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Keeping it Peel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/
A microsite of BBC Radio 1, this resource provides information about the journalist and radio presenter, John Peel (1939-2004). It includes a biography and sections on the Peel Sessions, which can be browsed by decade and artist, and the Festive 50's, which can be browsed by decade. There is also an Artists A-Z, which provides information about some of the artists that Peel championed, and a section about Peel at Glastonbury. The 'fansites' area includes links to John Peel related sites. Also included is a tributes page, as well as a number of picture galleries. The website was last updated September 2007 and has been left on the site for reference purposes.
Added: 2010-02-06More details
Play machinima law
http://www.law.stanford.edu/calendar/details/2831/Play%20Machinima%20Law/
'Play Machinima Law' was a two-day conference on machinima (i.e.: amateur storytelling using video footage recorded inside videogame worlds) and the law, held at Stanford Law School in April 2009. Via the sidebar link titled "related media" this page offers full free video footage of the entire conference. These videos include sessions titled: 'Machinima 101: Making Movies in Game Worlds'; 'The Rules of Play: The Role of the EULA and other issues in Machinima Creation and Distribution'; 'The Rules of Play: Copyright and Fair Use in Machinima'; and 'Machinima in Game Preservation: A Fair Use Activity?' This is a useful resource for those interested in machinima, fan cultures, DIY web cultures, and game studies. Video links are in the QTL format, and Windows users without Quicktime installed may find they have to first manually associate this file-type with a player such as Media Player Classic (Quicktime Alternative).
Added: 2010-01-31More details
Horror studies
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=1770/
Horror Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal, published by Intellect Books. The journal is a new one and the first issue (January 2010) is available free online, with no restrictions. Further issues are likely to be only available by subscription. The first issue offers articles in the PDF format, with titles such as: 'Mummy Knows Best: Knowledge and the Unknowable in Turn of the Century Mummy Fiction'; 'Of Submarines and Sharks: Musical Settings of a Silent Menace'; and 'Strange Botany in Werewolf of London', among others. The Web page for the journal offers full details of the editors, the submission process, and the cost of subscriptions. Even without a subscription to further issues, this free first issue gives a useful insight into the current state of the academic study of popular fictional horror.
Added: 2010-01-30More details
Fallopian
http://www.voom-machine.com/fallopian/?page_id=5
'Fallopian' is a free online film studies magazine on the subject of machinima and anymation (i.e.: micro-budget films consisting of computer generated footage, made by amateurs using a range of accessible digital tools). At January 2010 there are two issues freely available online, with contributions by academics in Manchester, Leicester, and Germany, among others. The magazine is presented only in the Flash-based Issuu format, and is not available in PDF format. There is a related Fallopian Facebook discussion group. Fallopian will be a useful resource for those interested in machinima and anymation as they stand at 2010, and those in Game Studies and Fan Studies interested in fannish media production. Fallopian is edited from the UK by Kate Fosk and Trace Sanderson.
Added: 2010-01-28More details
New art of virtual moviemaking, the
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/the_new_art_of_virtual_moviemaking_-_autod
'The New Art of Virtual Moviemaking' is a free 16 page whitepaper published in 2010 by Autodesk. The 12,000-word PDF paper succinctly describes the state of the art in the industry at the end of 2009. There are sections on: Historical Perspective; Virtual Production; Applications of Virtual Moviemaking; The Technology of Virtual Moviemaking; Camera Systems; Performance Capture; Real-Time 3D Engines; Art Directed 3D Assets; Integrated Workflow; Pre-visualization; Stereoscopic 3D; Post Production; and 'Looking Ahead'. There are very useful diagrams, and some recent statistics on this section of the industry. The document is aimed at industry professionals, and does not cover semi-professional software such as iClone 4 Pro. This paper will be useful for all those seeking a quick and well-informed overview of the topic. It will appeal especially to researchers interested in the current state of film and popular culture, in changes in the entertainment economy and creative production, and in educational storytelling and serious games. Autodesk is the developer of the leading 3D software packages, 3D Studio Max and Maya.
Added: 2010-01-28More details
Bathhouse
http://bhjournal.com/
'BathHouse' is an online journal which "promotes interdisciplinary and hybrid arts with a special emphasis on language and innovation". The journal is edited and authored by current Creative Writing students at Eastern Michigan University. As well as the current issue, an archive of previous issues (full text) are available online. Many issues are based around themes, which in the past have included: Russian new media literature and art; "contagion"; and medicine. Each issue presents a mixture of: visual art; poetry; short fiction; and discussion, but the boundaries between these are often blurred. Poems are often accompanied by sound files of the poet reading the work. This is a varied and often though-provoking mixture of arts, which would appeal to creative writing and art students as well as interested readers.
