We'll Tak' a Cup o' Kindness Yet: Awesome Open Access Film Studies Links to See Out 2016!

 A major open access eBook: Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film
Edited by Shane Denson and Julia Leyda (Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2016).

In this end of year post, Film Studies For Free reflects on and links to some of its very favourite 2016 open access resources selected from the ones that this blog's author had a hand in producing, contributing to, or publishing. 

It has been a (deadly) funny old year, to be sure, one that began with tributes aplenty to David Bowie and has concluded with ones to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (see also here, here and here). David Hudson rounds up some of the cinematic losses here. And some of FSFF's own tributes are linked to below, alongside blog entries, amazing free ebooks, and wonderful journal issue contents.

FSFF wishes all its readers and supporters a happy, healthy 2017. And it looks forward to producing and purveying plenty more open access film studies resources in the year ahead.

• Film Studies For Free 2016 entries x 10:

• The Film-Play's the Thing: RIP Jacques Rivette 1928-2016 
• New FILM CRITICISM, FILM-PHILOSOPHY, 12 new film and media open access eBooks, Mulvey and Dyer interviews, and lots of other links!,
• For the Starman Who Fell to Earth - In Memory of David Bowie 
• New LOLA, [in]TRANSITION, MOVIE, Film-Philosophy, MOVIE, Film-Philosophy, Senses of Cinema plus a video essay on Todd Haynes' CAROL, and more!
• The Persistence of Vision: Videos on the Work of Film Theorists and Scholars
• For all to see, and to see the sense of: In Memory of V. F. Perkins (1936-2016)
• Almodovar Studies For Free
• My Year’s Work in Audiovisual Essays and Videographic Film Studies
• We'll Tak' a Cup o' Kindness Yet: Awesome Open Access Film Studies Links to See Out 2016!

• Film Studies For Free Videographic Tributes Bookending the Year x 3

SIMULACRUM (For Carrie Fisher) by Catherine Grant

MOVIE MOTHER (For Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher) by Catherine Grant

LOS OLVIDADOS / LAZARUS (Bowie meets Buñuel) by Catherine Grant

• The Best Video Essays of 2016 - Fandor's End of Year Poll

As last year, Kevin B. Lee polled "esteemed video essay creators, scholars, programmers, and devoted followers of the form to highlight the best video essays of the year. Each year it becomes more necessary to crowdsource this task, for in the words of notable video essayist David Verdeure / Filmscalpel, 'It has become impossible to keep up with all video essays that are made, with the form proliferating in both academic and film fan circles.' These poll results might offer some help in sorting out the standouts of the genre. Videos mentioned most frequently in this poll are embedded below, along with the individual lists."

• Open Access Film Studies eBooks x 2!

• POST-CINEMA: THEORIZING 21ST-CENTURY FILM

A major scholarly collection edited by Shane Denson and Julia Leyda, and published by REFRAME’s open access ebook imprint. 

If cinema and television, as the dominant media of the 20th century, shaped and reflected our cultural sensibilities, how do new digital media in the 21st century help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility? In this collection, Denson and Leyda have gathered a range of essays that approach this question by way of a critical engagement with the notion of “post-cinema.” Contributors explore key experiential, technological, political, historical, and ecological aspects of the transition from a cinematic to a post-cinematic media regime and articulate both continuities and disjunctures between film’s first and second centuries.

Download: PDF 13mb and PDF 9mb

CONTENTS AND LINKS TO WEB CHAPTERS

Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction – Shane Denson and Julia Leyda

1. Parameters for Post-Cinema 1.1  What is Digital Cinema? – Lev Manovich 1.2  Post-Continuity: An Introduction – Steven Shaviro 1.3  DVDs, Video Games, and the Cinema of Interactions – Richard Grusin

2. Experiences of Post-Cinema 2.1  The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Photographic, Cinematic, and Electronic “Presence” – Vivian Sobchack 2.2  Post-Cinematic Affect – Steven Shaviro 2.3  Flash-Forward: The Future is Now – Patricia Pisters 2.4  Towards a Non-Time Image: Notes on Deleuze in the Digital Era – Sergi Sánchez 2.5  Crazy Cameras, Discorrelated Images, and the Post-Perceptual Mediation of Post-Cinematic Affect – Shane Denson 2.6  The Error-Image: On the Technics of Memory – David Rambo

3. Techniques and Technologies of Post-Cinema 3.1  Cinema Designed: Visual Effects Software and the Emergence of the Engineered Spectacle – Leon Gurevitch 3.2  Bullet Time and the Mediation of Post-Cinematic Temporality – Andreas Sudmann 3.3  The Chora Line: RealD Incorporated – Caetlin Benson-Allott 3.4  Splitting the Atom: Post-Cinematic Articulations of Sound and Vision – Steven Shaviro

