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Compiled and maintained by Marty
Norden, Communication Dept., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
N.b.: Some of the resources listed here deal with general mass culture
topics, not just film.
- Adaptation
-- journal dedicated to the scholarly study of film adaptations
- Animation Journal --
devoted to animation history, theory, and research
- Anime Film Society -- based at St. John's U.
- Association Française de recherche sur
l'histoire du cinéma
- Association of Moving Image Archivists
- Bright Lights Film Journal
- CALLS FOR PAPERS, film and television -- compiled by the Penn English Dept.
- Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
- Center for Social
Media -- showcasing and analyzing media for social justice, democracy and civil society
- Cinema Electronica Quarterly
- Cinema
Journal -- journal of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies
- Cinémas: Revue
d'études cinématographiques / Cinémas: Journal of Film Studies --
based at the U of Montréal
- Cinema Scope -- expanding
the frame on international cinema
- Cinemascope: Independent Film Journal
- CinemaTexas Notes --
archived essays on a wide range of films
- CineText -- online journal and
resource center based at the U. of Vienna
- Ciné-Tracts: A
Journal of Film, Communication, Culture & Politics -- back issues of
the 1977-82 journal
- Communication Institute for Online
Scholarship -- includes a link to the ComWeb MegaSearch engine
- Consciousness,
Literature and the Arts -- online journal based at the U. of Wales
- Cult Media Studies --
an online community for the academic study of cult media
- CULTSTUD-L
-- a listserv devoted to cultural studies
- Cultural
Theory Resources -- provided by Blackwell Publishers
- Culture Machine --
generating research in culture and theory
- Early Popular
Visual Culture -- journal published by the Early Visual Media project
- Enculturation: An
E-Journal for Cultural & Rhetorical Studies
- Film & History: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
- Film Criticism
- Film Feature
Forum -- English abstracts of essays recently published in European film journals
- Film-Historia
-- tri-lingual journal devoted to history and cinema
- Film History: An
International Journal
- Film International
- The Film Journal --
"Dedicated to Serious Film Writing"
- FILM-PHILOSOPHY mailing
list and archives
- Film Quarterly
- Film
Studies: An International Review
- Film Studies Association of
Canada -- a.k.a. Association canadienne d'études cinématographiques
- FILM-THEORY
mailing list -- served up by the Spoon Collective
- Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture
- Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media
- FreeFullText.com -- links to more than 7,000 scholarly periodicals
- Full Alert Film Review
- The Graduate Film Studies
Journal -- based at SUNY Albany
- Griffithiana
-- bilingual journal devoted to silent cinema
- H-FILM mailing list
- Historical
Journal of Film, Radio and Television
- Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
- In Media Res -- scholarly online forum hosted by Media Commons
- In Short: The Journal of
Small Screen Studies -- based at the U. of Miami
- Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media
- International Association for Media and History
- International-Film.org --
based at the Institute of Communications Studies, U. of Leeds
- International
Journal of Media and Cultural Politics
- International Journal of
Communication
- Journal for MultiMedia
History -- online journal hosted by the History Dept. at SUNY-Albany
- Journal
of e-Media Studies -- based at Dartmouth College
- Journal of Film and
Video and its index --
journal of the University Film & Video Association
- Journal of Film Music
- Journal of Horror
Studies -- interdisciplinary journal devoted to the horror genre
- Journal of Literacy and
Technology: An Online Academic Journal
- Journal of Media
Literacy Education
- Journal
of Media Practice
- Journal of Moving Image
Studies -- online publication of the Center
for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image
- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- Journal of Religion & Film
- Journal
of the Reception Study Society
- Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
- KinoKultura -- online journal
devoted to new Russian cinema
- Kritikos: Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and
Image
- Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
- M/C: A Journal of Media and
Culture -- an e-publication of the Media and Cultural Studies Centre, U. of Queensland
- Mediascape -- e-journal
dedicated to moving images and visual culture
- The Media Theory Site -- a.k.a. theory.org.uk
- Millennium Film Journal
- Movement: A Media Studies
Journal -- associated with the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
- The
Moving Image -- journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists
- Moving Image Source --
scholarly articles and online resource guide provided by the Museum of
the Moving Image, New York City
- Nebula -- politics, arts, media
- New
Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film
- New
Review of Film and Television Studies
- Nouvelles "vues" sur le
cinéma québécois
- Octopus: A Visual Studies
Journal -- published by Visual Studies grad students at the U. of California, Irvine
- Offscreen
-- an online journal dedicated to independent and international films
- Other Voices: The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism
- Outside the
Frame: A Journal for Texts and Technology
- Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
- Particip@tions: Journal of
Audience & Reception Studies -- online journal devoted to cultural and media audiences
- Picturing
Justice -- online journal with a focus on law and popular culture
- Pioneers: The
Women Film Pioneers Project -- hosted by Duke U.
