02 December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
01 December 2006
BBC - collective - the interactive culture magazine
by 4 othersa social networking site in which BBC offers cultural reviews, with clips, and readers comment or write alternative reviews; readers also submit own reviews
Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty
"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.
Flickhead
online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered
Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10
by 2 othersCanadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources
28 November 2006
La FAQ d' ABFH et d' ABFHM
a French site with links to excellent animation, lots in 3D
27 November 2006
Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc
by 1 othera very large historical archive, often from advertising, "to provide for all levels of possible viewer a visually orientated taxonomy of the ways in which pictures are used to tell stories." unique collection, also useful for many other purposes
Mojiti-video commentary software
by 11 othersuseful for teachers making clips to analyze in class; "personalize any video with your story. With visual spotlights, you can narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles, or comment on any scene."
26 November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
22 November 2006
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
20 November 2006
Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr
various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them
19 November 2006
Spout - We're talkin' movies
a movie search engine, blogspot, voting, good plot summaries, able to buy film
18 November 2006
Observations on film art and “Film Art”
blog by senior film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
14 November 2006
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
Forgetfulness. animated poem. text by Billy Collins
lyrical, good use of low res video on computer, experimental
13 November 2006
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
MIT--media in transition 05: the work of stories
much of the conference is available in av form or papers or abstracts.
11 November 2006
NONTZEFLASH 2007 - 4. ANIMATED FILM COMPETITION
award winning flash animation films
benditonontze.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
a fascinating narrative flash animation, perhaps a metaphor about war in our times
03 November 2006
Jahsonic
wide ranging litblog with many interests, images, and links; includes interests in film, music and visual culture
02 November 2006
Dialogic: Giorgio Agamben: Means Without Ends
a collection of ideas from Agamben that summarizes some of his key ideas; blog from "a dialogic provocateur searching for viable alternative/oppositional cultures." Much on film; many links.
40 Things That Only Happen In Movies - Nostalgia Central
by 5 otherswitty observations on film narrative and visual continuity
