12 Favourite Online Film Studies Items from 2017, and Other Links of Note!

Last updated January 2, 2018

NE ME QUITTE PAS - a new video assemblage focusing on Brief Encounter and Carol by Catherine Grant

To commemorate the somewhat sad and strange outgoing year -- and very much to welcome in 2018 --- Film Studies For Free has selected, below, twelve of its favourite online film studies items encountered (or re-encountered) in 2017 for your delectation and delight - in no particular order of category.

Some of these involved poignant encounters, associated with terribly untimely passings of pathbreaking scholars (see no. 1). Some are amazing new resources from (already) the most generous of brilliant scholars (see no. 2). All come with associated links, and are well worth your time exploring.

Wishing you a radically happy and active 2018!

With openly accessible love (and a brand new video, above) from FSFF xx

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1.
Favourite Online Lecture

Hannah Frank's brilliant illustrated lecture from 2014 "The Traces of Their Hands: Women’s Work at American Animation Studios, 1928-1961" at the Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies event, Department of Performance Studies New York University April 11–13, 2014. 

Dr. Frank tragically died on August 28, 2017, at the age of 33. She was one of the most original, accomplished and promising scholars of her generation. She will be hugely missed but much remembered.

LIVING LABOR: TRACES from women and performance

See Hannah Frank's Vimeo account; and her Google Scholar citations;

Also see the following tributes to Dr. Frank:

• Remembering Hannah Frank by Tom Gunning
• On Ones (and Zeroes): A Tribute to Hannah Frank by Ian Bryce Jones
• Videogame Cat of the Week: The Fabulous Screech / Remembering Hannah Frank by Ian Bryce Jones

2.
Favourite new website

http://www.filmcritic.com.au/

"Long awaited" doesn't even get close to describing film critic and scholar extraordinaire Adrian Martin's website project to gather much of his published film criticism work and offer it up for free! But it arrived in 2017, starting with over 2000 entries to amazing pieces of writing and thinking, which are being added to every week!

Titled FILM CRITIC: ADRIAN MARTIN, the website also points to a connected 'Patreon' campaign to raise some funds to help keep it maintained and regularly updated. FSFF's author has signed up to do just that.

It's not every day that one of the world's leading writers about film gives away quite so much of his lifetime's work to the public domain. Good on ya, and thank you, Adrian!

• FILM CRITIC: ADRIAN MARTIN http://www.filmcritic.com.au/

3.
Favourite Film and Media Studies Podcast

Film and Media Studies podcasts continued to delight us in 2017. The following three (listed in alphabetical order) tied for their place as FSFF's favourite.

http://www.aca-media.org

http://www.cinematologists.com

http://www.thecinephiliacs.net

Also, check out new podcast on the block:

Eavesdropping at the Movies by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass

4.

Favourite longstanding website

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/

January 2017 entries:

How LA LA LAND is made

My girl Friday, and his, and yours

Fantasy, flashbacks, and what-ifs: 2016 pays off the past

February 2017 entries:

Anybody but Griffith

Oscar’s Siren song 3: A guest post by Jeff Smith

LA LA LAND: Singin’ in the sun

All my objections to Trump won’t fit on one blog

March 2017 entries:

Going inside by staying outside: L’AVVENTURA on the Criterion Channel

My cover is blown

The Oscars’ Best Picture and other Best Picture

Waldo Lydecker, James Schamus, and 1910s movie storytelling

April 2017 entries:

Film noir, a hundred years ago

Wisconsin Film Festival: Cutting to the chase, and away from it

Wisconsin Fim Festival: An unexpected gem, a Zucchini, and a farewell

May 2017 entries:

Three women of Cannes: A guest entry by Kelley Conway

Ladies at all levels

Wayward ways and roads not taken

Good morning from Ozuland

June 2017 entries:

Ritrovato 2017: Drinking from the firehose

Grand motel

James Agee: Astonishing excellence: A guest post by Charles Maland

FilmStruck and Criterion: Now Roku-ready

Thrill me!