- Popular Culture Association /
American Culture Association
- Postmodern
Culture -- an online, multidisciplinary journal
- Post
Script: Essays on Film and the Humanities
- Post-Scriptum.ORG -- a
journal of interdisciplinary research in text and media
- Projections: The
Journal for Movies and Mind
- Quarterly
Review of Film and Video
- Reception
Study Society
- Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
- Refractory: A Journal
of Entertainment Media -- e-journal based at the U. of Melbourne
- Rouge -- online journal devoted
to the linkages between cinema and the other arts
- Science Fiction Film and
Television -- biannual journal published by Liverpool U. Press
- Scope: An Online Journal
of Film Studies -- a publication of the Institute of Film & TV Studies, U. of Nottingham
- Screen
- Screening
the Past -- electronic journal of visual media and history
- SCREEN-L
mailing list
- ScreenSite -- designed for
film/TV educators and students
- Senses of Cinema -- online
journal dedicated to "the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema"
- Sight and Sound
- Society for Cinema & Media Studies
- Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image
- Studies in European Cinema
- Studies in French Cinema
- Studies in Hispanic Cinemas
- Studies in Popular Culture
- Studies
in Russian and Soviet Cinema
- Tausend Augen -- French
review for audio-visual cultures and representations
- University Film & Video Association
- Vectors: Journal of Culture
and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
- Velvet Light Trap
- Vertigo -- for worldwide independent film
- Wide Angle: A Film
Quarterly of Theory, Criticism, and Practice
- Wider Screen -- writings on audio-visual culture in Finnish
and English
- All-Movie Guide -- movie database
provided by New Age Voices
- American Film Institute
- The Big Picture Magazine
- Black Cinema Network
- Black Film
Center/Archive -- a collection of films and related materials by and
about African Americans, housed at Indiana U.
- The Blues Brothers
- British Film Institute
- British
Universities Newsreel Database (BUND) -- a leading resource for the
study of newsreels and cinemagazines
- The Lon Chaney Home Page
- Cinegraphic.net -- Michael
Betancourt's avant-garde film and video website
- Cinema Sites -- courtesy of David Augsburger
- CinemaS p a c e -- at UC Berkeley
- Cinematography of the
Holocaust -- database of moving-image materials on the Holocaust
- Combustible
Celluloid -- "movie and DVD reviews for the thoughtful and passionate"
- Critics.com
- DEFA Film Library -- the only
North American archive that holds films produced in the former East Germany
- DocuSeek -- documentary film and
video search site
- Domitor --
Canadian-based research group devoted to pre-1915 cinema
- Early Cinema -- A timeline
and history of the first decade of cinema
- Early Visual Media --
contains information on pre-cinema technologies and early films
- The Easter Egg Archive -- all about
those mysterious thingies hidden on DVDs!
- The
Envelope -- the Los Angeles Times' comprehensive database of
winners and nominees from film, music, television, and theater
- Europa Film
Treasures -- online collection of rare international films
- Film
Reviews from the Women's Studies database at the U. of Maryland
- Gods Among Directors
-- emphasis on Rodriguez, Scorsese, Smith, Tarantino, and Woo, but with
links to sites on many other directors
- The Greatest
Films -- or so says Tim Dirks at this Roger Ebert-approved website!
- Alfred Hitchcock sites:
- Institut
Lumière -- includes the original program of ten Lumière films shown
on 28 Dec. 1895
- International Federation of Film
Archives (FIAF) -- collaborative association dedicated to rescuing films
- The Internet Archive maintains a
Moving Image Archive
loaded with FREE downloadable movies, animated films, documentaries, and more!
- Internet Movie Database --
an indispensable film resource
- Italian
National Museum of Cinema
- Library of Congress:
- Locatetv.com -- find TV shows,
movies, and actors on broadcast TV, online, and on DVD
- Metacritic -- link site for
reviews of movies, TV shows, music, and games
- The Movie Cliches
List -- play 'em again, Sam!
