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Ad Critic - All Ads, All the Time
An ambitious collection of television commercials in QuickTime format that aspires to have "practically any ad you have seen on TV."
American Studies Web
Begun by David Phillips at Yale, now housed at Georgetown University, this is the best starting place for researching American Studies topics on the Internet.
Applied Semiotics/Semiotique Appliquee
A refereed journal of liiterary research on the World Wide Web
ARTHEMIS or the Advanced Research Team on History and Epistemology of Moving Image Study
It offers video conferences, online papers, and a bibliography of our research on History and Epistemology of Moving Image Studies.
Black Cultural Studies Web Site
Includes: "bibliographical information, essays, and interviews on cultural workers working in such areas as Black literary criticism, Black popular culture, Critical Race Theory and film theory.…[W]e take as a starting principle the work of Stuart Hall and The Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies. "
Border Crossings
An experiment in hypertextual relationships by Karla Tonella of the University of Iowa that explores the common ground between Cyorgs, Gender, LesBiGay, Dispora, La Frontera, Border Incidents and Other Borders.
Border Poetics Project
"This project sets out to develop theoretical and practical strategies (a "border poetics") for examining the function of these forms of representation in the intersection between territorial borders and aesthetic works. Analysing primarily border-crossing narratives in literary texts, it aims to test two main theses: 1) that narrative and symbolic representation is a central element in border formation and experience; 2) that textual or medial borders within or around aesthetic works are related to the borders represented in these works."
The Center for Arts and Culture
(pages slow to load but eventually work) "America's first independent think tank for arts and cultural issues. Based in Washington, D.C., the Center considers the role of creativity and innovation in our national and international life through research, analysis, publication and dialogue. ... The Center’s research priorities focus around eight issue areas: The Creative Sector, Creativity and the Law, Globalization, Access and Equity, Heritage and Preservation, Communities, The National Investment, Education and the Creative Workforce"
Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online
Abstracts and full texts and links to other metaphor collections maintained by Tim Rohrer, University of Oregon Philosophy Department.
Center for Social Media
Directed by Pat Aufderheide, Professor of Journalism at American University, the Center "puts a spotlight on mediamaking for social purposes. It showcases and analyzes moving image media as creative tools for public knowledge and action.
Chinese Cultural Studies: Bibliographical Guide
"References are restricted to a fairly small number of the thousands of works available in English." By Paul Halsall
CineMedia
A mega directory/search engine with links to media sites in these categories: TV, Cinema, New Media, Radio Shows, Actors, Films, Directors, Networks, Video Studios, Theaters, Organizations, Magazines, Schools, Festivals, TV Etc., Cinemaćetc, Production, Research.
City Sites
"An open access electronic book... the result of collaborative research by scholars from Europe and the USA and presents a pioneering approach to American urbanism utilising new multimedia technologies. The book consists of ten essays by leading scholars presenting multi-disciplinary study of the iconography, spatial forms and visual and literary cultures of New York and Chicago from 1870-1939. City Sites also features extensive online resources, map pages, bibliography, moving and still images and sound."
CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies
A research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to literary and cultural studies, edited by Francis Steen.
Conceptual Metaphor Home Page
George Lakoff's site looks like it hasn't been attended to in quite awhile, but still ... "This server is a research tool for cognitive scientists and others interested in the study of conceptual metaphor systems. Ongoing work in the metaphor system of English and other languages is made available here using a hypertext format which allows the reader to trace links between metaphors and thus get a better idea of the structure of the system."
Critical Studies in Food and Culture Blog
"Critical Studies in Food and Culture (CSFC) is a research cluster sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute and the American Studies Department at the University of California, Davis. It aims to support and share the work of Faculty and Graduate Student researchers investigating the intersections of food and cultural studies, as well as the critical analysis of eating practices and the broader cultures of consumption."
