Adelphi research institute
http://www.adelphi.salford.ac.uk/
These are the Web pages for the University of Salford's Adelphi Research Institute for Creative Arts and Sciences, an inter-disciplinary research centre which brings together arts and humanities academics with those in the sciences and social sciences. The website has details of the main areas of expertise in: art and design; communications and media; performance; and music, along with an archive of past projects and information for research students. There is a staff list, with links to individual's interests and publications.
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Archive of performances of Greek and Roman drama (APGRD)
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/
This is the online presence of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), an inter-disciplinary research project at the University of Oxford which is aimed at establishing the international history of the production and reception of classical plays from the Renaissance to the present day, and to trace all extant evidence for performance and re-performance of plays within antiquity. The purpose of the APGRD is both to serve as a repository of physical materials relating to the stage history of the works in performance (such as playbills, programmes, reviews, drawings, photographs and audio-visual recordings) and to compile a comprehensive production history of ancient drama on the modern stage (revivals and adaptations on stage and film, and in opera and dance). Users may register to search the online APGRD Database of more than 9,000 productions of Greek and Roman drama on the modern stage, plus bibliographical sources for them. Playwrights whose works feature are Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence, and Seneca. This site provides information about the project, its events (including seminars, conferences and colloquia) and publications, as well as links to further research resources and listings of current and forthcoming productions of ancient drama. Links to relevant online resources include those for the reception of ancient drama, Classics in general and theatre studies. Funding is received from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
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Art & design : career & employment
http://art.nmu.edu/department/AD_Career-Jobs.html
This website is an American resource list, produced by the Department of Art and Design at Northern Michigan University, to help art and design students with their careers. The main section, 'Art Jobs', is divided into: 'New Media/Graphics'; 'Photography/Film/Video'; 'Teaching/Institutional/Museum'; 'Art/Design Employment Agencies'; 'Companies'; Other Art Resources'; 'General Job Sites (with art/design listings)'; 'Outside of USA'. The rest of the site is made up of resource listings and links to websites under the following topics: 'Career Planning'; 'Informational Resources'; 'Art & Entrepreneurship'; 'Professional Organisations'; and 'Exhibition Information'. This site does not directly list jobs and information, but provides links to sites that do.
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Arts Council England : my region
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/index.php
Published on the website of the Arts Council England, this is the section on the regional arts offices. England is divided into nine areas, in order to provide a place where artists, arts organisations and administrators can communicate, share information and work together within one part of the country. For each area there is information on grants for the arts and other funding opportunities as well as current projects that are happening within the region. Also included for each area are press releases, news items and newsletters (which can be downloaded in PDF format). Contact details for individual offices are also supplied.
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BBC : arts & culture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/
This website is the arts page for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It provides news, reviews, events information and links to related sites. The home page gives the latest arts-related news and provides the opportunity to sign up for an email newsletter or to contribute to the message board. The arts area consists of sections in the following subjects: books & writing, dance, drama & theatre, films, painting & sculpture, photography and poetry. Each section is further subdivided. The Web guide provides links to other BBC subject areas and external links to arts related sites. There is a writing room with tips for creative writers, directories for arts-related podcasts and BBC programmes on iPlayer (requiring Flash plug-in) as well as short artists' films and excerpts from BBC radio programmes.
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Cinema spot
http://www.cinemaspot.com/
Published by StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc., CinemaSpot.com is a free online resource guide to websites for all things film and cinema-related. websites are selected for the site, and then split into categories including Reviews, Fun, People, Genres and Reference. It is possible to sign up for a quarterly newsletter for the service, and included in the site are links to resources on the film industry, film history, libraries, glossaries, awards and current releases.
