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- Canada
- U.S.
- Afro-Americ@
National News
- Alternative Press
Center ("alternative & radical" journals)
- Arizona Daily Star
- Chicago Tribune
- CRAYON: CReAte
Your Own Newspaper (select news sources and categories of interest on a
form and have a customized paper transmitted to you)
- CNN Headline News
- The C-SPAN Networks
- Disinformation: The Subculture Search
Engine (annotated "alternative" guide/links to news and society; "the
search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current
affairs, politics, new science and the 'hidden information,' that seldom
seems to slip through the cracks of the corporate owned media
conglomerates. . . . Primarily the database draws from
quality news sources") (Richard Metzger, et al.)
- Ecola's Newsstand --
Newspapers (Ecola Design)
- Electronic
Newstand
- Haiku Headlines of the
Week ("News gone bad to verse . . . you're soaking in it.") (Michael
Sheinbaum and participating authors)
- Hispanic/Latino News Service
("bilingual clearinghouse of Latino-interest news from around the web";
features "daily news updates, opinions/editorials and Latino resources")
(Markos Alberto Moulitsas Zúniga / VivaMedia, Inc.)
- The Media
Jukebox (deep and excellent metapage of journalism and zine sites)
- MediaFinder ("the source for
subscription, advertising and mailing list rates & info for 90,000 U.S.
& international print media & catalogs") (Oxbridge Communications)
- Money & Investing Update
(Wall Street Journal)
- MSNBC (Microsoft / NBC)
- News in the Future
(journalism and technology) (NiF Consortium/MIT Media Lab)
- New York Times
- New York Times on the Web
- NY TimesFax (daily 8-page digest
of NY Times)
- Stop the Presses:
Behind the Brass Door (multimedia tribute to the closing of The New
York Times 43rd Street Press Room in July 1997; includes streaming
video and virtual pressroom tours) (New York Times)
- Bosnia: Uncertain
Paths to Peace ("interactive multimedia photojournalism project that
chronicles Bosnia's struggle for peace . . . features an electronic
gallery of more than one hundred and fifty images by renowned
photojournalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on
war and peace in the former Yugoslavia"; the discussion includes
participation through publicly accessible terminals at Sarajevo U. set up
by the Soros Foundation as well as terminals at the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, and at the
United Nations in New York) (New York Times on the Web)
- NewsLink (links to daily &
weekly papers)(American Journalism Review)
- NewsPage (business-oriented news
service)
- News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
- The
Omnivore: A Daily News & Information Resource
- Online Media Directory:
Media Links (search newspapers and magazines worldwide) (Editor &
Publisher Interactive)
- People
Magazine
- Pulitzer Prizes 1995
(prize-winning works and author profiles) (Columbia Journalism Review)
- San Jose Mercury
- San Francisco Chronicle &
Examiner
- Slate
(the canonical zine; will require payment beginning 11/1/96) (Michael
Kinsley / Microsoft, Inc.)
- TIME Magazine | Time
Daily News Summary
- U.S.News
Online (U.S. News & World Report)
- The Vanderbilt Television News
Archives
- Voice of America (News
Headlines) (gopher)
- Media-Watch Groups & Sites
- The Freedom
Forum ("a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free
press, free speech and free spirit for all people. With assets of more
than $700 million, it is [the] USA's largest foundation focused
exclusively on fostering First Amendment freedoms")
- The War Room (conservative media
page with extensive links to other politically "right" online sites)
- European
- Other International
- Back to Top of
This Page
- (VoS Home Page)
- General Film/Video Resources
- The American Film Institute ("the nation's
preeminent arts organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art
of the moving image. Since 1967, AFI has served as America's voice for film,
television, video, and the digital arts, with innovative programs in
education, training, exhibition, preservation, and new technology...")
- Asian American
Videography (UC Berkeley Media Resources Center)
- Association of
European Film and Media Journals ("This online index offers English
abstracts of essays and articles recently published in eleven film journals
all over Europe...")(Audio-Visual Euro-Net)
- Black Film Center
Archive ("repository of films and related materials by and about African
Americans") (Indiana U.)
- California Newsreel (non-profit
documentary film and video production and distribution center with extensive
"collections of African American video, African video, video on the
workplace, and . . . media and society"; site includes
descriptions of individual videos)
- Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke U. ("a new vision of documentary work is taking shape:
one that connects the documentary process to education and community
building. The Center directly supports the work of teachers and researchers,
photographers, writers and filmmakers")
- CineWEB ("web service designed
exclusively for film and video industry professionals"; includes
"specialized databases for location scouting, crewing up, and more," also
"trade magazines and journals online") (Dave Gardner)
- Cyber Film School (site
"dedicated to the process of making movies")
- CYphon: Lifestyle
Resources for the Film and Video Professional (LA 411Æ Publishing
Co.)
