Library Guides: Literature in English: Multimedia

Streaming

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service which provides access to more than 26,000 films, including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
Streaming video service featuring social issue and documentary films from independent distributors, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, National Film Board of Canada, and Fanlight. Browse by subjects, "Authors," "Literature," and more.

Lumière (formerly Library of Foreign Language Film Clips) *ACCOUNT REQUIRED*
AVAILABLE TO INSTRUCTORS ONLY: The LFLFC includes thousands of clips and feature films for instructors to assign to their students for viewing through bCourses. Most clips and films include English subtitle options: if you need a film that is not yet available with subtitles, please contact avmccirc@library.berkeley.edu. An account is required: go to http://blcvideoclips.berkeley.edu/index.php/register to apply. To qualify for an account, you must be a UC Berkeley instructor.
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Instructors with accounts can use Gisele's Clip Preparation Worksheet to get clips published: https://docs.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/document/d/1MXIkvf9Hxv1-ZNCZngtIuNkXPdnn1-4QJMlYoNhdYR8/edit?usp=sharing
VOD Portal for Alexander Street Press
Featuring over 15,000 videos, including seminal ethnographic, performance and disabilities studies works, as well as counseling and therapy videos, "60 Minutes" and individually licensed Ethnic Studies videos. Most titles are captioned. UCB IP address required.

Streaming: Theatre & Performance

Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Performances of the world's leading plays, together with film documentaries, online in streaming video, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. (Theater in Video)
Contains over 250 of the world's most important 20th century plays together with over 100 video documentaries, including the BBC Shakespeare Series, delivered in streaming video.
Theatre in Video: Volume II This link opens in a new window
Theatre in Video: Volume II includes classic and contemporary plays and documentaries, with a greater focus on contemporary and international productions than Volume I.
Includes many new performances from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre collection (Opus Arte), Theatre Arts Films, the BBC, and TMW Media Group.
BBC Shakespeare This link opens in a new window
Streaming performances of 37 Shakespeare plays originally adapted for broadcast between 1978 and 1985 in the United Kingdom. Searchable transcripts appear alongside the videos.
"Access to this resource was made possible with help from English department faculty Ida Mae and William J. Eggers Chair in English, Professor Jeffrey Knapp and James D. Hart Chair in English, Professor James Turner."
Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Note: Please access via CalVisitor, the Library Proxy, or the Library VPN
"Online play texts, audio and video, and secondary sources for the study and performance of drama. Includes material from Arden Shakespeare, Nick Hern, BBC Drama Films, Shakespeare's Globe On Screen, and L.A. Theatre Works."
Collections include playtexts from Methuen Drama, Faber and Faber, Arden Shakespeare, and Nick Hern Shakespeare’s Globe On Screen, L.A. Theatre Works audio collection, BBC Drama Films, the Hollow Crown series, early modern drama titles staged and filmed specifically for educational use. The platform has a web-based e-reader with page and line numbers that correspond to the print edition, download options, full text search, visualization tools including a Words and Speeches Graph and a Character Grid for each play, the ability to view lines for one specific character, genre, period, title, or playwright browsing, and annotation tools.

Media Resources Center

The Media Resources Center (MRC) is the UC Berkeley Library's primary collection of materials in audio and visual formats. These formats include videocassettes, DVDs, compact audio discs, audiocassettes, and online (streamed) audio and video.

See the MRC's website for a very detailed listing of films in their collection, by topic; this is a great resource for American/cultural studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, dance and performance studies, and many other subjects. Click on Collections to start browsing.

The Media Resources Center is located on the 1st floor (basement) of Moffitt Library but has shorter hours of operation than Moffitt. You can view MRC materials in the MRC viewing rooms, but the materials cannot be checked out.

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