Video Resources Page (link to sites useful for your creating own films)
General Sites
AFI Education: American Film Institute's educational site for students.
Click on the "students" link to view other online student-created videos, storyboards, etc.
AFI Film Quiz: (Fun, medium hard. I scored 26/40)
BFI: Britist Film Education site
Filmeducation.org
Young Minds Inspired: AMPAS' teachers' guide/tutorial to various aspects of film production, from lighting to sound to editing and more.
IMDB: Internet Movie Database. Search for basic information on thousands of films
TCM Database: Another good film database, with articles, stills and general information, along with some great desktop wallpaper and a (very difficult!) movie trivia game!
AMPAS: Official database of Academy Award winners and nominees
Greatest Films: A bit cheesy-looking, but good material on genres and general film information.
Elements of Film
Complete Eejits Guide to Film-Making
Yale Film Studies Online resource covering all aspects of film
Soundtrack: An Introduction
Filmsound.org: Some excellent information (and video clips) on use of sound in films. (I love the one on Ratatouille!)
Film Analysis/Criticism
DATABASES
JSTOR: Online database. Contains full text articles from several well-regarded film journals. From home, you'll need the password.
iCONN: Search the EXPANDED ACADEMIC database. From home, use your public library card OR click on the "CT residents TRY THIS" button.
Movie Review Query: Search engine for finding reasonably substantial movie reviews
Back to Film School: General how to on film criticism
GENERAL/ONLINE FILM JOURNALS
Filmsite.org: A good collection on film history, genre, "best of", etc.
American Cinematographer An interesting journal with interviews, in-depth articles and insights into film techniques. Be sure to check out the podcasts!
Bright Lights Film Journal: Online journal with categories ranging from director studies to film noir to kung-fu films and more.
Millennium Film Journal: Reviews of experimental and avant-garde film
Suite 101: Film and TV Collections of articles, by genre. Use the navigation bar on the left.
Senses of Cinema: Online film journal, with an eclectic collection of articles
Film Comment: Be sure to check the archives. Journal of Lincoln Center's Film Society
Images: Online Journal of Film and Popular Culture
American Cinema: Film history video course
MovieMaker Magazine: articles on movie news, film reviews, and all aspects of creating films
CinemaScope: Film Magazine. Look in the Archives and Web Only sections for articles.
Pictureshow Man: A site discussing te history and development of motion pictures, with links to articles and film.
Rolling Stone: Movie Review Archive
Film Philosophy: Online journal of film studies
Hollywood Classics
Movie Diva: Collection of articles on Hollywood classics by the Film Curator at the NCMA.
Gilda's Blue Book: Collection of links related to silent films.
Classic Films: Articles and images related to Hollywood's Golden Period
Action-Adventure/Thriller
Girls Kick Ass!: A feminist critique of action films
Action Films
Cop Action Films (From the 80's)
Anatomy of the Action Picture
Avant-Garde/Experimental
Essays
Fred Camper Articles: A free-lance film journalist
Lovers of Cinema: The First American Avant-garde. Google Books
iNCITE!: Online journal of avant-garde film.
COMEDY
General study
HITCHCOCK
Hitchcock MacGuffin site: broad collection of links and articles on Hitchcock
Hitchcock: Master of Suspense: Introductory site
Cinema of Alfred Hitchock: Great site with links to a plethora of articles covering most of his films.
NOIR
They Shot Dark Pictures: Brief background on Noir, with links to good lists of directors and top films.
10 Shades of Noir: Background and review of 10 top Noir films.
No Place For a Woman: Film noir essays, photos and more
Crime Films: Great collection of variations on the genre from gangster to noir to detective films to cop films and more.
International Cinema
Alive and Kicking: Article on Kung Fu films.
Midnight Eye: covers modern Japanese cinema, with archives of classic Japanese film
Japanese Cinema: Articles from Bright Lights film journal.
Bollywood
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Sci-fi in film: While I don't usually use wikipedia as a source, this is an especially good article in explaining the link between literature and sci-fi film.
Sci-Fi: From Filmsites.org
Sci-Fi Movie Reviews: From the Sci-Fi Movie Page.
Fantasy Magazine: Interesting. Covers all things fantasy, you'll need to dig a bit through archives for movie reviews.
Jungian Reflections: Google Books--critical analysis of Jungian archetypes found in sci-fi/fantasy films. Examines Star Wars/Stark Trek/ Indiana Jones, Batman (and other comic book heroes), The Omen, Planet of the Apes and more.
Superherohype.com: You'll need to dig here, but interesting site.
Comicbookmovie.com: More of a fan site, but will keep you up on the latest news/gossips. (Tim Robbins will play Ironman's dad??! Fantastic!)
Horror Film History
British Horror Films
70's Horror Films
Allhorrorfilms.com
Monster at the Soda Shop: Teens and 50's horror films
Teen Films
Monster at the Soda Shop: Teens and 50's horror films
Representations of Youth: Use the sidebar on the left to navigate the topics. Explores such films as Rebel Without a Cause and Stand By Me.
History of Teen Movies: Cheesy, but informative. Part of a larger site on Hollywoood teen movies.
Teen Movies: Online article
Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen: Google Books result
Shakespeare in Teen Movies: Think: 10 Things I Hate About You, 0 and She's the Man
WESTERNS
The Silent Western
The Western: An Overview
30 Great Westerns: Brief analysis of each.
Spaghetti Westerns: In-depth online article.
Race Movies: Describes a silent film genre for African-American audiences
Good Film Blogs
Self-Styled Siren
Movie of the Day: Sci-Fi/Horror ramblings, with entries on over 2500 films.
Film School Rejects: A "meta-blog" a la the Huffington Post
Coleman's Corner in Cinema
Jim Emerson's Blog (Reviewer for the Chicago-SunTimes
David Bordwell (Professor of Film Studies at U. Wisconsin)
BLOG TEMPLATES:
Just for fun!
Spiderman: Cool way to spiff up the look of your blog if you're doing the superhero genre.
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