In the Nick of Time: On Cli-Fi and Ecocinema Film and Moving Image Studies

Well, it's been a while... Something or other must have happened in the meantime... 🤔

Film Studies For Free is nonetheless very happy to be back, still fighting the good fight for high-quality, openly-accessible, film and moving image studies resources. 

With no further ado, FSFF is thrilled to bring its readers and audio-viewers a brilliant new video essay (embedded above) entitled “Climate Fictions, Dystopias, and Human Futures” by Julia Leyda and Kathleen Loock. Thanks so much to them for sharing with us their wonderful study of the evolution of climate fiction cinema, with its powerful videographic plea for greater diversity and complexity in the Cli-Fi audiovisual imaginary.

Below the informative text about their video that they have supplied (scroll down), FSFF has curated a list of links to further great and openly accessible film and moving image studies research and resources on these essential topics, some of which are drawn from Susanne Leikam and Julia Leyda's marvellous 2017 critical bibliography 'Cli-Fi in American Studies: A Research Bibliography', published in American Studies Journal (DOI 10.18422/62-08).

Don’t Look Up (2021), a comedy about a comet on a collision course with Earth, is one of Netflix’s most-watched English-language films of all time. It sparked discussions around climate change and created a climate action platform that outlines what individuals can do against climate change. Netflix has also launched its Sustainability Collection in April 2022, with more than 170 films and series aimed at raising environmental awareness. “Entertain to Sustain” is the slogan behind the production and curation of this content and it goes hand in hand with Netflix’s Net Zero + Nature plan. But the question of what can be done, and what a movie or television series can achieve, has also led to criticism of Netflix’s greenwashing, emphasizing individual action and piecemeal corporate PR-heavy policies over politics. In our video essay “Climate Fictions, Dystopias, and Human Futures,” we take Don’t Look Up as a starting point to look back at the evolution of the concept of “cli-fi” (climate fiction) over more than a decade, reflect on shifting storytelling strategies of cli-fi films past, present, and future, and probe their possible impact -- from precursors such as Planet of the Apes (1968) and Soylent Green (1973) to the “classic” The Day after Tomorrow (2004) to recent variations on the cli-fi formula that break out of the white patriarchal mode like Fast Color (2018) and that incorporate lighter affects like Downsizing (2017). If cli-fi has a role to play in helping contemporary audiences imagine possible futures, part of its task will be to employ more diverse stories, characters, and settings. [JL and KL]

The below list will be updated when further good links surface, or come to mind. So, do please let FSFF know if you have any resources to add! Thank you!

Links

Morgan Adamson, 'Anthropocene Realism' New Inquiry 30 Nov. 2015

Andrea Avidad, 'Deadly Barks: Acousmaticity and Post-Animality in Lucrecia Martel's La ciénaga', Film-Philosophy, Volume 24 Issue 2, 2020

Natalie D. Baker, 'Zombie Experts and Anarchy Imaginaries: Fantasies of 'Crises to Be' in Climate Change Futures', Journal of Strategic Security, ol. 13, No. 4, 2020

Giovanni Bettini, 'About Time! The Abyss of the Future and End(s) of Subjectivity in (Climate) Dystopias', e-cadernos CES [Online], 32 | 2019

Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn and Philippa Lovatt, 'Tracing the Anthropocene in Southeast Asian film and artists’ moving image: Introduction', Screen, 62.4, Winter 2021

Tom Cohen, ed. Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change. Vol. 1. Ann Arbor, MI: Open Humanities Press, 2012

Sara L. Crosby, Andrew Hageman, Shannon Davies Mancus, Daniel Platt, and Alison Sperling,  Annihilation: A Roundtable Review. Gothic Nature. 1, 2019 PDF

Sean Cubitt, 'Ecocritique as Transnational Commons'. Transnational Screens, 10(1), pp. 1-11, 2019. PDF

Shane Denson, 'Post-Cinema After Extinction', medieninitiative, 21 May 2015

Shane Denson, 'Post-Cinema After Extinction [expanded version]', Media Fields Journal, 2018

Simon Estok, 2016). Ecomedia and ecophobia. Neohelicon (Budapest), 43(1), 2016

Michael Fuchs and Christy Tidwell, 'The Anthropocene, Nature, and the Gothic: An Interview with Christy Tidwell',  REDEN. Revista Española De Estudios Norteamericanos, 3(2), 100-112. PDF

Angel Galdón Rodríguez, 'Starting to Hate the State: The Beginning of the Character’s Dissidence in Dystopian Literature and Films', Altre Modernità, no. 3, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2010, pp. 166–73 PDF

GOTHIC NATURE JOURNAL: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic, Issue 1, 2019 and Issue 2, 2020

• ‘Introduction’, Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland
• ‘Gothic Nature Revisited: Reflections on the Gothic of Ecocriticism’, Tom J. Hillard 
• ‘Theorising the EcoGothic’, Simon C. Estok
• ‘“Don’t be a Zombie”: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy’, Kevin Corstorphine
• ‘Children of the Quorn: The Vegetarian, Raw, and the Horrors of Vegetarianism’, Jimmy Packham
• ‘A Stern, a Sad, a Darkly Meditative, a Distrustful, if not a Desperate Man, Did He Become, from the Night of that Fearful Dream’: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Nocturnal Gothic’, Sarah Cullen 
• ‘”On the Border Territory Between the Animal and the Vegetable Kingdoms”: Plant-Animal Hybridity and the Late Victorian Imagination’, Marc Ricard
• ‘EcoGothic, Ecohorror and Apocalyptic Entanglement in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Tales of the Black Freighter’, James L. Smith and Colin Yeo
• ‘The Value(s) of Landscape: The Sublime, the Picturesque, and Ann Radcliff’, Garland D. Beasley
• ‘”Monkey-Advice and Monkey-Help”: Isak Dinesen’s EcoGothic’, Peter Mortensen
• We Live in EcoGothic Times: Gothic Nature in the Current Climate, Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland
• Dislodged Anthropocentrism and Ecological Critique in Folk Horror: From ‘Children of the Corn’ and The Wicker Man to ‘In the Tall Grass’ and Children of the Stones, Dawn Keetley
• The Wicked Witch in the Woods: Puritan Maternalism, Ecofeminism, and Folk Horror in Robert Eggers’ The VVitch: A New-England Folktale, Alexandra Hauke
• Soundtrack to Settler-Colonialism: Tanya Tagaq’s Music as Creative Nonfiction Horror, Kateryna Barnes
• The Ecohorror of Omission: Haunted Suburbs and the Forgotten Trees of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Christy Tidwell
• All You Need Is Love?: Making the Selfish Choice in The Cabin at the End of the World and The Migration, Rebecca Gibson
• The Haunted Seas of British Television: Nation, Environment and Horror, Mark Fryers
• Tentacles from the Depths: The Nautical Horror of D. T. Neal’s Relict, Antonio Alcalá González
• Real Mermaid vs. Nuclear Power Plant: Ecofeminist Vengeance and AmaDivers in Japanese Horror, Timo Thelen