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Criterion Collection
http://www.criterion.com/
This is the website of the Criterion Collection. It is a commercial website but it is useful for film and media students as it contains information on films and essays and articles by academics and experts on classic films from various countries. The Criterion Collection is dedicated to gathering films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. The collection contains a series of classic and contemporary films on DVD. One can browse the collection by title, director, country, year etc. Each entry contains a synopsis, film information, cast, reviews and essays relating to the subject. One can also browse by subject such as: cult movies; documentaries and samurai cinema.
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Culture vulture blog
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/
Culture vulture is one of several weblogs produced by the Guardian. It provides links into other culture-related information on the Guardian site as well as its own unique content: 'blog' entries which link to and comment on other topical information on the Internet. Readers can add their own comments within five days of an entry being posted to the blog, search for previous entries, or browse them via the Culture vulture archives, which includes categories such as art & architecture, comedy, dance, film, music, photography, theatre and TV & radio.
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dg : dramaturgische Gesellschaft
http://www.dramaturgische-gesellschaft.de/dramaturg/
DG: Dramaturgische Gesellschaft (Dramaturgical Society) is a German-based society devoted to uniting theatre artists and craftspeople associated with theatrical production in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. People represented here include dramaturgs, stage directors, theatre managers, as well as publishers and journalists who focus on dramatic works. Nor does the Society neglect video, film and related motion picture media as they relate to the stage. The Society debates dramaturgical themes and broader related questions, with the aim of determining contemporary artistic and social aspects of these themes. The Society provides an open discussion network and forum for its members to achieve these aims. The site gives a history of the Society's activities up to current and upcoming events listings. These are mainly evident in symposia, lectures and discussions, along with cooperative ventures with particular theatre companies and groups. The table of contents of the Society's annual journal, "Dramaturgie," is posted here running back to 2000. The site also has a blog and provides links to relevant press releases. The site is entirely in German.
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Erfurt electronic studies in English
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/eese.html
Erfurt Electronic Studies in English (ISSN 1430-6905) is a peer reviewed online journal that publishes full-text articles and reviews across the broad spectrum of English studies, including literature, linguistics, film, humanities computing, English as a foreign language, cultural and gender studies. Although based at the University of Erfurt, Germany, the journal is in English. As a result, many of the articles consider issues raised by teaching English language and literature in a non-English culture. Some of the topics discussed in recent and earlier articles include: The Anatomy of Modernity: Browning and T.S. Eliot (2008); Global Gazes at British Literature: A Report on the 30th Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary British Literature, 2007; The Problems of Xenophobia and the Teaching of English at Japanese Universities (2002); Anne Finch Surveys Womankind (2001). The site links to other related Resources, including Prolepsis, the online book review journal for English Studies. A General Index is also provided, although discontinued in 2002.
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European cinema journal
http://www.mediasalles.it/ecjourn.htm
This is the website of the European Cinema Journal, a media newsletter published by Media Salles, which is available in Italian and English. It is an initiative of the EU MEDIA Programme and has the support of the Italian Government. The contents are available in PDF format and issues date back to 1999. The newsletter contains European box office statistics and some issues are themed. For example during 2005 there was a 'Special CineAsia' issue with a supplement in Chinese, and a 'Special Kino Expo' issue with a supplement in Italian.
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Film score monthly
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/
This American website, edited and published by Lukas Kendall, is the online version of the print magazine Film Score Monthly. Some parts of the website are pay per view only. However, one can access, for free, feature articles and the Film Score Daily, which is a news column that goes back to May 1997. Under resources one can view FAQs, a Readers' Soundtrack Handbook and links to other sites. The table of contents is provided for the most recent print version of the magazine.
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Home page of Bill Gordon
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/
This personal website contains the 'Kamikaze Images' online resource, which comprehensively "explores diverse portrayals and perceptions of the young men who carried out suicide attacks near the end of World War II." It explores both American and Japanese views, through: essays; images collections; evaluations of history books; and extensive "evaluations of works of popular culture" depicting "Japan's special attack forces". Each article is illustrated with several clear images. The project has an extensive set of bibliographies. As part of the project, the author has visited Japan on a two-month research trip. Also available from Bill Gordon's home page are his full-text 'Japan-Related Papers and Essays', and a history of "Friendship Doll exchange" between Japan and the United States.
