04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
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
Media Art Net | Sitemap
English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet
Cinemarati Blog
"brings together online film critics for serious, and seriously fun, discussion about film"; links to blogs by selected critics
No More Marriages!: Welcome To The Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon!
Andy Hobal's film blog runs a carnival on film criticism; the film bloggers run many blogathons and garner good accumulated comments
Dr. Bruce Klopfenstein's Interactive Television Blog via Firefox
articulate discussions of impact of new media on TV and the interaction between the two
27 November 2006
Lists of Bests
by 5 othersagain, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com
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."
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.
26 November 2006
MIT communications forum archive
the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners
Jason Mittell's Just TV blog
blog by television scholar with a book on TV genres;
20 November 2006
Pajiba - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
by 2 othersmovie and tv review site, very current, well written, various authors
Notes on The Gaze
Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory
19 November 2006
Video History Project: Resources
information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment
Community and Activist Video - Welcome to the Videosphere!
especially about Chicago in the 1970s and 80s; the experimental and activist media communities have always been close here
Chicago's Video Underground
1973 article about portapak pioneers in Chicago video, also Dan Sandin, who invented an early image processor; it's about my generation and my people, so I love it, as I loved the Sandin Image Processor
18 November 2006
Dave Harris and Colleagues
large collection of work, lectures, course materials in media studies, leisure studies, sociology
16 November 2006
Visual Studies video projects
student work from advanced classes, 2003-2004
Visual Studies Fine Arts Videos 2002-2003
advanced students' video projects online, from Univ of Toronto
THE JOY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION
online book, 2006
15 November 2006
Film Experience Blog: The Vampire Blog-a-Thon
Oct. 31, 06; over fifty film bloggers contributed to the Vampire blogathon
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
14 November 2006
"Introduction to Poetry" -- Ben McGhee
more video and text animation, simple and effective -- 53 sec.
13 November 2006
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
Guerrilla Filmmaking 101
the nitty-gritty of no-budget filmmaking, good on deflating romantic notions often held by first-timers
