October 2006
screenonline
by jlesage & 1 other
"Screen" is the British Film Institute's major journal; here look at film and television headings for many short articles and resources about UK film/tv
Bright Lights Film Journal | Welcome!
by jlesage & 1 other
well designed web site, excellent essays, covers experimental and gay/lesbian work
Hugh McCarney
by jlesage
list of his courses, each of which has many film and communications studies essays available in full text form
Street Media: A Thesis Proposal
by jlesage
Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
by jlesage
For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.
OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"
by jlesage
Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture
September 2006
Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software
by jlesage
The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.
The House Next Door
by jlesage
thoughtful and substantial essays on TV shows and current and foreign films; excellent set of links on right side to film blogs and other Intenet film resources
Film Bibliographies: Media Resources Center UCB
by jlesage
Good place to start research for both scholars and students, comprehensive resource collection for film studies at UC-Berkeley: Bibliographies here for many film/TV Topics,Themes, Genres, Directors; on National Cinemas; and on Individual Films/Videos; Ful
Film Studies Resources - Academic Info
by jlesage
useful site with lots of resources: bibliographies, "digital library" links, academic programs listed; full text artices; Online Film Collections, Archives, Themes: women, genre, theory; Film History, silent and sound eras, International--by region; Indiv
August 2006
Upperstall.com - A Better View of Indian Cinema
by jlesage
analytic writing about Indian cinema; a good place to start if you want to start looking at films from India in a serious way
July 2006
edddhhhaalllltteerrr.....ccccoooommmm
by jlesage
Ed Halter's reviews of avant-garde film, often for the Village Voice, and his observations on the experimental film world
Cinematic Expression Film Theory, Haim Callev
by jlesage
useful links to listservs, online film essays
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL
by jlesage
important journal covering independent and avant-garde films; complete index; online essays begin with issue no. 26, fall 1992
rogerebert.com :: FRONTPAGE (xhtml)
by jlesage & 2 others
a newspaper and tv film reviewer with consistently good writing over many years
Bright Lights Film Journal | Welcome!
by jlesage & 1 other
attractive online journal with especially good coverage of avant-garde, gay and lesbian, and documentary film
Posthegemony
by jlesage
cultural theory, literature, media--from the perspective of a Latin Americanist
The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism
by jlesage
important essay by Miriam Hansen
timescape syllabus
by jlesage
course outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."
