Media Arts and Film
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Media Arts Related Web Resources
General Interest
BFI Bibliographies
A set of annotated links on the following topics: Annuals and Directories, Africa: Films and Television, Black Representation in cinema and television, Books about film, Alfred Hitchcock, Horror, Mexican and Chicano cinema, Shakespeare on the screen, Tarantino, Westerns, Women and Film, Women in television and the mass media, Fritz Lang, David Lynch, Free Cinema, and Werner Herzog. All are available in PDF format.
Film Media Bibliographies and Full-text Articles (from Berkeley's Media Resource Center)
A great place to start your research! This database contains lists of resources (mostly books and articles) organized by topic (ie: Latinos/Chicanos in film), filmmaker, film genre (ie: gangster films), individual movies and international films.
Motion Picture & Television Reading Room at the Library of Congress
This division of the Library of Congress has the responsibility for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of the motion picture and television collections. Its purpose is to provide access and information services to an international community of film and television professionals, archivists, scholars and researchers.
U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Audio Services Division
Regulates AM and FM broadcast radio services, and FM translator and booster stations. Site has information about applying for a license, regulations, and data and overviews on the industry.
Media Archives & Databases
All Movie Guide
Provides access to over 160,000 film synopses, reviews of the highest-rated titles (including all Oscar-winning Best Pictures), complete case and credit information, and over 21,000 biographies. Searchable by movie title, person or keyword. Includes dozens of genres and hundreds of sub-genres. Theatrical release and movie award information is included. Non-fiction, documentary and special interest film is covered.
The Internet Movie Database
The Internet's biggest and best Media Arts resource.
Docuseek is is a search site for independent documentary, social issue, and educational videos available in the U.S. and Canada. The site allows you to simultaneously search nine leading film distributors' complete collections of over 3,200 titles, representing the highest quality documentary and instructional media, films and videos available.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS)
Screenplays; production files; biography files; subject files; Academy History Collection; special collections-scripts, production notes, sketches, music scores, business correspondence; photographs; books-in English and foreign; periodicals-over 1,000.
Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive
- Pacific Film Archive Film Notes Online — Film notes from the PFA exhibition calendar, documenting a wide range of types of films, including: foreign, independent, classic, and avant-garde cinema. This searchable text resource contains over 12,000 film notes written between 1979 and the present.
- Cinefiles — A database of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archive Library's clippings files. The files contain documents from a broad range of sources covering world cinema, past and present.
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Contains over 220,000 films and television programs, as well as 27 million feet of newsreel footage, this is the largest university-held moving-image archive in the world.
Historical & Cultural Resources
Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC)
The Online Archive of California is a broad-based collaboration of libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums providing online access to cultural and historical collections throughout the state of California. MOAC is a project of the Online Archive of California, integrating museums into the OAC and exploring issues such as images, multimedia, object collections, and educational uses.
Flicker
A consortium of alternative filmmakers: "films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media information technocracy."
Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
A spectacular collection of 19th century, pre-cinema optical devices.
Internet Moving Images Archive
The Prelinger Archives has digitized nearly 1000 movies and donated them to the Internet Archive. The films focus mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century.
USC Moving Image Archive
The Moving Image Archive is part of the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. It is comprised of approximately 50,000 motion picture negatives, magnetic sound elements, release prints and a growing percentage of moving image materials in digital formats.
Latin American Video Archives (LAVA)
Provides an on-line searchable database and ordering service which includes thousands of Latin American titles and includes the collections of hundreds of U.S. and foreign distributors and individual film/video makers.
Más de Cien Años de Cine Mexicano (in Spanish)
A brief history of Mexican cinema. Includes an extensive list of films (with photos), biographies of directors and movie stars and selected bibliography on Mexican cinema.
Women and Film Website Directory
A website developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
United States Early Radio History
"Articles and extracts about early radio and related technologies, concentrating on the United States in the period from 1897 to 1927."
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
Museum of Television and Radio
Media-Related Directories & Indexes
Public Motion Picture Research Centers and Film Archives
Features a website directory to film archives across the United States and throughout the world.
Cinemedia: the Internet's Largest Film and Media Directory
An excellent list of resources, they claim to have some 16,000 links. Search by keyword or browse their category list which organizes links to topics such as Television, Cinema, Actors, Radio, Magazines, and New Media.
Cinema Sites
Well arranged listing with links to most important media related web sites.
Audio, Video and Multimedia Directory from the Digital Librarian Art on Film Online
"A clearinghouse for information about film, video, CD-ROM and other interactive productions on fine arts, architecture, photography, decorative arts, and related topics."
Yahoo! Directory of Radio Shows
Indexed by subject and the name of the show.
Radio-Locator (formerly The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet)
Searchable database of U.S. and world radio stations
Film Studies or Media Listservs
CWF (Closely Watched Frames): Topics in Post-Soviet and East European Film and TV
German-Film list
H-FILM: History of Film (U. Houston)
SCREEN-L: a discussion on film and television studies
SLAVCIN: a list dedicated to Slavic Cinema. SLAVCIN-L (discussion of Russian/Slavic Cinema) Subscribe at listserver@mail.wm.edu