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It is Film Studies For Free's 3rd birthday today. So, time for a little self-indulgent reflection and celebration...

A lot has changed in the last year, most notably that this blog has had to vie with a Film Studies For Pay job for its author's attention... Entries have indeed slowed a little. But, despite this, FSFF's readership has continued to grow rather astonishingly, with 'unique visits' exceeding 300,000, and 'page views' just about to reach half a million. Thank you, dear readers!

While there will be big developments at this blog in the coming year -- some of those linked to an exciting new, MA in Film Studies course its author will teach on Curating Film Culture next Spring -- its essential mission and qualities won't change: viva Open Access!

Onwards and upwards, but please remember you can follow FSFF in its various incarnations at Twitter, at Facebook, and at Vimeo, and you can keep up with its videographic film studies curations at Audiovisualcy (also on Twitter and Facebook).

Film Studies at the University of Sussex has been such a welcoming, fruitful and stimulating workplace for this blog's author. So, today's entry gratefully gathers links to openly accessible, online, film and moving image studies research and scholarship produced by the very wonderful staff and doctoral students/graduates at that rather venerable (50 years old, itself, next month) and pretty cool institution (as well as by FSFF's own scrivener).

• Thomas Austin, "Seeing, feeling, knowing: a case study of audience perspectives on screen documentary" Participations, 2:1, August 2005
• 'Review of Contemporary Hollywood Cinema By Steve Neale and Murray Smith (eds.)', Scope, 2000
• Caroline Bassett, 'Up the Garden Path: Or How to Get Smart in Public', Second Nature, Issue No.2, November 2009
• Jimmy Billingham, 'Indeterminate Film Thinking and Interpretation,' in Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA PGN (Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Association), vol. 2, no. 1, 2009 
• Sam Cooper, 'Sex and the Situs', World Picture, 4, 2010
• Martin Paul Eve, The Time That Remains: Elia Suleiman and the London Palestinian Film Festival 2010', Excursions, 1 (1), (2010) pp. 146-151
• Rosalind Galt, '“It’s so cold in Alaska”: Evoking Exploration Between Bazin and The Forbidden Quest', Discourse, 28.1, (Winter, 2006), pp. 53–71
• 'Mapping Catalonia in 1967: the Barcelona School in global context,' Senses of Cinema, Oct-Dec 2006
• 'The Obviousness of Cinema', World Picture, 2, Autumn 2009
• ' Perverse Aesthetics: Maria Beatty, Masochism, and the Cinematic', World Picture, 4, Spring 2010
• Catherine Grant, 'Home Movies: The Curious Cinematic Collaboration of Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard', in For Ever Godard (eds) Temple, Williams, Witt (London: Black Dog Press, 2004), pp. 100-117 (preprint)
• ''Still Moving Images: Photographs of the Disappeared in Films about the Dirty War in Argentina', Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative, ed. Alex Hughes and Andrea Noble (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003) (preprint)
• 'Recognizing Billy Budd in Beau Travail: Epistemology and Hermeneutics of an Auteurist "Free" Adaptation', Screen Vol. 43, No. 1, 2002, pp. 57-73
• 'The "Author Function" in Transnational Film Adaptation: the Case of El lugar sin límites (Ripstein, Puig, Donoso' - English language translation of ''La función de "los autores": la adaptación cinematográfica transnacional de El lugar sin límites', Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXVIII, Núm, 199, Abril-Junio 2002, pp. 253-268
• 'Secret Agents: Feminist Theories of Women's Film Authorship', Feminist Theory Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2001, pp. 113-130 (preprint)
• 'Intimista Transformations: María Luisa Bemberg's First Feature Films', An Argentine Passion: The Films of María Luisa Bemberg ed. John King, Sheila Whittaker and Rosa Bosch (London: Verso, 2000) (preprint)
• 'Giving up Ghosts: Eliseo Subiela's Hombre mirando al sudeste and No te mueras sin decirme a dónde vas', Changing Reels: Latin American Cinema against the Odds, ed. Rob Rix and Roberto Rodríguez-Saona (Leeds: Leeds Iberian Papers - Trinity and All Saints/University of Leeds, 1997), pp. 89-120
• Video essays: 
• 'Unsentimental Education: on Claude Chabrol's Les Bonnes femmes', FSFF, June 2009
• 'True Likeness: on Peeping Tom and Code Unknown', Filmanalytical, June 2010
• 'Establishing Split: on Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream', Filmanalytical, November 2010
• 'Video Primer: Refashioning the Femme Fatale? Gilda in Motion', Film Studies For Free', February 2011;
• 'Video Primer: Framing Incandescence: Elizabeth Taylor as 'Helen Burns' in Jane Eyre', Film Studies For Free, April 2011
• Ed Hughes and Aitor Antepara Zuza, (2007) Battleship Potemkin: A Contemporary Score. Tartan Video, London, UK, 2007
