Film Festivals on the World Wide Web
Provides links to film festivals in Asia & the Western Pacific, Europe, Canada, United States, South America, and virtual festivals on the Web.
The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema. Published by Oxford University Press. Robert Kolker provides history and analysis of European and Latin American cinema, starting with
neo-realism, and exploring the work of Godard, the British and Italian movements of the Sixties, Cuban revolutionary cinema, Cinema Novo and the new German cinema
of the Seventies. While the book it out of print, Kolker has put the complete text online.
This online edition is a visual work in progress, with stills and moving images selected to elucidate the text more accurately.
American Film Scripts Online - UW Restricted
American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) currently contains over 300 scripts by over 400 writers. Searches can be done through information fields on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. This database continues to grow and will eventually contain approximately 1,000 film scripts.
Internet Moving Image Archive
"The films on this site focus on twentieth-century North American history and culture, and also include some coverage of the broader world. Centered around everyday life, culture, industry and institutions in the United States from 1905 to 1969, this collection presents a wide range of images that have not generally been available to the public until now."
Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies. This site, offered by the Library of Congress American Memory Collection, features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and many other materials surviving from Thomas Edison's entertainment inventions and industries.
The site is accessable through a keyword search, by browsing the alphabetical title list or by browsing the subject index. Histories of Edison's involvement with motion pictures and sound recordings, as well as a brief biography of the inventor's life are also provided.
Magill's American Film Guide Lists in alphabetical order brief analyses of 1000 major American films. Essays range from 3-8 pages in length and critically examine the film and its relationship to film history.
The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson. 1998. Published by Oxford University Press. This is a companion book to The Oxford History of World Cinema. The work emphasizes film theory and criticism over industrial and artistic issues.
The Oxford History of World Cinema, edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Oxford University Press, 1996. Reference book offers articles on the industrial and artistic history of cinema from the 1890s to the present. Features articles on international cinematic traditions. Contains bibliographies at the end of each article, and at the back of the volume. Indexed.
Encountering Directors. Interviews with Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut, Robert Bresson, René Clair,
Ermanno Olmi, Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Carol Reed, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Renoir and Alfred Hitchcock.
Inner Views: filmmakers in conversation.
Contains interviews with Francis Coppola, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Robert Altman, Tim Burton and Clint Eastwood.
Reel to Real: race, sex, and class at the movies.
Written by bell hooks, this title explores the social and political aspects of film in America. Includes interviews with African American producers and directors.
Guide to Web Resources in Film Studies
This Indiana University Bloomington Libraries site provides Web links that are divided into film categories, such as Indexes and research links,
Electronic journals in Film Studies, Searchable film and video databases, Reviews and much more.
The Media Resources Center (MRC)
MRC is the UC Berkeley Library's primary collection of materials in audio and visual formats (VHS, video discs, DVD, compact audio discs, audiocassettes, slides and computer software).
This is an extensive list of information, including Searchable Film Databases, Film History & Criticism, movie review databases, online journals and much more.
Silent Era
Provides links to information in the following categories: Progressive Silent Film List, Silent Era Archive, Presumend Lost, Silent Era Films on DVD and VHS, and Silent Era Film Books.
American Film Scripts Online - UW Restricted
American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) currently contains over 300 scripts by over 400 writers. Searches
can be done through information fields on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
This database continues to grow and will eventually contain approximately 1,000 film scripts.
