October 2006
Dr. Helena Sheehan / Home Page
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much material on her media and society courses, including powerpoint lectures
Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan
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chapter one of "Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories" offered by author online
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
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from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
Transliteracies » Blog Archive » Lisa Parks
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Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading
Planned Obsolescence
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a media teacher and is spearheading an important online project for media scholars, Media Commons. Her blog has many teaching resources and summaries of sessions at the recent Flow TV Conference.
Counterblast :: The E-journal of Communication and Culture
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reviews in cultural studies, film, and television; from NYU
Introduction to Genre Theory
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by Daniel Chandler--the major theoretical concept that ties film/tv and literature together.
Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler
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semiotics, like connotation, and metaphor and metonymy are terms that convey how images bear meaning; valuable for anyone interested in film and photography
The Media and Communications Studies Site
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gateway to media information, including narratology, listed under textual analysis
Flow Conference 2006
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Oct 06. Innovative academic TV site, Flow, has upcoming conversational conference coming at end of month. Contributors submit short position papers, available for downloading.
Street Media: A Thesis Proposal
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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
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understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians
"Junk Food Nation: Colwyn Griffith's Tourism Photographs" by Robert Evans
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theory of tourist photogaphy discussed
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
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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"
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Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture
September 2006
Visual Ethnography and Anthropology Links
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of interest to anyone interested in documentary
Film Bibliographies: Media Resources Center UCB
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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
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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.
July 2006
Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
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a relatively new film studies blog, reviews texts, offers syllabi
SCAN | journal of media arts culture ::
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"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
