Shakespeare Film Links

Film Terms Glossary
http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms.html
This is part of Filmsite.org, a website edited and maintained by Tim Dirks.  The glossary is very helpful, giving definitions of technical and industry terms.  The definitions are often accompanied by examples.

 

Bardbox: Shakespeare and Online Video
http://bardbox.wordpress.com/
This is a blog established and maintained by Luke McKernan, Curator, Moving Image for the British Library.  He is cataloguing and writing about the various forms that Shakespeare takes in online video, most notably on YouTube. 

 

International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Radio
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/databases/shakespeare.html
This database is still being compiled and has over six thousand entries.  It is a project sponsored by a coalition of British universities.  It is a great resource for tracking down various versions and recordings of particular plays, from 1899 to the present.

 

Shakespeare and Film: A Microblog
http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/
This is maintained by Keith Jones, a professor of English at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota.  The blog has numerous helpful links and lots of Jones’ own reviews and research on Shakespeare and film, and Shakespeare in general.

 

Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
A great resource for tracking down information on films and television shows.  Particularly helpful are box office returns, cast lists (cross-referenced), and release dates.  Be careful, however, at least some of the content is supplied by readers and is not necessarily reliable.

 

Box Office Guru
http://www.boxofficeguru.com/
The film database here lists nearly every film released since 1989 and gives a detailed breakdown of opening and closing dates, total gross, opening gross and other financial information.

 

IMDB Film Glossary
http://www.imdb.com/Glossary/
A good place to start. The terms are much more comprehensive than those in the book