Literature, Media, and Reference Links
The 1920's
and Its Excesses: A Web Quest
American
Writing Gateway
The links on this site will direct you to the best online material
about some widely taught American writers. Their selections were
based upon teacher and student resource value, unique features and overall
impression.
Galenet
ACcess three of the world's premier literature resources with a single
search. When you simultaneously search Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography
(DLB), you'll find in-depth information on the lives and writings of
nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works.
This series includes integrated indexes to both the DLB and CLC
print series.
Bartleby Library
This site contains the following:
1. An extensive reference section of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses,
mythology, the text of all of Shakespeare's plays, as well as his sonnets
and verse, and manuals on grammar, usage, and style.
2. An extensive section of verse (poets and their poetry & plays)
3. A fiction section devoted to American, European, and Russian writers
4. A non-fiction section containing essays from the world's most renowned
writers
All Media Guide
The world's largest and most comprehensive entertainment database for
music, videos, DVDs, and video games. All Media Guide offers expert
reviews, biographies, ratings, images, titles, credits, and thousands of
descriptive categories. All Media guide has collected, processed,
and linked information for both in-print titles and historical out-of-print
titles in a sophisticated relational database, licensed for commercial
use, and available to the public through proprietary Web sites. All
content is original, written expressly for All Media Guide by a worldwide
network of over 900 professional staff and freelance writers specializing
in music, movies, and games.
Internet Movie Data Bank
The core of the site is its search capabilities. It catalogs
all sorts of information on over 200,000 movie and TV titles plus even
more on over 400,000 actors and actresses, nearly 40,000 directors and
hundreds of thousands of other people who help make magic on the big and
small screens. Then it takes all that information, organizes it into
a cool structure, and makes it possible for you to easily search and browse
through it.
The Greatest Films
The Greatest Films is a unique website containing interpretive, descriptive
review commentary and historical background, a wealth of film reference
material (including a complete Academy Awards History and Film
History - by decade), and hundreds of colorful, vintage film poster
reproductions for some of the best Hollywood and American classic films
in the last century. It is an outstanding, all-around resource with
reviews of hundreds of classic Hollywood and other American films.
It also contains historic and genre information, and it includes 100 Greatest
Films and 200 Greatest Films, Greatest Moments and Scenes, and a Great
Lines of Movie Dialogue Quiz - and much more!
Roger Ebert Movie
Reviews
His main page contains all of his movie reviews from 1985 to the present,
links to his reviews of the Greatest Movies of all time, and his interviews
and essays.
Reel Views
This main page contains classic and contemporary movies reviewed by
James Beradinelli. His reviews are as thorough and as insightful
as Roger Ebert's.