4. Politics of Post-Cinema 4.1  Demon Debt: Paranormal Activity as Recessionary Post-Cinematic Allegory – Julia Leyda 4.2  On the Political Economy of the Contemporary (Superhero) Blockbuster Series – Felix Brinker 4.3  Reality Effects: The Ideology of the Long Take in the Cinema of Alfonso Cuarón – Bruce Isaacs 4.4  Metamorphosis and Modulation: Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan – Steen Christiansen 4.5  Biopolitical Violence and Affective Force: Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown – Elena del Río

5. Archaeologies of Post-Cinema 5.1  The Relocation of Cinema – Francesco Casetti 5.2  Early/Post-Cinema: The Short Form, 1900/2000 – Ruth Mayer 5.3  Post-Cinematic Atavism – Richard Grusin 5.4  Ride into the Danger Zone: Top Gun (1986) and the Emergence of the Post-Cinematic – Michael Loren Siegel 5.5  Life in Those Shadows! Kara Walker’s Post-Cinematic Silhouettes – Alessandra Raengo

 6. Ecologies of Post-Cinema 6.1  The Art of Morphogenesis: Cinema in and beyond the Capitalocene – Adrian Ivakhiv 6.2  Anthropocenema: Cinema in the Age of Mass Extinctions – Selmin Kara 6.3  Algorithmic Sensibility: Reflections on the Post-Perceptual Image – Mark B. N. Hansen 6.4  The Post-Cinematic Venue: Towards an Infrastructuralist Poetics – Billy Stevenson

7. Dialogues on Post-Cinema 7.1  The Post-Cinematic in Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity 2 – Therese Grisham, Julia Leyda, Nicholas Rombes, and Steven Shaviro 7.2  Post-Cinematic Affect: A Conversation in Five Parts – Paul Bowman, Kristopher L. Cannon, Elena del Río, Shane Denson, Adrian Ivakhiv, Patricia MacCormack, Michael O’Rourke, Karin Sellberg, and Steven Shaviro 7.3  Post-Continuity, the Irrational Camera, Thoughts on 3D – Shane Denson, Therese Grisham, and Julia Leyda 7.4  Post-Cinema, Digitality, Politics – Julia Leyda, Rosalind Galt, and Kylie Jarrett

• The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities
In June 2016, REFRAME Books published The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities, edited by Charles R. Acland and Eric Hoyt – a cutting edge collection of work both surveying what media historians are doing with digital tools and charting a course for how the field of media history might move forward in an ongoing dialogue with the digital humanities. Online at: http://projectarclight.org/book/

CONTENTS:

“A Guide to the Arclight Guidebook” by Eric Hoyt, Kit Hughes, and Charles R. Acland

PART I: Searching and Mapping 1) “The Quick Search and Slow Scholarship: Researching Film Formats” by Haidee Wasson; 2) “Search and Re-search: Digital Print Archives and the History of Multi-sited Cinema” by Gregory A. Waller; 3) “Using Digital Maps to Investigate Cinema History” by Laura Horak; 4) “Field Sketches with Arclight: Mapping the Industrial Film Sector” by Kit Hughes

PART II: Approaching the Database 5) “Low-Tech Digital” by Charles R. Acland; 6) “Excavating Film History with Metadata Analysis: Building and Searching the ECHO Early Cinema Credits Database” by Derek Long; 7) “Show Me the History! Big Data Goes to the Movies” by Deb Verhoeven; 8) “How Is a Digital Project Like a Film?” by Miriam Posner

PART III: Analyzing Images, Sounds, Words 9) “Coding and Visualizing the Beauty in Hating Michelle Phan: Exploratory Experiments with YouTube, Images, and Discussion Boards” by Tony Tran; 10) “Looking for Bachelors in American Silent Film: Experiments with Digital Methods” by Lisa Spiro; 11) “Terminological Traffic in the Movie Business” by Charles R. Acland & Fenwick McKelvey; 12) “Digital Tools for Film Analysis: Small Data” by Lea Jacobs & Kaitlin Fyfe; 13) “The Slices of Cinema: Digital Surrealism as Research Strategy” by Kevin L. Ferguson

PART IV: Process, Product, and Publics 14) “Digital Tools for Television Historiography: Researching and Writing the History of US Daytime Soap Opera” by Elana H. Levine; 15) “When Worlds Collide: Sharing Historical Advertising Research on Tumblr” by Cynthia B. Meyers; 16) “Networking Moving Image History: Archives, Scholars, and the Media Ecology Project” by Mark Williams; 17) “Curating, Coding, Writing: Expanded Forms of Scholarly Production” by Eric Hoyt; “Keywords and Online Resources” by Robert Hunt and Tony Tran

• Open Access Film and Media Studies Journal Issues x 4: 

NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Autumn 2016_#Home

• Editorial Necsus

• Features: 
• Even today there are people who think these harmless little books are dangerous: An interview with David Bordwell by Malte Hagener 
• From single male guest worker to Muslim: An archaeology of iterating archival footage on Dutch television by Andrea Meuzelaar 
• The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s ‘Toponimia’ by Patrick Brian Smith 
• For here there is no place that does not see you: ‘Minority Report’ and art as de/legitimisation by Josef Früchtl 