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Image and narrative : online magazine of the visual narrative
http://www.imageandnarrative.be/
Image and Narrative (ISSN 1708-678X) is a peer reviewed ejournal devoted to visual narratology - that is, any narrative medium from comics and film to dance and experimental fiction. Theoretical in orientation, the journal publishes articles in English and French, in the field of narratology, semiotics, deconstruction, medium theory, and the uncanny. Issues have focused on themes such as gender, performance, graphic novels, and cognitive narratology. Abstracts and full-texts are included, the notes in later editions are helpfully hyperlinked, and the images accompanying the articles are high quality. A search facility is provided. Calls for papers for forthcoming conferences are included on this site.
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Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft an der Universität Wien
http://tfm.univie.ac.at/
This is the website of the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. General departmental information is provided, such as contact details; course offerings; a list of affiliated faculty; upcoming lectures; examinations; events; and internships. The site also describes the library which is affiliated with the Institute. The library holds specialised literature on the theatre, film and media; a drama collection; an audiovisual collection; and an Austrian performance reviews archive, spanning 1945 to the present. Users can use an online catalogue of holdings to check the library's resources for their research. For further information in this vein, users should also check the collections and projects outlined under the headings Videothek; Audiothek; and Medienanlage (found under Sammlungen). Perhaps the elements of greatest interest for academics in the fields of Austrian Cultural Studies and Cultural History, however, would be the subsites on research projects; publications; reviews; and E-learning.
Research and related projects include: experimental theatre in Austria between 1945 and 1983; historical dramas in Viennese plays, 1918-1938; Austrian theatre topography, 1918-1938; edition of sources on Jewish theatre in Vienna; THEADOK, the databank for Austrian theatre productions; the European Music-Theatre Academy (EMA); and a research databank of the University of Vienna. Publications and Reviews subpages both post online full-text reviews and other publication information. The Institute also runs the affiliated Society for Theatre Ethnology, with its own attached subsite. The subsite on E-learning at the University of Vienna is also worthwhile for those interested in new techniques in humanities instruction involving the Internet. Navigation is straightforward.
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Invisible culture : an electronic journal for visual culture
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html
Invisible Culture: an electronic journal of visual studies is dedicated to the academic discussion of film, art, video and photography. Highly theoretical in approach, French theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes and Giles Deleuze are frequently cited in the essays featured in the journal. Thus, questions of absence in photography sit alongside articles on iconophilia in Andy Warhol's work. But a special issue on subcultures has very little in the way of art analysis. The journal, then, is willing to extend its definition of invisible culture to those cultures outside mainstream representation. Invisible Culture will be of interest to those working on culture, visual art or politics.
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Journal of medicine and movies
http://campus.usal.es/~revistamedicinacine/
The Journal of Medicine and Movies (Revista de Medicina y Cine) is a full-text e-journal, published from the University of Salamanca in Spain. The journal is available in both Spanish and English. At May 2009 there are 17 issues freely available online, from 2005 to 2009. The journal publishes four times a year, with articles in PDF format. Example recent full-text article titles are: Medicine and the Cinema: The Different Faces of the Analysis of a Relationship; Films from the Couch: Film Theory and Psychoanalysis; The Cinema as Therapy: Psychoanalysis in the Work of Woody Allen; Freaks (1932): Dysmorphisms, Solidarity and Revenge; and Terminal Cancer Patients on Movie Posters, among many others. Posters, stills, and other film ephemera are also considered in articles, and these articles have their own section in the journal. This is a vigorous scholarly journal that will be of interest to those in Film Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and also to artists and theorists interested in the contemporary portrayal of the body in media. The journal has details of the Editorial Board, and the submissions process.