Rodney Harrison. and Colin Sterling, eds, Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2020)

Johan Höglund, 'Militarizing the Anthropocene: Hollywood, Climate Fiction and Security in Future Americas', EAAS presentation, 2021 PDF

Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann, 'Digital and Interactive Media Projects that Think Through the Environment', St. Andrews University's Centre for Screen Studies' Themed Playlist, 2020

Adrian Ivakhiv, Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times (Punctum Books, 2018)

Erin James and Eric Morel, eds, Environment and Narrative: New Essays in Econarratology (Ohio State University Press, 2020)

Selmin Kara, 'Anthropocenema: Cinema in the Age of Mass Extinctions'. Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Ed. Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. Falmer: Reframe, 2016

Caroline Kjærulff, 'The Ambiguous Portrayal of Nature in Annihilation', Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English, (7), 2021 

Angelos Koutsourakis, 'Visualizing the Anthropocene Dialectically: Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens’ Eco-Crisis Trilogy', Film-Philosophy, Volume 21 Issue 3, Page 299-325, 2017

Trine Mærsk Kragsbjerg, 'The Malthusian Alternative and Overpopulation in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame', Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English, No. 7, 2021

Julia Leyda, 'Enough Said? Beasts of the Southern Wild, Sharknado, and Extreme Weather', Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture 26 July 2013 

Julia Leyda, Kathleen Loock, Alexander Starre, Thiago Pinto Barbosa, and Manuel Rivera, 'The Dystopian Impulse of Contemporary Cli-Fi: Lessons and Questions from a Joint Workshop of the IASS and the JFKI (FU Berlin)', Working Paper of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam (Dec. 2016) PDF

Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż, eds, The Enemy in Contemporary Film, Volume 12, (De Gruyter, 2018)

Philippa Lovatt, 'Foraging in the ruins: Nguyễn Trinh Thi’s mycological moving-image practice', Screen, 62.4, Winter 2021 

Tiago de Luca, Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth (Amsterdam University. Press, 2021)

Jeff Vance Martin and Gretchen Sneegas, 'Critical Worldbuilding: Toward a Geographical Engagement with Imagined Worlds', Literary Geographies, Vol 6, No 1 (2020) 

• Does Wall•E Dream of Electric Kale? The California Dream as Post-Scarcity Nightmare Alexander Robert Tarr 
• Geographies of Science Fiction, Peace, and Cosmopolitanism: Conceptualizing Critical Worldbuilding through a Lens of Doctor Who Hannah Carilyn Gunderman 
• Expanding Climate Science: Using Science Fiction’s Worldbuilding to Imagine a Climate Changed Southwestern U.S. Dylan M. Harris

David Martin-Jones, 'Trolls, Tigers and Transmodern Ecological Encounters: Enrique Dussel and a Cine-ethics for the Anthropocene', Film-Philosophy, Volume 20 Issue 1, 2016

Laura Mattson, 'Elemental Climate Disaster Texts and Queer Ecological Temporality', MA Thesis, College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida, 2020 PDF

Emily Munro, 'Living. Proof: Exploring the Climate Crisis through Archive Footage', Journal of Film Preservation, 4, 2022

Adam O'Brien, Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood (Berghahn Books, 2016)

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, 'Cinema and Environment: The Arts of Noticing in the Anthropocene', "Res Rhetorica" 8 (2):2-21

Matthew Rimmer, 'The Culture Wars of Climate Change', SSRN, 2015

Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt, 'Introduction: Ecologies of Media', 
In Rust, Monani, and Cubitt. eds. Ecomedia: Key Issues. Routledge Earthscan series, 1-14, 2015 PDF

Michael Svoboda, 'Interstellar: Looking for the Future in All the Wrong Spaces'. Yale Climate Connections 12 Nov. 2014.

Michael Svoboda, '(What) Do We Learn from Cli-Fi Film? Hollywood Still Stuck in the Holocene'. Yale Climate Connections 19 Nov. 2014

Thomas Waugh, The Conscience of Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2016)

Afore Ye Go, 2019: Essential Tributes (Elsaesser, Wollen, Lindner) Plus Favourite-of-the-Year Open Access Resources

FALLING: 3 x Girls in Uniform

A comparative videographic study by Catherine Grant showcasing the repetitions and variations across two sets of corresponding sequences from the three direct film adaptations of Christa Winsloe's MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM (aka RITTER NÉRESTAN and GESTERN UND HEUTE, 1930-32). Video first published at MEDIÁTICO in December 2019, alongside a great text on the Mexican adaptation by Roberto Carlos Ortiz.

Better late than never, so they say. But it is especially late for this to be the very first, as well as the very last, blog entry of 2019 at Film Studies For Free...

What else can this blog's author say, but sorry / not sorry for being distracted by an incredibly busy year spent in hot pursuit of other excellent open-access screen studies initiatives - all listed immediately beneath this introduction.

It has also been a year of tremendous loss for many, especially, it seems, in the realm of film and moving image studies. So this end of year/end of decade FSFF post has a somewhat sombre tone and distinctly commemorative content. It offers warm tributes in links to the work and lives of the two foundational film scholars-filmmakers who sadly died late in 2019: Thomas Elsaesser and Peter Wollen. We owe them so much. It also offers a further deeply-heart-felt tribute to a brilliant young film scholar who, in February of this year, died way too soon: Katharina "Kat" Lindner.

FSFF's author had the great fortune, honour and pleasure of meeting all three of these wonderful contributors to our discipline. She sends much love and sincere condolences to their partners, families and close friends. As further online tributes to these scholars appear, the entries below will be updated.

Other huge film studies losses, in this cruel year, have included Edward Branigan and Eileen Bowser.

Below FSFF's tributes, this end of year entry continues with this blog's customary lists of links to some of its favourite open-access film and moving image studies resources from 2019.

Film Studies For Free wishes all of its readers and viewers a happy and healthy 2020! It hopes to see a lot more of you in the next decade!

