Andrei
Tarkovsky Homepage
A website focusing on russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Contains online essays, articles
and inteviews.
Broad & Queen
Broad & Queen is a
film theory website focusing on women in/on cinema. Contains several essays with titles
such as; "Sluts in the Cinema", "Marnie - A Study in Deviance and
Sublimation", "Women and Political Inaction in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing"
and "What Little Girls Should Be Made of - Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds".
A Case
for Cognitivism
Online version of the often
debated essay "A Case for Cognitivism" by David Bordwell.
Centre for Research in Culture and
Communication - C.R.C.C
This site is located and
maintained by the C.R.C.C at the Murdoch University situated in Australia. The C.R.C.C
website contains on-line, full text version of several film theory books and
dissertations. Among others "Film and Meaning" by Ian Douglas, "Arguing the
Arts" by Tim Rowse, "The Field of Genre and Australian Filmic Texts;
Transforming Cultural Narratives" by Carol Laseur, "The Hybrid of Filmmaking in
Australian National Cinema; Formulating a Cinematic Post-Diaspora" by Rama
Venkatasawmy and "History on/and/in Film" by Tom O'regan and Brian Shoesmith.
M-D-W-S Note:
C.R.C.C also contains the online film theory journal Continuum. See the 'online journals'
category below for more information about Continuum.
Chinese Cinema Page
A website focusing on
Chinese cinema. With online essays, reviews and interviews by Shelly Kracier.
The
Cinema
Essay written by Virginia Woolf in 1926.
Cinemaspace
A website containing a few
film theory essays with titles such as; "Clockwork Orange and the
Aestheticization of Violence" and; "The Political Aesthetic: Nation and
Narrativity in the Starship Enterprise".
Cinetext
A website with film theory
essays and film reviews. Main focus is on film and philosophy.
M-D-W-S Note: The
Cinetext website also hosts a mailinglist. See the 'mailinglist' category below for more information about this
list.
M-D-W-S
Note II: Please note that many of the texts on this website is in German language only.
Cognitivism, Piecemeal Theorizing,
and "The Case of the Power of Movies" - A Critical Study
An essay on cognitivism
and neoformalist film theory. Written by Benjamin Bohman.
Critical Approaches to Culture, Communications
and Hypermedia
This Homepage of Prof. Ron
Burnett contains a series of essays written by Burnett himself on a variety of cinema
related subjects.
Criticism.com
Website containing essays in
media theory and social science.
Cyber Semiotic Institute
A website containing
online courses on semiotics. The courses are organized in cycles of eight moths at the
rate of one cyber lecture per month. All lectures (old and new) is available online.
Courses include; "Peirce's Theory of Semiosis", Dynamical Models in
Semiotics/Semantics", "Saussure and Beyond", "Critical Semiosis",
and "McLuhan, Baudrillard and Cultural Theory".
Cyntia Freeland's Web Office
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Dave Harris: Essays, Courses,
Papers
Website containing, among other
things, the following essays and papers; "Approaches to James Bond",
"Avant-garde cinema", "Bourdieu on 'Taste'", "Freud and Film
Theory", "Godard for Beginners", "Music Videos", "Pleasures
in Bond Movies", "Postmodernism - Basics", "Realism in Cinema".
All essays and papers written by Dave Harris.
Daniel Chandler's Media and Communication Site
This website contains
on-line writings on media theory by prof. Daniel Chandler. Here You can find titles such
as; "Semiotics for Beginners", "An Introduction to Genre Theory",
"Marxist Media Theory", "Technologica Determinism", "The
Transmission Model of Communication: A Critique", "Texts and the Construction of
Meaning", etc.
D. N. Rodowick -
Homepage
Containing, among other things, several online essays and articles written by Professor D.
N. Rodowick.
The End of Philosophy
and the Rise of Films
Online essay by Michael Bischoff.
The
English Server: Film and Television Studies
A section of "The
English Server" containing several online film theory texts.
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you want to go to the main page of "The English Server" Click Here.
Fabianweb.
A website containing
essays on film and film theory written by Fabian Ziesing. Allthough most essays focuses on
director Zhang Yimou there's also a number of general film theory essays to be found here.
George Wastor's Film Music Page
A website focusing on film
music.
Feminist
Film Reviews
Reviews of popular films
written from a feminist perspective.
Film Noir & Pulp Fiction
An online essay discussing the
roots of film noir in pulp fiction.
