"Native Americans have long struggled for accurate representation in media, particularly in film. Whether the uncredited performances of the “documentary” Nanook of the North or the familiar racism of traditional Westerns, Indigenous cultures have rarely been given much truthful, let alone positive, attention. However, Native people have been slowly cultivating their own voice in film, and that voice is what Dr. Joanna Hearne has spent her academic career studying." /// also features a great collection of related links and resources

The whole film!

Storyboard samples and tutorials for film and animation students.

awesome discussions of The Shining

Actually, it makes perfect sense. Horror plays off of social anxieties of the times, and it's all about what the left and right are afraid of. For instance ...

A film can be read via costume, sometimes overtly, other times by subtext. This applies to not just conspicuous sci-fi or period pieces, but also contemporary stories set within a familiar world in familiar attire. On screen, even the most rudimentary item of clothing can take on meaning.

Good for teaching!

Amazing and in depth look at costuming in Inception. "This costume is perfectly suited (pun totally intended) to the physical demands of this sequence. The trousers are cut narrowly so that baggy fabric doesn't indicate gravity when there isn't supposed to be any; cuffing the shirt at his wrists fulfills the same function for his arms. The dark vest would be perfect for hiding the harness necessary to do the wire work - and the contrasting lightness of the shirt draws our eyes from any tell-tale signs on his torso that he's wearing one."

"Good characters, male or female, have goals, and they have flaws. Any character without flaws will be a cardboard cutout...And no, “Always goes for douchebags instead of the Nice Guy” is not a real flaw. Men think women have that flaw, but most women avoid “Nice Guys” because they just aren’t that nice...So what flaws can female characters have? Uh, I don’t know. How about the same flaws a male character would have?"

Great for film studies!

The idea is that the camera is situated by and for men!

It turns out that you can't escape politics in the media!

180 degree rule! And also flashbacks!

An introduction, annotated shooting script, and original novella with illustrations for Rian Johnson's film BRICK.

Opening sequence shot of Touch of Evil (Orson Welles 1958)

From THE CRANES ARE FLYING (Mikhail Kalatozov 1957). Great example of chiaroscuro lighting.

FlowTV is a critical forum on television and media culture published by the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where the public can discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media.

Media rarely makes it to the most gender-equal side of the spectrum, and there are common genderfail-y points at which media likes to stop, which I shall list in order here:

The New York Times’ literary-minded A.O. Scott was representative with his almost over-the-top rave: “Mr. Sembène addresses this upsetting subject with unflinching candor, but he also portrays African village life with such warmth, humor and generosity of spirit that you leave the film feeling both horrified and exhilarated.” At its New York Film Festival debut, one US critic reduced the film to an African Norma Rae (1979), but there’s much more at work in this splendid portrait of a culture clash that starts at the conflict between men and women and eddies outward to a rousing conclusion that remains intensely hopeful about modernization and the future of women’s rights in Africa.

Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest, Michael Bays, Quentin Tarantino, Frank Capra

For Godard, though, a number of the most inspiring models came not from the Old World but from mainstream filmmakers across the pond. "The Americans, who are much more stupid when it comes to analysis, instinctively bring off very complex scripts," Godard observed in 1962. "The Americans are real and natural. But this attitude means something over there. We in France must find something that means something—find the French attitude as they have found the American attitude."

17 minute avant-garde/new media film. Animated

AMC filmsite - synopsis, info, and discussion

See, it's not totally a drama, because we laugh here.

Mary Poppins as a horror film.

10 Commandments becomes a teen movie!

use for screencaps and stills

Cover story from 1967 about Bonnie & Clyde (among other films)

Original theatrical trailer. Great illustration for optical effects (teaching editing - transitions).

resource for film stars from 1940s and earlier, some screen stills.

Long form trailer with Alfred Hitchcock.

Book companion site - resources for instructors and students.

ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students.

Near the start of the film, a rehearsal of a tap number. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers rock it.

On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight. Director Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. This powerful documentary takes you right into the action of an age-old Aboriginal struggle. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades.

"Show a lot of things happening at once, remind everyone of what's going on..." Includes Team America, Battleship Potempkin, The Godfather, Notre Musique, The Parallax View.

And just show a lot of things happenin' at once.
Remind everyone of what's goin' on. (What's goin' on?)
And with every shot, show a little improvement
To show it won't take too long.
That's called a montage. (Montage)