 
Cultronix
A journal of art, art criticism and cultural theory
Cultsock
Mick Underwood's site for communication, cultural and media studies
Culture Machine: The Electronic Journal
Culture Machine is an international, inter-active, e-journal in cultural theory/cultural studies, accessed through the WWW and entirely free. The first issue, 'Taking Risks with the Future', includes contributions from Lawrence Grossberg, Sue Golding, Timothy Clark and Michael Naas. The second issue, 'The University' is due to be published in Feb. 2000, and will feature contributions from Jacques Derrida, Samuel Weber, Peggy Kamuf, Henry Giroux, Ted Striphas and Stevan Harnad.
Cultural Landscape Studies
The Harvard Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies merged with the Arnold Arboretum's Landscape Design Program to form the Landscape Institute. Although the cultural aspect seems to have been deemphasized, projects from the Cultural Landscapes Studies program from 1997 to 2003 are still available.
Cultural Logic
An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas
This collaborative web site presents and interprets a wide variety of texts--books, manuscripts, illustrations, maps, and artifacts--generated by Europe's colonization of the Americas. Comparative and broad in scope, the exhibition investigates Spanish, French, English, and Dutch "readings" of the New World and the "readings" of Europeans made by many Native cultures.
Cultural Studies Central
Cultural Studies Central is a gathering spot and central clearinghouse where those of us who live and breathe Cultural Studies can go to learn more and do more. --Robin Markowitz
Cultural Studies Papers and Articles
A growing collection of online articles and papers..
Cultural Studies Resources - Blackwell Publishers
"The links on this page were collected and reviewed by Sarah Berry, Information Architect, and Toby Miller, from the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University."
Cultural Theory and Critical Theory via the Iowa State EServer
Thoughtfully chosen papers, web sites, listservs and other Internet resources to "help to introduce the inssues and concerns raised by the field" of cultural studies.
Cyberculture Working Group
Constructed mainly as an organizing tool for a group of studens and faculty at and near the University of Maryland, but is useful for anyone interested in "cyberculture" and how popular culture finds expression on the Internet. You will find full texts of articles and reviews here and instructions for joining a listserv on cyberculture.
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
Tables of Contents and selected full texts from each issue. Published by Duke University Press.
Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture
"Drain is a refereed online journal published biannually. The journal seeks to promote lively and well-informed debate around theory and praxis. Each issue of Drain will have a specific concept that it explores. We are especially keen to publish pieces that connect the conceptual framework of each issue to themes such as globalization, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, capitalism and new technologies, as well as ethical and aesthetic concerns."
Everything Postmodern
Gender and Sexuality from the eServer
"This page publishes texts which address gender studies and queer studies, with a particular focus upon discussions of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices."
H-PCAACA Discussion Group
A member of the H-NET Humanities OnLine initiative. H-PCAACA encourages scholarly discussion of popular culture. This Web site, affiliated with The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.
Hollywood: The Dream Factory: An Anthropolgist Looks at the Move-makers
Hortense Powdermaker's classic in it's entirety is available here, as well as a chapter from Stranger and Friend. The Way of an Anthropologist, a review of Dream Factory, a biographical sketch and an obituary.
k.i.s.s. of the panopticon
A cultural theory and new media literacy Web site run by Dougie Bicket through the New Media Research Lab at the University of Washington's School of Communications.
Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website
"A WWW research resource for those interested in the Critical Theory project. Firmly based in Frankfurt School thought, this site maintains a collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about Critical Theory."
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
"Under the guidance of an editorial board of scholars from a variety of disciplines, ImageTexT publishes solicited and peer-reviewed papers that investigate the material, historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of visual textuality."
Institute for Cultural Landscapes Studies
"…we use "cultural landscape" to mean a way of seeing landscapes that emphasizes the interaction between human beings and nature over time."
Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
This site used to have a brief description of the journal, Table of contents from current issue, Excerpts from current issue, Submission information from the University of Iowa English Department. It seems to be in limbo as of 10/99, but the return of content is promised.
