• 75 years of Band Aid: band-aid collection and company history
• Ad Critic: ambitious analyses of current media ads with streaming video
• American Theme Parks & Landscapes of Mass Culture: scholarly paper on parks' far-reaching influence
• Baseball Cards, 1887-1914: over 2,100 of the Library of Congress' earliest ball cards
• Cover Heaven: array of aesthetically stunning, musically suspect albums
• Dick's MAD Stuff: MAD magazine collectibles
• The Distorted $arbie: very smart analysis of Barbie
• Doug Gilford's MAD cover site: well-maintained inventory of every single MAD magazine cover
• Game Marble Bibliography: collectors' and archaeological resources on marbles
• Keeping Ken: finally Ken gets the collector's analysis Barbie has been hogging for so long
• Roller Coaster database: inventory of over 600 coasters in North America
• Topics in Material Culture: interesting class web page subjects from toilet paper to dept. stores
• Truth in Advertising: 1940s and 1950s cigarette advertisements 
• Vanity Plates
• The Visible Barbie Project: smart alecks take a bandsaw to the fashion queen
• YoJoe.com: thorough and well-organized page devoted to post-1980 G.I.Joes, especially the 3 3/4" variety
  
  

Popular Culture

• The 1960s: Subculture, Pop Culture, Counter-Culture Bibliography
• Anime Web Turnpike- anime and manga links
• Center for Media and Democracy: nonprofit critic of public relations firms
• Conelrad: interesting look at cold war culture
• Crime Boss: crime comics of the 1940s and 1950s
• DC Comics: aesthetically cool home to Batman, Superman, and company
• DeeTee's 70's page: gargantuan resource on all things 70s from music to Pufnstuf
• Dr. Seuss Went to War: Dr. Seuss' WWII political cartoons
• Fanfic 101: Dr. Merlin's Guide to Fan Fiction
• Fifties Boulevard: nifty 1950's graphics site
• Film Threat Online: reviews of mostly independent fare, interviews, etc.
• Hero: The Archetypal Hero in Literature, Religion, and Popular Culture
• History of Heavy Metal Music: thorough historical overview of metal
• History of Rock and Roll: celebration of rock's 1954-1963 "Golden Decade"
• Marvel Comics: the place to find Spiderman
• Museum of Black Superheroes: African Americans in comic art
• New Wave Outpost: definitive links for new wave music and related genres
• Nuke Pop: nuclear war imagery in popular culture
• Origins of American Animation: Library of Congress' 1900-21 cartoon archives
• Popular Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis: thorough inventory of pop culture issues and resources
• popcultures.com: cultural studies resources, links, theory
• The Psychedelic 60's: Literary Traditional Social Change: academic analysis of 60s
• Punk 77: utterly thorough, definitive account of UK punk: pics, band histories, and clever social analysis
• Regeneration TV: media collective producing smart, challenging content
• The Smoking Gun: captivating dirt on the stars
• TV Party: fine selection of 1960-1970 Saturday morning commercials from Trix to Creepy Crawlers
• Whoosh- erudite Xena analysis from the International Association of Xena Studies

Film

• The Media History Project — An excellent resource for scholars and media history buffs, with links and information on contemporary media as well as early and print media.
• Society For Cinema Studies — An academic organization devoted to the study of film. Includes information about their annual conference, job listings, and other points of interest for film scholars.
• Internet Movie Database — Simply the biggest and the best film encyclopedia online. Includes cross-referenced film data, from actors and directors to plot summaries and studios. Plus other relevant information like box office grosses and release dates.
• Box Office Statistics in Millions of Dollars — Calculates domestic, overseas, and worldwide grosses on any film or range of films.
• Bibliographical Aid for Film Research — Practical bibliographical material on film in general, with a special focus on the relationship between literature and film.
• SCREENsite — For the study of film and television, with extensive listings of educational and research resources. Very user friendly and international in scope.
• Scary Women — Female monsters and fiends in American film.
• Shock Cinema — Guide to bizarre films and videos from the cult underground. Great links.
• Really Disturbing and Vile Movies — List of cult gore and violence films, complete with reviews and a "rating system."
• The Cult Shop's "Dystopia: Movies for a Dark Future" — Great resource and filmography about this popular postwar cinematic genre.
• Amazing World of Cult Movies — Many excellent reviews of weird cinematic narratives. Also includes the indispensible "Exploitation Index."
• Ground Zero Godzilla — Obviously essential for any film scholar interested in post-war nuclear holocaust allegory. Warning: this site makes gratuitous use of giant graphics and frames, so if you don't have a fast connection, you may be waiting for a while to see all your favorite giant monsters.

Television

• TV Link — Huge and well-organized index of links relating to television (and some film). Includes studios, individual shows, and archives. This is a good place to start any TV-related research project.
• TV Guide Entertainment Network — It's TV Guide online, with lots of snappy and current TV information, plus extra stuff on sports and music.
• Cult TV Episode Guide — Links to episode guides online for cult shows from The X-Files to Starsky and Hutch.
• MZTV Museum of Television — From France, this nonprofit organization aims to deal with "the technological history of the TV receiver." Includes a "virtual gallery" which is informative and beautifully designed.