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Film Studies Resources

GENERAL FILM AND VIDEO DATABASES & REVIEW SITES

• All Movie Guide
• Ain't it Cool News
• Anarchy - Slamdance.com
• Animation Artist: A Digital Media Net Comunity
• Cinemania Online
• Dark Horizons
• DocumentaryFilms.net - news, resources, forum, more ...
• Film Festivals.com
• Film Guide, The "a freely editable wiki about the world of film"
• Film Threat
• FlixFind.com
• Left Field Cinema - alternative analysis of mainstream films, uncovers hidden masterpieces in world cinem and examines the works of the greatest and most influential film makers.
• "The Greatest Films of All Time" Site
• The Internet Movie Database
• Metaphilm: We don't review films, we interpret them.
• Movie Review Query Engine
• Rotten Tomatoes: Movie Reviews & Previews
• University of Iowa Japanese Film Studies Bibliography
• Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

GENERAL CINEMA RESOURCES

• American Film Institute
• CinemaSPACE UC Berkeley Film Studies Program Server
• CineMedia Site Griffith University, Brisbane Australia
• Cine-rhama: the Best of British Cinema and American and Foreign Films (may be dead)
• SCREENsite: Film and TV Studies

SPECIALIZED & TOPICAL CINEMA RESOURCES

• ARTHEMIS or the Advanced Research Team on History and Epistemology of Moving Image Study
• Asian American Film Updated news, reviews and includes Filmmakers Network and the Asian American Filmmakers Database
• Asian American Video Database The National Asian American Telecommunications Assn (NAATA)/CrossCurrentMedia and the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
• The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
• The Astounding B Monster
• Black Film Center
• Bollywood Heaven
• Britfilms Two databases: The British Films Catalogue and The Directory of International Film and Video Festivals
• EarlyCinema.com - introduction to the first decade of mation pictures - timeline, pioneers, technology, links
• Feminist Film Reviews
• Film Noir Web Links (Image Magazine)
• Film-Philosophy A journal and discussion forum promoting a philosophical review of cinema
• Film Sound Design - Film Sound Theory
• The German-Hollywood Connedtion
• Grafics - Early Cinema Server (in French and English)
• IndiaFM: India's premier bollywood portal
• indieWIRE
• National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television
• Popcorn Q: The Ultimate Online Home for the Queer Moving Image
• QueerCinema
• Trigger Street On-Line Short Film Festival
• Women Make Movies

Scripts

• The Daily Script
• Drew's Scripts-O-Rama
• The Movie Gallery - Scripts
• The Movie Script Archive
• Movie-Page.com - Scripts

NATIONAL CINEMAS & FOREIGN LANGUAGE SITES

• El Amante Cine (Argentina)
• Association Francaise de Recherche sur l'Historie du Cinéma (in French)
• Australian Centre for the Moving Image
• Australian Film Institute
• British Film Institute
• Cannes Film Festival
• Cinema Brasil
• Commission Nationale du Film France
• Digital Film Archive: A Century of Moving Images from Northern Ireland
• Icelandic Film Fund
• Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
• Irish Film Board
• Film Institute of Ireland
• Iranian Cinema Channel
• Cinema of Iran (Wikipedia)
• The National Film Board of Canada (in French and English)
• National Film Center of Latvia
• National Film Development Corporation (India)
• Suomen elokuvasäätiö (Finland)
• Viaggio in Italia (in Italian)

SELECTED UNIVERSITY FILM PROGRAMS

United States

• Brown University, Department of Modern Culture and Media
• California Institute of the Arts-School of Film and Video
• Film Studies (The New School)
• Florida State University Film School
• Indiana University's Film Program
• Johns Hopkins University -- Film and Media Studies
• Northwestern University Department of Radio/TV/Film
• San Francisco State University Cinema Department
• University of California, Berkeley, Film Studies Home Page
• University of Oklahoma Film and Video Studies
• University of Texas--Austin
• University of Wisconsin at Madison

Outside the U.S.

• London International Film School
• Oxford Brookes University Film Studies programmes
• Queen's University Department of Film Studies
• University of Barcelona, Spain
• University of Melbourne, Australia
• University of Toronto Cinema Studies Program
• Univ of Turku, Finland, Cinema and Television Studies (English and Finnish)
• University of Victoria -- Film Studies (Canada)
• University of Waterloo Film (Canada)

 

JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

• El Amante Cine (from Argentina, in Spanish)
• Animation Journal
• Bad Subjects
• Bright Lights Film Journal
• Cinematographer
• CTheory
• Documentary Box (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival)
• Film Feature Forum (digest of European film mags)
• Film-Philosophy A journal and discussion forum promoting a philosophical review of cinema
• Filmkultúra (Hungarian, in English and Magyar)
• FILMMAKER: The Magazine of Independent Film
• Framework: the Journal of Film and Media
• Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
• IDFA Magazine ( International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam.)
• Journal of Moving Image Studies, The
• Journal of Religion and Film
• Jump Cut
• Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media
• Kinokultura: New Russian Cinema
• Millennium Film Journal of avant-garde and experimental cinema
• Moving Image Source: Articles by leading critics and scholars, an international Calendar, and a Research Guide to online resources.
• Postmodern Culture - UI only access to full text
• The Silents Majority On-line Journal of Silent Film
• RealTime/OnScreen also Australian, covering film & digital media
• 24 Frames per Second
• Scope: An on-line journal of film studies (Institue of Film Studies, U. of Nottingham, UK)
• Screen Daily
• Screening the Past: An international, refereed, electronic journal of visual media and history
• Senses of Cinema an Australian electronic film journal, edited by Bill Mousoulis and Fiona A Villella
• Strobe - a journal of film, television, and new media
• Todo Cine (Argentina)
• Variety

MUSEUMS, SOCIETIES, AND ARCHIVES

• Library of Congress Early Motion Picture Archive
• National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television

FILM AND VIDEO PRODUCTION/EXHIBITION

• AdCritic.com - Commercials - All Ads, All The Time and Movie Trailers
• AssistandDirectors.com Online Filmmaking Resources
• Apple QuickTime Movie Trailers - best quality trailers, but limited selection
• AtomFilms - Get Into Our Shorts online Flash & QuickTime shorts
• Bronx Stage and Film Company
• Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc.
• DirectorSite QuickTime database of music video clips and TV ads listed by director
• Digital Filmmaker's Resource Site
• Film Festival World
• Flicker--"The Alternative Cinematic Experience"
• Indepedent Filmmaking @ Caryn.com
• IndieFilms
• The Pleasure Dome (Canadian Film & Video Exhibitors)
• Red Ink Screenwriters' Resources
• Webcinema, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Internet as a way to "finance, create, produce, distribute and market independent films.

COMMERCIAL SITES

• Claddagh Films
• Disney
• MGM
• Miramax
• New Line Cinema
• October Films
• Paramount Pictures
• Picturehouse
• Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia, TriStar)
• Twentith Century Fox (now, Fox Movies)
• United International Pictures
• Universal Pictures
• Warner Brothers