October 2006
The Media and Communications Studies Site
by jlesage
gateway to media information, including narratology, listed under textual analysis
Posthegemony
by jlesage
The "about" page for a blog on posthegemony. Author also comments succinctly on books, Latin America, film and television.
Flow Conference 2006
by jlesage
Oct 06. Innovative academic TV site, Flow, has upcoming conversational conference coming at end of month. Contributors submit short position papers, available for downloading.
MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Weblog
by jlesage
Theoretically sophisticated and business-informed blog on Interet and media issues.
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.
course outline on social construction of space
by jlesage
understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians
"Junk Food Nation: Colwyn Griffith's Tourism Photographs" by Robert Evans
by jlesage
theory of tourist photogaphy discussed
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.
The Kitchen - Essays
by jlesage
"SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO ART, CRAFT AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF VIDEO"
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
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
Resource Discovery Network
by jlesage
excellent UK academic search tool for all disciplines. I looked up "film theory,' "feminism" and "television" and got useful results of sites I had not visited before, and some I had.
August 2006
Media Studies - Televisuality
by jlesage
a wonderful site, with examples, that explains how tv works visually
July 2006
Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
by jlesage
a relatively new film studies blog, reviews texts, offers syllabi
SCAN | journal of media arts culture ::
by jlesage
"the aesthetics and the political economy of media arts, as practised in both new and traditional media forms"; site is a little difficult to navigate, good theoretical articles with comprehensive bibliographies
course directory : Media and Film : University of Sussex
by jlesage
a large list of media courses taught at Sussex, can be traced out to see syllabi and bibliography; not a lot of links to online readings
Welcome to Landscapes of Capital
by jlesage
how space/time (speed), capital and globalization are represented in corporate television advertising, one of the best academic web sites in scope, graphic design, and visual analysis
Flow--television and media studies
by jlesage
major online journal in which critical feedback from readers forms a large part of the ongoing scholarly discourse
June 2006
H2O Playlist: Digital Video and Independent Movies
by jlesage
links site in a academic vein, oriented here toward lowbudget producers