- Cinema
Sites (metapage) (David Augsburger)
- Cinema Studies
Listserv
- Cinevista Videos / An
Excellent Selection of Foreign Films From Around the World (order
foreign videos)
- The Director's Cut (offers
links such as "What's New"; "Links"; "Top Ten Films/Directors"; "Be a Top
Film Maker"; and "Interviews," as well as book recommendations for study of
major topics. In the words of the site's creator, " I started this web site
so emerging filmmakers can stop wasting their money on crap that promises to
make them Quentin Tarantino overnight. The hard fact is, to be good at
filmmaking (from writing to directing to acting), you have to study it and
practice it. ") (Arthur Borman, director of And God Spoke, 1994)
- Film (Sarah Zupko's
Cultural Studies Center)
- Film and
Destroy ("presents, supports and encourages independent and experimental
work by, for and about women") (Bridget Irish)
- Filmfestivals.com
(offers links to festivals around the world and to film reviews, as well as
to resources for film "professionals")
- Film
Philosophy Electronic Salon (web gateway to the list; includes archives,
bibliographies, and links to online writings and auteur pages)
- Film
Reviews (reviews from a feminist perspective) (Priya Sridharan / Inform)
- Film Studies (Daniel
Chandler, U. Wales, Aberystwyth)
- The Film Zone (Big Gun Project)
- The Hollywood
Reporter (daily trade paper for the entertainment industry)
- Hyper-Weirdness:
Television, Movie and Video Page
- The Inkwell: In Appreciation of Writers
& Writing (resources for screenwriters and screenwriting) (Richard
Kain)
- The Internet Guide
to Movie Sites (Martin Bohnet)
- Internet Movie
Database
- Kinema: A
Journal of Film and Audiovisual Media (Jan Uhde, U. Waterloo,
Ontario)
- Left-Wing Films
(Democratic Socialists of America)
- MovieLink 777FILM Online (movie
theater schedules in select cities and neighborhoods; searchable; requires
graphical browser) (MovieFone, Inc.)
- Movienet (theater showtimes, by
city) (Goldwyn/Landmark Theatres)
- The
Movies, Race, and Ethnicity ("The following movies provide a broad
sampling of ethnic and racial representations in the movies over the last
century. These films include both works of mainstream Hollywood, as well as
historical and current movies by film makers of color") (Media Resources
Center Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley)
- National Center
for Jewish Film (Brandeis U.)
- The Official Grade B
Productions (TM) Homepage (Robert Rose & Kyle Yamada)
- Omnibus:Eye - Media
Hyperlinks (Northwestern U Dept. of Radio/TV/Film)
- OnVideo ("hot
video news and information about home video and film, including cool
sell-through titles, the latest non-theatrical releases, "B" films,
promotions, collections, price reductions, special interest videos,
made-for-video releases, music videos, as well as current and forthcoming
Widescreen Releases.")(CyberPod Productions)
- Polish Cinema
Database ("Current contents of the Polish Cinema Database includes
information on the motion pictures made in Poland after the World War II
(that is after 1947) to the present. Some of the films made by Polish
directors abroad are also included. Overall, for the opening of the database
to the public, the index contains over 1,000 film titles; for over 300 of
them we have also provided more detailed descriptions...") (Zbigniew J.
Pasek and Wojtek Bogusz)
- Scary Women: Female Monsters
& Fiends in American Film ("brings together renowned feminist film
scholars to address the cultural, historical and social significance of
women in horror films") (UCLA Film and Television Archive)
- Screen Shots (Earthweb)
- Screenwriters
Online (Cinemedia)
- The Super 8
Home Page (Bill Pennington)
- Film History
- Michelangelo
Antonioni Page (Dennis Yuen)
- Arthurian
Film and TV Listing (Chris Thornborrow)
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Reference Page (with film stills) (Charles Tashiro)
- Last Tango in Paris
Bibliography
- The Conformist
Bibliography
- 1900
Bibliography
- The Last Emperor
Bibliography
- Bertolucci
Bibliography
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Reference Page (ctashiro@rcf.usc.edu)
- The
Magic Works of Ingmar Bergman (English/Swedish; links built around major
areas of Biography, Career, Gallery, and News & FAQ)(V. Lesslar and S.