Film Studies For Free's Author's OA Activities in 2019

• 3 new open-access co-edited collections: 
• Beast Fables: On Animals in the Cinema with Tracy Cox-Stanton at The Cine-Files; 
• New ways of seeing (and hearing): The audiovisual essay and television with Jaap Kooijman at NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies; 
• Pride Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation, with Diarmaid Kelliher at the Open Library of Humanities Journal. 
• 2 new open access, multimedia websites: 
• The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy, which collects both previously-published and new versions of writings by Christian Keathley, Jason Mittell and FSFF's author Catherine Grant, and many videos by them and others, among other useful material; 
• screenstudies.video, another still in production research resource by this blog's author, coming very soon in 2020... 
• Service on the steering committee of the brilliant new pre-print initiative MediArxiv: Open Archive for Media, Film, and Communication Studies, as well as on the boards of numerous other OA archives and journals... Also check out the new bilingual Spanish/English journal Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales / Journal of Audiovisual Essays
• 2 great podcast interviews on video essays: one with Will DiGravio for the new The Video Essay Podcast; and one with José Arroyo for his Conversations with Film Scholars series 
• Much ongoing co-editorial labour of love at [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, which, in 2019, added two brilliant new co-editors to its team: Neepa Majumdar and Kevin L. Ferguson. 
• 16 new online video essays on screen studies topics: 14 published here; and 2 more here; including probably her best one ever. 
• And continued daily or weekly sharing at FSFF's Twitter and Facebook accounts.

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In Memoriam Thomas Elsaesser
(1943–2019)

Personal tribute by Catherine Grant 

I still can’t believe Thomas Elsaesser has died. A foundational and inspirational figure in our field - and for me personally, especially given his utter dedication to open access publishing, both by his own example, sharing so many of his publications at his website, as well as as a hugely important figure at Amsterdam University Press.

I met Thomas in 2001 at the Forever Godard conference and remained in touch. In the last years, especially, I got to spend time with him in person quite a lot as our paths crossed on many conference trips and he visited the institutions I have worked in numerous times, including to screen his lovely film The Sun Island. From his work on melodrama, authorship (his Fassbinder book, linked to below was a huge influence on my work), media history and archaeology, through to, latterly, research by film and video practice, he was always leading the way. He was hugely supportive of Film Studies For Free over the years, and of the scholarly endeavour of videographic  approaches to our discipline, in which he was also a pioneer (see below).

Where will we go now, Thomas?

Online Tributes and Festschrifts

• 'Stories we tell: Remembering Thomas Elsaesser, by Malte Hagener, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 12 December, 2019
• 'In Memoriam Thomas Elsaesser' by Patricia Pisters, UvA website, 7 December, 2019
• Mind the Screen : Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser, edited by Patricia Pisters, Wanda Strauven and Jaap Kooijman (Amsterdam University Press, 2008)
• 'Remembering our colleague and friend Thomas Elsaesser', by Maryse Elliott, Senior Commissioning Editor at Amsterdam University Press, December 2019
• Tributes to Thomas Elsaesser, by David Hudson, Criterion Daily, 10 December 2019
• 'In Memory of Thomas Elsaesser, film scholar and filmmaker extraordinaire', The Essay Film Festival, December 2019
• Thomas Elsaesser, Film Scholar With A Broad View, Dies At 76, New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, December 19, 2019

Open Access Books

• Writing for the Medium : Television in transition, edited by Lucette Bronk, Thomas Elsaesser and Jan Simon (Amsterdam University Press, 1994)
• Fassbinder's Germany : History, Identity, Subject, by Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam University Press, 1996)
• A Second Life : German Cinema's First Decades, edited by Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam University Press, 1996)
• Harun Farocki : Working on the Sight-Lines, edited by Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
• The Last Great American Picture Show : New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s, edited by Noel King, Thomas Elsaesser and Alexander Horwath (Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
• European Cinema : Face to Face with Hollywood, by Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam University Press, 2005) - this collection includes Elsaesser's essay on Peter Wollen's first solo-directed film Friendship's Death (1987).
• And Mind the Screen : Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser, edited by Patricia Pisters, Wanda Strauven and Jaap Kooijman (Amsterdam University Press, 2008)

Websites

Thomas Elsaesser - Including a list of Publications (many downloadable as PDFs)

Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses


Online Interviews (more to be added)

Essay Film Festival 2018: Thomas Elsaesser in Discussion with Erica Carter
about his 2018 film The Sun Island


Videos and Video Essays

Thomas Elsaesser's Vimeo Account

BERGMAN SENSES (Thomas Elsaesser, Anne Bachmann and Jonas Moberg)

Film Studies For Free Tribute videos

Installations and Compilations: Elsaesser Senses

Installations and Compilations: Elsaesser Senses - Commentary version

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In Memoriam Peter Wollen

(1938-2019)

Personal tribute by Catherine Grant

I only met Peter Wollen once in real life - also at the 2001 Forever Godard where I met Thomas Elsaesser and other foundational film scholars. But I encountered him in my head many many times, and will continue to do so. His work - particularly his  brilliant filmmaking explorations with Laura Mulvey, and the second edition of his book Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, with its groundbreaking arguments about film authorship and 'patterns of energy cathexis' - were of huge importance to my own writing, teaching, and also filmmaking. His 2001 account of cinephilia in "An Alphabet of Cinema" (NEW LEFT REVIEW, 12) is even more of an influence on what I and others are doing now in our video essays and works of creative criticism. I am very much looking forward to the cinematic re-release of Friendship's Death, his 1987 solo-directed essay film, in 2020, and feel sure that Wollen's work, with its timely prescience, will endure in many ways that we cannot yet predict.

Online Tributes

'Peter Wollen obituary: the maven of British film theory',

by Henry K. Miller, Sight and Sound, 20 December 2019

PETER WOLLEN (1938–2019), Artforum, December 20, 2019

Online written work by Peter Wollen

'Knight's Moves', PUBLIC, 25, 2002 (about Mulvey/Wollen's joint work)
'The Field of Language on Film', October, 17, Summer 1981 [Lux Online version] (about Mulvey/Wollen's joint work)
'Interview with Tony Garnett and Ken Loach: Family Life in the making', by Anthony Barnett, John McGrath, John Mathews, and Peter Wollen, from Jump Cut, no. 10-11, 1976
Ch. 2, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema; 'The Auteur Theory' [PDF]

S.T.R.O.B.E. by Peter Wollen

[Link]

Work about Wollen's Research and Filmmaking

Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Theory and Practice, Aesthetics and Politics, 1963-1983, PhD thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2018

European Cinema : Face to Face with Hollywood, by Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam University Press, 2005) - this collection includes Elsaesser's essay on Peter Wollen's first solo-directed film Friendship's Death (1987), and numerous other references to his work.

