Deleuze & Cinema
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Entwicklung des Films im Denken von Richard Heinrich
- Vortrag, gehalten am 17. November 1995 im Institut Français de Vienne im Rahmen der Veranstaltung " Deleuze sehen. im Kino. im Bild. im Denken." - Deleuze Immedia - Sämtliche Vorträge des Symposiums "Deleuze sehen..." und vieles mehr.
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On Deleuze´s Cinema by Daniel Frampton.
- A general look at Gilles Deleuze´s cinema books, L'Image Movement and L'Image Temps.
Source: Filmosophy -
A Short History of Cinema by D.N. Rodowick.
- The first chapter from Rodowick's Gilles Deleuze´s Time Mashine.
Source: D.N.Rodowick Homepage, Film Studies, University of Rochester. -
Deterritorialization and the Object: Deleuze across Cinema
by R.W. Cook
- Deleuze against Barthes and linguistic approaches to film.
Source: Film-Philosophy -
Can the Time-Image Be Postmodern? Deleuze, Titanic and The Matrix
by Edward R. O'Neill
- Lecture held at the University of Pennsylvania. Audiofile.
Source: Slought Networks -
Gilles Deleuze
- Audio Vorlesung über Gilles Deleuze von Richard Heinrich .
Quelle: Philosophische Audiothek, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien. -
Gilles Deleuze talks about his cinema books.
- Audiofile in French.
in the Film Theory & Philosophy section.
Cavell & Cinema
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"A Capra Moment" by Stanley Cavell.
- Cavell writes about a shot from Frank Capra's quot;remarriage comedy" It Happened One Night, he sofar "remained unable to find words for".
Source: Philosophy 361, California State University Long Beach -
Unknown Men and Unknown Women: Reading Cavell by David Large.
- A review of Stanley Cavell's: Contesting Tears. The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman.
Source:Film-Philosophy -
Cavell's Philosophy and What Film Studies Calls
"Theory":
Must the Field of Film Studies Speak in One Voice? by William Rothman.
- On the differences between film theory and Cavell's approach to cinema studies.
Source: Film and Philosophy, Vol. 2, Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts -
Who's Silencing Whom? by Miriam Keane.
- Following his essay on Now Voyager, Cavell has been accused of patriarchism by feminist film scholar Tania Modleski. Kaene trys to mediate in this exchange.
Source: Film and Philosophy, Vol. 2, Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts -
Stanley Cavell on Hitchcocks North By Northwest.
- Online illustration for Cavells essay (1981) on North By Northwest.
in the Film Theory & Philosophy section.
Cognitivism
- The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image
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David Bordwell's Website on Cinema
- Selected essays and writings by one of the leading scholars in the field. -
Cognitivism and Film Theory by Edward
S. Small
- Small argues for a cognitive approach to film theory.
Sourcee: Film-Philosophy -
Movie Pleasures and the Spectator's Experience: Toward a Cognitive
Approach by Carl Plantinga
- Cognitive explanations for the pleasures of film viewing.
Source: Film and Philosophy, Vol. 2, Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts -
Constructivism in Cognitive Film Theory by Kevin Sweeny
- On the differences between David Bordwell - Narration in the Fiction Film - and Edward Branigan - Narrative Comprehension and Film - and about what Sweeny calls the "process/product question" in constructivist film theory.
Source: Film and Philosophy, Vol. 2, Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
in the Film Theory & Philosophy section.
Phenomenology
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The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Cinematc and Electronic "Presence" by
Vivian Sobchack.
- A phenomenological look at cinematic and electronic modes of representation.
Source: Film Studies, University of Rochester
in the Film Theory & Philosophy section.
Psychoanalysis & Semiotics
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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey
- The seminal essay from 1975. -
Film Theory Re-Assessed by Dana Polan
- Polan scetches some "recent" developments in the field.
Source: Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, Vol. 1 No. 2 (1987) -
Remembering Women: Psychical and Historical Constructions in Film Theory by Mary Ann Doane
- Promblems of psychosemiotic and feminist film theory.
Source: Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, Vol. 1 No. 2 (1987) -
Film und Kino. Die Maschinerie des Sehens. Die Suche nach dem Ort des Betrachters in der filmtheoretischen Diskussion von Holger Reichert
- Eine ausfürliche Einführung in die Geschichte der psychosemiotischen Filmtheorie und ihrer Kernkonzepte. -
The Gaze
- Audio lecture by Kaja Silverman.
Source: Institut für Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich -
Metastasen des Geniessens - David Lynch mit Lacan
- Audiovortrag von Slavoj Zizek.
Quelle: Institut für Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich
in the Psychoanalysis and Semiotics section.
Gender, Feminism, Cultural Identities
- Gender Studies Page at Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle.
- Gender Articles & Papers at Sarah Zupko's PopCultures.com
- Gender & Race in Media- Resources at the University of Iowa Department of Comunication Studies.
