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Applied and Fine
Arts
Art and Photography
Updated 04/03
Art History
Resources on the
Web
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Index
to art history from ancient times to the present day. Divided by
time periods and regions. Links to images, online journals, museums and galleries.
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
An index to museum-quality fine art on the World Wide Web.
Search by artist, art movement, museum, or title of a work of
art.
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual
Art
http://www.artlex.com
"Definitions
for more than 3,300 terms used in discussing visual culture,
along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation
notes, great quotations and cross-references." (Quote
from website, 4/17/03)
Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco
http://www.thinker.org/
Makes accessible 82,000 images from the collections of the
de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor. Search the ImageBase
by artist, country or time period.
American
Museum of Photography
http://www.photographymuseum.com/
A collection of 5,000 daguerreotypes and color portraits.
You can take a guided tour, browse the collection, learn about
early photographic processes, or walk through one of the
special exhibits.
American
Photography: A Century of Images
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/
A glimpse at U.S. society, culture, and politics as seen
through photographers' eyes. Explore sections on art, photography
and war, digital truth, presidential image making, persuasion,
social change, and cultural identity and see the impact of
photographs.
A History of
Photography
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
Timeline of photography to the 1920's. You can search for
significant people and processes.
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Drama
Updated 05/03
Film
Updated 05/03
24
Frames Per Second
http://www.24framespersecond.com/
Offers personal reviews of movies and film festivals. Also
provides media resources and related web sites.
America
at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/
A collection of 150 motion pictures featuring work,
school, and leisure activities in the U.S. in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. Search by keyword or subject index,
or browse by title. From the American Memory Historical
Collections for the National Digital library
Bright
Lights Film Journal
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/
Alternative online film criticism. Described as a
"popular/academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and
commentary." Published quarterly.
Cinema:
How Are Hollywood Films Made?
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema/index.html
A basic overview of the components of movie-making
including screenwriting, directing, producing, acting, and
editing. Related resources are provided. From Librarians'
Index to the Internet.
The
Greatest Films
http://www.filmsite.org/home.html
Offers detailed synopses of many American classic films.
Search for vintage movie posters, Academy Awards history, film
genres, and and film history. Also lists the American Film
Institute's "100 Greatest American Films".
Images:
A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
http://www.imagesjournal.com/
Online Articles about movies, television, videos, and
other popular visual arts. Provides movie, video and DVD
reviews, and includes an archive of previous features and
articles.
World
Cinema and Directors
http://www.bfi.org.uk/gateway/world/
British Film Institute's online journal offers in-depth
reviews and film commentary, coverage of world cinema, classic
cinema, and film and TV issues. |
Foreign Language
Updated 04/03
American
Sign Language
Dictionary
http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
A
basic dictionary of ASL terms.
China the
Beautiful
http://www.chinapage.com/china.html
A primary resource site for the Chinese classics, arts, history,
literature, poetry, calligraphy, and paintings, spanning 5,000
years of Chinese cultural heritage.
Diccionario Anaya de la
Lengua
http://www.anaya.es/diccionario/diccionar.htm
Spanish-to-Spanish
dictionary.
EuroDicAutom
http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller
Look up
words, phrases and abbreviations in any European Union
language.
Handbook of Latin American
Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/
From Library
of Congress.
iLove
Languages
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
Formerly
the Human Languages page from Indiana
University.
Language
Links
http://fll.smu.edu/languages/index.shtml
From
Southern Methodist University. A great resource for Chinese, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Select a
language to get started, thenclick on Links.
Página
de la Lengua
Española
http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es/~mmonjas/espannol.html
Spanish
Language page including dictionary and grammar.
travlang's
Translating
Dictionaries
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
Extensive
collection of dictionaries to translate words from one
language to another.
yourDictionary
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Offers more than 1500 dictionaries of over 230 different
languages. Also, includes grammars and language courses for
over 100 languages.
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Humanities and
Philosophy
Updated 04/03
Multimedia
Updated 05/03
The
Digital Toolbox
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/toolbox/
Tools, including tutorials, and resources to make creating
digital content easier and faster.
The
Elements of Digital Storytelling
http://www.inms.umn.edu/elements/
Examines of the elements of digital storytelling and story making.
The site also includes innovative story forms and media
examples. From the University of Minnesota.
Jones
Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia
http://www.jonesencyclo.com/
Covers technologies and trends, biographies, legislation
and company profiles.
Media Services: Glossary
http://media.ucsc.edu/v2/glossary#G
A glossary relating to digital or new multimedia terms.
From the Department of Media
Services, UC Santa Cruz.
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Music
Updated 05/03
All-Music Guide: A Complete
Online Database of Recorded
Music
http://www.allmusic.com/
AMG is is an
"ongoing project to review and rate all music (whether
in-print CDs or out-of-print on vinyl) and list (and rate) all
feature movies and provide their credits and related
information."
American Music
Center
http://www.amc.net/
"Information and
resource center for American contemporary music and
jazz."
Billboard
Online
http://www.billboard-online.com/
Highlights
include the Billboard
200, New
Releases, and Reviews.
Classical
Net
http://www.classical.net/music/welcome.html
Site
provides a point-of-entry into a wide array of informational
files - over 2500 in all - about classical music, as well as
over 2200 links to other interesting web sites in the
field.
Essentials
of Music
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
Introduction to classical music. Includes eras, composers,
and glossary.
Ethnomusicology,
Folk Music, and World Music
http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html
Collection of links to web sites about folk and primitive
music.
Red Hot Jazz Archive
http://www.redhotjazz.com/
History
of jazz before 1930. Streaming audio of significant recordings by jazz
greats. Biographical information and film included for some
musicians.
Worldwide
Internet Music
Resources
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Comprehensive
collection of links from the William and Gayle Cook Music
Library, Indiana University.
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Speech
Updated 05/03
Television
Updated 05/03
Association of America's Public TV
Stations (APTS)
http://www.apts.org/
Site includes
public broadcasting issues, fact sheets, lobbying, press
releases and links to public broadcasting sites.
Broadcasters: The World-Wide Web Virtual
Library
http://archive.museophile.sbu.ac.uk/broadcast/
Contains a list of international TV and radio
broadcasters, together with other relevant links to newsgroups
and related web sites.
Reel Directory
http://www.reeldirectory.com/
A directory of businesses and individuals working in all
aspects of film, video, and multimedia production serving
Northern California.
Special TV
Resources
http://www.specialweb.com/tv/
Extensive
list of TV related links including sites on current and past
shows, actors and actresses of TV fame, TV Usenet newsgroups,
on-line TV and cable zines, as well as a section devoted to
Commercials.
Television
Production: A Comprehensive On-Line Cybertext in Studio and
Field Production
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp_ind.htm
Online textbook covering every step of television
production.
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