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- http://www.mcc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- 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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- http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Film Studies, Music
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- 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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- 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://www.theyshootpictures.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
- Type of resource
- Lists, Reviews, Web Links
Film site primarily devoted to a list of the 1,000 greatest films created from an aggregation of nearly seven hundred individual film polls from journals, magazines and websites, including Sight and Sound, Empire, Facets, Positif, and The Village Voice. The site also includes the no less extensive but more narrowly focused list of the 21st century’s most acclaimed films, and a growing set of director profiles.
The site’s other resource - 1000 noir films is currently a work in progress: beginning with a list of the most 100 frequently cited film noirs, and then gradually adding a further 900 films noir (or films with prominent noir elements). The enterprise (modestly described as ‘hobby-driven’) is the creation of Bill Georgaris and his partner Vicki Platt, who are based in Adelaide, Australia.
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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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- https://www.filmsite.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Information Sources, Reviews
Filmsite.org is a film-review website established in 1996 by film critic Tim Dirks, and owned since 2008 by AMC. The site contains over 300 reviews of what Dirks judges to be the greatest films of all time. In some cases, a review goes through the film scene-by-scene. The site also contains many other lists, and pages offering an introduction to cinema literacy. Other features include a section for "Greatest Films of the Year" and summaries of the Academy Awards.
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- http://emro.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Type of resource
- Databases, Reviews
Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO) is a database of video, DVD, audio CD and CD-ROM reviews of materials from major educational and documentary distributors and independent filmmakers. The reviews are written by librarians and teaching faculty in institutions across the United States and Canada. Material can be searched by title, keyword, date and star rating.
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- http://culturalpolitics.net/index/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Media Studies
- Type of resource
- 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.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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- https://www.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Reviews
Movie reviews, nationwide showtimes, new releases and movie news. The site offers a complete, searchable archive of New York Times film reviews. The search function on the home page links to an extensive database of reviews and profiles on individual films, filmmakers, and actors.
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