Media Communications, Film & Cultural Studies
- General
- Electronic services
- Journals
- Critical theory
- Cultural studies
- Film
- Media communications
- Science fiction
- Television
General
- Contemporary Ethics: course at the Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney
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ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change: working papers
- The Guardian Unlimited Network: Guardian and Observer plus other services such as film reviews, sport, jobs etc.
- Introductory Materials for Ethics: course at the Xavier University of Louisiana
- New York Public Library: digital library collections
- Philosophy of Art: blog
- Web Gallery of Art: Hungarian site providing a searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic Renaissance and Baroque periods, 1100-1800. Images copyright cleared for educational use.
Electronic Services
You will need your Bath Spa username and password to use most of these services off-campus. Journal articles are accessible from the services listed next.
- Archival Sound Recordings
- Film & Sound Online
- MediaTel
- NewsBank
- NewsFilm Online
- Times Digital Archive
- TRILT
- Visit4info
Journals
Journals the library has access to are searchable from the journals web page. Relevant full text journals are also available from Academic Search Premier, SocINDEX and JSTOR.
- CTHEORY: an international journal of theory, technology and culture
- Directory of Open Access Journals: about 350 journals in all subjects in full text
- The Film Journal
- Film-Philosophy - online journal
- Images - journal of film and popular culture
- Particip@tions - journal of audience and reception studies
- Refractory - a journal of entertainment media
- Scope - online journal of film and TV studies
- Senses of Cinema - online journal "devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema"
- Sight and Sound
- The Symptom: online journal
- YWCCS: (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Studies), 2002-Present
Critical theory
- Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Post-Modern Thought: maintained by the University of Colorado at Denver, School of Education
- Lacan: "Jacques Lacan in the US"
- Theory.org.uk: "Theory, gender and identity resources" maintained by David Gauntlett of the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
- Walter Benjamin: the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
Cultural studies
- Cartoons: the British cartoon archive
- CTHEORY: an international journal of theory, technology and culture
- Dan Dare and the Eagle Comic
- Hellblazer
- Images - journal of film and popular culture
- Neil Gaiman
- Stonewall and Beyond: online exhibition from Columbia University to mark 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York
- YWCCS: (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Studies), 2002-Present
Film
- Ain't It Cool News: film reviews and comment
- Box Office Mojo - online film publication and box office reporting service.
- British Film Institute
- British University Film and Video Council: aims to promote the use of film and related media in British higher education and research
- The Film Journal
- Film-Philosophy - online journal
- Images - journal of film and popular culture
- Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Covers over 200,000 films
- Particip@tions - journal of audience and reception studies
- Scope - online journal of film and TV studies
- Senses of Cinema - online journal "devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema"
- Sight and Sound
- Yahoo Film Guide
Media communications
- BBC Online
- BBC Radio 4 'Analysis': includes the full transcript of every 'Analysis' programme broadcast since October 1999
- British Film Institute
- British University Film and Video Council: aims to promote the use of film and related media in British higher education and research
- Canadian Journal of Communication: from 1991, emphasis on Canadian work and issues
- Centre for Mass Communication Research: at Leicester University provides access to research resources in the UK and internationally
- The Guardian Unlimited Network: the Guardian and Observer plus other services such as film reviews, sport, jobs, etc.
- Media UK: full details and links to national, local and foreign newspapers, magazines, TV channels and radio stations;
- Mediachannel.org: worldwide media issues website based in New York
- Visit4info - television adverts
Science fiction
- Bruce Sterling's article from F&SFM magazine
- Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia
- Linkoping Archive: maintained at Linkoping University, Sweden, this site contains mostly reviews and list of different kinds
- PostViews: "Is a collection of reviews, chiefly of science fiction and fantasy written fiction but occasionally other material, that is posted onto Internet newsgroups and archived at this site"
- Procyon: "The academic website for SF/fantasy studies"
- Science Fiction Foundation
- Science Fiction Foundation Collection: Liverpool University sci-fi home page
- Science fiction Links: maintained at Liverpool University
- Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide
- University of Michigan Fantasy and SF pages
Television
- BBC Online
- NewsFilm Online - downloadable television news and cinema newsreels, covering around 60,000 stories from the 1910s to the 2000s.
- Scope - online journal of film and TV studies
- Visit4info - television adverts