July 2017 entries:

MONSIEUR VERDOUX: Lethal Lothario

Books not so briefly noted

We do film, dammit: Charlie Keil interviews us

Ritrovato 2017: Many faces, many places

Ritrovato 2017: An embarrassment of riches

August 2017 entries:

Venice 2017: Early days

Fassbinder’s figures: Jeff Smith on ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL

Is there a blog in this class? 2017

DUNKIRK Part 1: Straight to the good stuff

DUNKIRK Part 2: The art film as event movie

September 2017 entries:

Mmm, M good

Lubitsch redoes Lubitsch

REINVENTING HOLLYWOOD: Out of the past

Venice 2017: Crimes, no misdemeanors

Venice 2017: Martel’s drama of expectations

Venice 2017: College days

Venice 2017: Hunting Golden Lions

Venice 2017: Sensory Saturday; or, what puts the Virtual in VR?

Venice 2017: Lubitsch and Pickford, finally together again

October 2017 entries:

Biomechanics goes to the Big House: BRUTE FORCE on the Criterion Channel

Women, Oscars, and power

REINVENTING HOLLYWOOD comes to Astoria

One last big job: How heist movies tell their stories

REINVENTING HOLLYWOOD: Post-partum downs and ups

THE LOST WORLD refound, piece by piece

November 2017 entries:

Taika Waititi: The very model of a modern movie-maker

Time-shifting: THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE on the Criterion Channel

Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone: The 1910s tonight

The Fabulous Forties once more: REINVENTING HOLLYWOOD spreads out on the Net

The Celestial Arthouse: FilmStruck and Criterion Channel with an offer hard to refuse

Bill Morrison’s lyrical tale of loss, destruction, and (sometimes) recovery

Dreyer, and more, in Houghton

December 2017 entries:

The ten best films of … 1927

The Boy’s life: Harold Lloyd’s GIRL SHY on the Criterion Channel

Patchwork imagination: Lee Kwangkuk’s framed and frayed stories

5.

Favourite Online Film Studies Journal

http://www.thecine-files.com

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/movie/

A tie this year between The Cine-Files, which brings some truly wonderful material online, year after year, thanks largely to the amazing talents of Editor-in-Chief Tracy Cox-Stanton, and Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, similarly run by a passionate team of academics, which introduced a brilliant new audiovisual essay section!

Also see this list!

FSFF is very much looking forward to the publication of a new Jump Cut issue in Spring 2018 following on from the very sad loss of one of its pioneering editors, Chuck Kleinhans, to whom this blog dedicated its previous entry in tribute. 

6.

Favourite Video Essay on a Film Studies Topic

Chloé Galibert-Laîné's desktop documentary My crush was a superstar

This was at the the top of my top ten picks in the end of year Sight and Sound poll: "The best video essays of 2017" expertly and painstakingly gathered by Kevin B. Lee and David Verdeure.

Also check out this top 17 list curated by Jacob Oller for the ONE PERFECT SHOT (now FILM SCHOOL REJECTS) website. 

7.

Favourite video essayist

A two-way tie between:

Cristina Alvarez López and Adrian Martin for MUBI, Filmkrant, and themselves (see also this great video interview with them by Julia Vassilieva from Monash Film and Screen Studies);

Oswald Iten of FILMBULLETIN and other sites 

8.

Favourite video essay publisher/curator

(ahem...after [in]Transition and Audiovisualcy....)

Filmscalpel http://www.filmscalpel.com

9.

Best online scholarly collaboration between a filmmaker and a film scholar (who is also a filmmaker!)

How Action Movies are Spectacular… and Boring
Science of Editing Series, This Guy Edits/Sven Pape and Dr Karen Pearlman

10.

Best open access eBook appearing online in 2017

Two-way split between:

Farocki/Godard. Film as Theory by Volker Pantenburg

and

Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures 

edited by Laura Mulvey and Anna Backman Rogers

11.

Favourite online article:

Nina Menkes’s article "The Visual Language of Oppression: Harvey Wasn’t Working in a Vacuum," FILMMAKER Magazine’s most popular post in 2017. Menkes' brilliantly uses the work of Laura Mulvey. http://filmmakermagazine.com/103801-the-visual-language-of-oppression-harvey-wasnt-working-in-a-vacuum/

12.