Added: 2010-01-16More details
UKPressOnline
http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/
These are the online archives of British popular newspapers the Daily Express 1900-present and Daily Mirror 1903-present. Users may search or browse published pages and editions. The Sunday Express and Daily Star are, as yet, available only from 2000 onwards (updating continuously) and Star on Sunday from 2002. The archives currently hold about two million newspaper pages. There is a user-friendly full-text search facility, and archives can be searched free of charge and headlines and thumbnail pages viewed. To see the full range of search options and results or to access and download full pages (as PDF and/or TIFF files), a paid subscription is needed. Subscriptions are JISC-banded for HE/FE institutions and MLA-banded for public libraries. A variety of e-commerce subscriptions are offered for personal access, ranging from 48-hour, through 10-day, monthly or annual, and there is an Education discount scheme for non-subscribing-university users. UK Federated Access is available and copyright and technical information is displayed on the website.
Added: 2010-01-15More details
Birkbeck research in representations of kinship and community (BRRKC)
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brrkc/
Birkbeck research in representations of kinship and community (BRRKC) is the website of a research centre that encourages interdisciplinary study of the portrayal of relationships between human beings throughout history and culture. The disciplines drawn together by BRRKC include: literature; philosophy; film and visual culture; fine art; sociology; linguistics; history; and psychology. The website provides details of BRRKC-run : symposia; reading groups; and film screenings, as well as its discussion forum. Also available are details of courses taught by the centre, and a number of related links. The work of this centre would be of interest to students across disciplines, but particularly perhaps those focusing on English; cultural studies; or media studies.
Added: 2010-01-04More details
Journal of aesthetics & culture
http://journals.sfu.ca/coaction/index.php/jac
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is a open access ejournal, published by three editors who are based at universities in Sweden and Finland. The journal is supported by the Swedish Research Council and Stockholm University. Articles are in English, and can be freely read in either HTML, PDF or XML. Example article titles include: 'Ingmar Bergman in the museum? Thresholds, limits, conditions of possibility'; 'Antichrist – Chaos Reigns: the event of violence and the haptic image in Lars von Trier’s film'; and 'Thinking filming thinking filming', among others. The journal website has full details of the editors, Editorial Board, and the submissions process. This open ejournal is published under a Creative Commons licence.
Added: 2009-12-31More details
Journal of Spanish language media
http://www.spanishmedia.unt.edu/english/pages/journalofslm.html
The Journal of Spanish Language Media is a full-text academic ejournal, published annually from the University of North Texas. At December 2009 there are two issues, each freely available in the PDF format. Articles are published entirely in English. Example articles titles include: 'Trends in U.S. Spanish Language Television, 1986-2005: Networks, Advertising, and Growth'; 'Buying, Licensing and Launching: Strategies to Defend Market Share in the Spanish Magazine Industry'; 'Speaking of Maya & Miguel: The production and representation of Spanish language in an animated series for children'; and 'Digital Storytelling as a Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for Latin Students', among others. The journal Web page invites submissions, and the journal is... "open to all theoretical and methodological approaches" but articles must be written in English. The front material in each issue has details of the editors and editorial board, and contact details.
Added: 2009-12-30More details
Demotix
http://www.demotix.com/
Demotix is a user-led website, photo agency, and platform that allows anyone to upload their news-related images and stories to the website. Free registration is required to upload photographs and text. However, if Demotix can sell the images on to mainstream media, then the money received is split 50-50 with the photographer. Importantly, if the user chooses to remain anonymous, then they may do so, which means that 'citizen journalists' can tell stories in countries that professional journalists might find difficult to enter or write about. Copyright remains with the photographer. The website provides information about Demotix, a blog and a discussion forum, as well as enlargeable images (for which Flash is required) with accompanying text and tags, under the following headings: politics; economics; feature; culture; science; environment; sports; and 'odd'. News can also be browsed by region; results can be sorted by date, relevance or title; and a series of filters can be applied to any browse or search. As a user-generated website, it is possible to comment on photographs, share Demotix images, and run the Demotix widget on external websites. The Telegraph is quoted as saying that Demotix is "journalism for the 21st century" and it is certainly interesting to note that the organisation won the Media Guardian Award for Independent Media (MEGA) in March 2009.