• Mary Agnes Krell, 'Investigating Imaginary Evidence', Vectors, Issue 1, 2005 
• Kate Lacey, 'Home, Work and Everyday Life: Roger Silverstone at Sussex', International Journal of Communication 1 (2007)
• Michael Lawrence '“Carefully Posed Thighs”: The Garden of Eden in 1966', World Picture, 4, 2010
• Simon Paul Mussell, Constellations of Adornian theory and film: readings of Adorno with Tarkovsky and Haneke. Doctoral thesis, University of Sussex, 2011
• Kate O'Riordan,  'Playing with Lara in Virtual Space' in Sally Munt (ed.), Technospaces: inside the new media (London: Continuum, 2001)
• 'Caroline Bassett (2007) The Arc and the Machine: Narrative and New Media', Culture Machine, 130, July 2008
• Graeme G. Pedlingham, The (un)scene of memory: energetic theory and representation in theatre and film, Doctoral thesis, University of Sussex, 2011 
• Roberta Piazza, The representation of conflict in the discourse of Italian melodrama. Journal of Pragmatics, 38 (12), 2006, pp. 2087-2104
• John David Rhodes, "Concentrated Ground": Grey Gardens and the Cinema of the Domestic', Framework, 47.1, Spring 2006
• 'Location, Location, Location', Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2006, pp. 129-131
• 'Peggy Ahwesh', Senses of Cinema, 29, 2003 
• 'Notes on Cinematic Desire (for Louis)', World Picture, 4, Spring 2010
• 'Easy Living: The Modernist House and Cinematic Space', Talk at the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image University of Kent, 2010 (mp3)
• Niall Richardson, 'Poison in the Sirkian System: The Political Agenda of Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven', Scope, Issue 6, 2006
• Neil Graham Slack, A cinema of white masculine crisis: race and gender in contemporary British film. Doctoral thesis, University of Sussex, 2010
• Sue Thornham, 'Starting to Feel Like a Chick: Re-visioning romance in In the Cut', Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2007
• Lizzie Thynne, 'Ethics, politics and representation in Child of Mine, a television documentary on lesbian parenting', Jump Cut, No. 53, 2011
• Dolores Tierney, 'The Appeal of the Real in Snuff: Alejandro Amenabar's Thesis', Spectator, 22.2, 2002
• 'Alejandro González Iñárritu: director without borders', New Cinemas, 2009
• 'Emilio Fernandez 'in Hollywood': Mexico's Postwar Inter-American Cinema, La perla/The Pearl (1946) and The Fugitive (1948)', originally in Studies in Hispanic Cinema, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2010
• 'Gender Relations and Mexican Cultural Nationalism in Emilio Fernández's Enamorada/Woman in Love', originally in QRFV, 20:3, 2010
• 'Lights and shadows: new perspectives on Cuban cinema', The International Journal of Cuban Studies, Issue 2, December 2008
• El terror en El beso de la mujer araña', Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXVIII, Núm. 199, Abril-Junio 2002, 355-365
• Glenn Ward, Journeys into perversion: vision, desire and economies of transgression in the films of Jess Franco, Doctoral thesis, University of Sussex, 2011
• Neelam Sidhar Wright, Bollywood eclipsed : the postmodern aesthetics, scholarly appeal, and remaking of contemporary popular Indian cinema, Doctoral thesis, University of Sussex, 2010
• '"Tom Cruise? Tarantino? E.T.? ...Indian!": Innovation through Imitation in the Cross-cultural Bollywood Remake', Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation, edited buy Iain Robert Smith, Scope, Issue 15, 2010

Frank Krutnik et al (co-ed.), "Un-American" Hollywood: politics and film in the blacklist era (Rutgers University Press, 2007)

Thomas Austin, Watching the world: screen documentary and audiences (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)

Andy Medhurst, 'Heart of Farce: Almodóvar's comic complexities', All about Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema, eds. Bradley S. Epps, Brad Epps, Despina Kakoudaki (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)


Dolores, Tierney, Emilio Fernández: pictures in the margins (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008)

Vicky Lebeau, Psychoanalysis and Cinema: the Play of Shadows (London: Wallflower Press, 2001)

Rosalind Galt, Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011)

Rosalind Galt, The new European cinema: redrawing the map (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006)

Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover (eds), Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

Lizzie Thynne, "The Space Between: Daughters and Lovers in Anne Lister', in Tamsin Wilton (ed.), Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image (London: Routledge, 1995)

Andy Medhurst, A national joke: popular comedy and English cultural identities (London: Routledge, 2007)

Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture (London: Ashgate, 2010)

Sharif Mowlabocus, Gaydar Culture: Gay Men, Technology and Embodiment in the Digital Age (London: Ashgate, 2010)