Research sites & tips! (MS3 - investigative research project)

Good places to start for general media research!

Media & Film Exchange

BFI 16+ Source Guide Page

BFI Library and Research

British Film Education Site

The Media and Communications Study Site

Media Knowitall

Media Literacy Clearing House

Media Awareness Network

'This is England' - clips for micro-analysis

1. Pukex gets kicked out.

2. Stylized - Shaun's indoctrination. Ripe pickings!

3. Combo loses it - climax.

4. Ending of the film.

"This is England" Material

Shane Meadow's Homepage
Excellent collection of additional material (clips, radio interviews, articles etc.) on all of Meadow's films including "This is England"

"This is England"
Official homepage for the film.

"New Boots and Rants"
Rather intellectual article about the film from the British Film Institute (BFI)

Rotten Tomatoes - Top Reviews
Reviews of the film from respected international critics/reviewers.

The Clash - "This is England" (youtube)
The track from punk band "The Clash" that inspired the film's title.

'This is England' - Dailymail article (2010)
Profile on the EDL that borrows from Meadow's/'The Clash' for its title - intertextual associations being forged?

News and Newpapers - Research links

A few links for research on your newspaper assignment!

All British Newspapers online (links page)
http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/britnews.htm

Press Display - Newspaper Front page (in left hand tool bar, 'Titles by Country' click 'UK')
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

National Union of Journalists
http://www.nuj.org.uk/

Wikipedia Article - Media Ownership (with good links for further reading!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership

Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom
http://www.cpbf.org.uk/

British Journalism Review
http://www.bjr.org.uk/

Media Channel
http://mediachannel.org/

Press Complaints Commission
http://www.pcc.org.uk/

Tim Worstall's Newspaper Watch
http://timworstall.com/category/newspaper-watch/

Cyberjournalist
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/

Spin Watch
http://spinwatch.org/

Media Lens
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php

DigitalSpy
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/

The Guardian Media Section
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media

The Independent Newspaper Media Section
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/

FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
http://www.fair.org/index.php

I Want Media
http://iwantmedia.com/

Spiked (Politics and Media)
http://www.spiked-online.com/

Media Studies Sites

The Media Theory Site
http://www.theory.org.uk/

Media Knowitall
http://www.mediaknowall.com/

Many newspapers have a web presence as well as the printed version. I'm not going to list them all here as I'm sure you all know how to use google. Visit them and have a look - it's worth your while.

Remember: you need to look at 1 national, 1 regional and 1 Sunday (national) newspaper.