Film Noir Reader
Contains online versions of the introduction to, and three essays from, the book
"Film Noir Reader" (eds: Alain Silver and James Ursini). The three essays are:
"Kiss Me Deadly: Evidence of a Style" by Alain Silver, "The Post-Noir P.I.:
The Long Goodbye and Hickey and Boggs" by Elizabeth Ward, and
"What is This Thing Called Noir?" by Alain Silver and Linda Brookover.
Film-Philosophy: Electronic
Saloon
A website containing a
large number of film theory essays. The essays are devided into the folowing categories:
"Gilles Deluze", "Stanley Cavell", "Phenomenology",
Cognitivism" and "Analytic Philosophy.
M-D-W-S Note: The
Film-Philosophy website also hosts the mailing list "Film and Philosophy. See the
'mailinglist' category below for more information about this mailinglist.
Film Sound Theory
A website devoted to film
sound theory.
Hitchcock: Master of
Suspense
A Website devoted to the
cinema of Alfred Hitchcock with several essays online.
Jagiellonian
University: Film Studies
A Polish website (written
in English) containing a few essays such as; "Polish Film Theory" by Alicja
Helman, "Some Problems of Spatial Semiotics in Film" also by Alicja Helman, and
"Cinema of Decay" by Andrzej Pitrus .
Jay Ruby's Homepage
A website focusing on
visual antrophology. Many on-line articles on film/anthropology written by Jay Ruby.
The MacGuffin' Web Page
A website devoted to the
films of Alfred Hitchcock. Contains, among other things, several online essays.
Masculinity and Representation
Essays and Articles on
masculinity and representation. Essays include titles such as; "The Uncastrated Man:
The Irrationality of Masculinity Portrayed in Cinema" by Jurgen Reeder, "Walk on
Parts and Speaking Subjects: Screen Representations of Black Gay Men" by Phillip
Brian Harper, "The Power, the Glitter, the Muscles: Movie Masculinities in the Age of
Reagan" by Clayton R Koppes, "History Re-Membered: Forrest Gump,
Postfeminist Masculinity, and the Burial of the Counterculture" by Thomas B Byers
"Cyborgasm: Machines and Male Hysteria" by Marj Kibby, "Holy Homosexuality
Batman!: Camp and Corporate Capitalism in Batman Forever" by Freya Johnson,
"Marketing masculinity in Jean-Claude Van Damme's Universal Soldier" by
Jeff Akeley, "Revolting yet Conserved: Family Noir in Blue Velvet and Terminator
2" by Fred Pfeil, "Black masculinity and visual culture" by Herman
Gray, "The Representation of the Black Male in Film" by Christopher Miller,
"Studying Sexual Images" by Chuck Kleinhans, "Aestheticising Masculinity:
The Example of Physique Photography" by William Stern Threshold, "Masculinity in
American culture" by Jo Paoletti, "Representing Masculinity" by Marj Kibby,
and many more.
Mason West's Website: The Films of Ingmar
Bergman
Website focusing on the work
of swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
Mathew Needleman -
Written archives
Contains two essays of
interest: "The Film School Mafia - The social organization of film school and the
Mafia stereotypes it perpetuates", and "Teens on film - A critical look at the
absence of realistic teens in popular entertainment".
The Media and Communication Studies Site
(M.C.S)
(No description available.
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Mise-en Scene-Webpage
A website containing
essays such as "Exiles in Modernity: The Films of Edward Yang" by Jonathan
Rosenbaum, "Ultimatum: An Introduction to the Work of Nicole Brenez" by Adrian
Martin and "The Ultimate Journey - Remarks on Contemporary Theory" by Nicole
Brenez.
Monsters as
(Uncanny) Metaphors: Freud, Lakoff, and the Representation of Monstrosity in Cinematic
Horror
Online essay
written by Steven Schneider.
New Chinese Cinema
A website containing
several essay on essay on chinese film. Titles include; "Relating Chinese History on
Film: Objective Narration vs. Subjective Allegory" by James Lavin, "Farewell
My Concubine: The Struggle of Art vs. Reality" by Lusan Chua, and "The
Story of Qiu Ju: Views of Ambiguity, Democracy and Bureaucracy" by Read
Vanderbilt.
The New Flesh - David Cronenberg
A website focusing on the
films of David Cronenberg. Contains several essays and articles with titles such as:
"Technology's Body: Cronenberg, Genre, and the Canadian Ethos" by Bart Testa,
and "David Cronenberg: Emergence of an Auteur" by Simon Scott.
No Place For a Women: "The Family in
Film Noir" and Other Essays
Several online essays on
film noir, written by John Blaser.