Added: 2009-12-14More details
Life and work of Anthony Shaffer
http://www.anthonyshaffer.co.uk/
This website is dedicated to the life and works of British playwright Anthony Shaffer. Shaffer was the author of the stage and film versions of Sleuth and cult horror The Wicker Man among others. He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on his film Frenzy, adapted three Poirot novels by Agatha Christie for the big screen and wrote screenplays for films. The website contains a biography of Shaffer which includes images and photographs and a chronology. Under ‘books’, ‘stage plays’ and ‘screenplays’ one can find details on Shaffer’s works including background information, synopses, cast lists, images and video clips. The ‘unproduced’ section contains details of various projects that Shaffer worked on or collaborated with which haven’t been produced so far.
Added: 2009-12-08More details
Charm proceedings
http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/charm/cumulative_proceedings.htm
CHARM Proceedings contains the full-text conference proceedings of a major U.S. biennial conference on historical analysis and research in the history of marketing (CHARM). Proceedings from 1983 to 2009 are freely available online, and the archive contains around 750 PDF articles in total. The articles are rather awkwardly linked by surname only - one must first consult an annual PDF file giving the contents, then backtrack to find the linked surname of the author of the desired article. There are also a tiny minority of articles which are available as abstracts only, but these are not marked as such. Articles are mostly 'hard' scans of paper originals, and so do not contain OCR text which can be copied and pasted. Despite these drawbacks, this resource offers a wealth of full-text papers on the history of marketing. Articles of interest to British historians include: 'A case study of marketing Britain's moral cause to the women of neutral America, 1939-1941'; 'The British Advertising Industry at War, 1939-1945'; 'Regulating the 'soulless combines' of British inter-war retailing'; among a great many others. Despite the lack of OCR, Google has successfully indexed the papers in full-text form - presumably by applying its own OCR while caching - and thus all the articles may be easily searched by keyword using the Google "site:" search modifier. CHARM Proceedings will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of marketing and the retail trade in the English-speaking nations during the 20th century.
Added: 2009-11-29More details
Circle Press
http://www.circlepress.com/
This is the official website of Circle Press, which was formed in 1967 by Ron King as an independent publishing group for artists and printmakers, who are interested in publishing limited editions of fine art books, artists' books and prints. Originally set up by King, when his edition of Chaucer's "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales", 'illustrated with images of large abstracted mask designs' was not published (and so he decided to take on the task himself), the Press has now published the work of over 100 artists. The website contains a catalogue of current work that is available, with artists' statements and images of the works, a history of the organisation, and a list of the museums, galleries, archives, and special collections where Circle Press works can be found, including the British Library, the National Art Library, Tate Britain, Gutenberg Museum, the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and the Yale Center for British Art.
Added: 2009-11-27More details
Arc
http://arceditions.com/
This is the website of Arc Editions, which was formed in 2005 by Victoria Bean, Karen Bleitz and Sam Winston, who first met when working together at Circle Press. It is an independent publishing group for artists, printmakers, illustrators, painters, writers, and poets, who work either independently or collectively, and who are interested in publishing limited editions of fine art books and artists' books, and unlimited editions of prints. The website contains images and information of the artists' work, a list of exhibitions in which their work has been shown, and a list of the museums, galleries, archives, and special collections where Arc Editions can be found, including the British Library, Camberwell College of Art, National Poetry Library, London, the Getty Research Center, and the Yale Center for British Art. An article about the work of the originating Arc artists, written by Richard Price, poet and Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library in 2007 for the 'Artist's book yearbook 2008-2009', can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Added: 2009-11-27More details
Waddesdon : trade card collection
http://www.waddesdon.org.uk/searchthecollection/trade_cards_introduction.html
The Waddesdon Manor's website includes this online resource on a collection of over 700 trade cards collected by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839-1898) in 1891. The database of printed paper ephemera to do with trade has been made available free of charge, and provides images and information for many trade cards dating from the early 17th to the 19th centuries. One hundred of these cards illustrate the highlights of the collection. The database can be searched through a simple search facility. The advanced search facility offers a variety of choices, including searching by date, trades, products, country, designer, or subjects. The website also provides bibliographic material for further reading.
Added: 2009-11-26More details
Computer games : between text and practice
http://www.ec-aiss.it/monografici/5_computer_games.php
This Web page gives access to a free book-length monograph, published in English by the Italian Association for the Study of Semiotics. The book Computer Games: Between Text and Practice (2008) is split into 12 PDF chapters, including: 'The Collapse and Reconstitution of the Cinematic Narrative: Interactivity vs Immersion in Game Worlds'; 'Immersiveness and Manageability of Game Narratives'; 'Simulacral and Embodied Enunciation in Computer Games'; and 'Spatial Typologies of Games', among others. A printed edition may also be ordered from Italian publisher Nuovacultura. This free ebook will be a useful resource for those seeking recent writing in Game Studies.
