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LINKS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT LITERATURE AND FILM

How are Hollywood films made? Basics about film-making

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema/

Learning to read and write about film (from a course web page at Central Oregon Community College.)

http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/film.htm

Internet Movie Database (Links to information on many films, view trailers, get information on actors, directors, screenplays, etc.)

http://www.imdb.com/

Writing about literature and film

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/wlit.html

Writing about film

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/film.html

Roger Ebert Film Reviews (search by title)

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebertser.html

Film reviews (with annoying pop ups)

http://www.tvguide.com/movies/

A good overview of quite a few classic adaptations with good links

http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/classic-movies.html

New York Times film reviews (good search engine)

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html

LINKS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT FRANKENSTEIN

National Library of Medicine page on Frankenstein, including ethical questions and film history	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html
Good bibliography of 19C English Novels & criticism	http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/Clayton/231bib.htm
PBS/Masterpiece Theatre page about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/wives/writers/shelley.html
Audio Version of Frankenstein, with a “knowledge map.” This is a summary and some excerpts with a good, succinct background on Mary Shelley. (It took 3 minutes to download on my cable modem. Needs an MP3 player to play.)	http://www.sybervision.com/Books/frankaudiopreview.htm
Mary Shelley page	http://www.english.udel.edu/swilson/mws/mws.html
Electronic Text version of Frankenstein	http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/other/ebooks/frank10.txt
Another Electronic Text	http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/sf/frank10a.xml

LINKS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT The Color Purple

A good overview of comparing the novel to the film	http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/TheColorPurple/bookfilm.html
Information on Alice Walker	http://members.tripod.com/chrisdanielle/index.html
The Color Purple site at City University of New York	http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/purple.html

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