Internet Resources by Subject - Humanities
- Art
- English as a Second Language
- Film/Media Studies
- Foreign Languages
- Literature
- Music
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Speech and Communication
- Theater
Art:
Art History Research Centre
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
ArtServe: Art and Architecture from the Mediterranean Basin (Australian National University)
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History
This site covers art history through 1800 A.D. and is "a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection." In addition to the Timeline, there is a Special Topics Index to the site as well as indexes by Subject and Artist. There are also numerous links to online resources which complement the research presented on the Timeline.NYPL Digital Gallery
A free, online, searchable database of 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from the primary sources and printed rareties in the collections of the NY Public Library. Includes illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.
English as a Second Language:
Annenberg/CPB - "Connect With English"
From this website, you can view the videostreamed ESL series, "Connect With English." Click on the "View Programs" tab, and then clck on "program" in the first paragraph. You will be asked to register. Then you can go to the alphabetical list of programs, where you can view all of the parts of "Connect With English."
Dave's ESL Café
EnglishPage.com
Particularly good for verb tense review. Offers 30 exercises.The Internet TESL Journal: Student Links
Longman.com: Longman English Language Teaching
This is the website of the Longman Publishing firm which specializes in English language teaching. Offers information for both students and teachers. For ESL students, the site provides online activities, reading and listening practice, quizzes, and links to other websites.United States Citizenship & Immigration Services
Immigrants who are applying for naturalization can use the materials here to increase knowledge and understanding of American history and government prior to the naturalization test. From the subjects across the top of the page, choose "Education & Resources." Then, from the list of topics on the left side of the page, choose "Civics and Citizenship Study Materials." Flash cards and audio files are available for use on the web site and for downloading. To listen to the audio files, Internet users will need Windows Media Player or Real Player installed on their computer. To view the Adobe PDF files, Adobe Acrobat reader needs to be installed.
Film/Media Studies:
Film: General:
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) - Film
Movie reviews and release information, DVD reviews, filmmaking advice, feature articles from BBC News and information on alternative and short films.Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
Comprehensive database on films. Originally the site offered information about movies and documentaries submitted by movie fans. It still relies on postings by the public, but data is also input by staff at the IMDB. Searchable by title, names, companies, keywords, characters, and plots. Presents plot summaries, full credits, information about personnel involved in making films, and comments from the public. Also available are "external reviews," where you can link to reviews in the national and international press. You may also search for awards and nominations for each film.Masters of Cinema
A scholarly site offering news and information on World cinema. Includes links to tribute pages for selected filmmakers.Media Resources Center: University of California, Berkeley
A comprehensive web site for the study of film. Offers brief descriptions of all of the films in Berkeley's extensive collection with clickable links to other sources of information about the films. Provides strategies for finding critical writing about film(film reviews and criticism and analysis) and for finding books on film history. Presents extensive bibliographies of books, articles, and related materials on film genres, filmmakers, national cinemas, and individual films.Moving Image Collections: A Window to the World's Moving Images
An integrated online catalog of moving images, with an archive directory and links to resources on moving images and moving image preservation. Includes a union catalog of materials held by a variety of libraries, museums, archives, and television broadcasting companies, including films, videos, and digital streaming video.
Film Credits and Biographical Information:
AFI Catalog Silent Films
25,000 entries for silent American films from the years 1893-1930. Entries for silent films produced after 1911 are for feature length films only. Includes detailed information on cast, crew, plot summaries, subjects, genres, and historical notes are included for each film. Covers over 750 silent feature films.Animated Movie Guide
Brief information on animated features released to theaters in the U.S.from 1937 - 2004.Great Directors: A Critical Database
On the website "Senses of Cinema," an Australian online journal devoted to film. The database features extensive essays on the "great" directors of the cinema. Information includes: biographical data; photos of the director; analysis of body of work, placing films in context; movie stills; filmography; bibliography; links to articles found in the online journal, Senses of Cinema; and links to other relevant web sites.Index to Motion Picture Credits Database: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The focus of the database is credits from films nominated for Academy Awards from 1980 to the present. However, at the end of the year, credits from all films released in Los Angeles County are added. The comprehensive credit listings include producers, directors, art directors, cinematographers, visual and special effects, costume designers, film editors, sound and sound editors, make-up and hairstylists, music, writers, and actors. You can search by title to receive the credits, which are then clickable to receive a listing of all of the other films in which an artist or technician is included in the credits.Internet Movie Database
Listed for each film, documentary, or television production are fairly complete credits with links to biographical information on each person.Pinewood Dialogues: Selected Conversations with Innovative and Influential Creative Figures in Film, TV, and Digital Media
On the website of the Museum of the Moving Image, New York. This online "exhibition" features audio of interviews with directors and actors in film, TV, and digital media. Among the luminaries are Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, Mira Nair, Francis Ford Coppola, Forest Whitaker, and David Cronenberg, and others. You may listen online or download the mp3 version. Transcripts are also available.