Favourite Film Studies Related Instagram Account:

Fictitious Interiors Curated by Davide Rapp

https://www.instagram.com/fictitiousinteriors/

And finally...

Some very very very  honourable mentions

• Lots of other Film Studies open access eBooks at Oapen appearing in 2017 and here also

• David Hudson, formerly at Fandor, is now producing the brilliant Criterion Daily website and Twitter feed for essential film links and roundups

• Best Facebook page for Film and Media Studies in 2017: Teaching Media 

• Website for the AHRC-funded project THE EASTMANCOLOR REVOLUTION AND BRITISH CINEMA, 1955-85

• Charlie Lyne's discussion of Fair Use and Fair Dealing in Found Footage work with a film/TV analytical purpose (and the film he is talking about: Missing Episode)

• Best Digital Humanities work in Film Studies: Jason Mittell and Kevin L. Ferguson's Deformin' in the Rain work on Singin' in the Rain for SCMS 17. See here and here, for example.
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• For its continued brilliance: Timeline of Historical Film Colors

• For its continued brilliance: animationstudies 2.0 blog

• For its continued brilliance: In Media Res, a mediaCommons project

• For its continued brilliance and generosity: Shane Denson's medieninitiative website

• Most unmissable film/TV-studies and film/TV-criticism related Twitter accounts: So Mayer/@tr0ublemayer, Kristen Warner/@kristenwarner and Steven Shaviro/@shaviro

• Best historiographical video essay series: The Per una controstoria del cinema italiano/Towards a Counter History of Italian Cinema project organised by Filmidée and Chiara Grizzaffi with multiple videos and authors. Watch the trailer here.

• Silent film accompanist and composer Neil Brand's new website about silent cinema music: http://originals.neilbrand.com/

• And...John Gibbs' interview with FSFF's author about audiovisual essays!

More to follow as FSFF remembers further 2017 links of great note!

UPDATES:

• Check out Girish Shambu's '2017: A Personal Round-Up' at his blog for further great links!

Thanksgiving Round Up! On the Audiovisual Essay, Bordwellian Beneficence, FROZEN, Fincher, SNOWPIERCER, Jodorowsky, Charles Barr interview, Horror Grrls, Fan Studies, Media Industries, Animation, and SO MUCH MORE!!

Where I Come From, Where I'm Going

An audiovisual essay by Adrian Martin. Read Martin's accompanying text at [in]Transition 1.3, 2014, where you can see the other entries in this latest issue of the new journal of videographic film and moving image studies. Also, check out the latest issue of LOLA (co-edited by Martin and Girish Shambu), which features great new essays by Joe McElhaney (on German cinema) and Lesley Stern (on the ghostliness of gesture in film), among others.

Life, travel and lots happening at the good old salaried job rather got in the way, in the last three months, of Film Studies For Free's foolish claim that it would be "right back" after its last entry. This miscalculation heralded the longest hiatus in this blog's six and half year long existence! But FSFF is BACK and (even more foolishly) claiming that December should see some further new entries! Don't believe a word of it, people, till you see them with your own eyes!

Just be thankful, then, if you're so inclined, for all the openly accessible film and moving image studies that have appeared or been located online since the last entry. Links to many of these are lovingly gathered below for your reading and viewing pleasure and for your film and media studies edification.

Two further items of interest: first, you still have time to apply to attend a free two-week long workshop on making videographic criticism at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA, in June 2015, run by Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell, with Eric Faden and Catherine Grant as guest presenters! In case you think that, while free, this will still be an expensive venture, through a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, participants will receive a small stipend as well as having all travel, housing, and food expenses covered. The application deadline is Monday December 1, 2014.... So go to it! Full details here: http://sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/.

Finally, do be sure to tune in to In Media Res from Monday (December 1) for a weeklong discussion of Open Source Academia: "Featuring communications and media scholars from various avenues and alleyways, this multimedia discussion will take place at the In Media Res website as well as at Facebook, Twitter and beyond! Curators for this week include Catherine Grant, of Film Studies for Free, writing on "Scholarly Striptease," and Suzanne Scott, drawing on the troublesome canard of the "Fake Geek Girl" to address the possibility of the 'Fake Geek Academic.' Open Source Academia week is a collaboration between In Media Res and the students of IML 501, Seminar in Contemporary Digital Media in the Media Arts and Practices Division in The University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Follow Open Source Academia on Facebook and Twitter to enjoy custom curated web content to enrich the conversation as it unfolds."