• Special section: #Home 
• The Calais Jungle: Mediations of home by Mireille Rosello 
• From the bedroom to LA: Revisiting the settings of early video blogs on YouTube by Rainer Hillrichs 
• The filmic representation of home in transnational families: The case of ‘I for India’ by Efrén Cuevas 
• The home screen as an anchor point for mobile media use: Technologies, practices, identities by Stefan Werning 
• Songs of home (and away): Ethnically-coded diegetic music and multidirectional nostalgia in fiction films about Polish migrants by Kris Van Heuckelom and Iwona Guść 

• Festival reviews: edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist (Film Festival Research Network) 
• How do film festivals work?: A conversation with Joshua Oppenheimer by Greg de Cuir Jr 
• Virtual futures and cinematic pasts at the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival by Kirsten Stevens 
• Films from Asia, attention around the world: 18th Far East Film Festival, Udine by Jinuo Diao 

• Exhibition reviews: edited by Miriam De Rosa and Malin Wahlberg (NECS Publication Committee) 
• Pierdom by Simon Roberts by Lavinia Brydon and Olu Jenzen 
• A place between desire and experience: Afterthoughts on Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting by Carlos Kong 

• Book reviews: edited by Lavinia Brydon and Alena Strohmaier (NECS Publication Committee) 
• Dreaming of Cinema / Slow Cinema by James Newton 
• A geography of resistance: Locating US underground film and TV cultures by Andrea Mariani 

• Audiovisual essays: guest edited by Catherine Grant 
• The audiovisual essay as performative research by Catherine Grant 
• House Arrest by Domietta Torlasco 
• The Place of Voiceover in Academic Audiovisual Film and Television Criticism by Ian Garwood 
• Being Bowie by Will Brooker and Rebecca Hughes

NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Spring 2016_’Small data’

• Editorial Necsus 

• Features
• A philosophy of weaving the web: An interview with media theorist Sebastian Giessmann by Geert Lovink
• Remake: Chantal Akerman’s and John Smith’s plays on reality by Clara Miranda Scherffig
• Videographic film studies and the analysis of camera movement by Volker Pantenburg
• Photobiographies: The Derrida documentaries as film-philosophy by Robert Sinnerbrink
• ‘The Right Stuff’: From Western to melodrama and comedy by Wim Staat
• Pleasure | Obvious | Queer: A conversation with Richard Dyer by Catherine Grant and Jaap Kooijman 

• Special section: Small data
• Forms of binding: On data and not ‘fitting in’ by Anirban Gupta-Nigam
• Compact cinematics by Pepita Hesselberth and Maria Poulaki
• From Saul Bass to participatory culture: Opening title sequences in contemporary television series by Valentina Re
• Database aesthetics, modular storytelling, and the intimate small worlds of Korsakow documentaries by Anna Wiehl
• Towards a minor data manifesto by Jacek Smolicki and Alberto Frigo 

• Exhibition reviews: edited by Miriam De Rosa and Malin Wahlberg (NECS Publication Committee)
• Ryoji Ikeda at ZKM by Joo Yun Lee
• Re-enacting pre-existing image collections in Akram Zaatari’s ‘Unfolding’ by Olivia Eriksson
• The milieu of poetry: Yuri An’s ‘The Unharvested Sea’ and ‘Sailing Words’ by Adeena Mey
• Festival reviews: edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist (Film Festival Research Network)
• Of calendars and industries: IDFA and CPH:DOX by Aida Vallejo
• Human rights, film, and social change: Screening Rights Film Festival, Birmingham Centre for Film Studies by Sonia Tascón
• Rediscovering Frantz Fanon at Scotland’s Africa in Motion film festival by Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu 

• Book reviews: edited by Lavinia Brydon and Alena Strohmaier (NECS Publication Committee)
• Complex series and struggling cable guys by Anne Gre Wabeke
• New media configurations and socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world by Najmeh Moradiyan Rizi 

• Audiovisual essays: guest edited by Dana Linssen
• Whose Cinema: The video-essay on the big screen of the International Film Festival Rotterdam by Dana Linssen
• Live Streaming US by Paula Albuquerque
• re_making by Juan Daniel Molero
• Warped Reflections: The Cinematic Identity of Helmut Berger by Hugo Emmerzael

• SEQUENCE (4.1 [2016]) — ‘THINKING WITH DIGITS: Cinema and the Digital-Analogue Opposition’ by Paul Atkinson

• SEQUENCE (5.1 [2016]) — 'Silence' by Liz Greene

• New website:

• AHRC-funded CHINESE FILM FESTIVAL STUDIES NETWORK edited by Chris Berry and Luke Robinson. This research network brings together scholars in the UK, China, other parts of Asia, Europe and the USA who are working on film festivals in Chinese-language territories and cultures (including the People’s Republic, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere): http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/chinesefilmfeststudies/

The website collects materials relevant to Chinese Film Festival Studies, including reports on network events, bibliographies, lists of and reports on film festivals, and much more.

