Links for Relevant Websites

Please note that most of these sites do not contain scholarly, peer reviewed essays.

Women and film

New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis has written a series of articles on women filmmakers:

“Making History: With Selma, Ava DuVernay Seeks a Different Equality,” The New York Times, December 3, 2014.

“In Hollywood, It’s a Men’s, Men’s, Men’s World,” The New York Times, December 24, 2014.

“Lights, Camera, Taking Action: On Many Fronts, Women Are Fighting for Better Opportunity in Hollywood,” The New York Times, January 21, 2015.

Center for the Study of Women and Film:

http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/research.html

Women Make Movies:

http://www.wmm.com/

New York Times film and cultural critic A. O. Scott has written an excellent article on African-American independent cinema that flourished from the late 1960s to the 1980s. The New York Times, February 5, 2015.

Dave Kehr wrote a weekly column for The New York Times, rich in film history. Here is a collection of those pieces:

http://www.davekehr.com/

An aggregator of a variety of websites devoted to film:

Cinemaspot.com

Another database of film related websites:

http://www.cinema-sites.com/

Also, the journal Film Comment has an annotated site of film criticism sites:

http://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-top-film-criticism-sites-an-annotated-blog-roll

The online encyclopedia of films and filmmaking, based in Australia, Senses of Cinema:

http://sensesofcinema.com/

The political film journal, Jump Cut:

http://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html

The film website of the venerable journal Art Forum addresses alternative cinema:

http://www.artforum.com/index.php?pn=film

The online journal Film-Philosophy is at:

http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p

This site, run by the cable channel AMC, is a trove of information and links:

http://www.filmsite.org/

Diagonal Thoughts, a site for independent and alternative cinema and media:

http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/

The Credits, a site by the MPPA (Motion Picture Association of America), is an interesting digest of things cinematic:

http://www.thecredits.org/

Indiewire is a newsy site about film and television:

http://www.indiewire.com/

The cable channel, Turner Classic Movies:

www.tcm.com

The Orson Welles fansite:

http://www.wellesnet.com/

A rich collection of images from Alfred Hitchcock’s films:

http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/gallery.html

Some major film institutes

The American Film Institute:

http://www.afi.com/

and its extraordinarily detailed catalogue of American cinema:

http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/

The AFI catalogue is more detailed but less extensive than the International Movie Database of credits and synopses of almost every film and television show ever made:

www.imdb.com

The British Film Institute:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/

The Sundance Institute supports independent filmmaking:

http://www.sundance.org/

The Library of Congress (a rich resource for early American film at http://www.loc.gov/) maintains a database of films elected for preservation under the National Film Preservation program. A link from this site will call up a list of links to public research centers and archives around the world:

http://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/about-this-program

The site of the Museum of the Moving Image, Moving Image Source, has many useful links:

http://www.movingimagesource.us/

Third World Newsreel contains links and information about film in developing countries:

https://www.twn.org/

An English language database of Korean films:

http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/index.asp

Also:

http://koreanfilm.org/

A fansite for Indian cinema:

http://www.bollywood.com/

CineMetrics allows users to upload films for statistical analysis of such things as shot length:

http://cinemetrics.lv/index.php