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Kateigaho international edition : Japan's arts and culture magazine
http://int.kateigaho.com/
The website of the Kateigaho International Edition: Japan's Arts and Culture Magazine introduces the English-language version of this quarterly magazine of richly illustrated and accessible features on Japanese arts, culture and lifestyle. Extracts, brief summaries, and some complete articles (with images) from back issues since the magazine began in 2003 are available on the site. Full texts of the original Japanese articles from the current issue can also be downloaded in PDF format. The website will be more useful to students and those with a general interest in Japan than to specialist researchers. Subscriptions to the print version and to an E-mail newsletter can be made via the site. The site can be accessed in English and Japanese versions.
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Making sense of films
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film/
This site explores how film can be used as historical evidence. Aimed at both students and teachers, Making Sense of Films is an interactive essay that covers issues such as whether films reflect reality, how to verify the authenticity of film evidence, and the significance of a film's intended audience. A teaching tool, the site contains sample films that give the student or teacher opportunities to practice the interpretative techniques described. Example commentaries on different aspects of the films are then provided.There is also a bibliography and links page to relevant Internet resources.
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Masters of cinema
http://www.mastersofcinema.org/
Masters of cinema is a website dedicated to bringing together information on world cinema. The site includes regular cinema news and updates on topics such as DVD releases, book publications, film festivals, and personalities in world cinema. It also contains a calendar of worldwide DVD release dates for foreign and alternative film as well as online articles. There is also an extensive list of links to relevant websites for directors, online and print journals, film critics and international film institutes.
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Media studies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/media_studies.shtml
This page is part of the learning section of BBC online. It is a list of BBC and Web resources, which relate to the communications and media. It includes BBC guides, reference resources and links to organisations. The subject areas that the websites consist of include film, television, radio, journalism and publishing. Links are included to the other Web guides in the learning section.
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PCR (Production and casting report)
http://www.pcrnewsletter.com
PCR (Production and casting report) is a weekly publication and website providing reports on production news in film, theatre and television. Information is provided by production companies, producers and casting directors. It is a subscription service, available only to those in the profession, and details are provided on how to subscribe. Other features of the website include an email alerting service, free sample reports (on completion of an online form), and advice and guidance information for actors and crew. Details of other publications produced by PCR are also available on the website.
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Public moving image archives and research centers
http://www.loc.gov/film/arch.html
The website is published by the Library of Congress providing information about the copyright law to improve access to films by the public. A link is provided to the moving image collection: an online union catalogue of moving images. There are also links to the film archives the National Film Registry, the National Film Preservation and of other countries. These links are categorised under country and/or continent.
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Rebecca Allen
http://rebeccaallen.com/
This is the website of new media artist and researcher Rebecca Allen. Allen is a Professor in the Department of Design and Media Arts at the University of California and has worked extensively in Europe and the US where her interactive art installations, films and performance works have received international recognition. She has collaborated with artists such as Nam June Paik, Kraftwerk, Peter Gabriel and Twyla Tharp. Her artwork is exhibited internationally and is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum in New York and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Allen has received a number of awards including an Emmy award in Design. The website contains a biography and CV (PDF), information about and examples of Allen's artwork and research, including video clips (using QuickTime), interactive demos (using Flash), still images and floor plans of installations (PDF).
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Rencontre festival
http://art-action.org/
This is the website of Rencontres Internationales. Since 1997, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid has existed as an interdisciplinary project designed to promote new cinema, video and multimedia. Each year, in Paris, Berlin, and Madrid the festival presents an international programming which brings together well-known directors, along with young artists and filmmakers and new media artists whose work has not been widely distributed. The Rencontres Internationales states that it hopes to bring contemporary works of art to a wider audience internationally across different cultural spheres. The website contains information about Rencontres Internationales, the schedules of exhibitions and information and catalogues of work in latest Rencontres Internationales and previous festivals.
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