• Other Open Access Resources 

• TALKS@MFM – REFRAME continues with its series of video and audio recordings of research presentations and masterclasses held at the School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex: 

• Professor Laura Rascaroli on “Framing: The Essay Film as Theoretical Practice”

• Dr Rarchel Moseley on "Child’s Play? Stop-Frame Television Animation for Children in the Sixties and Seventies”

• Jerry Rothwell on "HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD (2015): Production, Engagement and Distribution in Documentary”

The "Godard Is" Issue of the new VERTIGO

Image from Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-99)

Film Studies For Free had a nagging doubt that it was omitting something BIG from its recent entry of links to Godard studies. And, boy, it was!

It really should have waited....

Some time back, the very kind people at the great Close Up film centre were in touch to announce their relaunch of excellent film magazine Vertigo as an online publication.

The (just published) reboot issue -- Godard Is. -- is astonishingly, mouth-wateringly good! The luscious links are below.

A très contrite FSFF has added the link to Vertigo to its permanent listing of online Film Studies journals.

Close Up Films is on Facebook and Twitter. Follow them. Like them. Thank you.


VERTIGO, Issue 30 | Spring 2012: Godard Is.

• EDITORIAL: A Double Bind By Damien Sanville

Contents

• Jean-Luc Godard: Vivre sa Vie By Frieda Grafe
• The Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art By David Brancaleone
• “Elpenor, Unburied”: Ezra Pound, Jean-Luc Godard And the Descent of Dwelling By Corin Depper
• King Lear By James Norton
• "I am playing leapfrog with myself" By Jürgen E. Müller
• Scénario du Film Passion: Writing Video at the End of Cinema By Duncan White
• Entering the Desert: The Book of Film Socialisme by By James S. Williams
• Godard in the Gallery: Story of a Ruination By Adrian Martin
• "Tensional Differences": The Anxiety of Re-Mediation in Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave Films By Ágnes Pethő
• For a Reconsideration of Soft and Hard By Jerry White
• It's Not Blood, It's Red: Colour(s) of Jean-Luc Godard By Robert Barry
• A Photograph and a Camera: Two Objects in Film Socialisme By Roland-François Lack

From the Archive

• An Old Place By Cyril Neyrat

ALPHAVILLE, a new journal of film and screen media

A poster of Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)

Alphaville is the first fully peer-reviewed online film journal in Ireland. It is edited by staff and PhD students in Film Studies at University College Cork. It will be published twice a year, in Summer and Winter, with both open and themed issues that will aim to provoke debate in the most topical issues in film and screen studies. [More about Alphaville]

There is no better title [...] for a new journal that proposes to explore the constitutive hybridity of the moving image—analog and digital, commercial and avant-garde, mainstream and independent, popular and elitist—without forgetting how its roots spread in artistic and productive practices that have always been far more composite and multilayered than our critical categories seemed to wish to account for. Calling for the breaking down of disciplinary boundaries, media fields and critical categories, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media aspires to be a laboratory for new interpretative ideas on the moving image of yesterday, of today and of tomorrow. This inaugural issue, in particular, foregrounds cultural, spatial, productive and aesthetic issues that aim to set in motion our thinking about European cinema within multilayered critical, cultural and geopolitical models, and in light of the complexity of the flow of images that characterises our media landscape. The transnationality, transculturality and transmediality of contemporary European cinemas are undoubtedly going to shape and occupy the research agenda for some time to come.  [Laura Rascaroli, 'Back to the Future: The European Film Studies Agenda Today']

There's a new open access film journal on the block, everybody! Great news in Film Studies For Free's humble opinion. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media has just published its first issue, along with calls for papers for two further issues, to boot.

The first issue is themed, and here's what its editors say about their choice of organising topic:

Alphaville Issue 1, European Cinema: Transnational, Transcultural, Transmedial stems thematically from an international graduate film studies conference that we co-organised in May 2010 at University College Cork. The conference addressed the permeability of European spaces—geopolitical, sociocultural, productive and aesthetic—within a post-1989 cinematic context. This Issue, however, moves the focus beyond such a specific—albeit multilayered—epoch, encompassing research on both past and contemporary filmmaking, in a bid to showcase the “movement” that was and still is at the heart of European cinema with regard to its interrelationships of geography, culture and form. Inspired by the many seminal works on European cinema that have gone before it, we seek to contribute to the debate a collection that is at once original, in its theoretical and thematic scope, and fresh, in its demonstration of inspiring new work by early career scholars (an attribute that affords us the knowledge that this thriving area in our field will continue to be so).

FSFF thinks it's a great issue packed with items of interest for film scholars, beginning with Natalia Pinázza's brilliant article on Sandra Kogut’s multinational coproduction documentary Un passeport hongrois/The Hungarian Passport (2001).

Tu es très bienvenu Alphaville!