Härdh)
- Blade
Runner Page:
2019 Off-World ("...a growing archive...with information unique to this
site as well as links to other Internet resources.")(UnderWorld Industries)
- Charlie Chaplin's
"The Rink" (American Film Institute's On Line Cinema)
- Dermatology in the
Cinema ("As a dermatologist and a film buff, I've found a series of skin
conditions featured in movies. . . .The following are examples of skin
lesions and conditions found in movies."; includes sections on
"Representation of evil," "Actors with skin findings," "Realistic,
sympathetic portrayal") (Vail Reese, M. D.)
- Citizen
Kane's Borrowings ("...For all the lavish praise heaped upon
Citizen Kane for its originality, there are too many attributions to
it that "scholars" have made that the film doesn't deserve. Herein is my
list of techniques employed in "Citizen Kane" which saw earlier use in films
made by directors other than Welles...") (David P. Hayes)
- Marlene Dietrich
- Early Motion Pictures
from the Library of Congress, 1897-1916
- Film-Historia ("A
tri-lingual journal dedicated to the study of the relationship between
history and cinema studies modeled on the British journals Historical
Journal of Film, Radio, and Television and Film and History. Film-Historia
seeks to expand the study of film as testimony of society and culture, and
as a new tool for the teaching of history...") (University of Barcelona)
- Film Noir &
Pulp Fiction (philbert@icanect.net)
- Dan Georgakas, "Hollywood
Blacklist" (informational article from Buhle, Buhle, and Georgakas, ed.,
Encyclopedia of the American Left, 1992) (Al Fireis, U. Penn)
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Jean-Luc
Godard Filmography
- Jean-Luc
Godard Interview (excerpts by Henri Behar; "On the role of the
filmmaker in a world where bombs exploding are a daily occurrence")
- Audrey Hepburn: The Official
Website
- Alfred Hitchcock
- The Hitchcock Page
(Original Sinema Productions)
- Shower
Sequence in Hitchcock's Psycho (client-pull animated sequence
of images for Netscape 1.1 or later)
- Alfred
Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense (Patricio Lopez-Guzman)
- Nadine V. Hasselt (Latrobe U., Melbourne), "Vertigo"
(theoretical essay on Hitchcock's Vertigo)
- Stanley Kubrick
- Kubrick
on the Web (Stanley Kubrick films: info and links) (Barry Krusch)
- Kubrick Multimedia
Film Guide (Patrick Larkin)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey Internet
Resource Archive (George DeMet)
- Akira Kurosawa
- Nobuji's
Unofficial Akira Kurosawa Fan Page / Akira Kurosawa Database (offers a
Filmography
with photo stills and Biography,
as well as many outside links)(Nobuji Tamura)
- Akira Kurosawa's
"Dreams" (Doug DeJulio)
- Fritz Lang
- Biography (Jeffrey
Scheuer)
- Fritz Lang's
Metropolis (Augusto Cesar B. Areal, Brazil)
- Sergio Leone
Home Page (Andrew Hyatt)
- The Letters of Steven
Spielberg and Antonin Artaud (Peter Mattei / Word)
- Satyajit Ray
- Satyajit
Ray (includes biography and filmography, and much more) (S. K. Singh,
Bombay)
- Charulata
Page (page dedicated to the film of Satyajit Ray) (C.J. Gopinath)
- Responses
to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities (rich,
sophisticated introduction to "the various discourses, disciplines, media
and institutions that have produced significant critical and theoretical
positions and discussions concerning the Nazi Genocide of the Jews of
Europe, 1933-45") (Robert S. Leventhal, U. Virginia) | Film
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Triumph
of the Will
- Olympiad
- "From
Hitler's Darling to the Pariah of Motion-Picture History" (article
reflecting on the life of Riefenstahl from the position of 95th birthday
in 1997) (Berliner Morgenpost, trans. Stephen Krug)
- Silent Movies
Page (Glen Pringle)
- Silent Star
of the Month (Glen Pringle)
- François Truffaut Page
(French)
- Orson
Welles: The Man and His Genius
- Ed Wood Home
Page (Leisa Flynn)
- Anna May Wong
Homepage
- Contemporary Film
- Woody Allen
Page (includes bibliography of writings on Allen) (Derek Royal, Purdue
U.)