Plato's Theory of Film
An online essay written by Jack Purcell.
Pomegranats
Website containing, among
other things, the following essays; "Surrealism and Cinema: Breaking from the
Celluloid Narrative", "Hiroshima Mon Amour: A Discussion of Memory and
Place in the Film by Alain Resnais" and "David Cronenberg's Crash and
Pornography Culture". All three written by Katherine Enos.
Postcolonial Cinemas (Student Essays)
A website containing,
among other things, the following student essays; "Reclaiming the Postcolonial
Identity - Mapantsula" by Karolina M. Karr, "Throwing Stones:
Revolutionary Acts in Mapantsula and Do the Right Thing" by Niqe Ware,
"The Postcolonial Subject and Rebellion in Mapantsula" by Fernanda de
Affonseca, "How Loud Are they Speaking? How Hard are You Listening? (Representation
of the Subaltern in Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay" by Steve Gevurtz,
"Postcolonial Film From An Artistic Perspective" by John Ziniewicz,
"Problems of Representation of the Postcolonial World" by Jason Stearns,
"Location of Gender in Colonizing/Decolonizing Process in the Filmic Texts of Quartier
Mozart, The Harder They Come, and Pixote" by Niqe Ware, "Sugar
Cane Alley" by John Ziniewicz, "Rue Case Negres" by Dartania N.
Lilly, "Pixote" by Dartania N.Lilly, "Nationalism vs. Globalism -Are
they indeed Antagonistic Concepts?" by Karolina M. Karr, "Mother As Nation, And
a Dead End Street" by Maggie Raintree, "Shooting Pinballs at Whiteness: The
Place of The Non-Other in Postcolonial Discourse" by Maggie Raintree.
Punktstoerung
Website containing several
online film theory essays and articles. M-D-W-S Note: Please note that all essays and articles
on this website is in German language only.
Queens Film Studies: Critical Writing
On-Line
Contain many online essays
written by students at Queens Film Studies. Examples of some of the titles are:
"Genre Theory and John Ford's Stagecoach", The Western Revisited in Taxi
Driver" and; Hero, Text and Ideology in John Ford's The Searchers".
Robert
Kolker's Homepage
Contains several online texts including a full text version of
Robert Kolker's book "The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema"
dealing with the history and analysis of European and Latin American cinema, starting with
neo-realism, and exploring the work of Godard, the British and Italian movements of the
sixties, Cuban revolutionary cinema, Cinema Novo, and the New German Cinema of the
Seventies.
Scary Women: Female Monsters & Fiends in
American Film
A website with online
papers on women in american horror films. Papers include Barbara Creed's "Baby
Bitches from Hell - Monstrous Little Women in Film", Cassie Carter's "Woman, Red
in Tooth and Claw", Gabriella Schalow Adler's "But She Doesn't Look Like a
Fiend..." and Vivian Sobchack's "The Leech Woman's Revenge: On the Dread of
Aging in a Low-Budget Horror Film".
S.O.F.I.A
- Study of Film as Internet Application
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Studying Visual Communication
On-line book by Sol Worth.
Edited, with an introduction by Larry Gross.
Suture Web
A website discussing the
psychoanalytic concept "suture" and its use within film theory.
Toward a
Cognitive Theory of Pictorial Representation
Essay by Jesse Prinz.
Vertigo and North by
Northwest: Language and/of Desire
An online essay written by Jack Purcell.
Words on Art
An online glossary of theory
and criticism for the visual arts.
The Work or Art in the
Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin's classic text
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" is available online
through this link.
Writings of Theodor Adorno and Max
Horkheimer
The following texts can be found
on this website: "Le Prix Du Progress" by; Adorno/Horkheimer (from: The
Dialectic of Enlightenment). "The Culture Industry:
Enlightenment As Mass Deception" by; Adorno/Horkheimer (from: The Dialectic of
Enlightenment), and "Culture Industry Reconsidered" by; Adorno (from: The
Culture Indistry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture).
Antithesis
(No description available.
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Bad Subjects
An online journal on cinema,
literature, politics, philosophy and culture in general.
Bright
Lights Film Journal
(No description available.
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Canadian Journal of Communication
A Canadian
"print-journal" with several online sample essays.
Canadian Aesthetics Journal
The Electronic Journal of the
"Canadian Society for Aesthetics". Contains many online essays and articles on
aesthetics and film. M-D-W-S Note: Please note that many of the essays on this website is in French language
only.