P.S. It's not open access, sadly, but USC film and media scholar Holly Willis published a great profile of Film Studies For Free in the Fall 2014 issue of FILMMAKER Magazine. If you're a subscriber you can find it here: "Film Studies in the 21st Century": http://filmmakermagazine.com/87920-film-studies-for-the-21st-century/.

• LATEST ISSUE! [IN]TRANSITION: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, Issue 1.3, 2014 - edited by Catherine Grant (also see the companion website on The Audiovisual Essay linked to below)
• Grant, Catherine, 'The Audiovisual Essay: My Favourite Things'
• Álvarez López, Cristina, ‘From Idea to Concept' (Link to CAL's "Making of" reflection; link to Henrike Lindenberger's "Making of" reflection) 
• Garwood, Ian, ‘The Poetics of the Explanatory Audiovisual Essay’ (Link to "Making of" reflection)
• Kiss, Miklós, ‘The Audiovisual Research Essay as an Alternative to Text-Based Scholarship’, (Link to Thomas van den Berg's "Making of" reflection)
• Martin, Adrian, 'The Inward/Outward Turn,' (Link to AM's "Making of" reflection; link to Timo Cromm's "Making of" reflection)

• NEW WEBSITE! THE AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY: Practice and Theory of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies.
• Table of Contents in alphabetical order by author surname:

• Álvarez López, Cristina (with Adrian Martin), ‘The One and the Many: Making Sense of Montage in the Audiovisual Essay’ [Frankfurt Papers]’
• Álvarez López, Cristina, ‘On SMALL GESTURES’/’From Idea to Concept [Extract]’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Álvarez López, Cristina, (with Catherine Grant, Carlos Losilla, Adrian Martin, Manu Yáñez ), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’
• Álvarez López, Cristina (with Adrian Martin), ‘SCREENING PROGRAMME: From Found Footage to the Audiovisual Essay ESSAY ‘Frankfurt papers]
• Berg, Thomas van den,‘On (UN)RELIABLE (UN)RELIABLITY’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Chanan, Michael, ‘On SPIRIT OF COUTINHO’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Cook, Pam, ‘On MILDRED’S KISS’/’Word vs. Image: Making…‘, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Cromm, Timo, ‘On DOLCE FAR NIENTE: An Audiovisual Essay on Bully (Larry Clark, 2001) and The Big Lebowski (Coen Bros, 1998)’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Garwood, Ian, ‘On HOW LITTLE WE KNOW: AN ESSAY FILM ABOUT HOAGY CARMICHAEL’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Grant, Catherine, ‘INTRODUCTION [to the Frankfurt Papers’]
• Grant, Catherine, ‘THE AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY: MY FAVORITE THINGS [INTRODUCTION to [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014: Videos and Reflections] as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Grant, Catherine, ‘How Long is a Piece of String? On the Practice, Scope and Value of Videographic Film Studies and Criticism’ [Frankfurt Papers]‘
• Grant, Catherine (with Cristina Álvarez López, Carlos Losilla, Adrian Martin, Manu Yáñez ), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’
• Hediger, Vinzenz, ‘What makes an excerpt? The video essay as an experiment performed on the work of art [Frankfurt Papers]‘
• Keathley, Christian, ‘On 50 YEARS ON’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Kiss, Miklós, ‘On UN/RELIABLE UN/RELIABILITY’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Lahera, Covadonga G., ‘On INFLAMES’, [in REFLECTIONS ON AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS] 
• Law, Hoi Lun, ‘On ANGST/FEAR (Adrian Martin & Cristina Álvarez López, 2014)‘ [in REFLECTIONS ON AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS]
• Lee, Kevin B., ‘On THE CAREER OF PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON IN FIVE SHOTS’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Lindenberger, Henrike, ‘On ALPHAVILLE – THE CRYSTAL MAZE’/The Audiovisual Essay as Lego Construction’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Losilla, Carlos, ‘The Absent Image, The Invisible Narrative [Frankfurt Papers]’
• Losilla, Carlos (with Cristina Álvarez López, Catherine Grant, Adrian Martin, Manu Yañez ), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’
• Martin, Adrian (with Cristina Álvarez López), ‘The One and the Many: Making Sense of Montage in the Audiovisual Essay’ [Frankfurt Papers]’
• Martin, Adrian, ‘On WHERE I COME FROM, WHERE I’M GOING’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Martin, Adrian (with Cristina Álvarez López), ‘SCREENING PROGRAMME: From Found Footage to the Audiovisual Essay [‘Frankfurt papers]’
• Martin, Adrian (with Cristina Álvarez López, Cristina, Catherine Grant, Carolos Losilla, Manu Yáñez ), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’
• Morton, Drew, ‘On FROM THE PANEL TO THE FRAME: STYLE AND SCOTT PILGRIM’/ ‘THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS, YET THERE IS METHOD IN IT: Notes on Producing and Revising Videographic Scholarship‘, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• van den Berg, Thomas, ‘On (UN)RELIABLE (UN)RELIABLITY’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
• Yáñez, Manu, ‘Thought, Action and Imagination [Frankfurt Papers]’
• Yáñez, Manu, (with Cristina Álvarez López, Cristina, Catherine Grant, Carlos Losilla, Adrian Martin), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’

