Framegrab from Lovely and Amazing (Nicole Holofcener, 2001). You can read Rachel Lister's article about Holofcener's films here |
Life is good, thinks Film Studies For Free: a new issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies has just been published. There's a small but well-edited selection of great articles, and an enormous number of hugely useful book reviews and conference reports. FSFF particularly liked Rachel Lister on Nicole Holofcener's "short story" films and Miklós Kiss on Károly Makk's Szerelem/Love.
All contents are listed and linked to below.
Scope: Issue 24 October 2012
Articles
- Self-Making as Public Spectacle: Bodies, Bodily Training and Reality TV Bree Hadley
- Rationalising the Irrational: Artistic Realism as Cognitive Reality in Károly Makk's Szerelem/Love Miklós Kiss
- The Feature Film as Short Story: The "Little Disturbances" of Nicole Holofcener Rachel Lister
- Cinderella vs Barbie: The Battle for Postfeminist Performance in Teen Transformation Narratives Kendra Marston
Book Reviews
- All Book Reviews
- Jacques Rivette by Douglas Morrey and Alison Smith ; Alain Robbe-Grillet by John Phillips A Review by Jonathan L. Owen
- Music and Politics by John Street ; Wagner and Cinema edited by Jeongwon Joe and Sander L. Gilman A Review by Nathan Waddell
- Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children's Films by M. Keith Booker
- Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation by Chris Pallant
- A Review by Noel Brown
- Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel edited by Jeffrey Ruoff; Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement By Dimitris Eleftheriotis A Review by Sofia Sampaio
- Jerry Lewis by Chris Fujiwara ; Atom Egoyan by Emma Wilson ; Andrei Tarkovsky by Sean Martin A review by Adam Jones
- The Comedy of Chaplin: Artistry in Motion by Dan Kamin ; Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century by Matthew Solomon A review by Bruce Bennett
- Von Sternberg by John Baxter ; Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich and Mass Culture by Barbara Kosta A Review by Elaine Lennon
- Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War I by Yvonne Tasker ; A ‘Toxic Genre': The Iraq War Films by Martin Barker A Review by Jay Reid
- Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier by Homay King ; Theorizing Bruce Lee: Film-Fantasy-Fighting-Philosophy by Paul Bowman A Review by Lin Feng
Film and Television Reviews
- All Film and Television Reviews
- Dust (Polvo) A review by Miharu M. Miyasaka
Conference Reports
- All Conference Reports
- The Distribution and Exhibition of Chinese and Asian Cinema in the UK A report by Jonathan Wroot
- Deleuze, Guattari and China Symposium A report by Yun-hua Chen
- The Cinema of Sensations: Fourteenth International Film and Media Studies Conference A report by Francesca Hardy
- NECS Conference 2012 - Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory A report by Nessa Johnston
2 comments:
I also very much liked Rachel Lister's piece on Holofcener and the short story, and have posted a brief blog entry about it, suggesting that her argument can also be applied to a wider range of indie films. See http://www.gkindiefilm.com/?p=259
Thanks Geoff. That's a great post! Thanks for letting us know. I just tweeted the link. All best Catherine
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