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Internet Resources for Media
Film Discussion/Academic | Reviews | Distributors for Specialty Media | Web Sites Featuring Alternative Films | Film, Video and Broadcasting Archives on the Web
Film Discussion/Academic
- SOFIA: Study of Film as an Internet Application
Beautifully designed site; of interest to anyone interested in film and of particular interest to introductory level film students. A project of Paul Neal Squires, University of North London. - American Film Institute
Links to online catalogs of educational institutions where courses are offered in advanced film and television studies. Information about scholarships, internships, and master's classes. - Academy Awards
Information about the Academy Awards. - ScreenSite: Film and TV Studies
Access to film and television resources on the WWW with an emphasis on teaching and research. Includes lists of reference tools and links to other related sites on the Internet. - The Media History Project
A guide to online materials relevant to the study, appreciation, and understanding of media history. Includes related Internet links, bibliographies, lists of professional organizations and resources, and a timeline of key events in media history. - Film Festivals
The source for links on film festivals.
Jump to top of page.Reviews
- Internet Movie Database
The Web authority on movie facts. Everything you ever wanted to know about every movie ever made. Features a full search guide and FAQ. Links to a wide variety of film reviews and columns. Definitely a mega-site. - Informational Database About Movies
- Yahoo Movie Reviews
Easy to search resource for current reviews. - Reviews of New Films
Reviews of new film and video releases, interviews and festivals. - Showbizdata: Entertainment Industry Source
A tremendous amount of information about the industry and a particularly good archival review section. - Premiere
Online version of the French movie magazine. In French. - Feminist Film Reviews
Transcriptions of Linda Lopez McAlister's thoughtful film reviews. Originally broadcast on The Women's Show - from WMNF-FM in Tampa.
Distributors for Specialty Media
- Bullfrog Films
Videos about the environment, ecology, sustainable development, indigenous people, cultural diversity, and performing arts, music and dance. - The Discovery Channel
Program listings, specials, and ordering information. - Fanlight Productions
Videos dealing with nursing, health, disabilities, substance abuse, psychiatry, death and dying, medical ethics, public health, etc. - The Museum of Modern Art
Describes the Museum's film and video collection, which includes (among 13,000 films) all the extant original negatives of both the Biograph and Edison companies. - First Run /Icarus Films
Distributors of videos about contemporary urban studies, women's studies, African-American studies, Asia, civil rights, family relations and more. - California Newsreel
Non-profit documentary film and video production and distribution. Deals primarily with African-American issues, media and society, labor relations, Black literature and theater, South Africa, civil rights, post-colonial identity, etc. - Mystic Fire Video
Videos about music, dance, the literati, theater, avant-garde cinema, poets and poetry, physical manifestations of mind and spirit. Links to non-mainstream sites. - WGBH Boston Video
Source for tapes of Nova, Frontline, Mystery, The American Experience, This Old House. - The Roland Collection
Media on fine art from prehistoric times to the present day. Film and video on painting, sculpture, architecture and design, photography, art appreciation and more. - Hawkhill Video
Basic science - biology, chemistry, earth sciences, natural resources, ecosystems, energy and society. - Pioneer Entertainment
Educational and entertainment media in the laserdisc (optical video discs) format. - RMI Media Productions, Inc.
Business, computing, oceanography, human resources, safety.
Web Sites Featuring Alternative Films
- Flicker:Homepage for Alternative Cinematic Experience
Source for films and videos that "transgress the boundries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media information technocracy."
Film, Video and Broadcasting Archives on the Web
- Public Motion Picture Research Centers and Film Archives
A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page, this site features a list of many of the most respected motion picture archives with pages on the WWW. Particulary strong on international film and archives. - Academic Film Archive of North America
"The mission of The Academic Film Archive is to acquire, preserve, document, and promote academic film by providing an archive, resource, and forum for continuing scholarly advancement and public exhibition... [as] the only institution in the U.S. dedicated to documenting the history of academic film." - International Federation of Television Archives
Links to valuable resources for TV archives, and selection guidelines for archival TV materials. - Internet Moving Images Archive: Movie Collection
A collection of movies that the Prelinger Archive has digitized and donated to the Internet Archive. - National Public Broadcasting Archives
Archival records of major non-commercial broadcasting entities in the United States. Links to other broadcasting entities and repositories. - Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound
ARS was one of the first major collections of significant sound recordings at an educational institution. Provides links to a list of related pages.
This page is maintained by Francis Poole, Instructional Media Department.
Last modified: 03/24/09