• NEW ISSUE! Issue 5 of LOLA has begun to roll out with the entries below published and others to come:
• Survival Tactics: German Filmmakers in Hollywood, 1940-1960 Joe McElhaney
• To Be or Not to Be (A Jew) Dorian Stuber and Marianne Tettlebaum
• Putting on a Show, or The Ghostliness of Gesture Lesley Stern

• NEW ISSUE! Participations now out - includes an article on fan studies methodology and many other audience studies of note: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2011/Issue%202/contents.htm …

• NEW ISSUE! The new look FRAMES CINEMA JOURNAL on animation: http://framescinemajournal.com/?issue=issue5

• NEW ISSUE! Issue 72 of SENSES OF CINEMA! http://sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue-72/

• NEW ISSUE! Media Industries Journal 1.2 is now out with twelve think pieces from its editorial board: http://www.mediaindustriesjournal.org/index.php/mij/issue/view/2

• NEW DOUBLE ISSUE! Offscreen 18 (6-7) on gender and horror (including horror girls!): http://offscreen.com/issues/view/volume-18-issues-6-7

• NEW ISSUE! Cinergie n. 6, Special dossier on Film Festival Studies: http://www.cinergie.it/

• CALL FOR PAPERS: Film-Philosophy Conference 2015: The Evaluation of Form (University of Oxford) 20-22 July: http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/index.php/conf/FP2015

• David Bordwell has published lots of brilliant entries in the last three months - all are linked to below. He has also made chapter from Chapter 6 | Film Futures from his 2007 book Poetics of Cinema available as a pdf online (going lots of other freely available chapters from that book:
• On "what-if" or "forking path" narratives
• Little things mean a lot: Micro-stylistics
• Say hello to GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE
• Ode to the New Beverly; and a downbeat coda
• Gone Grrrl
• Here be dragons, and tigers
• Of horses, avalanches, and architecture
• Peter von Bagh
• Cinematic storytelling: A podcast on narrative
• An auteur, three archives, and the archivist as auteur
• ADIEU AU LANGAGE: 2 + 2 x 3D
• Where movies live and breathe
• A Celestial Cinémathèque? or, Film Archives and Me: A Semi-Personal History 

• Kristin Thompson published these great blog entries, too:
• Bread, circuses, and Oscar buzz
• Adieu to Vancouver 2014
• Middle-Eastern fare at VIFF
• The World Comes to Vancouver

• Su Holmes on "Cold and Hungry: Discourses of anorexic femininity in FROZEN"

• Also see Anca Caramelea's essay at the same website Auteuse Theory: "A new cinema, a new interest – women’s issues and new Romanian cinema"

• Richard Rushton on the Year's Work in Film Theory (reviews of Hansen, Elsaesser, and Kracauer and Lukács collections): http://ywcct.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/1/64.fullhttp://ywcct.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/1/64.full

• Allister Mactaggart on "‘‘Silencio’’: hearing loss in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive": http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/view/22836/37116

• Dietmar Kammerer created a German language site for open access film studies resources, like Film Studies For Free! http://filmwissenschaftumsonst.wordpress.com/.