- Scary Women - Outgrowth of a symposium held at UCLA in January of 1994. Features four multimedia online papers and audioclips from Linda Williams, Vivian Sobchack, Barabara Creed, Janet Staiger, and audience member Quentin Tarantino
is a non-profit feminist media organization
which is the nation's largest distributor of films and
videotapes by and about women. The site contains their
catalogue of almost 500 films and a comprehensive listing of
links on women and film and resources for women filmmakers.
in the Gender & Cultural Identities section.
Early Cinema & Silent Film
- earlycinema.com - "An introduction to the first decade of cinema."
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Grafics - " Groupe de recherche sur l'avenement et
la formation
des institutions cinematographique et scenique". - Domitor - "An International Association Dedicatet to the Study of Early Cinema"
- American Memory: Early Motion Pictures at the Library of Congress - Download early motion pictures in Realvideo, Quicktime or Mpeg
- Silent Movies - Some articles and many links to other silent film resources.
- The Silents Majority - "On-line Journal of Silent Film".
- The Silent Film Bookshelf - Reprints original documents from the silent film era.
- The Internet Source Book for Early German Film - edited by Olaf Brill and Thomas Schultke.
in the Early Cinema & Silent Film section.
Classic Movies
- Greatest Films - Take a tour through American film history with Tim Dirk and his list of 200 greatest movies. A massive site.
- The Palace - Hollywood's Golden Era presented by Michael Mills. Features articles, pictures, audioclips and a comprehensive bibliography.
- Reel Classics.com - Reviews, articles, pictures & clips and a huge collection of links to other classic movie sites, from Elizabeth.
- Class Act: Those Golden Movie Musicals- Jim Johnson's internet musical database.
- Screwball Comedy - Sistersite of The Palace with similar features.
- The American Widescreen Museum - "An Illustrated History of Epic Photographic Systems and the Epic Motion Pictures They Created". Martin Hart, Curator
in the Hollywood Cinema: Old & New section.
Film Noir
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No Place for a Woman: The Family in Film Noir
and Other Essays
- Four illustrated online essays by John Blaser. A great introduction to the universe of film noir. - Ten Shades of Noir - Film noir "in focus" at Images. A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
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Film noir: "You sure you don´t see what you hear?" by Raffaele Caputo.
- Caputo tries to challenge some of the accounts traditionally associated with film noir.
Source: Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, Vol. 5 No. 2 (1990) - Film Noir Reader - Promotional home page of this and other books by Alain Silver and James Ursini. Features the introduction and three further essays from the original Film Noir Reader.
in the Various Subjects section.
Auteurs
- Yahoo Listing of Director Websites
- The Pantheon - "... a purely subjective attempt to speak for some of the overlooked masters of the cinema, ones which aren't given proper representation on the net."
- MovieMaker - Magazine.
in the Directing & Cinematography section.
Industry & Business
- Variety - Trade Magazine.
- The Hollywood Reporter - Trade Magazine
- Motion Picture Association of America - Advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries.
- American Film Marketing Association - "Representing the Independent Motion Picture & Television Industry Worldwide."
- Filmmaking Net - Reference and community for the new and independent filmmaker.
- Motion Picture Industry: Behind the Scenes - Learn about the world of filmmaking.
- Cyber Film School - Resources for aspiring filmmakers.
- Mark Litwak's Entertainment Law Resources for Film, TV and Multimedia Producers. - Legal and business information by a veteran entertainment and multimedia attorney.
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The Future of Intellectual Property on the Internet and
Creativity, Commerce, & Culture. - Video debates between Standford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig and MPAA President Jack Valenti.
Source: Stanford Law School - Shoot Out Online - Video course hosted by Peter Bart and Peter Guber.
- The Monster That Ate Hollywood - PBS-special about Hollywood in the corporate era.
in the Industry & Business section.
Cinematography & Visual Effects
- American Cinematographer Online Edition - Magazine.
- Cinematography.com - "Professional Motion Picture Camera People and Resources".
- Visual Effects Headquaters Archive - Unfortunatley Todd Vaziri had to cease active production on the site. His exhaustive coverage of the vfx industrie from 1994-1998 is still available however.
- Cinefex - The bible of vfx journalism. Features a browsable index of back issues.
- Timetrack: Virtual Camera Movement - Still don't know how those spectacular "bullet time" effects from The Matrix were done? Learn from the inventor of this astonishing technique.
- Telepolis Special: Film - Several essays on cinema in the age of digital technology, in English and German.
in the Cinematography & Visual Effects section.
Sound & Music
- Film Sound Design - Articles, links and film sound terminolgies from Bordwell, Chion and others.
- In Stereo - George A. Flaxmans growing collection of articles on the history of stereo sound at the movies.
- Dolby.com - Features several articles on film sound and technology.
- Motion Picture Sound - An illustrated chronology of film sound by Steven E. Schoenherr.
- THX - Lucas Film official site.
- filmmusic.com - Film and Television Music Website.
