October 2006
Dr. Anderson's Communication Gateway Page: Flow Conference "New Technologies" Panel @ 12:45pm
by jlesage
blog by a communications and media teacher with many online resources, links, lecture notes, etc.
Counterblast :: The E-journal of Communication and Culture
by jlesage
reviews in cultural studies, film, and television; from NYU
Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler
by jlesage
semiotics, like connotation, and metaphor and metonymy are terms that convey how images bear meaning; valuable for anyone interested in film and photography
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.
July 2006
if:book: introducing MediaCommons
by jlesage
new project for intellectual ejournal/blog for media studies; interesting set of comments accumulated about its feasibility
filmjourney.org : Unshown Cinema
by jlesage & 1 other
"hopes to address a diverse assortment of films and give special attention to their historical, technical, and human values"
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."
City of Sadness by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
by jlesage
a large hypertextual site with an analysis of the Taiwan classic film in its various aspects, especially social/historical and aesthetic; an early example of the possibilities of using the Internet for in-depth film analysis and yet to be surpassed
June 2006
EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
by jlesage
large bibliography with links to many full text essays--american studies, critical legal studies, literature, marxism, media, popular culture, postcolonialism, queer, race, women's studies
WJT Mitchell: theories of media glossary
by jlesage
major writer on cultural theory. graphic presentation of media terms with explanations given when clicked on