Lux Online Entry on 'Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen'

Rakhee Balaram, Entry on 'Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen', Lux Online

Eleanor Burke, BFI Screenonline entry on 'Peter Wollen'

Charles Esche,'What does it mean to say that feminism is back? A reaction to Riddles of the Sphinx', Afterall Journal, 15, Spring/Summer 2007

Chris Fennell, 'Laura Mulvey on Riddles of the Sphinx', BFI, October 1, 2013

William Fowler, BFI Screenonline entry on 'Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974)'

Laura Mulvey, 'The Oedipus Myth: Beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx', PUBLIC, 2, 1989

Laura Mulvey on RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (Mulvey and Wollen, 1977) 

Wollen epigraph by Christian Keathley



Film Studies For Free Tribute video

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In Memoriam Katharina Lindner
(1979-2019)

Personal tribute by Catherine Grant

Kat Lindner is missed so acutely by so many in her twin worlds of football and film studies. I met her only once in person, a few years ago, though we corresponded about our work over the years. She came to an event in Glasgow at which I was talking, as usual, about video essays. She was a razor sharp, deeply original thinker, with a truly glowing presence. Afterwards we talked for a long time - me trying to convince her, and almost succeeding, I think, that her fabulous work on queer cinematic phenomenology would translate brilliantly to this audiovisual format if only she would take it up. It was an exhilarating conversation and I wish it hadn't had to end. Even before that memorable encounter, I loved her work (especially her path-breaking 2017 book Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema), and used it in my own research directly and indirectly. One day I would like to make a video essay about her writing - but I haven't been able to yet.

Online Tributes

'Towards a Queer Feminist Vernacular: Dr Katharina Lindner’s Film Bodies'

by Jenny Chamarette and So Mayer with Davina Quinlivan, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, May 15, 2019

'Katharina Lindner, 1979-2019: Tributes paid to footballer turned queer theorist', by Matthew Reitz, THE, 28 February 2019
'Obituary: Kat Lindner, academic and footballer for Glasgow City', The Herald, 14 February 2019

'Screening Expectation' in Screen Bodies, by Brian Bergen-Aurand
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2018.030201 [PDF]



Online Film Studies Writing by Lindner

'Questions of embodied difference: Film and queer phenomenology',
NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Autumn 2012

‘Situated bodies, cinematic orientations: Film and (queer) phenomenology’, in Saer Ba and William Higbee (eds), De-Westernizing Film. London: Routledge, 2012, [pre-print]

'Spectacular (Dis-) Embodiments: The Female Dancer on Film', Scope, 20, June 2011 PDF

 ‘‘There is a reason why Sporty Spice is the only one of them without a fella...’: The ‘lesbian’ potential of Bend it Like Beckham’. New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol. 9, No.2, 2011, pp. 204-223 [pre-print]

‘Bodies ‘in action’: Female athleticism on the cinema screen’. Feminist Media Studies, Vol.11, No.3, 2011, pp. 321-345 [pre-print]

‘Fighting for subjectivity: Articulations of physicality in Girlfight’. In Journal of International Women’s Studies, 2009, Vol.10, No.3, pp.4-17. [pre-print]

(Other online publications and pre-prints on media studies topics by Lindner are accessible here)


Writing about Lindner's Research

Davina Quinlivan, 'Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema, by Katharina Lindner' Times Higher Educational Supplement, January 18, 2018

Jules O'Dwyer, Katharina Lindner (2017) Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema, Film-Philosophy, 22.3

Kat's Inspirational Hartford Hawks Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech, Class of '03

Video link


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FSFF's Favourite Online Film and Moving Image Studies 2019

Favourite Contributions to Online Film Scholarly Culture by a Single Scholar

Jennifer Proctor for 'Am I Pretty? and a “Sonic Gaze”', [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, 2019,  plus her article 'Teaching avant-garde practice as videographic research', in Screen, 60.3, Autumn 2019; and especially for her inspirational continuing work on the inclusive teaching initiative, EDIT Media (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media), http://www.editmedia.org


Favourite Open Access Journal Article

'“Our Bravest and Most Beautiful Soldier”: Pola Negri, Wartime and the Gendering of Anxiety in Hotel Imperial', by Elisabetta Girelli, in Film-Philosophy's special issue on Stardom and Film-Philosophy (23.2, 2019), edited by Lucy Bolton

Favourite New Open Access Journal Issue

Frames Cinema Journal for Magical Women, Witches & Healers,

Issue 16, Winter 2019, edited by Ana Maria Sapountzi & Peize Li  

Favourite New Open Access Journal

Media+Environment, edited by Alenda Chang, Adrian Ivakhiv and Janet Walker

Most Missed Online Journal That Stopped Publishing in 2019

Cléo: A Journal of Film and Feminism 

(Read about its demise here. But, thanks to the generosity of filmmaker Barry Jenkins, you can purchase a compendium of the best writing in its six year run).

Favourite Three New Open Access eBooks

The Cinema of Marguerite Duras : Multisensoriality and Female Subjectivity
By Michelle Royer (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)

Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
By Hannah Frank (University of California Press, Oakland, 2019)

The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier: 
Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions
By Julian Hanich and Daniel Fairfax (Amsterdam University Press, 2019)

Favourite Film Studies Blog (as Ever)

Observations on Film Art by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson


Favourite New Film and Moving Image Studies Related Podcast

Will DiGravio's The Video Essay Podcast

Favourite Online Videographic Approach to Screen Studies

Poor Jesse by Jason Mittell,

Part of "The Chemistry of Character in BREAKING BAD: An Audiovisual Book"


Favourite Collection of Online Video Essays (Not Published by FSFF)

In an excellent new issue of NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, Autumn 2019, devoted to treatments of gesture, came this collection of three excellent video essays in a section edited by Tracy Cox-Stanton: (scroll down)‬

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14 of Film Studies For Free Video Essays Published in 2019

Ten Festive Treats from Film Studies For Free!

1. FATED TO BE MATED: An Architectural Promenade from Catherine Grant on Vimeo. As discussed in "Screen studies as device?: Working through the video essay" and at Filmanalytical

Sawing Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in half.

A queer experiment in cinephilic re-spatialisation

Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays from Film Studies For Free! Let's celebrate with a new video essay (above) and nine sets of treats (below) representing some of FSFF's favourite online film and moving image studies items from 2018.


