English Literature: Multimedia

Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions. [Publisher description]

From Literature Online: 880 video clips of poets reading their own and other poets'’ works.

920 links to poetry readings at The Poetry Archive. The Poetry Archive enables listeners to hear the works of contemporary poets such as Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Longley alongside historic recordings of Edmund Blunden, E.E. Cummings, Sylvia Plath and many more.

Includes an image gallery, 360 degree object viewer, footage from early cinema, and and video demonstrations of optical toys in action.

Oral History Online contains more than 30,000 pages of full-text content that is available nowhere else in electronic format--much of which is available nowhere else in any format. This full-text material includes Ellis Island oral history narratives, exclusive Black Panther Party interviews, and other oral histories. Oral History Online is also an index to free oral history information on the Web. [Publisher description]

In the First Person is an index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.

Streaming music sources available via York Libraries.

Streaming video collections available via York Libraries.

The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2.4 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Also provides access to Archivision Base Collection and Modules 1 - V, which includes images relating to architecture, urban design, archaeological sites, landscapes and gardens.

Prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, and photographs documenting the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534-1850. An advanced image search page is available via the "Images" link under "Find."

The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art. and a comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Includes more than 7,000 searchable images from such organizations as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries.

In JSTOR, you can search the captions of images within items in the database. To search for content with images use the “caption” option on the drop-down menu on the Advanced Search page.

This database represents the largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America, including biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. It includes over 119,000 pages of text and images. A link to images can be found under "Tables of Contents." Browse different types of images by clicking on the links at the top of the page.

The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Includes over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.