Cinema Studies - Local, National, and International Films

Seattle Cinema Scene

A listing of local resources in cinema studies, including films, film reviews, research resources, and more.

  • 911 Media Arts Center A local non-profit supporting film and video artists. Offers workshops, screenings.

  • Northwest Film Forum The Northwest Film Forum is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization supporting year-round programs of artistic film.

  • UW Libraries Media Center Resources. Check out the "Washington State Film Festivals and Organizations" section for a wide variety of information on local film.

  • WigglyWorld Local non-profit resource and part of Northwest Film Forum.

    National Cinema Scene

    A listing of national resources in cinema studies, including films, film reviews, research resources, and more.

  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Provides a searchable film studies database, plus information about AMPAS: the annual Academy Awards, filmmakers and actors, the AMPAS film archive, and the AMPAS cinema library.

  • All Movie Guide Online database gives reviews, biography, plot summaries, and analytic coverage of films from all over the world. Cast members, subject cross references, and genres are hyperlinked. Includes information on films from D.W. Griffith to Robert Altman.

  • American Film Institute Organization Dedicated to identifying and training the next generation of filmmakers.

  • CinemaSpace Provides links to the UC Berkeley film studies program, articles of film criticism, and other film studies resources.

  • CineMedia A directory of Internet links to radio, television, cinema and new media. Includes information on various aspects of production, education and regulation.

  • Filmmag An online magazine available through Indiewire.com, a vast website dedicated to indepedent film, contains both academic and popular links for filmakers and scholars.

  • Guide to American Cinema Written by Daniel Curran and published by Greenwood Press.

  • Handbook of American Film Genres Published by Greenwood Press. Overview of American films by genre, includes bibliographies and filmographies and index.

  • 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 accessible 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.

  • Motion Pictures: This American Memory Collection site features original format motion picture collections including Presidentail Inaugurations 1789-1997, San Francisco and 1906 Earthquake 1897-1916, and Coca-Cola Advertising 1951-1999.

  • PBS Online: Independent LENS This Public Broadcasting Station site provides information on independent film making. This site emphasizes films and videos shown on PBS but also offers interviews, forums, and a searchable database.

  • The Society for Cinema Studies Professional society of scholars, historians, filmakers, critics and other advocates of the "moving image." Provides links to on-line publications and related pedagogical tools.

  • Webcinema Created for industry workers, this site offers funding and production advice, listserves, and other resources.

    International Cinema Scene

    A listing of international resources in cinema studies, including films, film reviews, research resources, and more.

  • The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema
    Now that his book's print run at Oxford University Press is over, Robert Kolker provides the full-text online. It is a 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. This online edition is a visual work in progress, with stills and moving images selected to elucidate the text more accurately than a publicity still can. The original text is available through the UW Libraries.

  • Asian Film Connections
    a multilingual resource that aims to "create a deeper awareness and understanding of Asian cinema" with an in-depth look at the cinemas of China, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Each regional section consists of background and analysis, highlights from recent feature films, lists of award-winning films and leading directors, and articles about cultural context with suggestions for creating educational curricula.

  • Australian Film Institute (AFI)
    The AFI Research and Information Centre's new searchable online catalogue opens the way for radically increased access to its unique holdings, which include: 600,000 news-clippings on Australian and international film and television titles, comprehensive industry databases and significant screen journals and books.

  • Cahiers du Cinéma A multi volume compilation of the provocative French film journal Cahiers du Cinema. Volume 1, The 1950s: neo-realism, Hollywood, new wave edited by Jim Hillier; Volume 2, 1960-1968: new wave, new cinema, reevaluating Hollywood edited by Jim Hillier; Volume 3, 1969-1972: the politics of representation edited by Nick Browne.

  • Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film
    This reference book covers film in countries throughout North Africa and the Middle East, including Central Asia (the former Soviet republics), Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, The Maghreb, Palestine, and Turkey.

  • The Cuban Filmography, 1897 through 2001 by Alfonso J. García Osuna
    "This work is a filmography of every Cuban film (including documentaries, shorts, and cartoons) released from 1897, the first year films were shown and made in Cuba, through 2001."

  • Diccionario Espasa Cine Espanol by Augusto M. Torres; prologue by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
    Spanish-language reference book features extensive coverage of Spanish cinema.

  • Dizionario del Cinema Italiano
    Italian-language film reference with multiple volumes, including filmographies and indexes.

  • Edition of German Film Censorship Documents 1920-1938
    The Deutsches Filminstitut-DIF, which is a member of the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), edits a collection of film censorship documents from the Film-Oberprüfstelle Berlin....The collection that is now edited contains documents on 844 films produced and distributed between 1918 and 1938. The facsimiles of the documents are edited in PDF-files. Each film in this edition is documented with information on variations of the title, with credits, cast and censorship data (length, date of the license, number of the license, date of premiere). The archive gives an excellent impression of which sequences of the films (especially silent films) were to be edited out or which films were banned. By reading these documents it is possible to study the structure of the argument for or against a license. They also give an impression of how a democratic institution step by step tends to identify itself with structures of totalitarianism.

  • German Film Internet Portal
    Internet portal for information on German films, actors, German film history, and more; available in German and English. Each entry (film title or person) is directly connected to a search engine that searches the collections of 13 German film libraries and media centers.

  • The Greek Filmography, 1914-1996 by Dimitris Koliodimos; introduction by Max T. Roman
    An exhaustive filmography of Greek cinema through 1996. Entries include the original title of the film in both the Roman and Greek alphabets.

  • Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia
    This Spanish language site provides information on Mexican cinema, film distributors, film institutions, an archive and much more.

  • Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
    As part of the Amazon.com group of companies, the site's "objective is to provide useful and up to date movie information freely available on-line....It currently covers over 446,600 titles with over 2,462,516 filmography entries and is expanding continuously."

  • UW Restricted Wide Angle
    Published quarterly, each issue concentrates on a single film studies topic and offers illustrated articles, interviews, and book reviews. Each year, one issue is devoted to an Institutional History that preserves and chronicles "the history of various seminal organizations and film societies that have influenced cinema in the U.S. and abroad.


    Created by: Glenda Pearson
    Last modified: Wednesday May 18, 2005 (pearson)