public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags film & culture

04 December 2006

02 December 2006

Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts

subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online

01 December 2006

kamera.co.uk what's new

online film magazine with an independent, often European focus

BBC - collective - the interactive culture magazine

by 4 others
a social networking site in which BBC offers cultural reviews, with clips, and readers comment or write alternative reviews; readers also submit own reviews

Media Art Net | Sitemap

English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet

Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty

"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.

Cinemarati Blog

"brings together online film critics for serious, and seriously fun, discussion about film"; links to blogs by selected critics

Zoom In Online: the internet video channel providing essential info on media & entertainment

business and technology for media artists; many interesting perspectives and tech histories

BUBL LINK: Media studies

a UK portal's link to media links portals; some entries here will be new to US academics

Flickhead

online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered

Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10

by 2 others
Canadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources

30 November 2006

Boston Review

by 1 other
left political and literary review, good writing

Synoptique

film journal from Concordia University in Montreal

Miradas--in Spanish

extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site

27 November 2006

Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc

by 1 other
a very large historical archive, often from advertising, "to provide for all levels of possible viewer a visually orientated taxonomy of the ways in which pictures are used to tell stories." unique collection, also useful for many other purposes

26 November 2006

media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages

"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."

Mediascape

ejournal, interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture

22 November 2006

DIGITALSOULS.COM - new media art | philosophy | culture

"one of the longest continuously running online galleries and e-zines dedicated to new media art, digital culture and philosophy; contributions by international artists and writers including Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, John Berger, Sean Cubitt, Susan Sontag..."

Scenes of Provincial Life

a vblog diary from someone who has a good eye and lives in a picturesque environment

Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter

It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.

20 November 2006

Pajiba - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People

by 2 others
movie and tv review site, very current, well written, various authors