Cineaste Magazine
Online essays, articles and
reviews from the american "print-journal" Cineaste. Essays include;
"Disney's Politically Correct Pocahontas" by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick,
"Hanging out with the Homegirls: Allison Anders's Mi Vida Loca" by Rosa
Linda Fredoso, "In Search of Asian American Cinema" by Peter Feng, "The
Long March from Wong to Woo: Asians in Hollywood" by Thi Thanh Nga, "New African
Cinema" by Francoise Pfaff, "Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies -
An interview with Oliver Stone" by Mark C. Carnes, "The Political Economy of
Black Film" by Jesse Algeron Rhines, etc.
Close Up: The Electronic
Journal of British Cinema
Contains essays with titles
such as; "British Popular Cinema" by Tom Ryall, "Feminism and Roman
Polanski's Macbeth" by Peter Balderstone, "1950's War Films" by Robert
Murphy etc.
Continuum
Countinuum is an on-line
journal with focus on cinema and popular culture. Each issue of the journal focuses on a
particular subject such as; "Australian Film in the 1950s", "Film, TV and
the Popular", "Asian Cinema, Space/Meaning/Politics", "Film; Matters
of Style", "Screening Cultural Studies", "Critical
Multiculturalism" and "Media/Discourse".
Detours and Delays; An Occational
Journal of Aesthetics and Politics
An online journal containing,
among other things, the following essays; "Walter Benjamin and the Possibility of a
'Productive' Aesthetics" by Gary Tedman, "On Interruption" by Gilles
Peaker, "Fascist Aesthetics and Political Fiction: Warriors, Cyborgs, and the Nature
of Art", by Kenneth McKendrick, "The Cultural Challenge of Benetton - Global
Wish-Image" by Daniel Vukovich, and "The Glass" by Geoff Broadway.
Enculturation - An Electronic
Journal for Cultural Studies, Rhetorics and Theories
Online journal containing
several film theory/history essays. For example Michael Hardin's "Mapping Post-War
Anxieties onto Space: Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Invaders from Mars".
Film and Philosophy
Film and Philosophy is an
online academic magazine with essays on cinema and philosophy. Here you can find titles
such as; "On Cinema and Perversion", "Peter Greenaway and Nietzsche's
Eternal Return", "The Persistence of Vision: The Re-Emergence of
Phenomenological Theories of Film", "Phantasy Projections of the Multiple Psyche
in 8 1/2 and Last Year at Marienbad", "Movie Pleasures and the
Spectator's Experience: Toward a Cognitive Approach", "Screening the 'I' of the
Camera", "Constructivism in Cognitive Film Theory", "Making Sense of
Genre", and "Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, and the Cinema of Time".
Globe E-Journal
Australian Journal of
Contemporary art. Contains online essays reviews and interviews on art and cinema.
Images:
A Journal of Film & Popular Culture
Images is a quarterly
web-journal devoted to cinema and filmtheory. Each issue contains several feature articles
with titles such as "The Startle Effect in Horror Cinema", "The Images of
WW-II Nurses in 'Movitone Newsreels'", "The History of 'Adults Only'
Cinema", "The Narrative Tabloid of Samuel Fuller", "Quentin
Tarantino's Debt to the French New Vawe", "Love, Desire, the Image, and the
Grave in Vertigo", and "The Russian Cinema". Each issue of the
magazine also has an "in-focus" section containing several aticles and essays
concentration on a specific topic such as: "Hollywood Stars of the 30's, Film
Noir", "The Hollywood Star System" and "Italian Gothic Horror
Film".
In[]Visible Culture: An Electronic
Journal for Visual Studies
In[]Visible Culture is a
journal for critical approaches to the production and analysis of cultural objects. It
contains essays that address contemporary issues within visual studies from a wide
spectrum of methodological and disciplinary approaches (including, postcolonial, feminist,
marxist, psychoanalytic, and queer theories).
Journal
of Religion and Film
The Journal of Religion and
Film examines the description, critique, and embodiment of religion in film.
Kinema - A Journal for Film and
Audiovisual Media
A "print-journal"
with many sample essays available online.
Kulture
Void Pictures: Independent Film Web Journal
An online filmjournal with
articles, essays and interviews.
Metronome
An online journal discussion
independent film and media criticism.
