05 October 2006
Flow Conference 2006
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
Theoretically sophisticated and business-informed blog on Interet and media issues.
02 October 2006
BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart
free screenwriting formatting tool to use with Microsoft Word; I have not tried it and do not know how well it works.
Screenwriting and Movie Screenplay Database: Show Me: Free Screenplays
source for film scripts
iScriptdb.com: Movie Review & Screenplay Database
source for film scripts
Street Media: A Thesis Proposal
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
understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians
"Junk Food Nation: Colwyn Griffith's Tourism Photographs" by Robert Evans
theory of tourist photogaphy discussed
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.
01 October 2006
The Kitchen - Essays
"SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO ART, CRAFT AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF VIDEO"
Visual Culture Bibliography
seems to have been written about 2003
OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"
Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture
28 September 2006
The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time : filmcritic.com
by 2 othersI teach screenwriting students to write for the ending; it economizes crafting a storyline.
27 September 2006
Movie Blogs
I have not looked at all these, but about.com often has some new tips to follow up on.
25 September 2006
The House Next Door
thoughtful and substantial essays on TV shows and current and foreign films; excellent set of links on right side to film blogs and other Intenet film resources
24 September 2006
the complete idiot's [eejit's] guide to all aspects of filmmaking
clear and witty, useful for practitioners as refresher or for students, especially production teachers
SPF 583 - Visual Ethnography
excellent course outline
WEB RESOURCES FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
2001 updated
Visual Ethnography and Anthropology Links
of interest to anyone interested in documentary
12 September 2006
Coudal Partners
interesting tidbits of news about film and television, especially independent
01 September 2006
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
Resource Discovery Network
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.
