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GENERAL FILM-RELATED WEBSITES
INDIVIDUAL MOVIES
Large Internet Movie Data Base - over 800,000 titles
www.imdb.com
TV Guide's Database of 40.000 movies, many with extensive background material.
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/
Popular Guide to Movies, Film Terms, Celebrities
www.allmovie.com
Another popular movie site
www.yahoo.com/enertainment/movies_and_film/Reviews
Microsoft's entertainment database
http://entertainment.sidewalk.msn.com/movies/movies.asp
American Film Institute's "100 Best Films"
http://www.filmsite.org/
FILM RESEARCH
An Online Encyclopedia of Film
http://hyperion.advanced.org/10015/data/info/reference/
Academic Articles and Bibliographies
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/FilmBibMenu.html
Online Film Journals
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/FilmRefMenu.html#journals
Links to 600 famous film scripts, many downloadable
www.script-o-rama.com
FOR FILMMAKERS
Homepage for Filmmakers
http://www.filmmaker.com/
Homegrown Websites by Hollywood Fans
www.geocities.com/hollywood
FOR FUN
Download SoundBits from Well-Known Films
http://www.moviesounds.com/
Humorous Website on Film Cliches
http://www.like.it/vertigo/cliches.html
WEBSITES TO SUPPLEMENT COURSE UNITS
Unit 1. Introduction and Early Film History
History of Cinema from Antiquity to 1900
http://www.cinemedia.net/SFCV-RMIT-Annex/rnaughton/MAGIC_MACHINES.html
Unit 2. How Movies Are Made (Chapter 2 / Video 1)
Online Glossary of Film Terms
http://allmovie.com/mov_Glossary.html
Unit 3. Classical Hollywood Style (Chapter 3)
Unit 4. The Studio System (Chapter 4 / Video 2)
The Hollywood Stock Exchange
Trade paper money and follow the fortunes of new films and rising stars.
www.hsx.com
Unit 5. The Star System (Chapter 5 / Video 3)
Celebrity Cameos
www.celebsite.com
Database of Film Stars
http://hyperion.advanced.org/10015/data/info/reference/
Unit 6. American Film Comedy (Chapter 7 / Video 5)
Thumbnail Sketches on Film Comedy
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=10:03:49|PM&p=avg&sql=U|35||1
Unit 7. The War Film (Chapter 8 / Video 6)
Bibliography on War Films
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Warfilmbib.html
Unit 8. Film Noir (Chapter 9 - Video 7)
Articles and Essays on Film Noir
www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Noirtext.html
Unit 9. The Western (Chapter 10 / Video 4)
Popular Site for Westerns Fans
www.westerns.com
Unit 10. Film in the Television Age (Chapter 12 / Video 8)
History of Film Formats, From Cinemascope to Vistavision
http://www.comp.brad.ac.uk/research/GIP/film.html
Unit 11. The Film School Generation (Chapter 14 / Video 9)
Unit 12. The 1990s (Chapter 15 / Video 10)
Independent Film Resource and Magazine
www.indiewire.com
Indie films broadcast in streaming video
www.ifilm.net
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