Reel Classics
Comprehensive and well-maintained site on classic movies. There are pages for films, stars, directors, and producers as well as musicians of the classic era. Offers reviews and synopses written by the site author, Elizabeth, a freelance film researcher. Includes numerous film stills and images of original film posters.Silent Era: the Silent Films Website
Offers news relating to silent movies, film lists, and reviews, profiles of stars and filmmakers.
Movie Reviews:
The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made (New York Times)
Includes brief plot descriptions of the chosen movies, as well as the original reviews written by the Times reviewers at the time of release. Users must register on the site to read reviews.Film Literature Index
Approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews, and book reviews published between 1976-2001. Access is through Indiana University who received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to make it accessible. You can search for English language film reviews by title. Periodicals range from the scholarly to popular.The Greatest Films
An extensive film resource authored by Tim Dirks. Contains the author's lists of the 100, 200, and 300 greatest films with detailed reviews, synopses, and historical backgrounds. Site also provides a "film History by the Decade" and a "Film Terms Glossary" as well as lists of "Box Office Hits and Academy Award Winners" and "Tips on Viewing Films Critically." Warning - users will need to sift through pop-up screens.Internet Movie Database
After searching for a film title, you can click on "external reviews" on the left side of the screen to get to reviews in reputable national and international publications.Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE)
Offers reviews for nearly 63,000 films in reputable national and international publications. Includes over 556,000 review articles. You can search by title or various categories, such as recent releases, the various American Film Institute lists, numerous film festivals, and reviews by critics, Pauline Kael and Gene Siskal.The New York Times: Movies
Scroll to the bottom, left-hand side of the page and you will be able to search more than 15,000 NYT movie reviews by title, people, and keyword.
Movie Awards and Lists of "Best" Films:
Academy Awards: Database
Contains the record of past Academy Award winners and nominees complete through the 2005 (78th) Academy Awards.American Film Institute: TV & Events (Awards)
Includes AFI awards and AFI Life Achievement Awards. Click on AFI's 100 Years...100 Lists to get to the lists of the "Greatest Movies," "the "Funniest Movies," etc. Click on America's Greatest Movies to go directly to the list of the 100 best films, which was compiled in 1998.Internet Movie Database
After searching for a film title, you can click on "awards & nominations " on the left side of the screen to get to awards information.
Script Databases:
Glossaries of Terms Used in Film, Audio, and Video:
Filmland: Film, Audio, and Video Terminology
A Glossary of Film Terms
Written and designed for the web by Joel Schlemowitz of the New School, New York.Internet Movie Database Film Glossary
Kodak Glossary of Film/Video Terms (A-G)
From this page, you can get to the rest of the glossary in 2 further sections which cover H-Z.
Organizations:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
filmlinc: The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Directories:
Philly Creative Guide: Philadelphia's Creative Directory
Comprehensive directory of creative services in the region - Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Among the ten sections in the direcory are: Advertising, Marketing, & Public Relations; Film, Video, & Audio; Media & Publishing; and Photography.
Videostreaming Source:
Annenberg Media Learner.org: American Cinema
From this website, you can view a videostreamed telecourse on American cinema. Click on "View Programs" tab, then click on "program" in the first paragraph. You will be asked to register. Then you can go to the alphabetical list of programs for viewing. Find "American Cinema" and double click on the brief entry. From the next screen, you will be able to view the 13 parts of the series.Television and other media:
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
The Media and Communication Studies Site: The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Moving Image Collections: A Window to the World's Moving Images
An integrated online catalog of moving images, with an archive directory and links to resources on moving images and moving image preservation. Includes a union catalog of materials held by a variety of libraries, museums, archives, and television broadcasting companies, including films, videos, and digital streaming video.PR Watch: Center for Media and Democracy
Provides information on the manipulation of the media by large PR firms as well as larger issues related to mass media.University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies: Links to Resources
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Foreign Languages:
General:
Department of Modern Languages, Ithaca College
Homepages for Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Hebrew, where there are interactive practice exercises for each language.Foreign Language Learning Center (Southern Methodist University)
Click on a language (Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, or Spanish) to get to excellent annotated links on the subjects of art, business, culture, history, language, media, sports, and travel for each language.
