Research Guides: Film & Media: Find OER

Recommended Open Educational Resources for Film & Media (updated 2/21/23)

Textbooks:

Exploring Movie Construction & Production An open access textbook on the behind the scenes of filmmaking.
Film Appreciation An open access textbook that introduces film studies and important concepts and ideas.
Moving Pictures: An Introduction to cinema An open access introductory to Film Studies textbook.

Books:

The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema An open access book that helps to understand the history of European and International cinema.
Cinema as Technology An open access book on modern cinema and its commercialization.
Data in Journalism Handbook An open access book that explores the world of journalism in a media dense world.
Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud An open access book on the introduction to Media design.
The Enemy in Contemporary Film An open access book that looks at how the “enemy” is portrayed in film.
Film as Embodied Art An open access book on meaning and cinema in relation to the films by director Stanley Kubrick.
Media, Society, Culture and You An open access book that introduces mass communication and media studies.
Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and Media An open access book on the portrayals of Nazism and Neo-Nazism in film and media.
The Structures of the Film Experience An open access book that discusses Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insights on the film experience.
Technology and Film Scholarship: Experience, Study, Theory An open access book on the technological innovations in film.
Thinking Media Aesthetics An open access book that focuses on investigating the field between media studies and the aesthetic disciplines.
Tools for Podcasting An open access book that explores the foundations of podcasting.
War in Film An open access book on how war is portrayed in film and how this is perceived.

Other:

Creative Commons Open Verse Search An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use.
Screening Shakespeare: A Film Course An open access film course that teaches on understanding, analyzing, and the many techniques of film.
Wikimedia Commons Search A collection of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.