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- Link
- http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Art, Film Studies, Music
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Podcasting, Reviews, Streaming/Download
This is an USA-based podcast entertainment network devoted to culture, movies and music. Podcasts housed on the site include: Pure Cinema (with discussions of new and old films), Vinyl Emergency (about the people who create and collect vinyl records), Drinking at the Movies (conversation about films by two old friends), Supporting Characters (interviews with authors, film critics and bloggers), Movie Madness (reviews, interviews, film festivals coverage and box office information), Fresh Perspective (on a film related theme), and Voices & Visions (interviews with creative people). Some shows are sporadic, some are bi-weekly, but the site archives all the content, which can be streamed or downloaded.
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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://rediscoverbloxwich.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Music, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This nicely designed website is the result of a participatory media project by sixth form students at Walsall Academy in Bloxwich, a small town in the West Midlands. Featuring interviews with local residents who recount their memories of growing up in the area, one of the interviewees is Noddy Holder of Slade, who talks about his childhood, as well as the links between the industry of the Black Country and the development of heavy metal music.
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- 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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- https://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts
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- 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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- https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/moving-image-and-recorded-sound-division
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Ethnology, Music, Politics and Government, Religious Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
The Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division documents the experiences of peoples of African descent, as they have been captured via audiovisual technology. The collections encompass a variety of formats including motion picture film (released prints and outtakes), video recordings, and music, and spoken arts recordings in several formats. Included in the broad range of audiovisual materials are documentary and dramatic films, principally focusing upon international political, anthropological, religious, and cultural arts themes. A unique collection of public affairs television programmes documents the local concerns of African Americans in communities across the United States. Public service announcements and commercial advertisements are also strongly represented.
Since 1980 the MIRS has conducted oral history interviews through its Oral History/Video Documentation Programme. These primary source video testimonies are part of one of the nation’s longest-running video oral history programme.
The collections are held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Researchers from abroad may access the collection on site having obtained a temporary library card. Increasingly, the Center’s audio-visual holdings are being cataloged in The New York Public Library’s online public access catalogue.
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- https://brittenpears.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Databases, Information Sources
The Britten-Pears Foundation maintains an extensive archive and library which comprises one of the UK’s most important centres for music research and scholarship. The Audio Visual collection holds many video and audio recordings related to Britten and Pears’ work which can be searched via the online catalogue.
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- http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/operatv/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Music
- Type of resource
- Databases, TV/Radio listings
Developed in association with the Indiana University Digital Library Program, the Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database documents more than three-quarters of a century of opera, operetta and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States. The database traces performance programming from early presentations on experimental TV stations to current live and recorded productions released on broadcast and closed circuit television, cable, home video and webcasts. The database is easy to navigate and entries typically gives title, series, opera company, composer, conductor, orchestra, soloists, transmission date, broadcast station, duration and production credits. Some records name the archive which holds a copy and the existence of a commercial VHS or DVD copy is indicated.
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- http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Art, Film Studies, Music, Photography
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Courses, Streaming/Download
The Centre for Visual Music (CVM) houses growing collections related to visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation and avant-garde media. CVM’s archives house the world’s largest collection of resources on Visual Music. The collections (the majority freely accessible online) include film/video/digital media and related papers, books, artwork, documentation, photography and artifacts. Committed to the curation, preservation, promotion and access to these multimedia collections, the Archive holds collections of artists whose careers reflect unique aspects of cinema. CVM’s collections include preserved film material for artists including Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, Charles Dockum, John and James Whitney, Harry Smith, Pat O’Neill, John Stehura and others. CVM organises screenings and events and from 2015 has hosted selected films and video clips at a CVM channel on Vimeo.com.
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- https://documentary.net/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Art, Economics, Education, General Science, History, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Politics and Government, Sports Science, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Discussion Lists, Streaming/Download
A site offering free streamed documentaries; new titles are added daily. Films can be selected by broad categories (e.g. Economy, Media, Nature), by country of production and by duration - short (up to 10 mins), mid (11-30 mins) and long (30 mins or over). Filmmakers are invited to send the site their films for potential distribution. An online magazine/gives industry news, new gadgets, reviews, and notice of forthcoming films. Free tutorials and guides on documentary filmmaking are available from the site.
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