The Journal of Mundane Behavior
"Hosted by the Department of Sociology and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, is a new scholarly journal devoted to the study of the "unmarked" -- those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us, both as academics and as everyday individuals."
Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
A new journal of history and cultural studies published by a collective at the Department of History, University of Western Australia
Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
A fair-sized bibliography of online readings on people, movements, events, politics and popular culture from the era of the cold war, anti-communism hysteria and nuclear bomb anxiety created by Professor Al Filreis , University of Pennsylvania.
Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium
Articles on Barbie, slash fan fiction, McLuhan, and more, interviews with and by Dery, and extended promotions for Dery's books with excerpts. Full text of his pamphlet Culture jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs.
Media and Communications Studies (MCS)
Daniel Chandler of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth has compiled and edited this massive site since 1995.
MIT Communications Forum
An online record of years of forums devoted to all aspects of communications including the Internet, online journalism, media and culture, media studies, new media, children's culture, and cultural studies.
Other Voices The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism
"Other Voices is an award-winning, electronic journal of cultural criticism published at the University of Pennsylvania. Founded in March 1997, Other Voices regularly publishes provocative essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, lecture transcriptions, audio lectures, multimedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities."
The People History
"The People History is a site dedicated to preserving our memories for future generations , many of the things we accept as part of our way of life did not exist just 20 years ago, and many of the events that occurred before the coming of the Internet are well documented historically but do not have many memories from the people who lived through those events and changes."
Picturing Justice: the on-line journal of law and popular culture
The site features short (1000-2000 word) reviews and essays. Many of the articles are written by law professors and lawyers but others come from professors in non-law fields, law students, and others.
Popular Culture
A rough list of popular culture sites, minimally organized, but some interesting links.
Postmodernism and its Critics
A summary of the key concepts, theorists, methodologies, and criticisms of postmodernism. This "guide prepared by students for students" was prepared at the University of Alabama by Shannon Weiss and Karla Wesley.
QueerTheory.com
This very rich and well organized site "provides you with the best online resources integrated with the best visual and textual resources in Queer Culture, Queer Theory, Queer Studies, Gender Studies and related fields."
Race & Ethnicity
The Race and Ethnicity collection, one of over forty literary collections on the EServer, consists of reference material, essays, and other works addressing issues of race and ethnicity in the United States.
Sarah Zupko's Popcultures.com (Cultural Studies Center)
Academic Programs and Jobs, Aesthetics/Visual Culture, Alternative/Indie Media, Announcements, Articles
Bibliographies, Bodies, Book Reviews, Calls for Papers, Conferences, Education, Film, Gender/Queer, General Resources, Geographies, History, Ideas, Identity, Introductions, Journals, Links, Media/Comm, General, Media Industry, Media Theory, Music, New Media/New Technology, Overview, Print, Publishers, Subcultures, Subjects, Television, Theorists
Semiotics Resources via University of Colorado at Denver
Primers, resources, conferences, people, readings and book announcements.
Sites of Significance for Semiotics
This annotated page of links is a massive work by Pascal Michelucci.
Smiotique appliquée /Applied Semiotics
"An academic journal devoted to literary semiotic research. Published at the Department of French of the University of Toronto, the review appears exclusively on the World Wide Web. Scholarly contributions are invited."
Theory.org.uk
"Social theory for fans of popular culture. Popular culture for fans of social theory."
Retro Vices We Love
Celebrating classic 20th century popular culture.
Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
Published by NYU's Dept. of Performance Studies. "A vital forum for discussions on gender and representation, Women & Performance features essays, scripts, interviews and articles on performance from interdisciplinary feminist perspectives."
Wood Valley
Andy Wood's homepage that features a number of Web Sites dedicated to Americana - Motel Americana, 1893 World's Fair, 1993-34 World's Fair, 1939-40 World's Fair, Austin Tappan Wright, Edward Bellamy, Disney's Celebration, The Middletons, Woz Way, and my personal favorite, South Bay Deco which features architectural details and sites like "Motel Moderne" and bus stations.
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