Welcome to NECSUS, A New Open Access Film and Media Studies Journal

Frame grab from The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999). Read Anna Backman Rogers's article on this film at the new NECSUS journal.

Hot off the press! To coincide with its annual conference, taking place in Lisbon from tomorrow, the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) has just launched its new online and open access journal NECSUS. Feast your eyes on the marvellous contents of its first issue on Crisis below.

It has been added to Film Studies For Free's permanent listing of online and open access film and media studies journals. And now FSFF's author will read it! Yay!

Enjoy the conference, fellow NECS members!


Spring 2012: Launch Issue

• Editorial Necsus
• The gaps of cinema by Jacques Rancière
• Twitter as a multilingual space: The articulation of the Tunisian revolution through #sidibouzid by Thomas Poell and Kaouthar Darmoni
• Policing the people: Television studies and the problem of ‘quality’ by Sudeep Dasgupta
• The photo-novel, a minor medium? by Jan Baetens

Special Section: Crisis

• Sea-change: Transforming the ‘crisis’ in film theory by Robert Sinnerbrink
• A sideways view of the film economy in an age of digital piracy by Ramon Lobato
• Portraying the global financial crisis: Myth, aesthetics, and the city by Miriam Meissner
• Universal, Germany, and All Quiet on the Western Front: A case study in crisis historiography by Michael Wedel
• Ephemeral bodies and threshold creatures: The crisis of the adolescent rite of passage in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant by Anna Backman Rogers

Book Reviews:

• Crisis and capitalism in contemporary Argentine cinema reviewed by Fausto Appiolaza
• Towards a new media archaeology? A report on some books and tendencies reviewed by Petra Löffler

Conference Reviews:

• Moving image and institution: Cinema and the museum in the 21st century, University of Cambridge reviewed by Beatriz Bartolomé Herrera
• The impact of technological innovations on the historiography and theory of cinema, La Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal reviewed by Trond Lundemo

Festival + Exhibition Reviews:

• Busan Cinema Forum 2011 reviewed by Skadi Loist and Marijke de Valck
• Atlas. How to carry the world on one’s back? reviewed by Teresa Castro