- Moviefinder.com
-- E! Online's search engine, with release information (theaters/TV/video)
on just about any movie
- Movie-list.com -- collection
of movie trailers (i.e., previews)
- Movie Profiler -- movie
recommendations based on your emotional preferences! Also contains a
helpful glossary
of terms used in movie reviews
- The Movie Quotes Site -- the
title says it all
- Movie Review Query Engine -- helpful for tracking down online movie reviews
- Movies.com
- Moving Image Collections
from around the world, courtesy of Georgia Tech
- National Archives and Records
Administration -- includes NARA's Audio-Visual Information Locator, a
database of 81,000 films, video and sound recordings, and photographs
- National Film Preservation Board
- National Film Preservation Foundation
- New York
Times movie reviews archive
- Northeast Historic Film --
preserving the moving-image heritage of New England, with an emphasis on amateur films
- The Pantheon --
Glen Norton's list of top 25 directors, with many helpful links
- Political Film Society
- PopcornQ -- website and database
dedicated to gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender representations in the movies
- Professor Neon's TV & Movie Mania
- Public-domain
film list -- courtesy of Desert Island Films
- Rotten Tomatoes: Movie Reviews and Previews
- Real Movies
- Reel.com -- humongous collection of
videos for sale or rent
- ScreenSite
- Silent Film Sources
-- info on silent-film releases and playdates
- Silent
Movies -- Glen Pringle's extensive website
- Silents Are Golden --
"all about the greatest era in cinema history"
- The Smithsonian
Institution has an early motion-picture exhibit
- Stats-a-Mania
-- statistics on the highest grossing films
- The
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, housed at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Taylorology --
online journal devoted to silent-movie director William Desmond Taylor
and his contemporaries
- Turner Classic Movies
-- host of the TCM Movie Database
- TV Guide Entertainment Network
- UbuWeb -- dozens of free
downloadable avant-garde films
- The
UCLA Film and Television Archive Collections
- Universal Studios Archives
- Urban Legends
Reference Pages: Movies
- Wisconsin Center for
Film and Theater Research
- Women
in Cinema: A Reference Guide
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences -- the Oscars people
- Ain't It Cool News --
news and reviews of the latest Hollywood deals and productions, presented by the legendary Harry Knowles
- Artists Rights Foundation
-- dedicated to helping moviemakers protect the integrity of their works
- BoxOffice -- online edition of
the trade magazine
- The Box Office Guru --
movie box-office data from 1989 to the present
- CineWeb -- guide to production services
- Directors Guild of America
-- the directors' union
- Disney
- Entertainment Weekly Online
- E! Online
- The Fan Source -- info on your
favorite stars
- FilmWeb
- Hollywood.com
- Hollywood Creative Directory
-- the "bible" of the film/TV industry
- The Hollywood Reporter
-- online edition of the trade magazine
- IFILMpro -- collection of film
industry resources
- Independent Film Report --
includes an e-newsletter sign-up and an indy film-fest database
- indieWIRE -- the
latest news from the world of independent filmmaking
- In Hollywood --
movie production and release schedules, development deals, domestic
box-office grosses, daily industry news summaries, searchable data base
- Mandy's International
Film/TV Production Directory
- Motion Picture Association of
America (MPAA) -- movie ratings info, links to the major studios, and more
- Movieweb
- Paramount Pictures Corp.
- PlanetShowbiz -- links to
showbiz data, reviews, schedules, etc.
- ShowBIZ -- a database and
search engine for the entertainment industry
- The Smoking Gun -- documents on celebrities and movies
- Universal Studios/MCA
- Variety
- Agent
Search & Evaluation, Inc. -- reports on agents and agencies, legit and otherwise
- American Accolades --
screenplay competition
- American Film
Scripts Online
- BBC
script archive
- The Daily Script -- gigantic
online collection of film and TV scripts
- Drew's Script-o-Rama -- ditto previous comment
- Fade In -- online version of
the screenwriting journal
- From Fade In
Through Fade Out -- Jon George's online screenwriting book, with links
and other goodies
- Hollywood Book City --
thousands of film and TV scripts available for purchase
- The Horror
Screenwriter's Page
- How to Write a
Screenplay -- free online course, courtesy of Empire Screenwriting Resource
- InkTip.com -- sell your screenplay
through this online marketplace
- MovieBytes -- info on
screenwriting contests and online literary agents
- The Online
Communicator -- multi-media website has a Writing for Film link
- Planet
Megamall USA has a huge collection of film and TV scripts for sale
- The
Professional Screenwriter Link Page
- Screenplay.com -- a Write
Brothers, Inc., website
- The Screenplayers -- online
society of screenwriters
- Screenplays for You -- free movie scripts!
- Screenwriters Resource Center
- The Screenwriters' Utopia
- Scriptapalooza --
screenplay contest and coverage info
- Script City -- hundreds of
film and TV scripts for sale
- Script Frenzy -- write a
20,000-word script in one month!
- Scr(i)pt: Where Film Begins
- SCRNWRIT and its archives -- information
on the internet's leading mailing list devoted to screenwriting
- Simply Scripts -- links to
hundreds of free downloadable screenplays
- Spec Screenplay
Website -- info on writing and selling speculative screenplays
- Third Millennium Entertainment
-- info on screenwriting, storyboards, film/video production, and more
- The Virtual Script Workshop -- info on
online and offline screenwriting workshops based in Great Britain
- Writers Guild of America-West (WGAw)
and Writers Guild of America-East
(WGAe) -- the screenwriters' union
- Writing-World.com
-- links to numerous screenwriting and playwriting resources
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