- Pedro Almodovar: Almodóvarlandia
("...the virtual country where you will find information on Pedro Almodóvar
and his movies...") (Karl A. Erber)
- Biography
- Filmography
- Film
Studio ("...Here you will get Information on the latest Movie of Pedro
Almodóvar, that is currently being shot in the Film(Movie)studios")
- Artatak Films
(independent Toronto arts film production company) (Richard Bond)
- Luc Besson Films
Page (Marius Willms)
- Cannes 95 - Site officiel du Festival
International de Cannes
- David Cronenberg
- David
Cronenberg Home Page (Matt Knapp)
- Nadine V. Hasselt (Latrobe U., Melbourne), "Zoo"
(theoretical essay on David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Peter
Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts)
- Disney.com
- Film.com (Reviews, Film
Festivals, Screening Room, movie news, and more)
- Flicker Home Page: Alternative
Film and Video (Scott Stark)
- William
Gibson's Alien III Script
- Peter Greenaway
- Peter Greenaway: The Internet
Version (Bruno Bollaert)
- Nadine V. Hasselt (Latrobe U., Melbourne), "Zoo"
(theoretical essay on David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Peter
Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts)
- "The Auteur,
the Hype, His Aide, Her Skepticism" ("On tour in North America to
promote his new film, The Pillow Book, director Peter Greenaway
gave much Q&A time to his next film, which he says will be released as
a movie, on CD-ROM, and over the Internet...") (Mike Tanner, Wired
News, May 19, 1997)
- "Pillow
Talk: Human Graffiti in Peter Greenaway's Sexy Film" (Richard Corliss,
Time, July 7, 1997)
- Hal Hartley
- Hal Hartley Homepage
((Ethan Straffin)
- "Hal
Does Have a Heart" ("Under all that wry cynicism, a Hartley film like
Henry Fool is complex, touching, all too human...) (Richard Corliss,
Time, July 13, 1998)
- Hong Kong Cinema
- Movieworld Hong Kong
- The Red
Flower Society: Movies (well researched set of links in the following
categories: "Pages dedicated to a single HK movie"; "Sites dedicated to HK
movies"; "HK movie companies";"Picture archives")
- The Special
Administrative Region (Hong Kong) Film Top Ten Box Office Home Page
("...This page will serve as World Wide Web interface to the HKSAR
Film Top Ten Box Office posted at alt.asian-movies and
soc.culture.hongkong.entertainment...")
- Electric
Shadows Journal ("...a mailing list devoted to Asian Arthouse
Movies...; links to discussions on a great many topics such as "Films,"
"Directors," "Group Reviews," and "Essays," as well as a strong list of "Miscellaneous
Links" and a growing list of "Member's
Links")
- Krzysztof
Kieslowski and His Films (Zbigniew J. Pasek)
- David Lynch
- "Peachy Keen" -- The
David Lynch Resource (Kirk Bowe)
- MCA/Universal Cyberwalk
- MGM/United Artists Lion's Den
- Miramax Films
- Rain Without Thunder
(page for the film; "an Orion Classics Release which offers a glimpse at how
life in America might be for women if the current legislative and judicial
weakening of Roe versus Wade continues")
- Martin Scorsese
- Martin Scorsese (nice,
informative site with long narrative biographical essay and Filmography)(David
Stewart)
- Travis 76: A
Taxi Driver Page (nice tribute to Taxi Driver, includes
information and visual images as well as commentary on the film)
- ScreenSite
("ScreenSite emerged from a desire to provide access to film and television
resources through the World Wide Web. Its primary purpose is to facilitate
the study of film/TV. As opposed to some Web sites that take more of a fan's
approach to the media, ScreenSite stresses the teaching and research of film
and television and is designed for educators and students...")(U. of Alabama
/ Dept. of Telecommunications and Film)
- Spielberg's
Schindler's List (Robert S. Leventhal, U. Virginia - Responses to
the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities)
- Alan Stone (Boston Review), "Jane
Campion's Piano"
- Quentin Tarantino
- James S. Hurley, "Marcuse's Car:
Pulp Fiction and the Sublime Object of 'Cool' " (1997)
(Thresholds)
- Wayne Wang
- Chinese
Box (Review) (Jeff Gouda)
- Wim Wenders
- Wim
Wenders Page (Sylvain Leblanc)
- Wender's
Way (Interview, September 25, 1997, Rough Cut)
- "Date
with an Angel, Take Two" ("In a wondrous mess of a sequel to Wings of
Desire, Wim Wenders brings his heavenly spirits to earth in chaotic
Berlin...")(Richard Corliss, Time, January 10, 1984)
- Visual
Taste, Rediscovered (site with a great deal of information and
commentary; Italian and German only) (Fabrizio Gabrielli)
- Film Theory
- Film Theory
List ("This list is a forum for the discussion of the theory of film,
cinema, video and related media in all their aspects: aesthetic, artistic,
cultural, social, philosophical and political...") (The Spoon Collective)
- Michael Bischoff, "The End of
Philosophy and the Rise of Films" (a thesis on Heidegger, Wim Wenders,
and technology)
- Leo Braudy (USC), Seminar in
Genre Theory (1995) (course on genre in film and fiction)
- Nadine V. Hasselt (Latrobe U., Melbourne)
- "Zoo|"
(essay on David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Peter Greeaway's A
Zed and Two Noughts)
- "Vertigo"
(essay on Hitchcock's Vertigo)
- The Movies,
Race, and Ethnicity: African Americans (links to bibliographies, outside
links to related sites, and articles with full-text available)
- David N.
