Film Links & Articles

Cinema: How Are Hollywood Films Made?
(Annenberg/CPB Projects Exhibits Collection):
Explore the creative process of filmmaking, "from the screenwriter's words to the editor's final cut." "Looking through the lens of a camera as actors bring to life a writer's story, the filmmaker is also peering into a world of imagination. The director, producer, actors, screenwriter, and film editor are all essential players in the journey from concept to finished film," involving "thousands of small details—and often hundreds of people...":
URL: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema/

Film Basics: Learning to "Read" and Write About Film
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/film.htm

Internet Movie Database - IMDb
Search for info on films & film adaptations of literature
URL: http://www.imdb.com/
The Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database Tour
Movie Terminology: Internet Movie Database's Online searchable Film Glossary. "Here, you will find definitions of terms and phrases frequently used in the world of movies, film, acting, and cinemagoing" (The Internet Movie Database Ltd., 1990-1999).

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (The Oscars)
The Oscars 1999 (The New York Times on the Web, 1999)
Cinemania (Microsoft Corp., 1999)

Movielink

FILM/VIDEO (2/9/99) from VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: MEDIA STUDIES PAGE (Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research, by Alan Liu, English Dept. Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara)

NuReel.com (Kamala Appel, CEO/Founder), founded" to help a diverse group of aspiring film and television professionals get the support and education they need to succeed."
http://www.nureel.com [last accessed Aug. 2001]

Penn Library Film Studies

Infoseek Guide for Movies

Yahoo search engine for Films & Movies

Starting Point search engine for Movies

Screensite for the Study of Film and Television - Film/TV Education

Info Trac Search Bank - COCC Library: for periodical articles, try the Expanded Academic ASAP 1995 - Mar 1998 with access to backfile (1980 - 1994). If you're inexperienced, try Cat Finney's College Library Skills On the Web: Introduction to the Internet and Course Outline. See Using COCC's Periodical Databases and Info trac databases

Martin Irvine's Narrative Matters: Resources for Studying Narrative in Fiction and Film (Georgetown Univ.)
CCT TheoryBase:A Guide to Theory and Inquiry for Studies in Communication, Culture, and Technology with links to Film and Media Resources (from CineMedia), Media Studies (Voice of the Shuttle), and Media and Communication Studies Site (Daniel Chandler, Univ. of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Early Motion Pictures 1897 - 1916 (Library of Congress)

The Film Festivals Server (English version) "portal into the universe of cinema via its actors, directors and films being shown at film festivals all over the world. Over 6000 pages, full of film reviews."
List of all Film Festivals 1995 - 99 Worldwide
Selected Film Reviews: Shakespeare in Love, Life is Beautiful

From filmlinc (Film Society of Lincoln Center): 1998 New York Film Festival and
Film Comment, "a forum for smart, idiosyncratic writing about movies," published biweekly by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, claims to be "the finest film magazine in the English language," each issue "notable for the unusually literate, often elegant, style of its authors" and brimming "with provocative, cutting-edge articles about all aspects of the art, entertainment and industry of filmmaking."

Academic Info Film Studies (Mike Madden): "the primary focus of this page is the critical study and appreciation of cinema in all its forms and functions. " Recommended:
ScreenSite (University of Alabama, the College of Communication, and the Department of Telecommunication and Film; last revised: January 29, 1998) "stresses the teaching and research of film and television and is designed for educators and students. A wonderful resource for the academic study of TV & Film," including Bibliographies and Research Guides
CineMedia (American Film Institute), with "Links to over 18,000 sites," including "both scholarly and tribute pages."
Cinema Connection (Federico Passi, 1999), with many WWW links, including World Cinema

inforM Women's Studies: Film Reviews
Women in Cinema-A Reference Guide, "Philip McEldowney's on-line reference guide to sources concerned with women and film" (Univ. of Virginia)
Women's Studies Database: Film Reviews (Univ. of Maryland)

California Newsreel, founded in 1968, is "distinguished educational video on African American life and history, race relations and diversity training, African cinema, labor studies, workplace issues, campus life, and media and society."