Other Voices - The (e)journal of
Cultural Criticism
On-line Journal with, among
other things, the following essays available: "Antonioni's The Passenger as
Lacanian Text" by Jack Turner, "Death Drive's Joy Ride - David Cronenberg's Crash"
by Manuel Camblor, "On the Lost Highway - Lynch and Lacan, Cinema and Cultural
Pathology by Bernd Herzogenrath, "Theology After Lacan?: A Psychoanalytic Approach to
Theological Discourse" by Jürgen Braungardt, "Perversion as the Jouissance of
The Woman in The Dead - Joyce, Lacan and Fucking the Other" by E. Ivan Truijo,
"Monsters as (Uncanny) Metaphors - Freud, Lakoff, and the Representation of
Monstrosity in Cinematic Horror" by Steven Schneider and "The Promise of
Expression to the 'Inexpressible Child': Deleuze, Derrida and the Impossibility of Adults'
Literature" by Vadim Linetski.
Postmodern Culture
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Screening the Past
An on-line journal of visual
media and history.
The
Silent Majority
An on-line journal dealing
with the era of the silentfilm.
Sincronía - An E-Journal of Culture
Studies
Online cultural Studies
journal containing several film theory/history essays. For example Lauro Zavala's "A
Semiotics of Film and Literary Fiction: Classic, Modern, and Postmodern".
M-D-W-S Note:
Please note that many of the essays on this website is in Spanish language only.
Society for Philosophy and
Technology - A Quarterly Electronic Journal
Online journal of philosophy
and Technology. Contains some online essays and articles dealing with film theory.
The Stanford Electronic Humanities
Review
(No description available.
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Strobe
An on-line magazine focusing
on film, television and new media. Contains, among other things, essays by Peter Wollen
and Nick Browne.
24
Frames Per Seconds - Projections on Film
(No description available.
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Views - Reviews - Interviews: Journal of
Cinema and Cultural Theory
Online journal of cinema and
culture theory.
Wide Angle
An online sample issue of the
film theory "print-journal" Wide Angle.
The Yale Journal of
Criticism
An online sample issue of the
"print-journal" with the above name. This online issue of "The Yale Journal
of Criticism" contains some cinema related essays and articles.
Film
Theory - Mailing Lists
Cinematalk
- Mailinglist
CinemaTalk is a discussion mailing list about all aspects of cinema and films. Topics
of discussion include film critics, announcements of new movies, references to old ones,
comments on performances of actors, actresses, film directors, music composers and any
other questions related to cinematography.
Cinetext: Mailing List
Mailinglist for the
discussion of film and philosophy. This link will get you to their signup page where you
can also browse through their archives of old posts.
M-D-W-S Note:
This mailinglist is part of the "Cinetext" website. See the 'online texts'
category above for more information about Cinetext.
M-D-W-S Note II: Please note that many of the posts in this mailing list
is in German language only.)
ECAV-L: Mailing List
This moderated
mailing-list is open to all those who research, theorize, teach or study film and cinema -
mostly in an academic setting. The list is intended to facilitate the exchange of ideas
and information between different national and international communities of research.
Therefore the contributions cover a wide range of subjects. Theoretical, historical and
pedagogical issues pertaining to a critical investigation of cinema and film are welcome.
M-D-W-S Note: Please note
that many of the posts on this mailing list is in French language only.
Film Criticism Theory N
Analysis
Film theory mailinglist
Film Philosophy: Electronic
Saloon - Mailing List
A mailinglist for people
interested in film and philosophy. This link will get you to the main page where you can
join the list.
M-D-W-S Note:
This mailinglist is part of "Film-Philosophy: Electronic Saloon", see the
'online texts' category above for more information about Film-Philosophy: Electronic
Saloon.
Film
Theory: Mailing List (Spoon Collective)
A film theory mailing
list. This link will get You to their main page where you can join the list or browse
through their archive of old postings.
FrameWorks: Mailing List
Frameworks is a mailing
list focusing on experimental and avant-garde film. This link will get You to their main
page where you can join the list or browse through their archive of old postings.
H-AfrLitCine: Mailing List
A mailinglist discussing
African litterature and cinema. With an online archive of old postings.
H-Film: Mailing List
A mailinglist discussing
Film History and the Scholary study of Media. With an online archive of old postings.
KineJapan: Mailing List
A discussion list for
Japanese Film and Image Studies.
Rosebud: Mailing List
Rosebud is a film theory
mailing list. This link will get You to their main page where you can join the list or
browse through their archive of old postings.
Screen-L: Mailing List
A film studies
mailinglist.
Tarkovsky - Mailinglist
Mailinglist on russian
director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Terrence Malick -
Mailinglist
Mailinglist discussing the
works of director Terrence Malick.
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