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media Issue 1 (Summer 2011)

Editorial:

• 'Back to the Future: The European Film Studies Agenda Today' by Laura Rascaroli
• 'Issue Editors’ Note' by Abigail Keating, Jill Murphy and Aidan Power

Articles:

• 'Transnationality and Transitionality: Sandra Kogut’s The Hungarian Passport' by Natalia Pinázza
• 'Paris, Borders and the Concept of Europe in Paris, je t’aime and Code Unknown' by Vivien Silvey
• 'Lindsay Anderson: Britishness and National Cinemas' by Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard
• 'The Fictive Archive: Kurdish Filmmaking in Turkey' by Özgür Çiçek
• 'Ideas of Sex: Discourses on Sexuality in Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter and Cesare Canevari’s The Gestapo’s Last Orgy' by Nick Impey
• 'Cinema/History: Philippe Garrel, Bernardo Bertolucci and May 1968' by Michael Leonard
• 'Face to Face with the Muslim “Other”: European Cinematic Responses to Al-Qaeda' by Elena Caoduro

Book Reviews and Festival and Conference Reports:

[Compiled by Jill Moriarty, Deborah Mellamphy and Stefano Odorico, University College Cork]

• Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema, by Yosefa Loshitzky (2010)  Reviewer: Aidan Power
• Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representations of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema, by Russel J.A. Kilbourn (2010)  Reviewer: Colm Ryan

• The “Biographical Narrative in Film and Television” Postgraduate Seminar Series University of Southampton, May and June 2010  Reporter: Victoria Kearley
• The Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference 2011: Media Citizenship New Orleans, USA, March 10-13, 2011  Reporter: Deborah Mellamphy

• The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival Schull, County Cork, 26-29 May 2011  Reporter: Barry Monahan
• Film 4 Frightfest, 2010 London, 26-30 August 2010  Reporter: Deborah Mellamphy

email: alphavillejournal@gmail.com

Issue 2, Winter 2011, Space and Time in Film.

Issue 3, Summer 2012, Sound, Voice, Music.

cfp: http://www.alphavillejournal.com/CallforPapers.html

New FILM-PHILOSOPHY on Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis (Herzog, Solondz, Cronenberg, Streitfeld, Eisenstein, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, Zhang Yimou, Forgács)

Frame grab from Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979). Read Adrian Ivakhiv's essay on this film in the latest issue of Film Philosophy

And the brilliant, online, film journal issues just keep on coming...

Film Studies For Free is delighted to bring you news of the latest offering from one of the highest quality e-journals of them all - Film-Philosophy.
 
FP, Vol 15, No 1 (2011) is a special issue on Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis, edited by David Sorfa. FSFF particularly liked Adrian Ivakhiv's 'ecocritical' essay which explores Tarkovsky's Stalker, along with Jacqueline Loeb's fine 'Foucauldian' study of sound in Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern. But there are other excellent contributions, too. 

Readers should also note that it is now possible to donate to the journal. Film-Philosophy is an independent Open Access academic journal operating without recurring financial support. Donations of any amount to the journal are gratefully received and provide a means for the editors to continue to provide a journal of the highest quality to its readers. Just click on the "Donations" link on the FP website.

For those of you who are interested in phenomenological film studies, do take a look, if you haven't already, at FSFF's previous gathering of links to online and openly accessible work on this topic.

Table of Contents 

Articles

• Kate Ince, 'Bringing Bodies Back In: For a Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Film Criticism of Embodied Cultural Identity'  PDF
• Paula Quigley, 'Undoing the Image: Film Theory and Psychoanalysis ' PDF
• Greg Tuck, 'Sex, Dialectics and the Misery of Happiness' PDF 
• Kohei Furuya, 'Why Is Touch Sometimes So Touching?: The Phenomenology of Touch in Susan Streitfeld’s Female Perversions' PDF 
• Dylan Trigg, 'The Return of the New Flesh: Body Memory in David Cronenberg['s The Fly] and Merleau-Ponty' PDF
• Laszlo Strausz, 'On the River: History as a Palimpsestic Narrative in The Danube Exodus' PDF
• Adrian J. Ivakhiv, 'The Anthrobiogeomorphic Machine: Stalking the Zone of Cinema' PDF
• Julia Vassilieva, 'Between Utopia and Event: Beyond the Banality of Local Politics in Eisenstein'  PDF
• Christine Henderson, 'The Trials of Individuation in Late Modernity: Exploring Subject Formation in Antonioni's Red Desert' PDF  
• William Verrone, 'Transgression and Transcendence in the Films of Werner Herzog' PDF  
• Jacqueline Loeb, 'Dissonance Rising: Subversive Sound in Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern' PDF

Interviews

• 'Brecht Today: Interview with Alexander Kluge' PDF by Angelos Koutsourakis

Film Festival Reports

• Venice Film Festival 2010: The Mad and the Bad and the Dangerous to Know PDF by John Bleasdale
• Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale 2011 PDF Alison Elizabeth Frank

