ENTC 312: Online Resources

General:

• John Mullan, "The Invention of Popular Culture" (The Guardian, Saturday October 28, 2000)
• Publishers Weekly Bestseller News
• Bestsellers 1900-1930 (full-text electronic editions from the Etext Center)
• The IBIC Guide to Book-Related Resources on the Internet
• MLA citation format
• Virgo
Virgo's "Other Databases" include the following licensed resources. To use them, log into Virgo:
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Best place to begin a search for biographical information. Indexes current and retrospective biographical reference sources, for subjects living & deceased in every field. Covers sources such as Dictionary of American Biography, Contemporary Authors, etc.)
• CARL Uncover (search titles, abstracts, for journal articles)
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gale Database of Publications and Broadcast Media
• InfoTrak SearchBank (Expanded Academic Index)
• Readers' Guide Abstracts, 1983-present
• WebSPIRS (includes MLA Bibliography)

Authors:

• American Authors on the Web
• Owen Wister - Poet of the West (from Turner Learning)
• Anita Loos (from Encylopedia Britannica's Women in American History)
• Anita Loos (from The Silents Majority)
• Daphne Du Maurier Web Site
• Mickey Spillane Interview (Crime Time)
• "You the Jury," by Steve Holland
• "Mike Hammer" (from thrillingdetective.com)
• "East of Eden" from The National Steinbeck Center
• Steinbeck: The California Novels by Ed Stephan
• The Official [?] Mario Puzo Library
• Mario Puzo: Godfather of Pulp Fiction at Top Biography
• Mario Puzo's Obituary in salon.com
• Tom Wolfe (the official web site)
• "Urban Rats in Fashion's Maze," by Frank Conroy (NY Times review of Bonfire
• "Bonfire in Bronx!! Wolfe Catches Flak!!" by Steve Erlanger (NY Times, news story)
• "Holding 'Bonfire' Up to a Mirror," by Peter Baida (NY Times, news story)

Bibliography:

• "Descriptive Bibliography," by Terry Belanger
• GLaD and book design
• "Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology," Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
• The Book Arts Web: A Glossary of Binding Terms
• University of Florida, Smathers Library Preservation Dept., Glossary of Binding Terms
• The Case Binding Process (Cardoza-James Binding Company)
• Identifont: an online resource for identifying typefaces
• "A Field Guide to the Faces," David Mundie
• "A Sample Bibliographical Description with Commentary," by G. Thomas Tanselle (Studies in Bibliography vol. 40, 1987)

  Book Awards:

• Literary Prizes

Book Search:

• Bibliofind

  Electronic Text of 20th-Century Fiction

• The Internet Public Library (searchable index)
• Modern English Collection at the Etext Center (UVa)

History and Society:

• New Perspectives on the West (PBS)
• America from the Great Depression to WWII
• The American Experience: America 1900 (PBS)
• Hyperhistory Online
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s

Manuscript Collections:

• National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections

Publishing:

• Booksense Bestseller Lists (from independent bookstores)
• NY Times Bestseller Lists
• Publishers Weekly Bestsellers
• "Reading the Decades: Forty Years of Books That Changed The World," BBC Television
• Rave Reviews: an exhibition on American Popular Fiction, co-curated by the instructor of this class
• "Behind the Bestsellers" -- lists articles on bestsellers by Daisy Maryles
• "What It Takes," Daisy Maryles (Publisher's Weekly, Feb 25, 2002)
• "Who's On First?" Daisy Maryles (Publisher's Weekly, Feb 18, 2002)
• "The Crushing Power of Big Publishing," by Mark Crispin Miller (The Nation, 1997)

Films and Television:

• The Virginian (1914; silent film)
• The Virginian (1923; silent film) VIDEO .VHS4583
• The Virginian (1929; film) VIDEO .VHS3542
• The Virginian (1946; film) VIDEO .VHS8697
• The Virginian (1962; TV)
• The Virginian (2000; TV)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928; film)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; film) VIDEO .DVD02382 or VIDEO .VHS1182
• Blondes Prefer Gentlemen (1968; training film)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1998; TV)
• Rebecca (1940; film) VIDEO .LD0401 or VIDEO .VHS1508 or VIDEO .DVD00688
• Rebecca (1947; TV)
• Rebecca (1962; TV)
• Rebecca (1997; TV)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955; film) VIDEO .VHS5719 or VIDEO .LD3435 or VIDEO .LD1169
• East of Eden (1955; film) VIDEO .VHS1584 or VIDEO .LD0506
• East of Eden (1981; TV)
• The Godfather (1972; film) VIDEO .DVD02266 or VIDEO .VHS10328 pt.1 or VIDEO .LD3401 pt.1-2
• The Godfather DVD collection bonus materials VIDEO .DVD02269
• Jaws (1975; film) VIDEO .VHS2343 or VIDEO .DVD01077 (with supplemental material) or VIDEO .LD0958
• The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' (1995; film)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990; film) VIDEO .LD0600