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
Synoptique
film journal from Concordia University in Montreal
La FAQ d' ABFH et d' ABFHM
a French site with links to excellent animation, lots in 3D
Movie Reviews, Music Reviews, TV Show Reviews, Game Reviews, Book Reviews - Metacritic.com
by 19 othersMetacritic is a usefully organized site, providing tips on what you might like to do.
Jason Mittell's Just TV blog
blog by television scholar with a book on TV genres;
Welcome to Transparency
by 1 other"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"
Spout - We're talkin' movies
a movie search engine, blogspot, voting, good plot summaries, able to buy film
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
October 2006
Introduction to Genre Theory
by Daniel Chandler--the major theoretical concept that ties film/tv and literature together.
Screenwriting and Movie Screenplay Database: Show Me: Free Screenplays
source for film scripts
iScriptdb.com: Movie Review & Screenplay Database
source for film scripts
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