Film and Media Studies: Websites

Film and Television Catalogs:

• American Film Institute

  Among other things, AFI "preserves the legacy of America's film heritage through the AFI Archive... and the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, an authoritative record of American films from 1893 to the present."

• Box Office Mojo

  This website, operated by IMDb, provides reporting data for box office earnings, statistics, and rankings for films in U.S. and international markets.

• The Internet Movie Database

  IMDb describes itself as "the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content."

• UCLA Film and Television Archive

  "The UCLA Film & Television Archive is the second largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive."

Professional Organizations:

• Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
• AG-AFTRA brings together two great American labor unions: Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. SAG-AFTRA members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists into the 21st century and beyond.

   

• Writers Guild of America, West
• The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union composed of the thousands of writers who write the television shows, movies, news programs, documentaries, animation, videogames and new media content that keep audiences constantly entertained and informed.

   

• Writers Guild of America, East
• The Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO (WGAE) is a labor union representing thousands of members who write content for motion pictures, television, news and digital media.

The following video describes how to evaluate sources using five criteria: authority, accuracy, currency, relevance, and objectivity (from off campus you will need to log in using your Pipeline username and password):