Added: 2009-11-22More details
TheoFantastique : a meeting place for myth, imagination and mystery on pop culture
http://www.theofantastique.com/
This website, entitled Theo Fantastique, is in a blog format and is written and maintained by John Morehead. The website explores the academic side of the fantastic in pop culture by looking at science fiction, fantasy and horror films, television programmes and other pop culture artefacts. Posts included range from observations, events, film releases, book reviews to interviews. One can search for posts or browse the archive which goes as far back as January 2007. There is also a links section with relevant links to other websites both commercial and academic.
Added: 2009-11-05More details
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
http://www.ialjs.org/
The website of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies gives access to information about the association and its work, as well as useful related resources. The association promotes the "study of literary journalism/literary reportage more so than its practices and is devoted to the teaching and researching of literary journalism and literary journalists throughout the world". The society's aims are forwarded in part by: annual conferences; a peer-reviewed journal "Literary Journalism Studies"; and a newsletter. The site provides details of these conferences, as well as the full text of the association's newsletter (in PDF format), and of Literary Journalism Studies (at the time of writing only the first issue, Spring 2009 is available). As well as the usual details on the association's membership and byelaws, the site also gives a list of related links and a promises a blog in the future. Those working and studying in the fields English and Media Studies would find this resource of interest.
Added: 2009-11-01More details
Transliteracy research group : creative writing and new media archive
http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/transliteracy/index.php/home
This is the website of the Transliteracy Research Group at De Montfort University in the U.K. The website contains a freely accessible archive of 31 guest lectures presented from 2006 to 2009, as part of the M.A. in Creative Writing and New Media at the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University. Lectures are presented in a variety of file formats, including PDF files. Some are available as Quicktime video, and are accompanied with a text summary and Web links. Example lecture titles include: 'Text as Surface in Immersive 3D Environments'; 'Web 2.0 Narratives'; 'Changing Techniques for a New Medium'; 'Using Digital Storytelling Techniques for Creative Nonfiction'; and 'The Good The Bad and The Ugly: an introduction to writing in games', among others. Lectures are licensed under a Creative Commons licence. There are also profiles of each guest lecturer. There is an associated Transliteracy weblog, linked from the sidebar and top menu.
Added: 2009-10-28More details
[Literary journalism]
http://www.davidabrahamson.com/WWW/IALJS/
Literary Journalism is a part of the website of Professor David Abrahamson, current president of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS). This Web page provides access to current and past issues of the IALJS newsletter 'Literary Journalism' (from the first issue in 2007 onwards), as well as the full texts of some of the pieces of literary journalism cited in each newsletter. The newsletters and articles are available in a mixture of Word document and PDF formats. The page also provides a number of links to other resources relating to the study of literary journalism. This resource would be of interest to those working or studying in the fields of English literature and media studies.
Added: 2009-10-23More details
thechineseroom : adventures in first-person gaming
http://www.thechineseroom.co.uk/
thechineseroom is the website of Dan Pinchbeck, Senior Lecturer in Computer Games and Interactive Media at the University of Portsmouth in the UK. He has been the recipient of AHRC Speculative Research Grant funding, investigating the potential for alternate narratives in first-person perspective videogames. One of the results of this was the critically acclaimed Half Life 2 mod, the ghost story "Dear Esther" (2008). The website contains details of the free "Dear Esther" game, and a link to freely download it and another Half Life 2 storytelling mod called "Korsakovia". The website also has a list of Pinchbeck's research publications, and 12 of these can be freely downloaded from the website in full-text form. Details of Pinchbeck's other projects are also available at the website. This will be an useful resource for those interested in fresh attempts at videogame storytelling, and the application of innovative mods to commercial videogames. Those wishing to experience Pinchbeck's art-games will first need an installed PC copy of Half Life 2 (about £3 second-hand, at October 2009) and should know how to install game mods.
Added: 2009-10-14More details
Colonial film : moving images of the British Empire
http://www.bfi.org.uk/about/news/2009-05-27-colonial.html
This website describes a major AHRC-funded project to bring three collections (those of the British Film Institute, Imperial War Museum, British Empire and Commonwealth Museum) together in a single catalogue, recording some 6000 films offering an insight into colonial history. Films range from commercially-sponsored documentaries, through newsreels, to amateur footage and cover some 75 countries around the world. The website describes the collections in more detail as well as various activities (including conferences, workshops and scholarly publications) associated with the project. The catalogue is due to go online towards the end of 2010.