2. MEDIÁTICO - Special Dossier on Alfonso Cuarón's Roma (2018) by nine world-leading scholars on Latin American Cinema

• INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL DOSSIER ON ROMA (ALFONSO CUARON) by Dolores Tierney
• WATCHING ROMA IN MEXICO CITY by Paul Julian Smith
• BROKEN MEMORY, VOICE AND VISUAL STORYTELLING by Pedro Ángel Palou
• ALFONSO CUARÓN’S LOVE LETTER TO HIS NANA by Deborah Shaw
• CLASS TROUBLE by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
• MEMORIES OF C/LEO – ON AUTEURISM AND ROMA by Jeffrey Middents
• FEMINISM AND INTIMATE/EMOTIONAL LABOR by Olivia Consentino
• THE PARADOXES OF CINEPHILIA IN THE AGE OF NETFLIX by Belén Vidal
• RECUERDA, NOTES ON ALFONSO CUARÓN’S ROMA by Robert Carlos Ortiz

3. Twenty of FSFF's favourite video essays from 2018

Cotton - The Fabric of Genocide from Cydnii Harris on Vimeo.

What's Walt Thinking? Mind Reading & Serialized Memory in Breaking Bad from Jason Mittell on Vimeo.


Dorothy, Isabella, Dorothy from Liz Greene on Vimeo.

The Signature Effect - trailer from Christian Keathley on Vimeo.

Bush Mama Epigraph from Neepa Majumdar on Vimeo.

Women, Intimacy, and Sexual Violence in Hitchcock Films from Emma Hampsten on Vimeo.

The Follow Shot: A Tale of Two Elephants from Jordan Schonig on Vimeo.

Berlin Moves from Evelyn Kreutzer on Vimeo.

I Feel, Therefore I Can Be Free from Nzingha Kendall on Vimeo.

Melodramatic Railway Sounds - Video Essay from Oswald Iten on Vimeo.

David Verdeure's 'The Apartment' at MUBI

Flânerie 2.0 [ENG SUBS] from Chloé Galibert-Laîné on Vimeo.

The Thinking Machine 24: When You Read This Letter by Cristina Alvarez López and Adrian Martin from De Filmkrant

Cinders of La Invasión: Reenactment as Index in Abner Benaim's Invasión from Nike Nivar Ortiz on Vimeo.

Remixing Rose Hobart from Derek Long on Vimeo.

America is (not) Cool from Jenny OK on Vimeo.

Sound in Hanna-Barbera from Patrick Sullivan on Vimeo.

Some People Like Hearing Sad Things: A Meditation on "Transparent" from Nicole Morse on Vimeo.

Cruising Différance in 3 Scenes from Marc Francis on Vimeo.

#65 - Childhood by Hirokazu Kore-eda // Enfants rois from TROISCOULEURS on Vimeo.

4. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. Autumn 2018 Issue on Mapping

• Editorial NECSUS

• Early cinema, Sergei Eisenstein, and film culture today: An interview with Ian Christie on new directions in film history by Annie van den Oever and Malte Hagener

• The playfulness of Ingmar Bergman: Screenwriting from notebooks to screenplays by Anna Sofia Rossholm

• Handmade films and artist-run labs: The chemical sites of film’s counterculture by Rossella Catanese and Jussi Parikka

• Border crossings: Serial figures and the evolution of media by Shane Denson and Ruth Mayer

Special section: #Mappingedited by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta

• The exact shape of the world: Mapping and the media by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta

• The mapping of ‘500 Days of Summer’: A processual approach to cinematic cartography by Chris Lukinbeal

• Earth networks: ‘The Human Surge’ and cognitive mapping by Tiago de Luca 

• Digital maps and fan discourse: Moving between heuristics and interpretation by Marta Boni

• Embodied cartographies of the unscene: A feminist approach to (geo)visualising film and television production by Laura Sharp

• Making the map speak: Indigenous animated cartographies as contrapuntal spatial representations by Lola Remy 

• Plus ultra: Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip II by Adam Wickberg

• Media mapping and oil extraction: A Louisiana story by Janet Walker

Festival reviews:edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist

• A brief study of film festivals in Mexico: Consumption and historical evolution 2010-2016 by Jacob Bañuelos and Juan Olmedo

• The Dutch film festival landscape: A walk-through by Harry van Vliet 

• Evidentiary aesthetics: Landscapes of violence at RIDM 2017 by Patrick Smith

Exhibition reviews:edited by Miriam de Rosa and Leo Goldsmith

• Codes of conflux: Collaborations between human and computer in MoMa’s ‘Thinking Machines’ by Leo Goldsmith

• Nothing stable under heaven at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Justin Ross Muchnick

• Racial phantasmagoria: The demonisation of the other in Richard Mosse’s ‘Incoming’ by Diego Ramirez

Book reviews:edited by Lavinia Brydon and Victoria Pastor-González

• (Re)imagining African independence by Vicente Sanchez-Biosca 

• Form and feeling: Kinaesthetic Knowing / Artificial Darkness by Seth Barry Watter

Audiovisual essays:edited by Miklós Kiss

• Videographic scene analyses, part 2 by Miklós Kiss 

• Witnessing the western by Luís Azevedo 

• Marxism in ‘Metropolis’ by Greta Calaciura and Shant Bayramian 

• The l/song take in ‘Before Sunrise’ by Ian Garwood

• Agent of chaos: Discontinuous editing in ‘The Dark Knight’ by Drew Morton

5. Erika Balsom's brilliant essay on Jean-Lun Godard's latest film Le livre d'image The Image Book

6. Latest round up of profiles at the amazing Women's Film Pioneers Project

• Travelogue filmmaker and anthropologist Kathleen Romoli(Colombia) by Isabel Arredondo
• Director, producer, and screenwriter Louise Kolm-Fleck(Austria, Germany, China) by Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl
• Director, actress, producer, and screenwriter Francesca Bertini (Italy) by Monica Dall’Asta
• Chief accountant, office manager, and production secretary Aili Kari (Finland) by Hannu Salmi
• Producer, screenwriter, and editor Virgínia de Castro e Almeida (Portugal, France) by Tiago Baptista
• Director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and camerawoman Angela Murray Gibson (United States) by Charles “Buckey” Grimm
• Set designers and location scouts Frances Baker Farrell and Lettice Ramsey & actress/editor Máirín Hayes (Ireland) by Donna Casella
• Publicist, trade journal editor and writer, and business owner Mabel Condon (United States) by Carolyn Jacobs
• Director, actress, and film company founder Cleo de Verberena (Brazil) by Marcella Grecco de Araujo

7. The fabulous research project and resource Timeline of Historical Film Colors is now on Instagram as @timeline_filmcolors!