Book Reviews

• Mark T. Conard, ed. (2009) The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers PDF by Taylor Benjamin Worley
• Frederick Wasser (2010) Steven Spielberg’s America PDF  by Steven Rybin
• Claire Molloy (2010) Memento; Geoff King (2010) Lost in Translation; Gary Needham (2010) Brokeback Mountain. American Indies Series PDF by John Bleasdale 
• Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Allen, eds. (2009) The Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15 PDF by Tifenn Brisset 
• Richard Abel, ed. (2010) Encyclopedia of Early Cinema PDF by Carrie Giunta 
• Jim Ellis (2009) Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations PDF by Jason Wakefield 
• Christopher Lindner, ed. (2009) The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader. 2nd Edition PDF by Lucy Bolton

Issues of KINEMA (Spring and Fall 2010)

Image from Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007). Read Alessandro's Zir's article on this film for Kinema (Spring 2010)

Film Studies For Free continues with its roundup of recent offerings from online film studies journal by catching up with the last two issues posted at Kinema: a Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media.

Lots of good stuff here, but FSFF particularly enjoyed Alessandro Zir's essay on Paranoid Park, Antonio Sanna on the connections between the Alien series of films and Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, and Des O'Rawe's study of Godard's Film Socialisme.

Spring 2010

'The Art of Creative Scriptural Extrapolation [on Celil B. De Mille's films]' by Anton Karl Kozlovic
'Reproducing the Fin-de-siècle Gothic with Techno-Gothic Vampires' by Antonio Sanna
'Film, Arts and Culture as Community Outreach Tools' by Victor S. O. Yu
'Interview with Gary Tooze' by Jan Uhdeby
'Going to the Movies in Egypt' by Mustafa Mahmoud Yousry
'The Desire for History in Lars von Trier’s Europa and Theo Angelopoulos’ The Suspended Step of the Stork' by Angelos Koutsourakis
'Non-Realism and Ontology in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park' by Alessandro Zir

Fall 2010

'The Fraternity of Metaphors: Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme' by Des O'Rawe'
'Interview with Kevin Brownlow on the Making of Winstanley' by Tony Tracy
'Targeting Alien Filmmakers in 1930s Hollywood' by J. Emmett Winn
'Woody Allen as Impossible Cassandra' by Alessandro Zir
'The Language and Genealogy of Early Spy Cinema' by Lukasz Boron
'Interview with Singapore Filmmaker Boo Junfeng' by Yvonne Ng
'The New Vicissitudes of Auteur Cinema' by Christina Stojanova

New World Picture 5: Varda, Solomon, Citron, Jacobs, Schneeman, Wisconsin Death Trip,

Image from Innocence and Despair (Phil Solomon, 2001). Experience Solomon's video at World Picture Journal 5: Sustainability

Film Studies For Free is a longstanding and ardent supporter of the online journal World Picture. Today, FSFF is thrilled to bring you news of the latest issue (no. 5) on Sustainability which has just gone online. There are plenty of wonderful film-related items, as usual, as well as some timely and important essays and interviews on sustainability from a number of other key perspectives for the Arts and Humanities.

Great work, WP!

Below, you can find the issue's  table of contents, and below that you can find the call for papers for the next World Picture conference, this time in Toronto, so do please scroll down for those.

Table of Contents

• Eugenie Brinkema Burn. Object. If.

• Tina di Carlo  Excess Sustainability, Sustainable Excess: A Dossier of Statements on Architecture and Sustainability Statements by Stefano Harney, Geoffrey West, Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Inaba, Bjarke Ingels, and Tomas Saraceno

• Michelle Citron in conversation with Brian Price and Meghan Sutherland The Ambiguous Archive

• Alexander García Düttmann The Life and Death of the University

• Ken Jacobs 3D is Intoxicating and Three 3D Poems: Lulu in Hollywood, Routine, The Story of a Devoted Couple

• Jennifer Johung Sustainably Dependent: Bio-Architectural Living Spaces

• Maebh Long The Hedgehog and Lord Browne: The “To Come” of the Humanities

• Ian MacKaye in conversation with Brian Price Records

• Timothy Morton Unsustaining

• Karen Pinkus and Cameron Tonkinwise Want Not: A Dialogue on Sustainability with Images

• Rebekah Rutkoff The Splatter Technique: An Interior Dialogue Between the Narrator and Carolee Schneeman

• Phil Solomon Innocence and Despair (2001): A Decade Later

• Allan Stoekl Agnès Varda and the Limits of Gleaning

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2011 World Picture Conference 
October 21-22 University of Toronto 
Lorenz Engell, Bauhaus University, Weimar Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University

The annual World Picture Conference gathers scholars from a range of different disciplines to address the relation between critical theory, philosophy, and aesthetics. For this year’s meeting we welcome papers on questions of distance. Such considerations might include (but are in no sense limited to):  

• Distance and mediation (technological and otherwise) 
• Distance as abstraction (or alienation, estrangement) 
• Travel Simultaneity
• Spatial allegories of distance
• Vision (as the prime sense organ of distance)
• Modes of translation
• Geopolitics (of distance)
• Distance and/as interval (distance as time, not just space) 
• Distance and unknowing/ignorance 
• Critique of proximity/propinquity 
• Ecology and distance (global footprints, carbon calculations, etc.) 
• Scale Emotion Critical distance/objectivity

Please submit proposals (250 words, plus brief bio) by June 17 to: brian.price@utoronto.ca

New Screening the Past

Image from The Portraitist/Portrecista (Ireneusz Dobrowolski, 2005),  Read Frances Guerin's essay on this film.