• Girish Shambu put up a great new blog entry with links to lots of wonderful online reading: http://girishshambu.blogspot.com/2014/10/tiff-2014-part-2-loznitsa-alonso.html

• Scott Mackenzie present a 60 page excerpt from his new book Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology for the first of Film Quarterly's Book Preview features: http://www.filmquarterly.org/2014/09/manifestos-a-forgotten-history-2/
  
  
• voicesonfilm, an excellent and promising new video based web project, launches with a fabulous interview with film scholar Charles Barr on Hitchcock, Robin Wood, Movie vs Sight and Sound Magazine, and much more: http://voicesonfilm.com/

• Podcasts of sessions from the recent Melancholia conference at University College Dublin: http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/podcasts/2014/melancholia/

• More podcast brilliance: the Aca Media team have published two episodes since FSFF's last entry:
• Episode 18 (aka The Halloween episode) has lots of laughs and frights! Also: Forrest Gump and the SCMS-U conference. http://www.aca-media.org/episode18
• Episode 17 features Courtney Brannon Donoghue discussing Sony's film production in Brazil. an introduction to an exciting new outlet for video essays, [in]Transition, and a discussion of baseball players who don't have a clue and a couple of British detectives who do: http://www.aca-media.org/episode17

• Dolores Tierney writes up her open access work with Ana Lopez for Cinema Journal on Latin American film research in the 21st Century here, with lots of excellent links:
• http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/mediatico/2014/11/24/latin-american-film-research-in-the-twenty-first-century/http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/mediatico/2014/11/24/latin-american-film-research-in-the-twenty-first-century/

• Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jacques Tati: http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3337-jacques-tati-composing-in-sound-and-image

• Omar Ahmed on "New Waves: The Story of 'Hindie' Cinema": http://omarsfilmblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/new-waves-story-of-hindie-cinema.html

• Jan Christopher Horak's tribute to the late great film curators and archivists, festival artistic directors and writers (and so much more) Mary Lea Bandy and Peter von Bagh: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2014/09/25/memoriam-mary-lea-bandy-peter-von-bagh

• David Hudson's tribute round up to Peter von Bagh at Keyframe: http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-peter-von-bagh-1943-2014

• Great resources on Spanish cinema are gathered here at Mediático:
• The look of Iciar Bollain – Videos from the Symposium on her Work
• Belén Vidal on the International San Sebastian Film Festival

• Further REFRAME content of interest:
• Mini Web Operas launched online and at Glyndebourne by the Opera and the Media of the Future project
• Re. Framing Activism website under new editorship
• New project call for submissions: THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF LEWES
• New eBook versions of articles in SEQUENCE One Planet Melancholia

• NEW PORTAL! EUscreen has just officially launched http://euscreen.eu. Help it enrich and curate heritage AV materials by becoming a member of its contextualization community! More on: http://blog.euscreen.eu/archives/5806

• Jennifer Proctor's brilliant film and media studies teaching resources: http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Teaching-Resources

• Edward O'Neill's brilliant learning technology website: http://managinglearningtechnology.blogspot.com

• VIEWING! :: kogonada's THE EYES OF HITCHCOCK by  "This is probably the most freaky and affecting piece of videographic criticism I've seen": Jason Mittell): http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3306-the-eyes-of-hitchcock

• VIEWING! Drew Morton on BLOW-UP, BLOW OUT, and THE CONVERSATION: "Cross-Cut." https://vimeo.com/109405354

• VIEWING: "Paratheatre: Plays Without Stages - From V to VIII"by Adrian Martin and Cristina Alvarez López on Rivette's OUT 1 - https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/paratheatre-plays-without-stages-from-v-to-viii