8. The Shadowcast: A remarkable new film podcast from film critic genius David Cairns

9.  Allison Wilmore's 'Orientalism is Alive and Well in American Cinema' (link via Girish Shambu)

10. "Breaking your reservation: the rise of indigenous cinema" by So Mayer

Celebrating Ten Years of FILM STUDIES FOR FREE, with Two New Aretha-on-Film Tributes and Tens of Other Awesome Links!

THINK FREEDOM by Catherine Grant

A video tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), and the constantly surprising cinematic performance of her 1968 song 'Think' in The Blues Brothers (US 1980). The video takes the form of an audiovisual infographic on John Landis's dynamic filming of the song scene,
starring Franklin as the irrepressible Mrs. Murphy.

(P.S. If you think I'm mapping any of the shots incorrectly, just let me know.

This is a great exercise to do with students, but it can be tricker than it looks...)

Film Studies For Free is ten years old today! Yes! It was exactly one whole decade ago that it went public online for the first time, just a few weeks before the 2008 financial crash really took off... What a truly excellent time to have become the international purveyor of links to high-quality FREE stuff for film and screen media studies!

The re-distributive, Open Access-championing, project that FSFF embraced had been conceived (of) a mere couple of weeks before, early one morning, in one of those rather dramatic lightbulb moments: "Wouldn't it be excellent if there could be a blog that directed film scholars to good, openly accessible resources for them online?" And thus it came to pass.

What a blast it has been.

Brought to you from a somewhat remote log cabin in a tiny internationalist enclave of pre-Brexit Britain (pictured for the first time online, below), its mission was equally inspired by the extremely lively and considerably less corporate atmosphere, at the time, of the cinephile Web 2.0, post-the establishment of YouTube in 2005 - a fascinating period now both scrutinised and immortalised by fellow participant-observer in that era and since (and blogger and cinephile extraordinaire) Girish Shambu in his wonderful 2016 book The New Cinephilia.

The spiritual home of FSFF

With no pomp or circumstance and—in the manner of an uncertain TV pilot episode—with very little sense of the form it would go on to take, on August 24, 2008, FSFF posted an inaugural entry on three 'very worthwhile items on the Director's Cut' (about which its scholar-author had recently been writing for a subsequently published book chapter).

The blog very soon found its processual feet in the form of producing mostly long, handily bullet-pointed lists of curated links to (mostly English-language) 'online, Open Access, film and audiovisual media studies resources of note.'

Oh, and FSFF embraced a hilarious third-person sense of humour and directed it at a virtual second-person audience... What writing larks it has had! Dear Reader, it has been a total pleasure.

What FSFF used to look like in its first years (image courtesy of the WAYBACK MACHINE)

Please permit FSFF the indulgence of one final reflection on this anniversary. The experience of fun, energy and experimentalism in producing FSFF over the last decade has had some unimaginable and unintended consequences - unimaginable and unintended ten years ago, anyhow. They have been wonderful, too.

For one, little had this blog's author thought that carrying out the research for this website would entail a shift away from her own, rather conventional, film and media scholar-modus operandi to a world of experimental, film and social media publishing proper (with the [in]Transition and REFRAME platforms, among others) as well as to that of audiovisual production. But FSFF's runaway enthusiasm for the emergent digital forms of film studies it was discovering online and linking to, such as the video essay, brought about just such a dramatic change in its author's conception of what academic work in the Humanities might be (and ought to be), these days, which is one reason why despite everything (including the ongoing downfall of Western democracies) FSFF still  the interwebs....

If you want to read more about FSFF's thoughts on the above turns, there's a 2012 article by its author, a research dissertation about this blog based on interviews with her, a very recent and excellent interview reflecting on all the above, carried out by the fabulous film scholar Sérgio Dias Branco for the online journal Aniki, and tons more thoughts in publications listed here.

This brings us back to OA business as usual: today's anniversary entry consists of the usual lists of links, below - this time to commemoratively-focused ones connected, of course, to FSFF's first decade of existence. But, FSFF also offers you, as is its wont, one video above and one below: two modest (film studies-oriented) tributes to the cinematic magic (in The Blues Bothers and Moonlight) of Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, who sadly passed away on August 16, 2018.

Keep coming back, Readers (well over 5 million of you, and still counting..). Thank you!

And thank you very much, Open Access authors and publishers! Without you, FSFF really wouldn't exist... Would it?

Please follow @filmstudiesff on Twitter and the Film Studies For Free page on Facebook, where quality links are shared daily.

Finally, huge thanks to FSFF's author's partner and soulmate Joyce for supporting Film Studies For Free

(and everything else) in every single way possible for each of the last great ten years.

PICK ONE by Catherine Grant

On a choice song in Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, USA 2016)

TEN ANNIVERSARY LINKS LISTS:

1. TEN (SETS OF) INSPIRATIONAL FILM AND SCREEN STUDIES BLOGGERS

• David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, of course!
• Kevin B. Lee, more influential in relation to everything FSFF (and its author) does in the realm of online film and media studies than he could possibly imagine.... A true original!
• Girish Shambu, without whom none of FSFF's last ten years would have been possible, or even noticed...
• Henry Jenkins, still setting the standard for critical media studies online. Immense!
• Alexandra Juhasz, (of Media Praxis) a genuine innovator and all round fabulous scholar-maker-activist
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Matt Zoller Seitz, film (and TV) critic-authors of the film websites I enjoy reading the most. Also, the most generous.
• Chuck Tryon (The Chutry Experiment), took participant-observation in online digital media studies to a whole new level.
• Pam Cook, Katherine Groo (Half/Films), Chris Cagle (Category D), three of the smartest people in the film scholarly universe online.
• Nick Rombes, Shane Denson, Jason Mittell - thanks for all the manifold brilliant ideas!
• And for their wondrous film criticism blogging: Farran Smith Nehme / Marilyn Ferdinand / Roderick Heath (the backbone of the Film Preservation Blogathon in which FSFF participated in its earlier years). And last but not least Peter Nellhaus, especially for his dedication to (and huge knowledge about and love for) cinema beyond that which exists in the English language. 