Rodowick (Cornell U.)
- Preface
to The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and
Film Theory (1991)
- Preface
to The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in
Contemporary Film Theory (2nd ed., 1994)
- Screen
("the leading international academic journal in the field of film and
television...")(John Logie Baird Centre (Universities of Glasgow and
Strathclyde / Oxford U.Press)
- Sol Worth
Page (Tobia Worth)
- Movie Studios, Film & Production Companies
- Film Studies Depts. & Programs
- Back to Top of
This Page
- (VoS Home Page)
- The CD-ROM Shopper's Guide
("This site offers a collection of resources for CD-ROM and console CD
shoppers and owners. Includes discussion forums, the Bargain Finder search
engine, a guide to CD-ROM shopping sites on the Web, and a guide to CD-ROM
drivers.")(CD-MAX Enterprises)
- The CD Information Center
(a public-service site with links to some valuable links, such as "FAQs",
"Industry News", "Bibliography & Glossaries", and "Selected Articles")(The
CD Info Company)
- CD-ROM Online: Your
Multimedia PC Resource (a free online publication devoted to reviewing
CD-Roms in many different categories; from Reference to Education to
Children's resources. If there is a particular CD you would like reviewed, you
can place a request. Back issues available online.) (NSI Web)
- Queue ("Queue develops, publishes
and markets educational CD-ROM...")
- Back to Top of
This Page
- (VoS Home Page)
- Adam Curry's "The Vibe"
- Bringing It
All Back Home Page (Bob Dylan Page) (John Howells)
- Ian Buchahan (U. Tasmania), "Deleuze
and Pop Music" (1997) (Australian Humanities Review)
- Concert Hotwire
Tour Database (searchable database of music tours; by artist, venue, city)
- Grateful Dead Lyrics,
Annotated (site includes critical apparatus and essays) (David Dodd,
Library, U. Colorado at Colorado Springs)
- Henry the Human Fly Caught
in the Web (songs and recordings of Richard Thompson) (Shane Youl)
- House of Diabolique: House,
Techno, and Fierce Drag Modelling
- IndieWeb ("the Net's first
independent label space") (Chelsea Starr & Chris Barrus)
- Internet Underground Music Archive
- Music Resources on
the Web from Indiana (Indiana U.)
- Glenn Ricci, Millenium Pop (reviews
of pop musicians) (Glyph)
- Nordic Downloadable Music Site
(sells "downloadable digital copies of songs"; also includes music info,
links, and software)
- Rocktropolis ("A rock and roll
fantasy theme park")
- Rykodisc/Hannibal/Gramavision
(page with music and tour news, from the CD-only label)
- Sony Online
- Julie Van Camp (Calif. State U., Long Beach), "Judging Aesthetic Value:
2 Live Crew, Pretty Woman, and the Supreme Court" (1995)
- Back to Top of
This Page
- (VoS Home Page)
- American Radio Relay League
(morse code and ham radio enthusiasts)
- The Bellingham Antique Radio
Museum
- CBC Radio (Canadian Broadcasting
Corp.)
- Children's
Radio in the United States (Media Literacy Project)
- Deutsche Welle (German shortwave radio;
requires the RealAudio client to receive audio)
- Gainesville Amateur Radio Society
On-Line ("Amateur radio is a hobby of personal enjoyment. But in times of
need, hams are transformed into self-trained public service communicators,
ready and able to help their neighbors during emergencies and natural
disasters...")
- MIT
List of Radio Stations on the Internet (500+ links, particularly useful
for searching non-commercial--particularly college-radio--offereings)
(Theodric Young)
- Old Time Radio
(OTR)
- Omnibus:Eye - Media
Hyperlinks (Northwestern U Dept. of Radio/TV/Film)
- Radio-Canada (radio and TV; in
French) (CBC) | Radio-Canada
International (multilingual)
- Radio Canada International
(multilingual)
- Radio Days: A Soundbite
History (offers soundbites clippings of radio from its earliest inception,
including entertainment, commercials, and radio news)
- Radio 4 All ("This site connects
you to the movement to reclaim the airwaves...")
- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | RFE/RL Newsline on the
Web
- Real Radio ("Radio is a dying
resource in the United States. Where once there was diversity, today there is
conformity. Have you ever noticed that nearly every radio station you listen
to, no matter where you are, no matter what their format, they all pretty much
sound the same? ..." -- alongside an essay on the state of radio today, this
site offers links to stations its creators endorse, defined as eclectic,
interesting, unpredictable, and diverse)
- Virtual Tuner ("...one
of the best webpages for streaming radio over the internet... hundreds of
different audio streams that include over 50 different languages..." -- you
can find a local station that runs over the Internet waves, browse available
stations from all over the world, as well as search for appropriate stations
based on categories that range from "Sports" to "Hourly News")
- Back to Top of
This Page
- (VoS Home Page)
- Anime Online ("The
largest fan-run online network dedicated to Japanese animation, supplying the
online anime community with many free resources and services...")
- Art Comics: Independent Comics for the
Internet
- Indy Magazine (bimonthly
print magazine covering alternative comics; includes online resources)
- Media History Project:
Comics
- The New Yorker
Collection (drawings for The New Yorkerin the mid-20th century)
(Library of Congress)
- Professional Cartoonists Index
(extensive resources with images) (Daryl Cagle, National Cartoonists Society)
- Teacher Guide to the Professional
Cartoonists Index (well-developed "lesson plans for using the editorial
cartoons as a teaching tool in social sciences, art, journalism and English"
at elementary, middle-school, and high-school levels; includes "the largest
collection of newspaper editorial cartoons on the
web--all . . . presented with the permission and participation
of the cartoonists" (Peg Cagle, Lawrence Middle School, Los Angeles / Daryl
Cagle, National Cartoonists Society)
- Art
Spiegelman's Maus (Robert S. Leventhal, U. Virginia - Responses to
the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities)
- The Unofficial Tank Girl
Comic Pages (Bob Rosenberg)
- Back to Top of
This Page
- (VoS Home Page)
INTERNET BROADCAST MEDIA (may require ability
to play video or audio files)
General Media & Communications Theory Resources
- Academic
Communications Sites Around the World ("This list compiles Communications,
Journalism and Media sites in universities around the world. The sites are
sorted by region and country...")(Gary Ritzenthaler and Ana Camargos)
- American Communication Assoc.
("a not-for-profit organization, a virtual professional association with
actual presence in the world of scholars and practitioners alike. ACA was
created to promote academic and professional research, criticism, teaching,
practical use, and exchange of principles and theories of human
communication...")
- The Aspen Institute ("an
international nonprofit educational institution dedicated to enhancing the
quality of leadership through informed dialogue. It convenes men and women who
represent diverse viewpoints and backgrounds from business, labor, government,
the professions, the arts, and the nonprofit sector to relate timeless ideas
and values to the foremost challenges facing societies, organizations, and
individuals...")
- Joshua Graham Baldner, "The Telephone:
Impact and Expansion"
- Bibliography
for Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication ("The
bibliography now contains citations for over 7,600 articles and books dealing
with issues related to rhetoric, composition, professional communication, and
associated topics, such as linguistics, psychology, and philosophy..."--
Browse by author, article title, or by a keyword search)(W. Scott Thune)
- A Brief
History of Electronic Music Instruments | French-language
version (Thierry Rochebois, U. d'Orsay, Paris)
- Broadcast Education Association ("the
professional association for professors, industry professionals and graduate
students who are interested in teaching and research related to electronic
media and multimedia enterprises...")
- Canadian Journal
of Communication ("A journal of research and scholarship encompassing
the field of communication and journalism studies giving emphasis to Canadian
work and Canadian issues...")
- Censorship
Studies (on Cultural Studies Page)
- Daniel Chandler (U. Wales, Aberystwyth)
- "Cultivation
Theory" (media theory regarding effects of TV-watching)
- "The 'Grammar' of
Television and Film" (overview and glossary)
- "Marxist Approaches to
Mass Media" (hypertext guide)
- "Processes of
Mediation"
- "Semiotics for
Beginners"
- "Technological
Determinism"
- "Texts and the
Construction of Meaning"
- Transmission Model of
Communication
- Uses and
Gratifications: Why do People Watch Television?
