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  1. Notebook Explore Streaming

    Link
    https://mubi.com/notebook
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Festivals, Lists, Reviews, Streaming/Download

    Published daily by MUBI, Notebook offers a significant amount of free content in the form of Video Essays, Interviews, News and Reviews. There is a section of Features which includes some gems such as an exclusive translation of the one interview Jean-Luc Goddard gave about his film The Image Book (2019), an interview with director Nadav Lapid about his Golden Bear-winning film Synonyms (2019), and a discussion with German director Christian Petzold about his film Transit (2018). All the trailers for the films can be watched for free. Searching by film title via the main search tool is the most efficient way of accessing the site’s content.

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  2. Art of the Title Streaming

    Link
    http://www.artofthetitle.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Reviews, Streaming/Download

    An online resource for title sequence design spanning the history of film, television, conference and video game industries from the 1920s to the present. Title sequences can be watched on the site and there is information contextualising the creator and the style of each individual design (e.g. hand drawn, animation, modernist, nostalgic). The site can be searched by title, designer/studio and keywords, and includes interviews and discussion with creative directors and designers.

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  3. Film Scalpel Streaming

    Link
    http://www.filmscalpel.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Reviews, Streaming/Download

    Beautifully designed site devoted to the promotion of the video essay as a creative way of finding new methods to explore, theorise and reimagine film and cinema. The site provides a number of useful resources, tools, tips and tricks for the budding video essayist. A Best Practice page provides a number of exemplary videos from seasoned practitioners which include explanatory notes and diagrams. There are links to other resources, including the [in]Transition site: the benchmark journal for the in-depth, academic practice of the video essay form.

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  4. The Big Cartoon DataBase Streaming

    Link
    https://www.bcdb.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases, Discussion Lists, Information Sources, Reviews, Streaming/Download

    The BCDB project began in 1996 as a list of Disney animated features on creator Dave Koch’s personal computer. In response to increasing interest in the material, the DataBase went online in 1998 as a searchable resource dedicated to compiling information about cartoons, including production details such as voice actors, producers, and directors, as well as plot summaries and user reviews. Other features include news items related to the animation industry and an image gallery, which allows users to see images of various cartoon characters taken from popular films. Many films are streamed on the site.

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  5. Samuel Beckett Website Streaming

    Link
    http://www.samuel-beckett.net/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Drama, Literature
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Festivals, Information Sources, Reviews, Streaming/Download, Web Links

    A visually incoherent site (a consequence of downloading text direct from other sites) which brings together an impressive amount of information from numerous sources documenting the life and work of the Irish playwright and novelist. The site lists online texts, literature festivals and events, reviews, articles, and other websites and blogs devoted to Beckett. There are audio and film and television sections which indicate when a recording or broadcast is available commercially on CD or DVD (a warning that these are not always up to date) The site also records material available in other countries and in other languages. A small number of titles are streamed.

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  6. Experimental Cinema Streaming

    Link
    https://expcinema.org/site/en
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Reviews, Streaming/Download, Video Sources, Web Links

    News and resources on experimental film. Includes information on film festivals, a message board, film and book reviews and new publications. The Pages Video on the Net provides links to the YouTube and other video-sharing sites. The Artists section gives biographies of the avant garde filmmakers.

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  7. Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare (CASP) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Drama
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Databases, Information Sources, Reviews, Streaming/Download

    CASP is a research project devoted to the exploration and documentation of the ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted into a national, multicultural theatrical practice. Originally launched in 2004 by Professor Daniel Fischlin, CASP Version 2 was released in 2007 offering more than double the content, including learning, teaching, multimedia, and research resources and pedagogical tools related to how Shakespeare has been adapted into (and out of) Canadian theatre. The multimedia section streams audio and video content.

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  8. Ian McKellen Website Streaming

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

    The website of actor Ian McKellen, one of the first actors in Britain to establish his own website and blog. The site is comprehensive and informative on his work on stage, screen and radio. Some radio performances are streamed, there are clips from some films and television programmes and links to Amazon where a film or television production is commercially available.

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  9. Press Play Streaming

    Link
    https://www.indiewire.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Blogs, Journals, Reviews

    This archive of video essays is an excellent resource for film, media and television students and researchers. The essays, which feature contributions from regular contributors as well as examples aggregated from other sites, engage with classical and popular film as well as contemporary cinema and also consider the wider cultural implications of the cinematic arts.

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  10. Global Queer Cinema Streaming

    Link
    https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/gqc/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Festivals, Journals, Reviews, Streaming/Download

    This site is one of the outcomes of a research project led by academics at the Universities of Sussex and Warwick. The focus is on new writings about global forms of queer cinema, based mainly, though not exclusively on scholarly models from queer theory and film studies. There is a mixture of short articles and longer essays, as well as multimedia work and video essays. A resources page has links to other online studies and other useful information, including an interactive map showing 256 LGBT/queer film festivals which have existed around the world since 1977.

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