SHOWTIMES IN MANKATO AND THE TWIN CITIES

Carmike Stadium Cinema 6 (University Square):  http://www.carmike.com/showtimedetails.aspx?theatrenumber=408425

Cinemark Movies 8 (River Hills Mall): http://www.cinemark.com/theater_showtimes.asp?theater_id=52

Maverick 4 Movie Theatres (the "discount" theater in the downtown mall): http://www.maverick4.com/

StarTribune Twin Cities Movie Listings:    http://www.startribune.com/1553

Minnesota Film Arts (Oak Street Theatre and Bell Auditorium Theatre near/on U of Minnesota East Bank campus, specializes in foreign, independent and documentary films, coordinates annual Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Festival): http://www.mnfilmarts.org/

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ONLINE RESOURCES

ScreenSite: http://www.screensite.org/
Maintained by Prof. Jeremy Butler at the University of Alabama. A very good starting place for internet resources in film study.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://www.oscars.org
Database of Oscar information and much more.

American Film Institute: http://www.afionline.org

British Film Institute: http://www.bfi.org.uk
Includes a link to Sight and Sound, one of the best film magazines that is not directly aimed at a scholarly audience.

Museum of the Moving Image (formerly American Museum of the Moving Image): http://www.movingimage.us/site/site.php.
Located in Astoria, Queens, New York City, a major film production center at one time.

National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/film
Includes many links to other resources, including film archives and collections around the world.

Drew’s Script-O-Rama: http://www.script-o-rama.com/snazzy/dircut.html
Includes transcripts of actual films, screenplays for films and unfilmed screenplays.

Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com
The best starting place for information on individual film titles. Links names of actors, directors and other film staff. Often includes interesting links, although information tends to be sparser for older, foreign and independent films.

Movie Mistakes: http://www.movie-mistakes.com
As the name suggests, a website devoted to various errors in classic and modern films.

Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com
Collects reviews on films from critics and rates them as "fresh" or "rotten" on the "Tomatometer."  Also has plot synoposes and other links.

Semiotics for Beginners: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html.

Silent Era: http://www.silentera.com
A website dealing with silent films, including reviews of video releases.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies: www.cmstudies.org
The main scholarly organization for film, television and other media study (as opposed to production).

The Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography: http://www.precinemahistory.net

The Media Theory Site: http://www.theory.org.uk/
Based in the UK, deals with cultural and literary theory as well as film as such. Look at the collectible trading cards!

Voice of the Shuttle: Portal to huge set of links to sites dealing with culture and theory at http://vos.ucsb.edu/.  Film/video resources are listed at http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=917. 

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FILM PERIODICALS ONLINE AND/OR THROUGH MEMORIAL LIBRARY (PROJECT MUSE, J-STOR, ETC.)

Scholarly Film Periodicals
You can now access over 60 journals through Memorial Library's Electronic Resource database:
http://wg9nt4uc8p.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=WG9NT4UC8P&N=100&S=SC&C=100113

Some of these journals also have their own web sites with searchable databases.  Some of the more significant titles include

American Cinematographer, also available online at http://www.ascmag.com/magazine_dynamic/January2007/current.php

Camera Obscura: Feminist Film and Film Criticism, also available online at http://cameraobscura.dukejournals.org/

Cineaste: Focus on film and politics, with good interviews.  Also available online at http://www.cineaste.com/home.htm.  The web site has a good links page.

Cinema Journal: Published by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. 

Film and History: Film's impact on history, how film interprets and presents history.  Website contains some useful links and information.

Film Comment.  Monthly magazine published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York.  Some articles can be accessed online at http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/fcm.htm. 

Film Criticism: 3rd-oldest American academic film journal.

Film History: Focus on technological, social and economic development of motion pictures.

Jump Cut: Radical-left political ananlysis of film and other media.  Also available online at http://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html. 

Literature Film Quarterly: Deals specifically with issues of adapting literature and theater to film.

Scope: Scholarly online periodical, dealing with film and visual media.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/contents.htm

Sight and Sound: published by the British Film Institute.  Also available online at http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/issue/

Velvet Light Trap: Edited by graduate students at U. of Wisconsin and U. of Texas, each issue devoted to a theme.

INDEXES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES THROUGH MEMORIAL LIBRARY

The Film Literature Index. The "MLA Bibliography" of film studies. Indexes mostly scholarly articles and reviews for film and television each year. References are listed by author, film title, and subject. Call Number in Memorial Library: REFERENCE (1st floor) PN1998.A2 F5
Also available in a searchable web site at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/fli/index.jsp

Film Review Index, edited by Patricia King Hanson, Stephen L. Hanson. Indexes a century’s worth of film reviews, going back to 1882.
Call Number in Memorial Library: REFERENCE PN1995 .F54

MLA Bibliography.  Includes books and articles on film. 
Call Number in Memorial Library: REFERENCE PN701.M5.
Also available through Memorial Library electronic databases.

Retrospective Index To Film Periodicals, 1930-1971, by Linda Batty. For earlier articles on film in the sound era.
Call Number in Memorial Library: REFERENCE PN1993 .B3 1975