- "Using the
Telephone"
- Continuum: The
Australian Journal of Media and Culture ("thematically based cultural
studies journal. The primary focus of the journal is upon screen media; but
our understanding of 'media' also includes publishing, broadcasting and public
exhibitionary media such as museums and sites")
- Sean Cubitt, Media and Cultural Studies at Liverpool John Moores U., UK:
Resources
(a set of resouce lists originally compiled for Cubitt's students of
Digital Aesthetics, including topics such as "Debating technological
determinism," "Transmission and translation models in interface design," and
many more)
- Marc Davis, "Media Streams:
An Iconic Visual Language for Video Annotation" ("In order to enable the
search and retrieval of video from large archives, we need a representation of
video content. . . .")
- Dead Media Project
(Bruce Gabor)
- Guy Debord
- Guy
Debord (resources to biographical links and links to/about Debord's
work)
- Debord ("I
first met Guy Debord on October 27, 1960. We had called each other two days
before to fix a meeting date. A demonstration against the war in Algeria
that looked like it would be particularly important was scheduled to take
place two days later...")(by Pierre Guillaume)
- Obituary: The Author of
Society of the Spectacle Has Killed Himself (Gianfranco Marelli)
- Gilles Deleuze
- Deleuze
and Guattari on the Web (an authoratative site, including links to
Webwork by Deleuze himself, a well-researched and updated list of
critical/theoretical/artistic uses of "Deleuze", Deleuze resources, and
more) (Alan Taylor, U. of Texas at Arlington)
- Web Deleuze (constructed
by Richard Pinhas. Here you can find transcripts of Deleuze seminars from
the years he was at Vincennes;French language)
- Ian Buchahan (U. Tasmania), "Deleuze
and Pop Music" (1997) (Australian Humanities Review)
- Digital Aesthetics
("WELCOME to the Digital Aesthetics site, a companion to the book of the same
name, written by Sean Cubitt and published by Sage in London and New York in
1998. Because of constraints on price, the book had no illustrations, so one
purpose of the site is to provide images discussed in the book. But there is
more..."; select links below)
- Digital
Aesthetics (the book)
- Illustrations
(to the book)
- Notes Towards a
Supreme Multi-Media (the aphorisms)
- Outtakes
(marginalia from writing the book)
- Hotlinks
(other sites dealing in digital aesthetics, resource sites and artists'
projects )
- Frederick J. Fletcher,York University, "Media,
Elections, and Democracy")(Canadian Journal of Communication)
- Anne Friedberg and Sheila C. Murphy (U. Calif., Irvine), Image Culture: New Technologies
(course)
- Tim Guay, "Media and
Hypertext Theory" (hypertext essay)
- Stuart Hall (Open U., UK), "Culture, Media, and
Identities" | Intro to Course
(course)
- John Harms, Southwest Missouri State U., and Douglas Kellner, U.of Texas
at Austin, "Towards a
Critical Theory of Advertising"
- History of
Computers and Communications: Online Resources (Wendy Gale Robinson, U.
North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Duke U.)
- History of
Language Technology (on VoS's Technology of Writing Page)
- A History of Modern
Communications, Computing & Media (offers a timeline of inventions and
events in media history beginning with the year 1793; includes illustrations)
(Arthur C. Clarke Foundation)
- Ellen Hume (Annenberg Washington Program), "Tabloids, Talk Radio, and
the Future of News: Technology's Impact on Journalism"
- Internet Resources
for the Study of Communications (resources compiled for a course entitled
"Communications, Culture, and Society"; select links below)(Paul Starr,
Princeton U.)
- Virtual
Libraries and Professional Associations
- Media
Criticism and Journalism Reviews
- Communications
Policy: Government | Private
- Crystal Kile (Bowling Green State U.), Television as Popular Culture
(course)
- k.i.s.s. of
the Panopticon: Critical Theory / Cultural Theory / New Media Literacy /
Visual Literacy (plain-speaking site that gives "people a quick,
user-friendly, one-stop shopping guide to new media literacy, as well as
cultural/critical theory and its relationship with communications and new
media, including the Internet") (Doug Bicket, U. Washington)
- Glenn A. Kurtz (San Francisco State U.) , Multimedia
Theory and Criticism (1997) (course)
- John Lye (Brock U.), Communications
Theory (course)
- Oleg Manaev, Belorussian State University and Independent Institute of
Socio-Economic and Political Studies, "Rethinking the
Social Role of the Media in a Society in Transition" (Canadian Journal
of Communication)
- Marxist Media Theory
(Daniel Chandler)
- Marhall McLuhan
- Audio Quotes
(WebCorp)
- The McLuhan Probes (monthly
publication on media theorist McLuhan; fabulous visuals--very exciting site)
(Nova Scotia College of Art & Design)
- Tim Guay, A Brief Look at
McLuhan's Theories (comments applying McLuhan to WWW)
- Arthur Kroker, "Digital Humanism:
The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan" (CTHEORY)
- The Media and
Communication Studies Site (extensive resource; selected links below)
(Daniel Chandler, U. Wales, Aberystwyth)
- Gender, Class &
Ethnicity
- Visual Image
- Advertising
- Film Studies
- Media Education
- Textual Analysis
- Media Influence
- Written & Spoken
Word
- News Media
- TV & Radio
- Information Technology
& Telecoms
- Journals, Mags,
Etc.
