A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Eleftheria Thanouli is a Professor in Cinema Theory. Her research interests include the representation of history in film, narratology, digital cinema, film and politics, and world cinema. She is the author of four monographs: Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (London: Wallflower Press, 2009), Wag the Dog: a Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018) and A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling (Bloomsbury, 2023). She has also contributed chapters to major publications including The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013) and The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics (2016).
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.