LESSON on Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata by Catherine Grant, one of a number of videos made to commemorate this year's centenary of the Swedish director's birth. Don't forget FSFF's earlier entry on Ingmar Bergman studies.
Greetings -- it's been a while! Here's a speedy, northern-hemisphere, Spring round up from Film Studies For Free. See below for some especially choice and unmissable items!! More will be added to the below in the coming days.
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1. Jump Cut
Check out the HUGE new issue of JUMP CUT (58, 2018)
Tributes to Chuck Kleinhans. The future of Jump Cut. Special sections on experimental feature fiction, documentary strategies, international perspectives, U.S. slavery's legal and symbolic remains, radical activism, unruly women, porn again, and book reviews.
See also this excellent SCMS video tribute to Kleinhans here
2. MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture
Exciting launch issue of the new open access journal MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture: "A non-hierarchical journal open to multivalent feminist expression, research & critique of visual culture", featuring:
- MAI And Mai: A Reflection by Mariah Larsson
- On Brilliance: Making Light Of Women’s Creative Labour by Rebecca Harrison
- The Lessons We Have Learnt: How Sexism In American Politics Sparked Off The New Feminist Renaissance by Anna Misiak
- Let’s Hear It For The Girls! Representations Of Diverse Girlhoods, Feminism, Intersectionality And Activism In Contemporary Graphic Novels And Comics by Mel Gibson
- Abandoning Happiness For Life: Mourning And Futurity In Maja Borg’s Future My Love (2012) by Anna Backman Rogers
- Disappearing Into The Future Perfect: Spaces Of Self-Picturing In The Diaries Of Susan Sontag And Alix Cléo Roubaud by Lauren Elkin
- ‘My Body Isn’t My Own’: War, Monsters, And Matriarchy In Monstress (2015- ) by Rebecca Jones
- ‘Popular’ Feminism, Pharmacopornography And Media Strategies: Some Initial Thoughts by Tina Krekels
- How the Light Gets In: Notes on the Female Gaze and Selfie Culture by Mary McGill
- Neither The One Nor The Other: Photographic Errors—Subjectivity, Subversion And The In-Between by Tracy Piper-Wright
- Mai In Conversation With Hope Dickson Leach by Neil Fox
- Ladies Case Almanack by Mairead Case
- Exploring Self-Identification Through Verbal And Visual Dialogue by Patricia Prieto Blanco
- PERSONA NON GRATA SONATA - A Video Essay on Ingmar Bergman's Persona and Autumn Sonata by Catherine Grant and Amber Jacobs
- Bête Noir by Rebecca Louise Tiernan
- Oksana Kazmina’s The Wedding In Docu_Presence: A Project By Composer/Performer Solomiya Moroz by Oksana Kazmina
- Blood Rhythms – Jessica Tillings by Jessica Tillings
- Future Feminism by Sophia Kier-Byfield
- Futurist Paratexts Of The ‘Infamous Butter Scene’ by Jazmine Linklater
- Instant Triangle by Nia Davies
- The Funambulist – Paulette Jonguitud Responds To Iris Epstein’s ‘Pájaro Funámbulo’ by Paulette Jonguitud
- Woman/ Jeanne Dielman by Gloria Dawson
- Women With Erections by Amy McCauley
- Liberated Sex: Firestone On Love And Sexuality by Alva Gotby
- Intoxicated Feminisms And The Politics Of The Visible: Khairani Barokka’s Indigenous Species by Kate Lewis Hood
- Reading And Resistance: Re-Visiting The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, The Black Femme, And The Image Of Common Sense In Politically Turbulent Times by Ana Maria Sapountzi
- Digital Violence: A Symposium by Hannah Hamad
3. CFP for The Cine-Files Special issue on Animals in Cinema
The Cine-Files, Issue 14 (Fall 2018), Call for Papers [Download as PDF] for a Special issue on Animals in Cinema. Submission Deadline: July 30, 2018
The Cine-Files, an online journal of cinema scholarship, is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2018 special issue on animals in the cinema that will be edited by Catherine Grant and Tracy Cox-Stanton.