Cinema Related Resources from the Media Resources Center (since 1996, Moffitt Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley), including Bibliographies and Full-Text Articles, holdings in special topics such as African Studies (last update 2/25/99), and CinemaSpace, from the Film Studies Program at UC Berkeley, "devoted to all aspects of Cinema and New Media and is the primary link for resources from the UC Berkeley Film Studies Program."

International [Documentary] Film Festival 1996 (Amnesty International)

Teaching for Visual Literacy - 50 Great Young Adult Films

Indiana Univ.'s Black Film Center/Archive

Cross-Cultural Film Guide: Films from Africa, Asia and Latin America ( Patricia Aufderheide, The American Univ.)

Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema's FILMS BY COUNTRY

American Masters, PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/
Award-winning primetime specials, many with companion websites, examine the lives, works, and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists. Created in 1984 by Susan Lacy and produced by Thirteen/WNET for national public television, the series boasts more than 90 hours of programming to date, a growing film library documenting the role important individuals, groups, and movements have played in the formation of our cultural identity.
American Masters Database (index to more than 100 past and present American Masters)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/index.html
Hitchcock, Selznick, and the End of Hollywood, An "American Masters" Special
http://pbs.org/americanmasters/database/hitchcock_a.html (accessed Dec. 2001)
Companion website, including essay and outside resources, to the "American Masters" program (last aired 23 Dec. 2001) explores the outstanding working partnership of two Hollywood greats, who together created such legendary films as "Rebecca," "Spellbound" and "Notorious." (CC, Stereo, 1 year).

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Cinema: How Are Hollywood Films Made?
(Annenberg/CPB Projects Exhibits Collection):
Explore the creative process of filmmaking, "from the screenwriter's words to the editor's final cut."
"Looking through the lens of a camera as actors bring to life a writer's story,
the filmmaker is also peering into a world of imagination.
The director, producer, actors, screenwriter, and film editor are all essential players
in the journey from concept to finished film,"
involving "thousands of small details—and often hundreds of people...":
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema/

Internet Movie Database - IMDb
search for info on film adaptations of the fiction we read
(for a list of some of those adaptations, see our Fall 1999 course text,
Appendix 6, "Short Stories on Film and Video," pp. 992-994):
http://www.imdb.com/
...and more webresources are listed on WR316 Movielinks:
(Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon CC)
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr316/movielinks.htm

Sanoff, Alvin P. "What It Takes to Make a Good Book a Good Movie."
U.S. News & World Report 21 Dec. 1987: 66(3pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A6175007.
Hollywood has long "relied on literature for raw material," though the writers of that literature are often
less than satisfied with the cinematic results. But Pulitzer prize winning novelist William Kennedy is one of the few
fiction writers who has translated his own work successfully into film [Ironweed].
"'You can't translate a novel exactly,'" Kennedy explains, and
many writers, adept at one genre, "can't reconcile the differing demands of film and print."
The challenges posed by several adaption projects are surveyed,
including the Huston family's work on James Joyce's "The Dead."

Sherrid, Pamela. "'Rarely is justice done.'" [Interview with Director James Ivory.]
U.S. News & World Report 21 Dec. 1987: 68(1p). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A6175017.
James Ivory, the respected director of several adaptations of classic novels into film
[e.g., E.M. Forster's A Room with a View and Howard's End],
observes, "Rarely is justice done." Yet he is inevitably drawn to "wonderful books" for his material
because they fire his cinematic imagination. A filmmaker owes much to the original author
but "has the right to make changes. After all, it's your version of the work."
Ivory generally restricts himself to literature produced since the advent of photography,
because he can't visually imagine and authenticate works set prior to 1839,
and he hates "obvious anachronisms" rampant in "big-budget American movies."

Walsh, Michael. "John Huston Raises 'The Dead':
The Director Puts Joyce's Classic Short Story on Film."
Time 16 Mar. 1987: 92(2pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A5076173.
Walsh's behind-the-scenes look at the filming of John Huston's adaptation of Joyce's "The Dead,"
sketches Huston's failing health and work habits, and the difficulty in getting financing for a film
that seemed "hardly the stuff of which box-office triumphs are made."

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