Film & Media Studies

Nonprofit educational and cultural organization that maintains the AFI Archive of rare film footage and the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.

Nearly 700 long-form video interviews with television pioneers, including both actors and behind-the-scenes professionals.

Promotes understanding and appreciation of film and television heritage and culture. Includes the BFI National Archive and the BFI National Library.

Includes plot synopses, review commentary, film reference material, film analysis, "best of" articles, a comprehensive overview of film history, a survey of the Academy Awards, and milestones and turning points in the industry.

Lantern is the search platform for the collections of the Media History Digital Library, an open access initiative led by Eric Hoyt and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. Now searching 2,873,202 pages of digitized books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

The Stanford Cable TV Analyzer enables you to write queries that compute the amount of time people appear and the amount of time words are heard in cable TV news.

Advice on how to watch movies intelligently and critically, in two parts. Part of AMC's Filmsite.org.

Familiarizes users with the vocabulary of film studies and the techniques of cinema.