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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

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    LINKS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT FRANKENSTEIN

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    • 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

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    LINKS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT The Color Purple

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    • 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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