Added: 2009-10-02More details
Journal of literary theory
http://www.jltonline.de
The website 'Journal of Literary Theory' (or 'JLTonline') is an online version of a print journal published under the same title since 2007 (ISSN 1862-5290). The publication is intended to serve 'as an international platform for different debates in all fields of literary theory'. 'JLTonline' consists of four sections: articles; reviews; conference proceedings; calls for papers. Only selected articles appear in full-text, but all of them are available in abstract. Publication languages are English and German; however, all abstracts are available in English. Some of the past issues focus on 'New Developments in Literary Theory and Related Disciplines', Vol 1, No 1 (2007), or 'Interpretation', Vol 2, No 1 (2008). The topics of forthcoming issues include: 'Theory of Humour', Vol 3, No 2 (2009); 'Literary Studies and Linguistics', Vol 4, No 1 (2010); 'Popular Culture', Vol 4, No 2 (2010). Reviews of studies in literary criticism and theory, including musicology, art theory, and film studies, are available in full-text, in a PDF or HTML format. Similarly, conference proceedings are published in full. Considering its thematic preoccupations and the scope of debates it presents, JLTonline constitutes a valuable resource for students and researchers of literary studies and other media-related disciplines.
Added: 2009-10-01More details
Dicey and Marshall catalogue : edited by R. C. Simmons
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/headers/2418.xml
The Dicey and Marshall Catalogue is an electronic resource which can be downloaded in HTML format from the website of the Oxford Text Archive (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)). The work is an 18th century catalogue of maps, prints, copy-books, drawing-books, histories, ballads, patters, collections, and so forth, printed and sold by Cluer Dicey and Richard Marshall. This 1764 catalogue was probably larger than any catalogue categorising and listing cheap maps, images and texts that had up to then appeared in the British Isles, and as such it is an important source for the study of the lower end of the 18th century book and publishing trade. The only extant physical copy of the catalogue is located at Glasgow University Library. The electronic version is freely accessible, although users are asked to agree to a brief terms and conditions statement before they download the material.
Added: 2009-09-18More details
Two eighteenth-century French periodicals : the Anee Litteraire and the Journal Encyclopedique (1762/3,1773/4,1783/4) : a quantitative study
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=952
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Two Eighteenth-Century French Periodicals : the Anee Litteraire and the Journal Encyclopedique (1762/3,1773/4,1783/4) : a Quantitative Study' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as a tab delimited text file. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. To provide quantitative data upon which to base an evaluation of the French Enlightenment and of the climate of opinion in France between 1762 and 1787. The basis of the study is an exhaustive examination of two eighteenth century French periodicals. Variables: Journal, year, number of pages of each entry, author, type of entry (book review, article, letter, poem, announcement, news, anecdote), subject matter, whether excerpted, whether translated, language, nature/work, word frequency (words appearing in the titles of books reviewed).
Added: 2009-09-18More details
Project on creative practices beyond borders : arts interaction, sonic diaspora, performativity exchange
http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/creativepracticesbeyondborders/index.php
This Web page describes an AHRC-funded project comprising a series of international workshops, which aim to bring together theatre and media companies, scholars, practitioners and activists to rethink borders, whether geographical, cultural or disciplinary. Focussing on theatre, film and sound the project regards cosmopolitanism and communication as dynamic, border-crossing activities which challenge stable, textual notions of research, and the workshops reflect this, incorporating performance and activism. The website includes further details of the projects activities, and links to a blog page, which offers some retrospective discussion of the events.
Added: 2009-09-18More details
Sounds of early cinema in Britain
http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/soundsearlycinema/
This website describes an AHRC-funded research project consolidating knowledge of the role of sound and music in early silent cinema in Britain. The project aims to host two workshops and two conferences (including parallel film screenings with musical accompaniment) bringing together scholars interested in the sonic and musical practices associated with different methods of film exhibition in cinema's early history - which ranged from fairgrounds to purpose built theatres. The project attempts to assess whether British practice was significantly different from that elsewhere, and the extent to which it varied regionally and between urban and rural locations. The website includes details of the conferences and workshops, including some abstracts of presentations.
Added: 2009-09-17More details
Florida digital newspaper library
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?c=fdnl1
This website, from the Florida Digital Newspaper Library (FDNL) and part of the University of Florida Digital Collections, provides free online access to current Floridian newspapers from 2005 to present as well as a number of historical newspapers. There are, as of September 2009, over 800,000 zoom-able pages available through the library, covering a number of important local news stories. The collection can be searched using a number of methods, or browsed by 'new items' or 'all items'. This is a highly useful website for those interested in Florida, its past, and its people.