2. TEN FAVOURITE OPEN ACCESS FILM AND SCREEN STUDIES E-BOOKS

• Charles R. Acland and Eric Hoyt, The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities (Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2016)
• Erika Balsom, Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013)
• Trine Bjørkmann Berry, Videoblogging Before YouTube (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2018)
• David Bordwell, Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Library, 2004) [and all DB's other OA books listed here)
• Shane Denson and Julia Leyda (eds), Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film ( Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2016)
• Paul Grainge (ed), Memory and Popular Film (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003)
• Andrew Horton (ed), Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
• Mikhail Iampolski, The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
• Belén Vidal, Figuring the Past: Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012) 
• Siegfried Zielinski, Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History (Amsterdam University Press, 1999)

          For more see HERE

3. TEN FAVOURITE OPEN ACCESS PHD THESES

• Tiago Baptista, Lessons in looking : the digital audiovisual essay, PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2016
• Melis Belil, Home away from home: global directors of new Hollywood, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2007
• Felicia Chan, In Search of a Comparative Poetics: Cultural Translatability in Transnational Chinese Cinemas, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007
• Catherine Fowler, The films of Chantal Akerman: a cinema of displacements, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995
• Malte Hagener, Avant-garde culture and media strategies: the networks and discourses of the European film avant-garde, 1919-39, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2005
• Frances Hubbard, Screendance: corporeal ties between dance, film, and audience. PhD thesis, University of Sussex, 2014
• Andrew Klevan, Disclosure of the everyday : the undramatic achievements in narrative film, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996
• Michael Z. Newman, Characterization in American Independent Cinema, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
• Julianne Pidduck, Intimate places and flights of fancy : gender, space, and movement in contemporary costume drama. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1997
• Tim J. Smith, 'An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing', PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005

          For more see HERE

4. TEN FAVOURITE SETS OF OPEN ACCESS RESEARCH AND TEACHING RESOURCES

• Lantern, the search platform for the collections of the Media History Digital Library, an open access initiative led by David Pierce and Eric Hoyt.
• MediaCommons, a Digital Scholarly Network
• Oapen Books - not a publisher but a library, where you can find vast quantities of film and screen studies research in book form.
• EDIT media (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media). Thank you, Jennifer Proctor, and colleagues
• Critical Commons (For Fair and Critical Participation in Media Culture). Thank you, Steve Anderson!
• Audiovisualcy and the Audiovisual Essay website
• Vectors Journal and Kairos Journal
• Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory (Thank you, Vinzenz Hediger)
• Timeline of Historical Film Colors (Thank you, Barbara Fluekiger)
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies and Cinema Journal Open Access ventures: In Focus, Aca-Media Podcast, Archival News,  Afterthoughts and Postscripts, and Teaching Media

5. TEN FAVOURITE SOCIAL MEDIA GURUS FOR FILM / SCREEN CRITICISM AND MORE

• The legendary David Hudson, now at Criterion | Daily (Previously of GreenCineDaily, The Daily | MUBI, and the Daily | Fandor)
• So Mayer, @Tr0ublemayer
• Adrian Martin, @adrianmartin25
• Open Access in Media Studies, @OAmediascholar
• Matt Zoller Seitz, @mattzollerseitz
• The Notebook at MUBI @NotebookMUBI
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies, @SCMSstudies
• David Verdeure, @Filmscalpel
• Cristina Álvarez López, @laughmotel
• Useful new kid on the block: @scmspedagogy

6. TEN FAVOURITE SETS OF VIDEO AND AUDIO RESOURCES

• The VF Perkins interviews (scroll down on the page): 12 constituent parts of a truly fascinating interview with legendary film scholar V.F. Perkins which took place at the Kino 8 1/2 in Saarbrücken, Germany, and was filmed by Media Art and Design Studiengang. In the interview, Perkins engagingly discusses his approach to film studies and, in particular, talks about the trajectory of his foundational 1972 book Film as Film, and about his research on Jean Renoir's1939 film Le Régle du jeu about which he had written a 2012 book for the BFI Film Classics series (excerpt here)
• Haunted memory – the cinema of Víctor Erice, a video essay by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, 'exploring the joy and regret of nostalgia with one of the cinema’s great, spare poets of sense-memory.' (also see their Thinking Machine video essay work for Filmkrant)
• Transformers the Premake, by Kevin B. Lee
• 50 Years On, a video essay about cinephilia and history by Christian Keathley
• Fembot in a Red Dress, by Allison de Fren
• A Homeless Ghost: The Moving Camera and its Analogies by Patrick Keating
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence - A Visual Study, by Benjamin Sampson
• Collection of video essays (some in Spanish) built up by Transit - Cine y otros desvíos
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies Fieldnotes Project
• Podcasts extraordinaires: The Cinephiliacs (Peter Labuza); The Cinematologists (Neil Fox and Dario Llinares); You Must Remember This (Karina Longworth); and relative newcomer,  Eavesdropping at the Movies (José Arroyo and Michael Glass).

7. TEN FAVOURITE RECENT LINKS

• Filmscalpel's brilliant new video-essay collection: Director Dossiers
• New audiovisual essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin: The Gauntlet - Place and Space in a Scene from Notorious.
• Film History as Media Archaeology: an interview with Thomas Elsaesser and Vladimir Lukin
• Hegemonic Cinematography Exercise by Professor Ruth Goldman, SUNY Buffalo State, for EDIT Media
• Hollywood in Color [podcast] 'looks at the history of film through the lens of the underappreciated minority actresses who came up through the ranks.' Thanks to Liz Greene for the link.
• Film critic and scholar extraordinaire Adrian Martin is the latest guest (no. 41) on Bill Ackerman's podcast series SUPPORTING CHARACTERS! Bill's questions (more or less the same that he asks each person featured) tend to focus on autobiography, early years, career matters, and so on. Many films are also mentioned along the way.
• Is there a blog in this class? 2018 - the annual roundup by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson of lists of suggestions of posts at Observations on Film Art that might be useful in classes, either as assignments or recommendations.
• Top notch film scholar Caetlin Benson-Allott on the recent Oscar developments.
• Latest issue of the online journal APPARATUS on the influence of women on Eastern European film form, their significance, their skills, and their expertise, through their work as editors and beyond.
• The Center for the Humanities Blog on Crucial Circulations: VHS and Queer AIDS Archives by Jaime Shearn Coan (link via Alexandra Juhasz)

