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
Dr. Bruce Klopfenstein's Interactive Television Blog via Firefox
articulate discussions of impact of new media on TV and the interaction between the two
November 2006
Jason Mittell's Just TV blog
blog by television scholar with a book on TV genres;
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.
National Storytelling Network - History of Storytelling World
links list, many categories, many audio stories
100 films
film blog; announces upcoming blogathons: Lovesick Cinema, Feb. 14; Unspoken Cinema, 08 January; Film Criticism, 01 December-03 December; Alfred Hitchcock, 15 November; large network of film bloggers write for these
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
Literary Theory. Literary Criticism
very large site, also contains links for art and film, among other things, lots of branching possiblities
Jahsonic
wide ranging litblog with many interests, images, and links; includes interests in film, music and visual culture
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas
October 2006
Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1
by 3 othersthe kinds of things all screenwriters can steal from, over and over
July 2006
Counterblast :: The E-journal of Communication and Culture
mixture of art and criticism in its focus
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