02 December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
01 December 2006
Flickhead
online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered
Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10
by 2 othersCanadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources
28 November 2006
La FAQ d' ABFH et d' ABFHM
a French site with links to excellent animation, lots in 3D
22 November 2006
StorySprawl Hyperfiction Story Creator
ongoing fiction sites that readers can contribute chapters to
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
20 November 2006
National Storytelling Network - History of Storytelling World
links list, many categories, many audio stories
19 November 2006
Spout - We're talkin' movies
a movie search engine, blogspot, voting, good plot summaries, able to buy film
18 November 2006
Observations on film art and “Film Art”
blog by senior film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
15 November 2006
100 films
film blog; announces upcoming blogathons: Lovesick Cinema, Feb. 14; Unspoken Cinema, 08 January; Film Criticism, 01 December-03 December; Alfred Hitchcock, 15 November; large network of film bloggers write for these
13 November 2006
Electronic Literature Organization - Directory
good source for hypertext, kinetic poetry, search by author or type
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
11 November 2006
Zen Koans - AshidaKim.com
by 4 otherszen koans help writers rethink narrative in another tradition of storytelling
06 November 2006
Comics and Zines by Kevin Huizenga
clever, about midwest life; some for sale, some online
03 November 2006
Electronic Literature Organization
by 1 othersome links to contemporary hypertext literature; information about and reviews of artists' DVDs
Jahsonic
wide ranging litblog with many interests, images, and links; includes interests in film, music and visual culture
02 November 2006
Hack your way out of writer’s block
witty and perhaps even useful
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas
Tameri Guide for Writers: Plot and Story
one page of a larger, useful site for writers; this page covers what a screenwriter thinks about to construct a spine, here called plot, or basic story idea; it is the central task for the writer
23 October 2006
Self Publishing Blog: 101 Resources for Self Published Writers
tips for creative folks looking for story ideas, fiction or non fiction; links to many sites that stimulate writing
16 October 2006
Hypercrit
blog about relation between hypertext theory and theories of authorship
15 October 2006
MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine
search engine for Internet film and DVD reviews
11 October 2006
SOS: Searching Out Stories - Story-Lovers
exhaustive list of stories, news articles that suggest stories; my favorite: "ANIMALS, BIRDS, AMPHIBIANS, FISH and INSECTS – stories, folklore and facts"