- Film Score Monthly - Magazine.
in the Sound & Music section.
Editing
- Motion Pictures Editors Guild - Features interviews, professional articles and a section with audio seminars.
- rec.arts.movies.tech FAQ - Maintained by Scott E. Norwood. Features some information on editing. Most of the FAQ is devoted to film formats and exhibition techniques.
- Museum of Early Video Editing Equipment and Techniques - As time goes by.
in the Editing section.
Screenwriting
- Screenwriters & Playwrights Home Page- "The Original Resource for Scriptwriters on the Internet".
- Scrnwrit - Hosts a comprehensive screenwriting FAQ.
- Wordplay - Q & A and 60 essays covering all facets of screenwriting.
- Screenwritersutopia.com - Features articles, interviews and a comprehensive workshop including numerous essays by industry pros.
- The Screenwriters Homepage - Colums and links.
- Scripts For Sale - Includes articles on how to identify a so called "high concept-script".
in the Screenwriting section.
Online Journals
- Listing of Film/TV/Media Journals at Screensite.
- Listing of Journals at Film-Philosophy.
- Liste deutschsprachiger Filmzeitschriften bei Cinema Quadrat.
- Scope - "an on-line journal of film studies".
- Screening the Past - "An International Electronic Journal of Visual Media and History".
- Offscreen. - Based in Montréal, Québec Offscreen is a wide-ranging film journal with a mandate to cover all international cinemas and an emphasis on Asian cinemas. French speaking readers might also want to visit it's sister journal Hors Champs.
- Bright Lights Film Journal. - A popular-academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary.
- Images. - A journal of film and popular culture.
- Jump Cut. - Magazin für Film & Kritik: Rezensionen und News.
- Der Schnitt. - Selektive Online-Version mit aktuellen Besprechungen und Schwerpunkten.
- Kinoeye - A weekly review of Central and East European cinema.
- Nach dem Film - Filmtheoretisch orientiertes Online-Magazin. Erscheint in einzelnen Ausgaben mit Schwerpunktthemen und Besprechungen.
- Cinefoyer - Online-Magazin mit Filmkritiken, Buchrezensionen und Artikeln.
- filmtext.com - Nomen est omen. Online-Magazin mit wenig Bildern und viel Text.
- Celluloid - Praxisorientierte Filmzeitschrift aus Österreich.
- Ray - Aussergewöhnlich: Die Online-Version des Kinomagazins beinhaltet nahezu das komplette Angebot der aktuellen Monatsausgabe. Flash Player required.
- Senses of Cinema - An online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema.
- Cadrage - Online film journal composed of University and Journalism personalities from France, Belgium and Canada. Features film analyses, interviews and dossiers in French and English.
- The Journal of Moving Image Studies - Affiliated with the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image.
- Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind - New interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal. Subscription required.
Forums & Weblogs
- Film-Philosophy - A journal and discussion salon promoting a philosophical review of cinema and film studies
- H-Film - A mailing list for film scholars.
- Screen-L - A discussion list that connects people working in the area of film and television studies.
- Film-Theory - Another academic mailing list. Hosted by the Spoon Collective.
- Filmz.de - Weblog von Christoph Jochems mit Film-News und Links zu aktuellen Filmbesprechungen.
- New Filmkritik - Weblog von Michael Baute und Ludger Blanke bei dem mitunter auch namhafte deutsche Filmemacher zu Worte kommen.
Digital Cinema
- AtomFilms - Short films for streaming download.
- ifilm - Another short film site. Includes news, articles and interviews on the latest in big screen and internet cinema.
- Film Unlimited - Guaridan film site featuring a guide to "the 40 best short film sites on the web".
- The New Venue - Includes "flick tips" for aspiring digital filmmakers.
- [d]vision - Organisator des gleichnamigen Wiener Medienkunst-Festivals und anderer Veranstaltungen zur digitalen Kultur.
News & Rumors
- Ain't It Cool News - Get your daily dose of movie news and rumors from Harry Knowles and his spies.
- Coming Attractions - Another "scoop site" with news and rumors of upcoming movies. News are archived and grouped along the various projects covered.
- Counting Down - "The Ultimate Fan Site". News and tidbits about anticipated movies and blockbusters. The guys that organized those Star Wars lines.
- Dark Horizons - News on upcoming movies from Garth Franklin
Search Tools and Miscellanious Resources
- The Internet Movie Database - One of the most powerful resources on the web. Mirrors exsist in the US, UK, Italy, and Germany.
- All-Movie Guide - Another movie database.
- Cine Media - Searchable directory of movie sites.
- Screensite - Resources for cinema students.
- Film und Kritik - Enthät einen einführenden Hypertext zum Thema Internet und Film und links zu zahlreichen weiteren Resourcen.
- The Cinema Connection - More than 1000 Filmlimks organzided in categories.
- Cinema Sites - Another web directory for cinema sites.
- GEWI Film Homepage