Norwich Women’s Film Weekend: online archive
The Norwich Women’s Film Weekend (or NWFW) was a two-day annual event created by Cinewomen that ran for 10 years, from 1979 to 1989, at Cinema City in Norwich. The NWFW lasted longer than any other women’s film festival in the UK. In 2021 the NWFW archive was deposited with Norfolk Heritage Centre and in […]
Media History Digital Library has expanded
This free online resource, led by Eric Hoyt and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research provides free access to thousands of pages of old magazines and journals covering the history of film, radio and TV. It includes Hollywood trade journals and fan magazines. Also recently added are some sections on early Chinese cinema […]
Say my name right
Say my Name Right is a shareable resource developed by Dr Hannah Deakin-Smith and Dr Jane Pilcher of Nottingham Trent University. It draws on findings from the Say My Name research project funded by the British Academy which explored the impact on students of staff avoiding saying their name or mispronouncing it. It emphasizes how important it is for staff to learn how to […]
Mass media and propaganda in 20th century Europe
Latest new exhibition from Europeana It forms part of the the project Europeana Subtitled, which aims to increase the use of audio-visual media heritage by both professional and non-professional audiences. It includes examples of propaganda cinema and nationalist newspapers from 20th Century Europe. Sections include: radio broadcasting in West Berlin; propaganda in the 1967-1974 Greek dictatorship; the 1990s in Slovenia. […]
Ukraine
The Ukraïnica platform has been created by the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. It aims to create a site to encourage the teaching of Ukrainian history and culture through offering a space for the exchange of syllabi and course materials. Users can browse time periods and subject areas and get some suggested reading lists. These […]
Canadian women directors
Canadian women film directors database Compiled by Margaret Fulford, a librarian at the University of Toronto. This database is a great bilingual research tool containing bibliographies, filmographies, quotations, and other information about over 1,600 Canadian women directors and their films. It has timelines of key events, a bibliography of key articles about women directors as well […]
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