The developments of new digital technologies and representational forms have revived interest between photography and cinema, an interest that is both creative and critical. Independent filmmakers are availing themselves of alternative exhibition formats and spaces for their work, and moving image experimentation is now commonplace in the fields of contemporary fine art, design, music, and theatre.
     For this Special Issue of Screening the Past, guest editors Des O’Rawe and Sam Rohdie bring together a collection of original articles on the aesthetic and institutional relations between film, photography, and the visual arts, in particular writing that is attentive to cinematic forms and their recon­figuration within the contemporary visual arts.

 
As always, Film Studies For Free's little beating heart almost leapt out of its digital body at the news that a new issue of the Screening the Past journal had hit the e-stands. It's a special issue, the theme of which is Cinema/Photography: Beyond Representation (Issue 29, 2010). Below is the table of contents:

• George Kouvaros: He’s Not There: Robert Frank’s Me and My Brother.
• Lara Thompson: Monochrome Now: Digital Black and White Cinema and the Photographic Past.
• Sarinah Masukor: The Album of Everyday Life: The Photograph in the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
• Sam Rohdie: Profils Paysans.
• Des O’Rawe: Cinema Lucida: Johan van der Keuken and the Meaning of Loss.
• Rebecca Sheehan: The Time of Sculpture: Film, Photography and Auguste Rodin.
• Frances Guerin: Film as an Archive for Photography: The Portraitist as Witness to the Holocaust.
• Ji-hoon Kim: David Claerbout’s Digital Pensive Images.

First Release

• Wheeler Winston Dixon: Beyond Characterization: Performance in 1960s Experimental Cinema.
• George Kouvaros: Our Place in the World.
• Kathy Drayton: Inspiration and Girl in a Mirror.
• Gabrielle Murray: Fact and Fiction: The Iraq War Film in Absence.

Classics and Re-runs

• Adrian Martin: Bill Henson and the Devil, Probably.
• John Conomos: Bill Henson and the Cinematic.

Networking Knowledge on Michael Mann, Lindsay Anderson, Barbara Stanwyck and much more

Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali (Michael Mann, 2001) [See Vincent M Gaine's article on this and other Mann films]

From time to time, Film Studies For Free can be ever so dim. It has referred on a number of occasions in previous posts to choice items published in the online periodical Networking Knowledge: Journal of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) Post-Graduate Network (PGN). But it omitted to mention the journal in its permanent listing of Online Film and Media Studies Journals. D'oh!

Not only has FSFF now rectified this unfortunate error, but it has decided to carry out proper penance in the form of the below complete listing of direct links to all items so far published in this excellent journal, including many articles of note on film and moving image studies. Enjoy!

• Vol 3, No 1 (2010) - Table of Contents

Re-Mediated Mann:The Re-Mediation of Public Figures and Events in The Insider and Ali	PDF
Vincent M Gaine

The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson: Anderson’s Directorial Practice	PDF
Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard

Publicising the News: Publicity and Australian Commercial Television News	PDF
Michaela Jackson

Th’ Abstract of All Faults: Antony vs. the Hegemonic Man	PDF
Rachael Kelly

Reporting Religion and Enemy Images in the Nigerian Press	PDF
Odamah Musa

Journalistic Blogs in China: Political Dissent and the Formation of a Public Sphere	PDF
Hai Tang

The Role of Media in Supporting Communication in Cultural Institutions. Case Study: Communicating Media Art	PDF
Michela Negrini

• Vol 2, No 1 (2009) -MeCCSA PGN Conference 2008 -Table of Contents

Activism, Resistance and Online Presence

Digital vs Material: the Everyday Construction of Mediated Political Action	Abstract PDF
Veronica Barassi

Igorots in the Blogosphere: Claiming Spaces, Re-constructing Identities	Abstract PDF
Liezel C. Longboan

Blogging in China: Freedom of Expression vs Political Censorship in Sexual and Satirical Blogs	Abstract PDF
Hai Thang

The Press and the Political Process

Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns	Abstract PDF
Marina Dekavalla

Women and the Media

“Focus on the Housewife”: the BBC and the Post-war Woman, 1945-1955	Abstract PDF
Kristin Skoog

The Representation of Motherhood in Post-socialist Chinese Cinema	Abstract PDF
Huili Hao

Theorising Film

‘We’re on Flashdrive or CD-ROM’: Disassembly and Deletion in the Digital Noir of Collateral	Abstract PDF
Vincent M. Gaine

Indeterminate Film-thinking and Interpretation	Abstract PDF
Jimmy Billingham

Audiences and Fans

Underworld vs the World of Darkness: Players and Filmgoers Respond to a Legal Battle	Abstract PDF
Rachel Mizsei Ward

