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| Television | ||
| After Ellen.com | ||
| This site provides a "news, reviews, and commentary on lesbian and bisexual women in entertainment the media," with an emphasis on television. It offers columns, episode recaps, blogs, interviews, profiles, video clips, and more. ( http://www.afterellen.com/ ) | ||
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| Critical Studies in Television | ||
| This is an online scholarly journal, resource, and critical forum sponsored by the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. Its mission is to "enrich television studies by providing comprehensive access to information, as well as to disseminate knowledge and stimulate debate." It also offers information on forthcoming conferences, symposia, and seminars. ( http://www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com/ ) | ||
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| Federal Communications Commission | ||
| "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions." The FCC website contains links to articles, news releases, and headlines. This site has detailed information about the FCC's public hearings, commissioners, and official reports. It is a great resource for official government information on all types of media, from print and radio to television and the Internet. ( http://www.fcc.gov/ ) | ||
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| Flow | ||
| A project of the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, this is an online journal of television and media studies whose mission is "to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed that media moves." Flow is coordinated and edited by the department's graduate students. ( http://flowtv.org/ ) | ||
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| "I Saw It On TV..." A Guide to Broadcast and Cable Programming Sources | ||
| Part of Northwestern University's Marjorie I. Mitchell Multimedia Center, this site offers information on numerous aspects of television, such as major networks, public broadcasting, commercials, transcripts, production companies, international programming, and more. ( http://www.library.northwestern.edu/media/resources/isawitontv.html ) | ||
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| Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media | ||
| This started as a print film publication, but it is now published solely online and has expanded to include material on television, video, related material, and cultural analysis, analyzing its subjects as they relate to class, race, and gender. It describes its range as "all types and forms of media from Hollywood's commercial dramatic narrative to independent documentary and experimental work." ( http://www.ejumpcut.org/ ) | ||
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| Memorable TV | ||
| This site provides details on thousands of past and current shows from around the world, starting with the "Golden Age" of television. It covers all genres and includes reviews, interviews, episodes guides, a hall of fame, and numerous links. ( http://www.memorabletv.com/memtv.html ) | ||
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| Metacritic.com | ||
| This site collects listings of a variety of television reviews from North American newspapers. It also provides a full TV schedule. Its mission is to help its readers "make an informed decision about how to spend your money on entertainment." Its goal is to "both provide access to and summarize the vast amount of entertainment criticism available online." Along with critical reviews of television programs, Metacritic provides access to reviews for releases in film, video, music, books and games. ( http://www.metacritic.com/tv ) | ||
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| Museum of Broadcast Communications | ||
| The mission of the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is "to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform, and entertain the public through its archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to its resources." An extensive online Encyclopedia of TV is available, and visitors can also access thousands of hours of digitized content, including over 25,000 television programs and over 12,000 television commercials. ( http://www.museum.tv/museumsection.php ) | ||
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| The Paley Center for Media | ||
| The Center's avowed mission is to lead "the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public." Its offerings are eclectic, with selections like a retrospective on television pioneers of political humor to a cross-media look at Watchmen, "the graphic novel called by some 'the Citizen Kane of comic books.'" ( http://www.paleycenter.org/ ) | ||
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| Screen Research | ||
| This site provides "Information and discussion on researching all aspects of the moving image, from pre-cinema to Internet TV and beyond. It focuses on but is not limited to work from the United Kingdom. It is aimed at researchers, professors, students, information specialists, and scholars of the new media with an interest in screen history and current screen practice. ( http://screenresearch.ning.com/ ) | ||
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| Scope | ||
| This peer-reviewed online journal is edited by staff and students in the Institute of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. According to the website, Scope "provides a forum for discussion of all aspects of film history, theory and criticism. Given contemporary film studies' varied concerns, it is our belief that we can best serve our readers interests by promoting as wide a range of approaches and critical methodologies as possible. ( http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/ ) | ||
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| ScreenSite | ||
| This educational site "facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students." The site provides links on history, production, audience analysis, articles on relevant legal decisions, and more. ( http://www.screensite.org/ ) | ||
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| Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies | ||
| The 1997-2003 TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been studied by scholars in a variety of disciplines--so much so that a term evolved to cover this new genre: "Buffy studies." Books, articles, and college courses examine Buffy and its spin-off, Angel, and explore such issues as gender, sexuality, identity, family, media, and pop culture. The online journal Slayage has, since 2001, published scholarly articles that explore these shows' characters and themes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, such as philosophy, theology, sociology, psychology, and women's studies. Even if you are not interested in either of these television shows per se, the articles offer valuable insight into the scholarly analysis of television and popular culture. ( http://slayageonline.com/ ) | ||
