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  1. Alternative Projections Streaming

    Link
    https://www.alternativeprojections.com
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    American Studies, Film Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases, Information Sources, Lists, Web Links

    Resource devoted to experimental film and filmmakers in Los Angeles between 1945 and 1980. The website’s content is the culmination of three years of research into the archives of film venues and organizations, the recording of 35 oral histories, and the creation of a database, which catalogues the films, exhibitions, organisations, and people active during this prolific period in experimental film and video making.

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  2. BirdLife International Streaming

    Link
    http://www.birdlife.org/
    Category
    Bio-Medical
    Subject
    Biology, Nature
    Type of resource
    Databases, Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Web Links

    BirdLife groups together over 120 organisations worldwide that strive to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity. Their website includes a Data Zone section which presents a wealth of scientific data on the world’s bird species and the sites critical to their conservation. This information can be easily viewed at national and territorial level using the Country Profiles searching capabilities; there is also a Case Studies section, and a Seabird Tracking Database, which contains the largest collection of seabird data in the world. This data can be searched and viewed within the site, but access to the actual data is restricted.

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  3. BFI Filmography Streaming

    Link
    https://filmography.bfi.org.uk/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Film Studies, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases

    Who is the most prolific British female director? Which subjects feature in British horror films? Which countries have co-produced British feature films? These are the kinds of question we can now easily find answers for. After a few years in the making the BFI has finally published an online compilation of UK feature films released to cinemas from the beginning of film history until now. As well as presenting a broad overview of the UK film industry, the BFI have mapped other information onto each of the film titles (e.g. people and companies involved) to enrich and provide unique insights into UK film history. This information should be of interest to film buffs, journalists, researchers, or anyone with an interest in UK film and/or history. It is searchable with shareable data visualisations on a dedicated BFI Filmography web platform or record by record on via the Collections Search.
    The Filmography is a dynamic resource, and the underlying data is constantly being reviewed and updated.

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  4. Film Aficionado Streaming

    Link
    http://www.filmaf.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases, Lists, Web Links

    This website defines itself as ‘your favourite spot for film collecting’ and offers a quick and friendly way of finding films which have been released for home entertainment. The content is organised under two main tabs, Find DVDs and Find Blu-ray and searches can be limited to USA, UK, Canada or other countries. Further filters can be applied by selecting a specific release week; links to relevant retail outlets are also provided. The home page lists the ‘100 most collected directors’ and a link to their own Youtube Channel which offers help on how to pick ‘good’ titles, how to find films by ‘your favourite director’ and how to use ‘UPC importer’ to add your online collection to their database.

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  5. Mapping Contemporary Cinema Streaming

    Link
    http://www.mcc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    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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  6. The London Project Streaming

    Link
    http://londonfilm.bbk.ac.uk/
    Category
    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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  7. American Radio History Streaming

    Link
    https://www.americanradiohistory.com/index.htm
    Category
    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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  8. 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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  9. Early African American Film: Reconstructing the History of Silent Race Films, 1909-1930 Streaming

    Link
    http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/afamfilm/
    Category
    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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  10. Cognitive Science Movie Index Streaming

    Link
    https://www.indiana.edu/~cogfilms/index.php
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Computing, Film Studies
    Type of resource
    Databases, Web Links

    Originally created by the Cognitive Science department at the University of California, San Diego and now hosted by the University of Indiana, Bloomington, the Cognitive Science Movie Index is a broad list of films that showcase themes in the Cognitive Sciences, with the aim of highlighting their potential usefulness in an educational context. A feedback system enables users to rate each film based on quality, relevance and accuracy.

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