Added: 2009-09-15More details
Bruce Weber : gone fishing
http://www.sundancechannel.com/bruce-weber/
This is a new 2009 Sundance Channel online exhibition and website for the photographer and film-maker Bruce Weber (1946-). It is the first such website, and includes biographical details, photos, videos, and a music playlist selected by Weber. Weber is widely known for his influential and controversial photographic work with Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch, Versace, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Interview, among others. He has also made feature films, documentaries, and pop videos. Two of his most acclaimed short films are made freely available online in full: 'Being Boring' and 'You Feel Me', both made for The Pet Shop Boys. This is a useful and reliable website on a major photographer and film-maker, one who has had considerable contemporary cultural impact especially in the portrayal of youths and youth culture, and as such it will be of interest to a range of creative students and faculty.
Added: 2009-09-11More details
STARS : semantic tools for screen arts research project
http://stars.blogs.ilrt.org/
This is the demonstration website for STARS (Semantic Tools for Screen Arts Research Project). Run from the University of Bristol, STARS is funded by JISC to develop: this demonstrator online system; an extended open source tool for searching distributed data sources (including multimedia) for the visualisation, replay and annotation of screen-based arts media in context; a review of existing practices and technologies used for screen arts media databases; and an analysis of options for resource retrieval across file-sharing systems. The project ran for 18-months, and concluded in July 2009. There is also an associated weblog which contains documentation, a profile of the project and its staff, reports of demonstration workshops with images, and a link to the main STARS online demonstration project. STARS will be of interest to those researching semantic approaches to image and screen arts databases.
Added: 2009-09-11More details
Conversations with ADD
http://www.comicbookgalaxy.com/blog/Conversations%20with%20ADD_print.pdf
'Conversations with ADD: the comics interviews of Alan David Doane' (2009) is a free 300 page ebook anthology of nearly 70 interviews with creators of comic books and graphic novels. Originally published in Comic Book Galaxy and The Comics Journal, the interviews are collected here for the first time. Those interviewed include: Chester Brown; Howard Chaykin; Steven Grant; Tony Isabella; Harvey Pekar; Dave Sim; and Barry Windsor-Smith, among many others. Interviews were conducted after 2000. The ebook is in PDF format. This will be a useful free resource for those seeking an insight into the creative methods and working conditions of those in the comics industry in the U.S.A. and U.K.
Added: 2009-09-10More details
Film literature index
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/fli/index.jsp
This is the website for the Film Literature Index (FLI). The FLI annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to film, television and video articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. One can search the database by keyword, production title or person. There is also an advanced search function to limit results. One can also browse the database by subject headings, person names, production titles or corporate names. This would be a useful tool for researchers interested in film.
Added: 2009-09-09More details
Costume designs by Boris Bilinsky and others
http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/SpecColl/Casanova/
This is the website of the special collection on ‘costume designs by Boris Bilinsky and others’ located in the special collections of the University of Calgary Library, Canada. The collection contains images on designs created by the Russian costume designer Boris Bilinsky for theatre and film. Examples include images of designs created by Bilinsky for Alexandre Volkoff’s film Casanova (1927) and designs for Henri Fescourt’s film Monte-Cristo (1929). There are also other images of costume designs attributed to Bilinski. There are also images on designs created by Italian costume designer Marcel Escoffier for the film ‘Les aventures de Casanova’ (1946) by Jean Boyer. Each entry contains information about the image, the actor or actress name, the date and materials.
Added: 2009-09-06More details
Knowledge exchange : collaborative innovation between the BBC and academia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgeexchange/
This blog charts the development of the joint AHRC-BBC knowledge transfer partnership, which brought together broadcasting production teams and academic to explore new approaches to BBC content, ranging from the development of virtual world for children, to research into user generated content in the news. The blog comprises posts from those involved and charts the experiences of what was a new way of working for both sides.
Added: 2009-09-04More details
Computer baroque
http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_baroque/baroque
Launched in March 2009 at Tate Modern in London, 'Computer Baroque' is an online archival collection of exemplary and innovative short films, all made using computer animation between 1982 and 1995. 15 short films from this period are freely available to view on the website, and are presented using Flash video. Films are accompanied by substantial curatorial notes by curator Richard Wright. The collection aims to represent a period... "in which computer animation was the focus for audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology". A short essay on the exhibition, 'Computer Baroque: Computer animation 1982–1995 by Richard Wright', can be found in the right-hand sidebar or by clicking Writings / Essays on the sidebar of the Animate Projects website. This website is an interesting and stimulating insight into the early years of the creative use of computer animation.
Added: 2009-08-31More details
Syd Mead
http://www.sydmead.com/
This is the official website of illustrator and conceptual artist and designer Syd Mead (b.1933), who worked on futurist films such as 'Blade Runner', 'Aliens', and 'TRON'. As well as film design Mead is also known for automotive and industrial design. The website has biographical information in the form of a chronology and examples of his work under 'Features'. The website also has examples of his cartoons. There is information on his film work and anime as well as links to radio interviews that can be downloaded. Various products relating to Mead, such as DVDs can be purchased through the site. It is also possible to subscribe to a free newsletter.
