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  • MCLC Resource Center   Peer Reviewed
    Resource center containing bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern Chinese literature, film, art, and culture, maintained by Kirk A. Denton at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University, in conjunction with the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Bibliographies are organized by director, time period, reference type, and media type.
  • Midnight Eye  
    An online journal devoted to Japanese cinema. The site regularly features book and film reviews, interviews with Japanese filmmakers, and a calendar of upcoming screenings and DVD releases of Japanese films.
  • Motion Picture Reprint Series (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan)  
    The Motion Picture Reprint Series run by the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan reprints now out-of-print books on the history of Japanese cinema. These are available for download, and feature new introductions either by the author or another academic. This site also features reproductions of archival documents concerning the Japanese Pure Film Movement, and the film documentation produced by the United States government on the effects of the atomic bomb.
  • Moving Image and Sound Archives of Singapore  
    Search by title or keyword for items in the physical archive. Many entries have full synopses (for films) or partial transcripts (for television news programs).
  • National Cinemas Bibliography   Peer Reviewed
    Browse bibliographies on international cinema, organized by region. Many of the sub-pages on regions have links to bibliographies on individual filmmakers. The resources listed are available in the UC-Berkeley library, but many of the books can be found elsewhere.
  • National Film and Sound Archive Collection  
    Search the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's catalog, which contains items that are in the physical archive in Canberra.
  • National Film and Sound Archive Collection Spotlights  
    These themed online exhibitions help users explore the collection of the Australian Film and Sound Archive. There are many moving image-focused materials, including stills of famous Australian movie theaters, information about notable film and TV personalities, and information about the archive's own restoration of two Australian films, Jedda and The Story of the Kelly Gang.
  • National Film Archive of Malaysia  
    Search for what's available in the physical archive. In Malay.
  • Offscreen  
    This Canadian journal features interviews, festival coverage, and essays on directors, Asian cinema, European cinema, documentaries and other topics. Offscreen and its French language sister journal Hors Champ have been online since 1997.
  • Oz Film: Australian Film  
    Features a comprehensive bibliography of Australian cinema, as well as numerous articles.
  • Ozu Yasujiro  
    This website features an extensive filmography with detailed synopses, as well as scanned primary-source material in English and Japanese. Edited by Nick Wrigley from Masters of Cinema.
  • Satyajit Ray  
    Site about the director from Maanvi Media, a Bombay-based media company, which has been augmented by Ray fans for years. The "Books and Videos" section has a bibliography with information on how to find each book.
  • Satyajit Ray Collection at UC-Santa Cruz  
    A wealth of information about Ray, including a filmography, biography, and two extensive bibliographies. Founded by Dilip Basu, a Ray scholar who has organized many retrospectives, the site is also host to a number of articles by Basu and other scholars, as well as digitized images from Ray's own sketchbook. The collection section allows you to search the items in the physical archive, which is in Santa Cruz, California.
  • Screening the Past   Peer Reviewed
    Screening the Past is a peer-reviewed online journal hosted by Latrobe University in Australia. Its primary subjects are the study of film history, the relationship between media and social history, and the history of critical thought on cinema.
  • South Asian Film Archives (Canada)  
    Browse a list of films in the collection by director, film title, or keyword. This list indicates what is available at the physical archive.
  • UCSD Chinese Cinema Web-based Learning Center   Peer Reviewed
    An introductory site on the history of Chinese cinema by scholar Yingjin Zhang. The site provides a wide variety of information concerning Chinese cinema, as well as statistics, capsule descriptions of important films, and short biographies of Chinese filmmakers.
  • Upperstall.com  
    A general information site on Indian cinema, founded by a group of cinephiles and filmmakers from India. Exhaustive reviews, synopses, and director biographies. In English.