• VIEWING! "Out 1 Solitaire": a new audiovisual essay and text by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Kevin B. Lee: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/out-1-solitaire

• VIEWING! Cristina Álvarez López on Jean-Pierre Melville: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/reflections/intransition-1-3/cristina-alvarez-lopez/

• VIEWING! From the OPEN HERE conference and festival on social, technological & cultural issues re. the digital commons: https://vimeo.com/user33775574

• VIEWING! "WHAT IS NOIR? with Peter Labuza: http://vimeo.com/thecriticalpress/whatisnoir

• VIEWING! Tony Zhou - "Characters make choices they can’t undo. How do you show it visually? One example: Snowpiercer" (SPOILERS!) http://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/snowpiercer

• VIEWING! Tony Zhou - "David Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong": http://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/davidfincher

• VIEWING! Nelson Carvajal's tribute to Mike Nichols for PressPlay: https://vimeo.com/112623464 (David Hudson's tribute round up for Keyframe is here: http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-mike-nichols-1931-2014)

• VIEWING! Milena Kan's "Human and Animal: Jodorowsky’s Looking-Glass World" http://cinentransit.com/atravesar-el-espejo-el-mundo-de-jodorowsky/#English

• VIEWING! Miklós Kiss on Philip Seymour Hoffman: https://vimeo.com/110767451

• VIEWING! Milad Tangshir on the reception of Scorsese's 1988 film THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST https://vimeo.com/109426626

• VIEWING! Ian Magor on the masterful use of projection in Hitchcock's REBECCA: https://vimeo.com/109921839

• VIEWING! Ian Magor on the close up - "Some Still Are": http://vimeo.com/107196261

• VIEWING! Pasquale Iannone's MEMORIES AND BROKEN PANES [3.23] https://vimeo.com/110121502

• VIEWING! Chiara Grizzaffi on Io La Conoscevo Bene (Pietrangeli, 1965) And Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger, 1958): https://vimeo.com/101643349

• VIEWING! Chiara Grizzaffi on The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) and The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928): https://vimeo.com/98536906

• VIEWING! Pam Cook on "Performance: Tony Leung in In the Mood for Love": http://profpamcook.com/2014/11/06/performance-tony-leung-in-the-mood-for-love/

• VIEWING! Pam Cook on "Memory: Brief Encounter and In the Mood for Love": http://profpamcook.com/2014/08/31/corridors-of-desire/

• VIEWING! Conor Tierney on the representation of the body as a weapon on screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gng7NgH8ATs

• VIEWING! Todd Haynes on Fassbinder's ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (1974) @Criterion http://bit.ly/1vu8SxY http://youtu.be/Tyr-_gJ6e-A

• VIEWING! Terry Gilliam Reveals the Secrets of Monty Python Animations: A 1974 How-To Guide - http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/terry-gilliam-reveals-the-secrets-of-monty-python-animations.html

• ALSO! A Treasure Trove of Hollywood History on the Redesigned Oscars Website (Via Gizmodo @Gizmodo): http://gizmo.do/wfTwbds

• ALSO! The Alternate Takes website has a tumblr!: http://alttakes.tumblr.com

• ALSO! 1000 Frames of Hitchcock: See Each of Hitchcock’s 52 Films Reduced to 1,000 Artistic Frames: http://goo.gl/Wa8ulI 

• ALSO! Picturegoing turns to film itself as evidence for the first time, with Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (via  Luke McKernan @lukemckernan): http://picturegoing.com/?p=3413

• ALSO! Darren Tofts and Mark Amerika, joined new media philosophy journal Ctrl-Z editor Niall Lucy and film director Ken Miller to "discuss the flows and eruptions of remix culture, to reflect on its technological and intellectual pre-histories, and to consider its implications for cultural practice": http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/press/media/ (link via Adrian Martin)

New FILM-PHILOSOPHY!!

Frame grab from Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944). Read Ben Tyrer's article on film noir and this film in the latest issue of Film-Philosophy

Film-Philosophy 17.1 (2013): the second to last of the brilliant new film studies e journal issues out in December with which Film Studies For Free will present you in 2013. And the daddy of them all.

