviews and readings from the Hay Festival, going back as far as 1995. Much of the content is free, although some is behind a paywall. The site also features content from Hay’s international sister festivals in Beirut, Segovia, Nairobi, Arequipa, Dhaka and Cartagena, among others.

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  4. Screen Plays: The Theatre Plays on British Television Database Streaming

    Link
    http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Drama, Literature, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    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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  5. An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio Streaming

    Link
    http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/Shakespeare
    Category
    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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  6. Drama Online Streaming

    Link
    http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Drama, Literature
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    Drama Online is a study resource available on subscription to schools, colleges and higher education institutions. The resource currently (7/2015) includes 1200 playtexts, 700 images, and a growing list of scholarly works. The library now includes video content. From October 2015, a collection of twenty filmed stage productions of productions from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre will be streamed. The content will also feature educational media company, Stage on Screen’s filmed productions of key set plays: ‘Doctor Faustus’, ‘School for Scandal’, ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ and ‘Volpone’. The Manchester Royal Exchange’s, ‘Hamlet’ starring Maxine Peake in the title role and a Shakespeare masterclass by leading acting coach, Patsy Rodenburg are also online.

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  7. University of London, School of Advanced Study Videos and Podcasts Streaming

    Link
    https://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Economics, History, Law, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Social Studies
    Medium
    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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  8. Shakespeare on Film and Television Streaming

    Link
    http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/findaid/Shakespeare.pdf
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Drama, Literature
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Information Sources

    A pdf providing an annotated and comprehensive guide to moving image materials related to the life and works of William Shakespeare in the collections of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress. The catalogue has been throughly researched and catalogued in detail by Zoran Sinobad. The plays are arranged by title and include, in addition to full performances, documentaries, musical and dance versions and allusions to Shakespeare in comedy and variety,

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  9. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Streaming

    Link
    https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Drama, Literature
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Databases, Information Sources

    The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust cares for the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare-related material accessible by the public and houses the Royal Shakespeare Company Archive. The RSC archive includes videotaped performances of its productions at its theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon and London since 1982. Full cast and production details can be found on the RSC’s Performance Database and Learning on Screen’s International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio. The Library and Archives Catalogue also holds DVDs and video cassettes of commercially available Shakespeare-related material which can be searched from the RSC catalogue; this material can be consulted on site in the Library.

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  10. Pod Academy Streaming

    Link
    http://podacademy.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Current Affairs, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Blogs, Podcasting

    A platform for podcasts covering the arts, social sciences, business and economics, and science and the environment, this independent, not-for-profit initiative was set up in 2011 by a group of academics, journalists and IT specialists and aims to keep abreast of research in the academy as well as work that throws light on events in the news, thus combining rigorous scholarship with an up-to-the-minute accessibility. Recent podcasts include Laura Mulvey’s Death 24x a second in which she analyses the relationship between stillness and the moving image in cinema; an interview with Angela Phillips, Reader in Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London and chair of the ethics committee of the organisation, Media Reform on the background to the Leveson Inquiry; and a look at Youth unemployment in the UK with author Callum Biggins who has written about the subject for the London-based liberal think tank CentreForum.

    All the podcasts are accompanied by a full transcript and the site also features a blog and links to other educational sites.

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