- Media
Ecology ("a journal where the intersections between culture,
communication, and technology are investigated...[ME] seeks to make an
intersection between traditional refereed scholarship and serious non-academic
critique...Every essay also contains the possibility for further
intersections: a forum for discussion...")
- The Media History Project
("promoting the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels"; select
links below)
- Keywords, Concepts,
& Theorists
- Time Line/Media
History
- Advertising and
Material Culture History
- Oral & Scribal
Culture
- Printing & Print
Culture
- Journalism
- Comics
- Telegraphy
- Telephony
- Sound Recording
- Photography
- Radio
- Film
- Television
- Computing
- General Historical
Reference
- The Media Literacy
Project (focused on the influence of media on youth and children) (U. of Oregon,
Dept of Education)
- Mediamatic
Magazine ("established in 1985 as a meeting place for video artists
and TV dissidents, Mediamatic Magazine has evolved into today's sophisticated
and beautiful quarterly on art and media and the changes being wrought by
techno-culture, hypermedia and virtuality")
- mediastudies.com ("The purpose
of mediastudies.com is to help advance research and education in cultural
theory, new media studies, and critical thinking. mediastudies.com serves as a
hub - providing easily accessible educational guidelines and other resources
for media educators, students, researchers, and the wider community. By
profiling selected web sites, we hope to encourage critical analysis of
mass-mediated culture and further the discussion and planning of media studies
curriculum development and teacher training...")Peter Clayton, Richmond
International College, British Columbia)
- The MIT Media Lab ("The Laboratory
pioneered collaboration between academia and industry, and provides a unique
environment to explore basic research and applications, without regard to
traditional divisions among disciplines...")
- New Media Centers ("a
non-profit organization empowering educators to change the way people
learn...")(San Francisco, Ca)
- Recording
Technology History: A Chronology (Steve Schoenher, U. of San Diego)
- Responses
to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities (rich,
sophisticated introduction to "the various discourses, disciplines, media and
institutions that have produced significant critical and theoretical positions
and discussions concerning the Nazi Genocide of the Jews of Europe, 1933-45")
(Robert S. Leventhal, U. Virginia) | Informatics
and Technology
- David
N. Rodowick (Cornell U.)
- "Audiovisual
Culture and Interdisciplinary Knowledge" (1995)
- Preface
to The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and
Film Theory (1991)
- Preface
to The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in
Contemporary Film Theory (2nd ed., 1994)
- Herbert I. Schiller,
"Media, Technology, and the Market: the Interacting Dynamic"
- Thomas Sebeok, "Communication"
- Soundsite: The Online
Journal of Sound Theory, Philosophy of Sound and Sound Art
- Sol Worth Page
(Tobia Worth)
- Studying
Visual Communication (1981) (Tobia Worth / Larry Gross)
- "Man is Not a
Bird"
- "Toward an
Ethnographic Semiotic" (1977)
- "Life vs. Art:
The Interpretation of Visual Narratives" (1983)
- Telemuseum
(history of telecommunications) (Telecommunications Museum, Stockholm; with
major links to "History" and "Exhibitions"; available in English or Swedish
language)
- Third
Text (Third-World Perspectives on Contemporary Art &Culture)(Screen
Studies, John Moores U., UK)
- Visual
Literacy Project ("From the beginnings of human culture, visual awareness
has been a key element to communication. Just as information conveyed by the
written word holds a significance for humanity in the 20th century, the
symbols of early cave paintings held a deep significance for the artists and
cultures that produced them. Over time these symbols and meanings changed into
the alphabets of the world of today; which are the basis for verbal
literacy...")(Pomona College, Claremont, CA)
- WebRep History af
Advertising (on 19th-C. advertising)
- Robert M. Young (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "A
Place for Critique in the Mass Media" (1995)
- Sarah J. Zupko, "The
Current Debate Surrounding Public Relations Ethics"
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