The Human-Languages Page
Individual Languages:
Language-related Internet resources.Language Dictionaries and Translators
WESSWEB - Western European Specialists Section, Association of College and Research Libraries
Links to excellent web sites on French, German, Spanish/Portuguese, and Italian studies.
ARTFL
University of Chicago hypertext database on French language and literature.German Literature Resources (Bobst Library, New York University)
Si, Spain
Spanish linguistic, cultural, historical developments and current affairs. Site is maintained by the Spanish Embassy, Ottawa.
Literature:
American Writers II: The 20th Century
This is a website to accompany C-Span's current broadcast series, "American Writers II." Offers brief information on "selected Twentieth Century American authors who have influenced our nation's history." You may search by writer, work, or place, as well as by broad chronological time periods. For each author, the site gives a short biography and description of works, as well as a brief analysis of a featured work and links to related sites. If you search using the pull-down menu for writers, you may also access information on American writers from the 17th through 19th centuries who were covered in an earlier C-span series.Bartleby.com
Includes reference works as well as verse anthologies and volumes, and works of fiction and non-fiction.Bulfinch's Mythology, 1913 ed.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park
Gale Literary Index
Online index to the print products of the publisher, Gale. Allows Author Search (to find which Gale literature series include entries on an author); Title Search (to search for the title of a work, who wrote it, and where it is discussed in the literature criticism series); and Custom Search (to locate authors in the index by name, birth date, death date, or nationality).Literary Resources on the Net (links to many literary sites)
LitLinks
Internet links organized alphabetically by author within five genres - fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and critical theory.Modern Language Association of America: MLA on the Web
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
NYPL Digital Gallery
A free, online, searchable database of 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from the primary sources and printed rareties in the collections of the NY Public Library. Includes illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.The On-line Books Page
Index of online books which is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania.
Music:
All Music
About.com: World MusicArchives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University)
Essentials of Music
Music appreciation site which offers information on the 6 main eras in music history, biographies of nearly 70 composers, and an online glossary of definitions.Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic and World Music (University of Washington Libraries)
Internet Resources for Music Scholars (Harvard University)
Leader in Lieder
Features international folksongs - lyrics and melodies.Lyrics World
Lyrics for pop and rock songs in the Top 40 from 1930 to 1999.Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885
Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University School of Music)
Philosophy:
Episteme Links: Philosophy Resources on the Internet
Comprehensive starting point for philosophy resources in the Internet. Quick access to content.Ethics Connection (Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University)
Offers over 850 rated and reviewed links on subjects within ethics, as well as online versions of the Center's publication, "Issues in Ethics" (1987-2000), and case studies involving applied ethics.Ethics Updates
Provides updates on current professional and popular literature on theoretical and applied ethics.The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Less scholarly than the Stanford Encyclopedia, but offers several hundred entries.Philosophy Research Base: Worldwide Philosophy Resources
Meta-index of Internet resources that links to large philosophy sites and to specific subject subsections in those sites. Offers extensive annotations.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A scholarly work in progress which offers 70 authoritative entries on subjects in the field. 600 entries are planned.
Religion:
Academic Info: Religion - Subject Index
Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity (University of Pennsylvania)
The Pluralism Project (Harvard's Committee on the Study of Religion)
Religion Religions Religious Studies
Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University)
Buddhism:Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
Christianity:
Christianity (ReligiousTolerance.org)
Guide to Early Church Documents
Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity (University of Pennsylvania)
Hinduism:
Hindu Universe Resource Center (Hindunet)
Hinduism (ReligiousTolerance.org)
Islam:
Academic Info: Islamic Studies
Islam (ReligiousTolerance.org)
Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion
Judaism:
Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity (University of Pennsylvania)
The Jewish History Resource Center (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Taoism:
Taoism and the Philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan (ReligiousTolerance.org)
Speech and Communication:
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
An electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. Search by
speaker, title, date, or keyword for the text of speeches and explanations
putting the speeches into the context of the times.Nonverbal Communication Research Page
Theater:
Artslynx International Theatre Resources
A Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
Inter-play: An On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies, and
Periodicals