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BBC archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/
This is the official public website for the British Broadcasting Corporation archives. It offers small... "themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs" from the BBC archives. Launched in 2009, this free website currently offers 21 collections, including: The outbreak of the Second World War; George Orwell at the BBC; Looking back to the Apollo lunar missions; Margaret Thatcher's journey from Finchley to Downing Street; and Personal accounts of the Holocaust, among others. Collections usually have around 30 items in each. Broadcasts are presenting using Flash video, and each is accompanied by a short written synopsis. Also available on the website are video interviews with the BBC archivists, including heads of the BBC Written Archives, Sound Archives, Photographic Library, and Television Archive. Videos are only available to view if one has an IP address located within the British Isles, apparently due to copyright issues. Overseas users should use a simple proxy to access the website, as they do to access the BBC iPlayer.
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Bibliothèque du film (BIFI)
http://www.bifi.fr/
This is the website of the Bibliotheque du Film (BIFI), based in Paris, which is the equivalent of the BFI Library in London. In 2005 it moved to a new site at rue de Bercy and contains the screening rooms of the Cinematheque Francaise and an exhibition space. The nearest metro is Bercy, southeast Paris.The BIFI contains books, periodicals, and a VHS/DVD collection. There is also a stills collection. The special collections section (Espace chercheurs) is only open in the afternoon, and booking needs to be made in advance. Since 1996 the collection's mission has been to provide information about films to anybody interested. The website has a current events section as well as information about the collections and services. There are links to cinema sites worldwide, an index of cinema critics and historians, and a thematic index to films. There are downloadable instruction guides to finding films in the collection and through the internet, as well as online exhibitions and multimedia shows.
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International journal of education and development using information and communication technology
http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/
The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) is a full text freely available electronic journal. Its aim is to strengthen links between research and practice in ICT in education and development in less developed parts of the world, particularly in rural and remote regions of developing countries. The 'Research Articles' section contains academic, peer-reviewed articles. There is a 'From the Field' section for editorially reviewed and peer commented (but not peer reviewed) case studies and descriptive articles. The 'Research in Progress' section is for descriptions of research not yet completed, and a 'Project Sheets' section is for brief descriptions of projects. 'Notes from the Field' is for working papers and there are also literature, book and media reviews. As well as the current issue there is an archive going back to 2005. There is a link to the Distance Learning in Developing Countries website, a blog, and a members' login.
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Literary and dramatic readings and adaptations
www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/LiteratureVid.html
The online resource 'Literary and Dramatic Readings and Adaptations', provided by the Media Resources Center (MRC), University of California, Berkeley, is a database of films based on works of drama and literature. It is an impressive collection of titles that represent both English and World literature, including early adaptations from the beginning of the 20th century as well as the latest productions. The database can be searched, or browsed, by the title and author of the book. Browser results are sorted alphabetically, each entry providing information on the author's full name, title of the book, and the film if these two are different, the director, year of production, and a link to credits provided by the Internet Movie Database. This MRC resource also lists other related websites maintained by the Center, for instance, 'Poets and Poetry: Videos and Sound Recordings', 'Beat Generation Audio and Video Resources' or 'French History and Culture'. 'Literary and Dramatic Readings and Adaptations' database can be useful to students and researchers of film and literature, providing them with information on existing adaptations of given works of drama and literature, as well as to librarians in search of related bibliographic material.
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Delia Derbyshire : electronic music pioneer
http://www.delia-derbyshire.org/
Delia Derbyshire was a British pioneer of electronic music, most notable for her work for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and the co-authoring of the famous Doctor Who theme with Ron Grainer. This official 2008 website contains a wealth of information about Derbyshire's life and music. There is a short biography, a history of Unit Delta Plus, details of album and track re-releases, a discography, and eight music clips with annotation. This website provides a useful and authorised introduction to an important figure in the evolution of 20th century British music.
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Platform : journal of media and communication
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/
'Platform: journal of media and communication' is a full-text graduate ejournal, published online from the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne in Australia. The first issue of Platform was published in July 2009, and each issue is freely available online in the form of a single PDF file. Example articles in the first issue include: 'Reconceptualising Time and Space in the Era of Electronic Media and Communications'; 'Presumed Innocent: The Paradox of Coming of Age and the Problem of Youth Sexuality in Lolita and Thirteen'; and 'Constructing European Identity through Mediated Difference: A Content Analysis of Turkey's E.U. Accession Process in the British Press', among others. The journal also publishes interviews, and plans to add reviews and a gallery at a later date. The website has full details of the Editorial and Advisory Boards, and the submissions process.
