David Langston
English/Communications

EN 310: Essentials of Film

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You will find listed below some web sites with information relevant to the various topics you will be studying in Essentials of Film.

Film Lists, Indexes, General Topics :

• Dept. "Film Studies" Page. . . which contains a number of important general sites
  
• Film Reference Section . . . Univ. of Calif, Berkeley -- a wealth of information
• Internet Movie Database. . . basic data on film and TV...very useful
• History of Film, . . . Univ. of Missouri
  
  
• Mass College Film List

Film Studies: Approaches, Programs, Courses, etc.:

• Film and Video Resources on the Internet. . University of Michigan
• Film and Media Studies Bibliographies . . University of California, Berkeley
• YUL Research Guide in Film Studies . . Yale University Libraries
• Film Studies Page . . Queens University, Canada
• Pacific Film Archive . . Berkeley, CA
• Conference on Computer-Assisted Film . . St Anne's College, Oxford University
• Cinema Studies at UToronto . . Univ. of Toronto
• History & Film . . historical events rendered on film, University of Missouri
• Film-Philosophy Page
• Society for Cinema Studies
• Spoon Collective Film-Theory Archive . . Univ. of Virginia
• Dermatology in the Cinema
• ScreenSite . . Univ. of Alabama
  
• Feminist Film Reviews . . Univ. of Maryland
  
• Scary Women and Film . . UCLA Film Archive
  
  
• **Film as Entertainment**

OnLine Journals and other publications...

• CTheory,...Canadian theory journal
  
• Screening the Past:... a film journal from the Univ. of Latrobe, Australia.
• Canadian Journal of Film Studies...Queens University, Canada
• Electronic Books, Documents and Journals in Film Studies,...University of Alberta
• Studying Visual Communication . . full text of out-of-print landmark by Sol Worth

Vocabulary of Film: Principles, Concepts, Terms

Online study guide for Giannetti's Understanding Movies

Grammar of Television and Film . . the terms are British, and they don't quite match Giannetti's, but the illustrations are apt

Illustrations of terms for types of shots . . not a complete list, but helpful

Film Terms, New Zealand style . . somewhat different from Giannetti and thought-provoking

Analogous terms for TV production

Terms for analyzing the mise-en-scene

Photographic Characteristics of the Shot

Cinematic Montage: a genetic description

Web Resources on Film Theory:

Sites devoted to Film Theory

Web Resources on Specific Filmmakers and Directors:

Kubrick	Greenaway	Bunuel	Godard	Scorsese
Wertmuller	Sayles	Bertolucci	Penn	Bergmann
Eisenstein	Ford	Kurosawa	Hitchcock	Griffith
Micheaux	Melies	Lumiere Bros.	Vertov	Gance
Vigo	Malick

General Subjects on Directors or Auteur Theory:

• Highlights of a Program on Directors . . Independent Film Channel
• The development of the concept of "auteur"

Stanley Kubrick:..........Return

• Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide, Lehigh University
• Kubrick on the Web ...list of Kubrick websites
• Site dedicated to Kubrick (in France....in French)
• Kubrick Filmography
• Interview on Barry Lyndon
• Kubrick References in The Simpsons
• Movie stills from 2001, A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Kubrick's remarks about A Clockwork Orange
• Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide
• Ongoing Kubrick Discussion, Lehigh Univ....read only access
• Fragmentary information on A Clockwork Orange
• The Kubrick Site, Canada

Peter Greenaway::..........Return

• Greenaway site, Greece....includes biography, filmography, criticism, etc.
• Peter Greenaway, the Internet version....biography, film discussion, film synopses
• Greenaway's Short Documentaries....European Media Art Festival
• Greenaway page, UK
• Context for Greenaway films, Texas

Luis Bunuel:..........Return

• Luis Bunuel discussion list

Jean-Luc Godard:..........Return

• Filmography of Godard
• The Jean-Luc Godard Resource ....a budding archive of Godard information
• Book on the films ofJean-Luc Godard. ....by Winston Dixon
• Jean-Luc Godard in the 60's. ....The National Film Theater, Washington, DC.
• Jean-Luc Godard's Top Ten Lists 1956-1965.
• Godard site.
• Recommended films by Godard.

Martin Scorsese:..........Return

• Guardian Review of The Gangs of New York

Lina Wertmuller:..........Return

• Hollywood Online / Video Guide / Reviews
• http://kwaziwai.cc.columbia.edu/cu/arts/film/f_courses.html>A site to be checked
• http://movieweb.com/movie/walkclds/clouds.txt>A site to be checked

John Sayles:..........Return

• John Sayles Site

Bernardo Bertolucci:..........Return

• Bertolucci Site . . Vassar College

Arthur Penn:..........Return

• TBA

Ingmar Bergman:..........Return

• Night is My Future1947 movie
• Bergman: A Life in the Theatre
• Bergman page, Portugal
• Bergman Highlights on the Independent Film Channel
• cineocculis 2: 1995 Bergman Festival
• Page on Berkman's book, A Life in the Theatre
• Study of Fanny and Alexander
• Bergman's Shakespeare Productions...Australian conference

Sergei Eisenstein:..........Return

• Biographical timeline for S.Eisenstein
• Dialectical Montage
• Linkage v. Collision
• Intellectual Montage
• Eisenstein -- socialist images
• Eisenstein, an appreciation
• Eisenstein site . . Carleton College

John Ford:..........Return

• TBA

Akira Kurosawa:..........Return

• British Film Institute on Kurosawa
• Reviews of early Kurosawa films
• Review of Seven Samurai
• Review of Kagemusha
• Index of Kagemusha reviews
• Comments on The Hidden Fortress
• Kurosawa Fan page

Alfred Hitchcock::..........Return

• Sir Alfred Hitchcock Biography
• The Alfred Hitchcock Page
• Colorizing Hitchcock's Black&White films
• Page for Alfred Hitchcock Scholars
• "To Catch a Thief"
• Hitchcock talks about "pure cinema"
• A French view of Hitchcock
• Alfred Hitchcock TV THIS MONTH
• Alfred Hitchcock's 3-D Theatre
• Alfred Hitchcock's Cameo Appearances
• Hitchcock's "Vertigo"
• Discussion Page for Hitchcock Films
• An Episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Man on the Edge"
• European Website on Hitchcock
• Hitchcock's Films which star Cary Grant
• Student Hitchcock Page, Univ. of Maine, Orono

D. W. Griffith:..........Return

• Griffith and Eisenstein

Oscar MIcheaux:..........Return

• Index of Resources on Oscar Micheaux
• Oscar Micheaux Society . . Duke University
• Oscar Micheaux Site
• TBA

Georges Melies:..........Return

• TBA

Lumiere Brothers:..........Return

• TBA

Dziga Vertov:..........Return

• Vertov / / Art and Culture
• List of reviews for Man With a Movie Camera
• Man With a Movie Camera: revolutionary masterpiece
• Machine Art of Vertov and Berkeley
• Vertov as filmmaker
• Discussion of Man With a Movie Camera

Abel Gance:..........Return

• TBA

Jean Vigo:..........Return

• Jean Vigo Page...North Carolina State

Terence Malick:..........Return

• TBA

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