October 2006
"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet"
major essay by Lisa Nakamura
September 2006
Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software
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.
MiT4 abstracts and papaers
conference at MIT in 05 on the work of stories
Continuum Contents
online film journal from Australia
Film Bibliographies: Media Resources Center UCB
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
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
MPI - Participant Rooms
excellent set of academic online essays related to "global and local factors that enable/constrain cultural production and resignification/resistance by a varierty of media audiences"
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net
interesting left theory online journal--"exploring culture and politics after the net"
Dr. Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope
academic film blog
eLearn: Feature Article
by 1 othergood overview of shifts in edtech to new kinds of networked learning
July 2006
Robert Haller Publications
writings of Robert Haller on avant-garde film and filmmakers
Cinematic Expression Film Theory, Haim Callev
useful links to listservs, online film essays
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL
important journal covering independent and avant-garde films; complete index; online essays begin with issue no. 26, fall 1992
alterity
Danah Boyd's blog specifically for commenting on all the basic readings she did for her PhD exams
Bright Lights Film Journal | Welcome!
by 1 otherattractive online journal with especially good coverage of avant-garde, gay and lesbian, and documentary film
eye | the international review of graphic design
by 2 othersnew journal of graphic design and visual culture
Posthegemony
cultural theory, literature, media--from the perspective of a Latin Americanist
The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism
important essay by Miriam Hansen
Scope | About
online film journal with extensive book reviews of film scholarship
timescape syllabus
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."
Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain (by Jakob Lodwick)
by 11 othersBy looking at how we tag photos on Flickr, we can understand how humans process information. Feb, 2005
Film Sound Design - Film Sound Theory
art and analysis of film sound; interviews with sound designers of feature films
Film-Philosophy ejournal
by 3 othershas critical discussions from readers, with past entries summarized; good roundup of current journal and publications
City of Sadness by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
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
