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ShenTrac Project:
Ebert and Who? Web Quest Movie
Databases
The
Internet
Movie
Database
http://us.imdb.com/
A
great
site
that
is
searchable
by
name,
title,
genre,
and
movie
quotes.
The
Chicago
Sun
Times
http://www.suntimes.com/index/ebert.html
This
site
presents
full
text
of
recent
reviews,
a
"one
minute
summary"
of
recently
reviewed
films
with
a
brief
synopsis
and
rating,
and
a
searchable
archive
of
Roger
Ebert
reviews
going
back
to
1985.
You
can
search
by
movie
title,
the
names
of
actors,
producers,
directors,
or
writers,
date,
and
rating.
Movie
Review
Query
Engine
http://www.mrqe.com/
This
site
is
a
gateway
to
many
of
the
movie
reviews
available
on
the
World
Wide
Web.
Entries
in
the
database
are
reviews
that
have
been
posted
in
the
past
to
rec.arts.movies.reviews
or
appear
on
the
WWW
servers
of
a
variety
of
media
outlets
and
other
sources.
Metacritic
http://www.metacritic.com/home.shtml
This site allows the user to easily
find the most important reviews for each new movie at a glance. also each movie
is assigned a Metascore, which is a weighted average of each of the individual
reviews for that film. Film
Resources
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8565/Film/film1.html
One
can
find
loads
of
links
to
information
about
film,
film
technique,
film
studios,
film
critics,
film
directors,
and
more
here.
MovieWeb
http://www.movieweb.com/
This
site
has
movie
previews
for
current
and
upcoming
movies!
About.com’s
Classic
Movie
Page
http://classicfilm.about.com/movies/classicfilm/
Movies.com
http://movies.go.com/
Need
to
know
a
fact
about
a
movie,
check
this
site
out---movie
trivia. Books
made into Movies
Based on the Book
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/
This site "is a compilation of over 700 book titles, short
stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. Utilizing
the
Internet Movie Database as the authority on release dates, all
movies in this collection have been released since 1980." Book
Reviews
The
New
York
Times:
Books
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/
The
New
York
Times
Book
Reviews
http://www.nytimes.com/books/yr/mo/day/home/contents.html
The
Boston
Book
Review
http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/bbr/bbr-home.html
Literary
Criticism
and
Resources Literary
Criticism
as
a
Tool
for
Interpreting
Literature
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/
handouts/crit.html
This
site
is
one
professor’s
lecture
on
literary
criticism.
BUBL
LINK:
Internet
Resources
for
American
Literature
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/a/americanliterature-general.htm
The
IPL
Online
Literary
Criticism
Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Here
are
hundreds
of
critical
and
biographical
websites
about
authors
and
their
works
that
can
be
browsed
by
author,
by
title,
or
by
literary
period.
This
is
a
very
good
site
with
a
link
to
Online
Literary
Criticism
Guide
and
Literary
Criticism
Pathfinder
(which
has
strategy
suggestions
for
finding
criticism
in
your
library
and
on
the
Web).
University
of
California’s
Literature
Resources
on
the
Web
http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/abuell/litpage.html
This
site
has
a
link
to
many
links
on
Criticism
and
Theory
in
Literature.
Zuzu's
Petals
Literary
Resource
http://www.zuzu.com/filmlink.htm
The
Zuzu's
Petals
Literary
Resource
contains
many
links
to
Resources
for
Movie
Lovers.
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Note:
Please
keep
in
mind
that
the
Internet
is
a
fluid
medium
and
sites
are
constantly
being
added,
moved
and
deleted.
If
you
find
a
dead
or
redirected
link
or
you
would
like
me
to
add
a
new
resource
please
contact
me
at
morsilka@shenet.org
.
Please
give
me
the
name
of
the
task,
the
title
of
the
link
and
link
address.
Thank
you.
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