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[Jodi]
http://www.jodi.org/
Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, a Dutch / Belgian couple living in California - whose first names form the word 'jodi' - are net art pioneers. They have worked with photography, video and performance art, however, now they present their work on the Internet and via CD-ROM. They are interested in the relationship between modern digital technology and our ability or otherwise to deal with it. Jodi bring what normally occurs in the background to the surface of their Web pages: computer crashes, error messages, computer programs dissolving into nothing and so on. This website, then, is a series of black blank applet windows randomly jogging about on the screen, rendering the user apparently useless - causing confusion, but forcing the user to find a solution.
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Corby & Baily
http://www.reconnoitre.net/
Corby & Baily (also known as Reconnoitre.net) is the website for the projects of new media artists Gavin Baily and Tom Corby. The earliest project that they undertook was 'untitled' in 1996. Since then they have worked on 'Reconnoitre' (1997-1999), 'loop_reprise' (2001), 'mesh', sponsored by Arts Council England, Sciart, NESTA and The Wellcome Trust in 2001, 'gameboy_ultraF_uk' (2001-2002), 'die-text' (2005), and more recently 'cyclone.soc'. Information is provided about each project and in some cases there is the opportunity to view images or movie clips of the project (which requires Windows Media Player) and to download the application. The website also gives information about exhibitions where Corby & Baily have exhibited their work and awards that they have received, artist biographies and links to digital artists' and organisations' websites.
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John Johnson collection of printed ephemera : trades and professions prints
http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/JJTP.html
This database is a digital record of the Trades and Professions prints subject section of the John Johnson Collection of Printed ephemera at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. There are around 830 images, which include a large sequence from Laroon's Cries of London. The John Johnson Collection was assembled by John de Monins Johnson (1882-1956) who was inspired by his work as a papyrologist in Egypt to rescue Britain's immediate paper heritage. Johnson subsequently worked at the Oxford University Press. The Collection was transferred to the Bodleian Library from the Oxford University Press in 1968, since when both old and modern ephemera have been added to it. There are in excess of one million items which span the 16th to 20th centuries. The Collection is strongest in 19th and early 20th century ephemera, with significant holdings in the 18th century.
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In a cold crater : cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948
http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft6n39p125;query=;brand=ucpress
In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 is an e-book by Wolfgang Schivelbusch first published in 1998 that is freely available on the eScholarship Editions platform of the University of California Press. The book deals with culture, including music, theatre, flim and radio, in Berlin in the years immediately following the Second World War. The book is divided into a number of chapters that cover the following topics: Berlin before the war and cultural aspects in the city at the time; what happened during the war; what happened with theatres and actors during the war and the period immediately afterward; the 'Kulturbund'; film; radio. The book is available in HTML format and it is also possible to search within the book.
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Scambi project
http://www.scambi.mdx.ac.uk/
This is the website for an AHRC-funded project, investigating electro-acoustic music's use of 'open' forms, with particular reference to the period 1950-1980. The project takes its name from th e 1958 composition 'Scambi' by Henri Pousseur, which demonstrates 'open' forms, that is allowing the "re-ordering of sections within a musical composition at either local or global structural levels". One of the project's key outcomes will be new versions of Scambi, both continuing and extending the composer's original plan. Other outcomes will be determined by different team member's interests, but will include a monograph, a symposium, seminars and the examination of other works by Pousseur. Additionally, the project interviewed Pousseur in 2004. The website includes documents and papers published by the project to date as well as sound files (mp3) of Scambi.
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Recoveries of the real : new Argentine and Brazilian cinema in the global image-world
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cilavs/research/cinema-network
This website describes an AHRC-funded project which connects academics from Argentina, Brazil, USA and UK, to explore the emergence of a new tendency in Latin American cinema, that is the concern with "the real and with the peculiar indexical qualities of the filmic sound-image", mapping these concerns tew film theory and a conception of a counter-hegemonic world cinema. The website provides more details on the project's objectives, includes a list of useful Argentine and Brazilian cinema resources as well as details of workshops and symposia associated with the project.
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London on film festival
http://www.londononfilmfestival.org.uk/
The London on Film festival is an event which takes place in June on an annual basis. The aim of the festival is to promote cinema exploring the City of London, and its vast mix of cultures. The current festival is based on the themes of Who? What? When? Where? and Why?, and examines the capital's personality through its representation on film. The website provides full details about the festival, and includes a detailed programme of the events taking place, including kids' events, the festival venue and how to obtain tickets.
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