We seek submissions for scholarly essays (4000-6000 words) that explore the significance of non-human animals in moving image studies. These essays will comprise the peer-reviewed, “featured scholarship” portion of issue 14.
Since John Berger’s 1991 essay “Why Look at Animals?” studies of animals in visual culture have steadily advanced, culminating in the 2015 anthology Animal Life and the Moving Image (BFI, Michael Lawrence and Laura McMahon, editors). In this work, scholars employ a diversity of theoretical frameworks to extend many of the insights of animal studies into the terrain of film and media studies. Issue 14 of The Cine-Files seeks to build on that work, inviting scholars to contemplate the significance of animals in a variety of audiovisual media.
Papers might consider, but are not limited to, the following questions:
- How do particular films or videos convey or complicate recent scholarly work about the sentience of non-human animals?
- What can we learn from an analysis of films that feature animal performers? How does the non-human animal performer complicate our views of film performance?
- How might we understand the proliferation of online animal videos within the context of anthropogenic climate change and threats of “the sixth extinction”?
- What role did animals play in early cinema’s era of “attractions,” and how can an understanding of that era help us contextualize contemporary representations?
- How can we better understand and historicize “the colonialist trope of animalization” (identified in Unthinking Eurocentrism)—aligning non-human animals with human “others” including racial and/or ethnic minorities, as well as women, LGBTQI and others?
- How has CGI affected the cinematic figuration of animals?
- How has the depiction of animals prompted particularly innovative uses of cinematic language?
- Is it possible to depict animals in a way that is not “anthropomorphic?” How have particular films challenged anthropomorphic representation?
Please email your essay as a MS Word doc to the editors, removing your identifying information from the essay. On a separate page, include your name, essay title, brief biographical note, and email address. Consult the guidelines for submissions at http://www.thecine-files.com/submission-guidelines/
If you would like to submit a video essay for consideration, please contact the editors by email to discuss your idea in the first instance. July 30 will also be the date for submissions in this mode.
Catherine Grant, catherine.grant1@bbk.ac.uk and Tracy Cox-Stanton, editor@thecine-files.com
4. Some recent video essays!
At the new issue of OFFSCREEN on audiovisual essays (22.4, 2018)
At the latest issue of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Images (5.1, 2018)
- I Feel, Therefore I Can Be Free by Nzingha Kendall
- Berlin Moves by Evelyn Kreutzer
- Remixing Rose Hobart by Derek Long
- Cinders of La Invasion by Nike Nivar Ortiz
- The Follow Shot by Jordan Schonig
At Audiovisualcy:
- Cotton - The Fabric of Genocide by Cydnii Harris
- "Get Out" in the Overseas Marketplace by Cydnii Harris
- Women, Intimacy, and Sexual Violence in Hitchcock Films by Emma Hampsten
- Gunsmoke Rhythms - An Epigraphic Exploration by Katie Bird
- Actress Must Have No Mouth (on Marilyn Monroe) by Lara Mubaydeen
- The Colors of GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES by Oswald Iten
- Beneath the Hollywood Style: Performance in the Cinema of John Cassavetes by Ian Garwood
- How Black Lives Matter in The Wire by Jason Mittell
- The Shipping Forecast: the audiovisual poetics of Ken Loach by Liz Greene
- Winter's Secret by Julia Kovalenko
- Elephant: A Matter of Pace by Tiago de Luca
- Skirt (on The Seven Year Itch) by Catherine Grant
- The Thinking Machine 16: UP! by Cristina Alvarez López and Adrian Martin for Filmkrant
- Sweet Country Video Essay by Tara Judah
- Before the Revolution: Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise by Jonathan Bygraves
- Mai Zetterling: Evolution of an Actress by Clara Podlesnigg
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5. Other stuff! (More to be added!)
- The website of the Fondation Chantal Akerman is online!
- David Bordwell on Kiarostami's last film
- On reactions at the first film shows, here's film historian Prof Ian Christie’s survey from a Gresham College lecture.
- The latest issue of WIDE SCREEN journal is OUT NOW! This is a special issue on the production of cinematic space and has been edited Kathryn Hardy.