Film Studies: National Film Traditions

Annenberg Learner. A video instructional series on film history for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 10 one-hour and 3 half-hour video programs. Using clips from more than 300 of the greatest movies ever made, this series explores film history and American culture through the eyes of over 150 Hollywood insiders, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Eisner. In-depth treatments present film as a powerful economic force, potent twentieth-century art form, and viable career option.

BFI

AMC Filmsite

Filmmaker IQ

The Guardian. Feb 2010

Your single access point to films, images and texts from selected collections of 38 film archives across Europe

The Guardian

BFI

Ntongela Masilela from Jump Cut, no. 36, May 1991, pp. 61-65

The Millions

BabElMed

Sharon Russel, Greenwood Press. Entire book

AfroPop Wordwide

South African History Online

Taste of Cinema

One Room With A View

Confucius Institute

BFI

Jump Cut

BFI. iTunes U course from the above link. Professor Chirs Berry and Dr Victor Fan from the Department of Film Studies at King's College, London give a course that identifies Chinese-language cinema as one of the world's greatest film cultures. The richly-illustrated lectures cover topics from how the popularity of different stars illustrates changing ideas about gender, to Chinese musicals and opera films, independent cinema, and the Hong Kong New Wave, and the extension of the moving image into the modern art world.