8. TEN FAVOURITE SETS OF OPEN ACCESS FILM AND SCREEN MEDIA JOURNALS

• Primarily non-English language ones: Aniki, Cinergie, Revista L'Atalante, 16:9, Photogénie 
• Pioneering Aussie ones: Screening the Past and Senses of Cinema
• Beloved and brilliant labours of love: Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media (thank you Julia Lesage, Chuck Kleinhans and John Hess!),  The Cine-Files: Scholarly Journal of Cinema Studies, Offscreen Journal, Rouge, Lola, World Picture Journal
• Innovative ones: Peephole, Vectors Journal, Kairos Journal, Screenworks, Audiovisual Thinking: Journal of Academic Videos, Transformative Works and Cultures
• Intersectional feminist ones: Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal, Cléo: A Journal of Film and Feminism, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture,
• NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies
• MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism
• Film Criticism
• Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
• [in]Transition; Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 

          For more see HERE

9. TEN (SETS OF) OPEN ACCESS HEROES IN SCREEN STUDIES 

• Daniel Frampton and David Sorfa (the legends behind Film-Philosophy in its different incarnations)
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jason Mittell and Avi Santo, and all those behind MediaCommons 
• Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards, for the amazing Open Library of Humanities, a platform now graced by a new film and television studies journal called Open Screens! 
• Will Brooker and Chris Becker, for the brilliant open access developments directly connected to Cinema Journal (including: In Focus, Aca-Media Podcast, Archival News, Afterthoughts and Postscripts, and Teaching Media)
• Adrian Martin, for the personal example of his prolific sharing of his work online and for editing and producing numerous open access publishing ventures (including Screening the Past, Rouge, and Lola [with Girish Shambu]). Check out his phenomenal personal website, supported by the open access legend that is Bill Mousoulis.
• Thomas Elsaesser, for the personal example of his prolific sharing of his work online and for editing and supporting numerous open access publishing ventures. Check out his phenomenal personal website. Thanks to him, also, for helping to pioneer the audiovisual essay form.
• Jeroen Sondervan, for all his work at Amsterdam University Press, and beyond, supporting open-access books and journals. Check out his latest great contribution, the Open Access Media Scholar website.
• The (fellow) co-editors, project managers, and peer reviewers at [in]Transition, who work so very hard helping to promote the audiovisual essay as a scholarly form, including Chiara Grizzaffi, Christian Keathley, Drew Morton, Jason Mittell and Christine Becker
• Rick Prelinger, for his contributions to audio-visual and other archiving at the Prelinger Archive and the Internet Archive
• Charlotte Crofts, for her tireless work in publishing audiovisual forms of screen studies, including developing the brilliant Screenworks platform (see FSFF's earlier act of worship)

10. TEN FAVORITE ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS WITH DESERVED OPEN-ACCESS CREDENTIALS

• Amsterdam University Press
• Open Library of Humanities
• Punctum Books
• University of California Press
• Leuven University Press
• Manchester University Press
• Open Humanities Press
• Edinburgh University Press
• Lever Press
• Stanford University Press for digital scholarship

And don't forget Oapen Books - not a publisher but a library, where you can find vast quantities of film and screen studies research in book form.

Post-scriptum: TEN TINY TESTIMONIALS ON FSFF REACHING THE GRAND OLD DIGITAL AGE OF TEN [blushing]

I think I discovered [Film Studies For Free] around 2010-2011. And I'm pretty sure it was through Catherine's video essay 'True Likeness', that we republished at Transit. Cine y otros desvíos - (cinentransit.com). Lovely piece and long life to Film Studies For Free!!!

Cristina Álvarez López, film critic and audiovisual essayist, Vilassar de Mar, Cataluña. @laughmotel

[W]ith thanks for such invaluable work and hearty congratulations on the anniversary.

José Arroyo, University of Warwick, UK. Blogger and podcaster. @JoseArroyo16

I remember when I first discovered [Film Studies For Free]-- I think I just came across it via a film-related google search, but it was a revelation. It was as if someone had given me a gift... The site was relatively new, but already, one could get deliriously, delightfully lost in it for hours.

Tracy Cox-Stanton, Savannah College of Art and Design and editor of The Cine-Files:A Scholarly Journal of Cinema Studies

Here’s my memory [...]. [Film Studies For Free] was one of my first resources when I was getting into film, especially as I started university (a Filmmaking degree) and realized that I wasn’t going to have Film History as a subject. I was also really struggling with trying to be fluent in reading and writing in English. The complex language of some of the studies pushed me into studying more, finding new words, new thoughts and it also gave me the education that I was lacking at uni. I’ve always been thankful for the access provided and I’ll always have the memories of going through link after link, reading about films that I hadn’t seen yet, going back, watching more and more, and then reading. Can’t say it made me want to write those kind of studies (I wish I had that kind of mentality and verbosity). But it surely made me write more about film and eventually, down the line, jump in and start writing in this language. Thank you for everything, Catherine, and to the people who make these studies available.

Jaime Grijalba, film critic, Santiago de Chile @jaimegrijalba

One of the best things about having good scholar-friends is when they say to you, ‘Have you read x?’, ‘Do you know about y?’, because they know you will be interested.  With Film Studies For Free  [Catherine] Grant became everyone’s favorite scholar-friend, and the site became the platform for extraordinary generosity – which, it must be noted, is more than matched her intelligence and imagination.” 

Christian Keathley, Middlebury College, co-editor of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, and editor of the Kino-Agora series at caboose books. 

[Film Studies For Free] honestly helped put [the Cinephiliacs] on the trajectory [it took], and I’m so excited for Catherine to celebrate this!!!

Peter Labuza, host of The Cinephiliacs podcast. @labuzamovies & @Cinephiliacs 

Felicitaciones por este excelente trabajo, una fuente de recursos increíble para conocer el universo del ensayo audiovisual, por muchos años más!!
Patricio Sanz, Buenos Aires-based PhD student and 'Cantautor, VJ y pugilista aficionado'. @patoriuss

What an absolutely invaluable and generous resource [Film Studies For Free] has been for a decade. (A thousand thanks!) This morning I dug up my very first exchanges with [its author]--going back to the time when she founded FSFF--and (gulp) I found an email in which I urged her to join Facebook and friend me lol...which she kindly did. FSFF 4EVER! 

Girish Shambu, Canisius College, blogger and author of The New Cinephilia

The generosity of the endeavour of [Film Studies For Free] in terms of the amount of scholarship it archives in topical and trending lists - and the invaluable resource it offers to film educators/researchers are what I  most about it and what I love most about [its author].

Dolores Tierney, University of Sussex, and co-editor of Mediático. @Dolorestierney

[Film Studies For Free] is my go-to resource for all things cinema studies. It's the best place online to find out what's happening in the world of academic film criticism.

Joseph Tompkins, Allegheny College, editor of Film Criticism.