There will be two more FSFF posts to appear before the holidays, that is, if you can tear yourself away from reading the below articles and reviews.

Articles

• The Facts Before Our Eyes: Wittgenstein and the Film Noir Investigator Keith Dromm PDF
• 'How Can It Not Know What It Is?': Self and Other in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner  Andrew Norris PDF
• Ghost in the Shell 2, Technicity and the Subject  Daniel Hourigan PDF
• Throne of Blood and the Metaphysics of Tragedy  Henry Somers-Hall PDF
• 'That Man Behind the Curtain': Atheism and Belief in The Wizard of Oz  Justin Remes PDF
• Film Noir as Point de Capiton: Double Indemnity, Structure and Temporality Ben Tyrer PDF
• Shooting for Dead Time in Gus Van Sant's Elephant William Little  PDF
• Bad Memories: Haneke with Locke on Personal Identity and Post-Colonial Guilt Justine McGill PDF
• 'Misfortune's Image': The Cinematic Representation of Trauma in Robert Bresson's Mouchette (1967)  Mark Cresswell, Zulfia Karimova PDF
• The Ister: Cinema's Interruption Linda Daley PDF
• Otherness and the Renewal of Freedom in Jarmusch's Down by Law: A Levinasian and Arendtian Reading Mark Cauchi  PDF
• Mimesis Reconsidered: Adorno and Tarkovsky contra Habermas  Simon Mussell PDF
• Nietzsche and Bad Conscience on Mosquito Coast James Edward Gough, Sue Matheson PDF
• The Closure of the 'Gold Window': From 'Camera-Eye' to 'Brain-Screen' Morgan M Adamson  PDF
• A New/Old Ontology of Film Rafe McGregor  PDF
• Internal Needs, Endoxa and the Truth: An Aristotelian Approach to the Popular Screenplay Daniel McInerny PDF
• Extreme Makeover: Art and Morality in The Shape of Things Joseph H. Kupfer  PDF
• 'Even the Ghost was more than one person': Hauntology and Authenticity in Todd Haynes' I'm Not There Carolyn D'Cruz, Glenn D'Cruz PDF
• I'm Glad I'm Not Me: Subjective Dissolution, Schizoanalysis and Post-Structuralist Ethics in the Films of Todd Haynes  Helen Darby PDF
• Truth, Autobiography and Documentary: Perspectivism in Nietzsche and Herzog Katrina Mitcheson  PDF
• Left-over Spaces: The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers  Benoit Dillet, Tara Puri PDF
• Homeopathic Repetition and Memories of Underdevelopment: The Dialectic of Subjective Experience and Objective Historical Forces  Trevor James Cunnington PDF
• Charcoal Matter with Memory: Images of Movement, Time and Duration in the animated films of William Kentridge  David H. Fleming PDF
• The Philosophical Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes: The Silent Films of Stan Brakhage   James Michael Magrini PDF
• 'The Epidermis of Reality': Artaud, the Material Body and Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc Ros Murray PDF

Book Reviews

• Hsiu-Chuang Deppman (2010) Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film (Iris Chui Ping Kam) PDF
• Alain Badiou (2013) Cinema and Alex Ling (2010) Badiou and Cinema (David H. Fleming) PDF
• Timothy Corrigan, ed. (2012) Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. 2nd Edition (Shawn Loht) PDF
• Michael Charlesworth (2011) Derek Jarman (Justin Remes) PDF
• Sharon Lin Tay (2009) Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices (Sheryl Tuttle Ross) PDF
• Todd Berliner (2010) Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema (John Anthony Bleasdale) PDF
•  M. Keith Booker (2011) Historical Dictionary of American Cinema (Glen Melanson) PDF  
• Shawn C. Bean (2008) The First Hollywood: Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking (Carrie Giunta) PDF
• Julian Petley (2011) Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain (Zach Saltz) PDF
• Suzanne Buchan (2011) The Quay Brothers: Into a Metaphysical Playroom (Micki Nyman) PDF
• Khatereh Sheibani (2011) The Poetics of Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics and Modernity After the Revolution (Paul Elliott) PDF