This page includes links to analyses of and images and clips from class films, Web movie theaters, materials on film research, sites on film terminology, sites on U.S. history, resources on writing about film and tools for Web authoring. When you follow the links, the Web sites will open in a new browser window. To return to this page, simply close the new browser window.
Issue of the online journal Film Focus that examines Double Indemnity and other films from the noir period. Short biography that details how Capra became involved with the film industry, his years at Columbia, and other career highlights. Site features links to reviews and essays, a downloads page, and a discussion board. Description of the film, with attention to the film's aesthetics and the controversy surrounding the film's lack of verisimilitude. Review and extensive description of the film's plot and quotations from the dialogue. Extensive summary with many quotations from the film. If you don't remember the contents of the plane crew's survival pack, this is the site to see. Interpretive summary of the film, with lyrics for the film's music. Essay by Douglas Kellner--author of one of our packet readings. Kellner explores the film-society connection from the silent period to the contemporary era. Complete cast and summary. The "Things to Note" makes suggestions about some of the film's contexts. Description of the film, with brief reference to the ways critics have interpreted the film. Jeremy Boxen's essay places Dr. Strangelove within the context of the Cold War arms race. A useful example of the types of analyses you can do in your presentations and Web projects. This site offers images and short plot summaries of some of Chaplin's films. Information on the making of the film, interspersed with a complete plot summary. Extensive, somewhat interpretive summary of the film. Analytical essays from U.C. Berkeley's Media Resources Center. Essays cover women in film noir, the hard-boiled detective in film noir, and the outer limits of film noir. An online silent film journal "dedicated to keeping the art of silent film alive." The site has information on various aspects of the silent era: artists, those behind the camera, screenings of silent films, video clips, and a photo gallery. Class Films--Image/Clip Archives
Page includes The Deer Hunter theme, posters, screenshots, and QuickTime and Windows Media Player clips. Extensive image and quote gallery. Stills, screenshots, and audio of "Mein Fuhrer, I Can Walk!" An International Relations professor's hilarious treatise on IR scholars and the Cold War illustrated with images from Dr. Strangelove. Streamed video clips from class films that viewers can play with Real Player. Frame enlargements, posters, and sound clips from several noir films, including Double Indemnity. The Image Bank Films site contains a searchable index of video clips from contemporary and archival films. Fan page with screen shots and publicity stills from the film. Images from Kevin McCarthy's personal site. Images and video clip accompany summary and other information about the film. Note the author's image use policy. An image gallery of silent film stars--including Lillian Gish, Clara Bow, and Charlie Chaplin--brought to you by silent-movies.com.
A page that links to some of the Library of Congress's motion picture holdings, including films made by Edison, early animated films, and films that recorded famous figures and daily events. Many of the motion pictures can be viewed via computer for free. Although you can watch for free, registration is required, and the registration form includes street address as a required field. You'll also need to download RealPlayer 8 Plus ($29.99) to view Movie Flix films. Films available on Movie Flix include Easy Street, The Immigrant, and The Cheat.
Site of the American Film Institute. A chronicle of the oldest movie company in America--and D.W. Griffith's onetime employer. The pages offer information on Biograph writers and directors; links to trade magazine Web sites; and a movie lounge chat room. An essential Internet research tool for American Studies scholars. The site has numerous links to sources on American literature, history, art, material culture (including film), gender studies, performing arts, religion and psychology, legal studies, race and ethnicity, economics, politics and social sciences. "The Internet's largest film and media directory," Cinemedia contains links to resources on cinema, directors, organizations, networks, actors, particular films, and research. Browse the categories to view Cinemedia's 25,000+ links. Information on film history, the development of motion picture technology, directors, and specific films, performers and directors. Links to multiple resources in the humanities and social sciences. Searchable index of over 125,000 films. Contains links to biographies of directors, screenwriters, producers and actors; commentaries on individual films; and links to popular film reviews. Use the query engine to search for Web reviews of particular films. Links to U.S. and international research sites on film and filmmakers. Links to sites on directors, actors, studios, unions, electronic journals, film research, festivals, movie reviews, searchable databases, and internet guides to film. Created by cinema studies research librarian Glenda Pearson, this page contains information on how to craft effective search statements and gives an overview of library holdings in cinema studies. Authored by a cinema studies librarian, the site has information on finding cinema studies resources in the UW libraries and links to electronic journals and cinema studies resources on the Web.
Click on "Camera," "Genre," "Editing," "Story," and "Form" for extended definitions and discussion of cinematic terms. The site contains material on technical aspects of filmmaking, discussions of genres and arguments regarding the relationship between film and society. Also contains book reviews, an essay gallery of works on film and film theory, and links to material on Hollywood film studios, critical theory and writing. A short guide on how to to read the text and context of a film. The page has excellent questions to guide students in their analysis of narrative, staging, cinematography, editing and sound.
Teresa Mudrock's page of links to biographical Web sites and Web pages detailing U.S. history during each decade of the 20th century. Links of interest to our class include "America in the 1930s," "The Psychedelic 60s," "Literature and Culture of the American 1950s," and "Vietnam War." Contains a virtual archive of Cold War documents from governments on all sides of the Cold War. Ohio State University Professor K. Austin Kerr's Web site provides materials for an "intensive study of political, economic, social and cultural change in the U.S. from 1877 to 1917." Materials include primary source readings, Professor Kerr's lecture notes, quantitative data, images, Web bibliographies, and links to articles on immigration, labor reform, and other topics of concern during the period. Teresa Mudrock's links to Web pages on general women's history, biographies, suffrage, and chronologically arranged sites. Links to thousands of history sources. The table of contents is organized by area of study, period, country or place, and the Horus site is searchable. "America's story in words, sounds, and pictures." Created by UW Libraries' history subject librarian Teresa Mudrock, this page contains links to article indexes, research guides, databases of primary sources, electronic journals, and Web pages on history. The materials on this page are organized by chronological period as well as historical topic. The Virtual Library links to reference resources, including databases, e-texts, journals and archive.
Information on how to correctly document citations of film, video and online media materials. Papers by students at Queen's University Film Studies program, including a paper on images of working women in pre- and post-WWII film and a paper on Dr. Strangelove in the context of the Cold War. George Mason's step-by-step guide to writing film analyses. The only MLA-approved guidelines for citing electronic sources. From the main page, go to "MLA Style," then choose "Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style." This page links to a page on citing Web sources. This site not only reviews MLA, APA and Turabian citation guidelines, but also gives links to citing electronic sources. Authored by UCLA librarian Esther Grassian, this page offers criteria for evaluating discipline-based world wide web sites. Writers can use Grassian's list to help them decide whether a particular web source is appropiate for an academic research paper.
Complete guide to creating and publishing Web pages at the University of Washington. Suggestions on how to integrate links and images into text. Links to art and font pages, button generators, and add-ons for your Web pages. Information on creating web pages and designing web sites. Includes a page wizard to help users write their own pages. Free downloadable software to help you create images and Web pages.
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