FILM STUDIES - Some Relevant Web sites:

WSU Library Guide
This guide is a starting point for research in Film Studies.

Wazzu Films (on Facebook!)
Wazzu Films is a student organization at Washington State University created by Nick Bergthold and Ryan Foulkes.  The purpose is to facilitate students in the organization and creation of short and feature-length films, as well as showcase student and regional films on campus.  We work to produce films while maintaining a degree of professionalism by providing new learning opportunities to students through workshops and classes related to filmmaking.  Our main priority is to help students in the production of their films through assistance with funding, resources, and providing good networking opportunities.
 
Cultural Politics.net: Popular Culture: Film (List of film-related links)

Historical Analysis

Edison Motion Pictures
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhm.html
Excellent site on some of the earliest movies, from the Library of Congress

Film Site.org
http://www.filmsite.org/
Comprehensive site on the traditional Hollywood film; good on introducing the various mainstream film genres

Black Film Center Archive
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/
Comprehensive resource on this history of African American filmmaking and blacks images in film, including selected clips ( http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/home/earlyblackimages.shtml ) from as early as 1896.

Movies, Race and Ethnicity
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EthnicImagesVid.html
U.C. Berkeley site with filmographies, bibliographies and more.

The Palace
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/
Good site on classic films of 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. Includes specific sites on film noir, race films, and Chaplin

World Film History, from the Virtual Libary
http://vlib.iue.it/hist-film/Index.html
Excellent resource on international cinema. Links to many key sites on film history and aesethetics.

Production Analysis

Screensite.org: Film and TV production resources
http://www.screensite.org/
Excellent set of links to studios and production companies, film festivals, screenwriting sources, trade journals, databases, etc.

Filmmaker.com
http://www.filmmaker.com/
Exhaustive list of links on all aspects of film production, from independent digital video to Hollywood blockbuster; from technical info to industry analysis

Screenplays
http://www.simplyscripts.com/
Links to hundreds of free, downloadable scripts,movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic and maybe a few soon-to-be-released movies, television, anime, unproduced and radio shows. A screenwriter's resource.

Textual Analysis

Library of Congress Moving Image Genre-Form Guide
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/migintro.html
Introduces film genres as defined and used in LOC subject headings.

Filmsite’s film genre’s introduction
http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html
Less academic than the LOC’s and perhaps more accessible for undergrads.

Introduction to Textual Analysis
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Functions/mcs.html
Excellent student resource from David Chandler’s massive media studies site. Includes intros to genre analysis, discourse analysis, semiotics, narratology. etc.

Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmcollection
Includes many educational features

Society for Cinema Studies
http://www.cmstudies.org/
Many excellent resources on film aesthetics, history, etc.

Film-Philosophy
http://www.film-philosophy.com/
Excellent resources, including a journal, articles, and many links on film aesthetics.

CineMedia
http://www.cinemedia.org/
Probably the largest commercial site, with 25,000 links on all aspects of film and media.

Audience Analysis

Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/
Extremely useful resource for all kinds of information on film, but placed here because it includes professional and amateur film reviews

Popmatters.com
http://www.popmatters.com/
Excellent source for thoughtful film and media reviews.

Feminist film reviews
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/
Very comprehensive list of mainstream and independent films viewed from various feminist perspectives

Gay and Lesbian film reviews
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/gayandlesbian.html
From the journal “Bright Lights”; reviews gay/lesbian films and offers queer perspectives on other films

Fandata.com
http://fandata.com/
Your link to FANDOM around the world!