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| TV.com | ||
| This is a source for television listings, episode guides and summaries, casting information, news, videos, images, reviews. It also provides a fan forum. It covers more than 20,000 shows shows dating back to 1941. ( http://www.tv.com/ ) | ||
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| Vanderbilt Television News Archive | ||
| The Archive "focuses on creating, preserving and providing access to the news broadcasts from the U.S. national television networks. "A unit of the Vanderbilt University Libraries, it creates recordings of news broadcasts from the U.S. national television networks to "preserve the content for future generations, and provide the widest access possible within the copyright limitations." It began recording TV news on August 5, 1968, and the main part of its collection consists of regularly scheduled newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News. ( http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ ) | ||
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| Feature Films | ||
| A Face in the Crowd (1957) | ||
| A Face in the Crowd shows the power of television when it was still an emerging medium. It tells the story of Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, an affable country singer, humorist, and social commentator who comes across like Will Rogers, but is actually a corrupt, ambitious charlatan with an appetite for power who uses his television to project his charismatic persona to the vast audience he secretly has nothing but contempt for. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/ ) | ||
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| American Dreamz (2006) | ||
| The title of this films refers to an immensely popular TV show modeled on the real-life television program American Idol. President Staton, whose foreign policies are based on those of President George W. Bush, looks at a newspaper for the first time in four years and sinks into a depression. His Cheney-esque vice president decides to shake him out of this by giving him "happy pills" and booking him on American Dreamz as a celebrity judge. While the film satirizes the reasons the nation was led into the Iraq War by leaders who had no real understanding of the region and its complexities, its main target is an American audience that seems more interested in entertaining itself with television shows and "what's hot" than in issues of life and death around the world. ( http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0465142/ ) | ||
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| Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) | ||
| In the early 1950s, CBS news anchor Edward R. Murrow took on Senator Joseph McCarthy for inciting and leading the infamous communist witch hunt "Red Scare" of the period that resulted in violations of people's civil liberties and the notorious blacklist. This movie re-creates the look and feel of the times and explores both Murrow's integrity and his controversial journalism, as well as showing how both television and Hollywood were compromised and controlled by cynical political ideologues. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433383/ ) | ||
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| My Favorite Year (1982) | ||
| One of the greatest musical variety shows of the 1950s was Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. The show had an extraordinarily talented list of writers, including Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, and Selma Diamond. My Favorite Year is inspired by that show and its writers, and it focuses on a young junior writer, low on the totem pole, who is forced to spend a week babysitting an over-the-hill, drunken movie star. The movie expertly recreates looks and feel of a period of time when every weekly broadcast was a live and disaster was always hovering in the wings, waiting to go on stage. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084370/ ) | ||
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| Network (1976) | ||
| This very dark comedy centers on anchorman Howard Beale, who is about to be sacked due to low ratings. He has a nervous breakdown on air, and astoundingly, viewers love him as he screams, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" This becomes a catch phrase, and he is given new show, where he rants and raves to the delight of both audiences and network executives who don't care that he is rapidly unraveling. The show satirizes what network executives are willing to put on the air to boost ratings--and what audiences are willing to be entertained by. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/ ) | ||
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| Quiz Show (1994) | ||
| In the early days of American television, game shows captivated the public, who tuned in every week to watch ordinary people like themselves competing for fortunes. Twenty-One was one of the most popular of these programs, and Herbert Stempel, an eccentric and unattractive man, was one of the brightest people ever to appear. A young professor, Charles Van Doren, challenged Stempel and captured the public's imagination with his appealing looks and personality. They rejoiced when he beat Stempel--but admiration turned to rage against the networks and Van Doren when it was revealed that executives planned for Stempel to lose and gave Van Doren the answers in advance. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110932/ ) | ||
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| Tootsie (1982) | ||
| This satire on TV soap operas follows an actor who has trouble getting work until he turns himself into "Dorothy Michaels," a motherly actress, who becomes a daytime star, making national headlines and raising the show's ratings--and creating a celebrity who is now forced to live a lie off-screen as well as on. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084805/ ) | ||
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| The Truman Show (1998) | ||
| This speculative film shows a form of Reality TV gone too far. Truman Burbank is a man whose every moment of life has been broadcast as a television show without his knowing it. All of his friends, co-workers, and acquaintances, even his wife, are actually actors, and his life is manipulated to keep viewers intrigued. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/ ) | ||
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