It has millions of items—books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings—from a range of Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
Hathi Trust is a large, ongoing digitization project whose goals are to create easily accessible archives of books and other information sources from around the world.
Full text will usually be available for items published before 1923 (cutoff date in US copyright law); full text may or not be available for more recent publications, depending on the wishes of the copyright holders.
Catalogs and digital collections of Italian libraries. Limit your search to items in digital libraries, full-text or websites to have immediate access to the results.
Well known Italian encyclopedia with a digital presence. You can perform simple searches for authors you may be interested writing about. Entries are only available in Italian.
Liber Liber is a non-profit cultural association whose aim is the promotion of any kind of artistic and intellectual expression. They provide biographical information about major Italian authors, as well as digital copies of some of their works.
filmsite.org is a private website where the content is created and maintained by a well known and recognized film historian. As this is not an academic site, please use with care.
This open source text, titled 'Understanding Media and Culture' has a chapter on movies and how they've contributed to society and culture. Of particular note are the bibliographies that are provided after each section.
This website is the base for a project that allows academics, artists, museum curators and teachers to explore and experiment with what we call ‘interartistic’ and ‘intermedial’ practices. The link provide takes to the search results for content related to Italian film.
A private blog (non-academic) that publishes well-written and researched posts on Italian cinema. As this is a non-academic publication, please use with caution.
A curated list of the best of Italian cinema. While this list is provided via a streaming service, it is a good starting point to explore the major themes, actors, and directors of Italian cinema.