Wots Not Queer: the Search for Sexual Representation in Audience Research	Abstract PDF
Craig Haslop

Screen Icons

From Below to Above the Title: the Construction of the Star Image of Barbara Stanwyck, 1930-1935	Abstract PDF
Linda Berkvens

The Iconography of Mark Antony	Abstract PDF
Rachael Kelly

Locating Media Productions

Representing National Culture, Values and Identity in the Brazilian Television Mini-series	Abstract PDF
Niall Brennan

‘I Will Survive’: Forty Years of Amber Films and the Evolution of Regional Film Policy	Abstract PDF
Paul O'Reilly

Place, Communication, Translation

Read My Voice: Expressing Silence and Sound in Text-messages	Abstract PDF
Agnieszka Knaś

The Medium is Global, the Content is not: Translating Commercial Websites	Abstract PDF
Yvonne Lee

• Vol 1, No 2 (2007) - MeCCSA PGN Conference 2007 -Table of Contents

Branding, Advertising and Corporate Cultures

Steve Jobs: the human logo	Abstract PDF
Chloe Peacock

Interpersonal Communication Competence in SME Internationalization	Abstract PDF
Pipsa Purhonen

Design for Screen

One Form, Many Letters: Fluid and transient letterforms in screen-based typographic artefacts	Abstract PDF
Barbara Brownie

Fan Culture and Online Audiences

Dressing up as Vampires: Virtual vamps - negotiating female identity in cyberspace	Abstract PDF
Maria Mellins

Film and Theatre

The Playwright as Filmmaker: History, Theory and Practice	Abstract PDF
Othniel Smith

Imperialism and Globalisation

The evolution of Hollywood's representation of Arabs before 9/11: the relationship between political events and the notion of 'Otherness'	Abstract PDF
Sulaiman Arti

Popular Culture

"Little Englander" : Fawlty Towers - A textual analysis of nationalistic ideology	Abstract PDF
Matthew Bartley

Public Service Broadcasting and Radio

Reducing the difference between citizens and consumers: a critical discourse analysis of the Communications White Paper 2000	Abstract PDF
Simon Dawes

Reporting the Conflict

The Ideology of Objectivity: Constructs of Language in the Popular Press of Early Twentieth-Century Britain	Abstract PDF
Claudia Heske

Explaining Media Frames of Contested Foreign Conflicts: Irish National ‘Opinion Leader’ Newspapers’ Frames of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (July 2000 to July 2004)	Abstract PDF
Mary O'Regan

Sexual Representations in Cinema

The Killer Father and the Final Mother: Womb-Envy in The Cell	Abstract PDF
Shweta Sharma

Still Image

Photojournalism as a Creator of Values: otherness in Sámi representations	Abstract PDF
Heli Lehtela

Uses of Music and Sound in Film

Music, identity, and oblivion	Abstract PDF
Gerry Moorey

• Vol 1, No 1 (2007) -Minding the Gap: Reflections on Media Practice & Theory -Table of Contents

Sound and Image: Alternative Methods of Research and Presentation

Summary of Panel Presentations	Abstract PDF
Dr Charlotte Crofts

'High Definitions': Articulating Media Practice As Research	Abstract PDF
Dr Charlotte Crofts

Video Diary Making as a Research Method: Just Another Jargon of Authenticity?	Abstract PDF
Tony Dowmunt

Bringing Work Back to School: Professional Experience in Media Research

Dilemmas of Ethnographic Research: The Practitioner/Academic’s Quandary	Abstract PDF
Somnath Batabyal

A Return to the ‘Big’ Discourse : Interviewing History Documentary-Makers	Abstract PDF
Dafydd Sills-Jones

Theoretical Models in Mass Media Practice: Perspectives from the West

Introduction	Abstract PDF
Line Thomsen

Do Journalists know how to listen and should they be taught how to? Some thoughts on contemporary interviewing practices.	Abstract PDF
Gavin Rees

‘Documents of Ordinariness – The BBC Video Nation Project’	Abstract PDF
Jo Henderson

Daily or Diary? Towards a New Profile in e-Journalism	Abstract PDF
Cristina Perales, Mon Rodríguez

A Shield for Whom? First Amendment Implications of a Federal Shield Law	Abstract PDF
Patrice Holderbach

Theoretical Models in Mass Media Practice: Perspectives from the Developing World

Introduction	Abstract PDF
Venkata Vemuri

Journalism and Political Democracy in Brazil	Abstract PDF
Dr Carolina Matos

‘Reporting Back’: Al Jazeera English	Abstract PDF
Nina Bigalke

Grounds for Development: Media Development Practice and Theory in Post-Conflict Afghanistan	Abstract PDF
Sarah Kamal

Understanding the Complexity of Journalistic Practices: the Case of Xinhua	Abstract PDF
Dr Xin Xin

Double Vocations: Media Practice and Theory

Introduction	Abstract PDF
Dafydd Sills-Jones

Media Corporatism: Whither Journalistic Values?	Abstract PDF
George Nyabuga