The Cine-Files' special issue on mise-en-scene: Laura Mulvey, Kristin Thompson, V.F. Perkins, Lesley Stern, Adrian Martin, Christian Keathley, Jean Ma, Girish Shambu, John Gibbs and Jesse Green

Scene from the Iranian film Zir-e poost-e shahr/Under the Skin of the City (Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, 2001). Read a study of this film by Laura Mulvey in the new issue of The Cine-Files. Professor Mulvey has recently launched the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) which organises London-based film studies events, many of them with free entry and recorded for global online access. Upcoming BIMI events include some excellent ones on 3D. 

Film Studies For Free was thrilled to learn of the publication of Issue 4 of The Cine-Files. It, in turn, is delighted to feature ten guest scholars (ranging from the top notch to the legendary!) who offer either analysis of a cinematic “moment” or responses to questions about mise-en-scène and the significance of “close reading.” There are two further excellent articles in the issue by Warwick Mules and Mark Balderston. Thank you to The Cine-Files!

Guest contributions: 

• John Gibbs: “Close Reading: The Cry of the Owl” and Interview
• Jesse Green: “Putting Film in its Place”
• Christian Keathley: “The Man in the Back Seat”
• Jean Ma: “Close Reading: The Mise-en-scène of Song Performance”
• Adrian Martin: “Hands Across the Table”
• Laura Mulvey: “Between Melodrama and Realism: Under the Skin of the City (2001)”
• V.F. Perkins: “Acting on Objects”
• Girish Shambu: Interview
• Lesley Stern: “Writing/Images”
• Kristin Thompson: Interview

Features:

• 'Mise-en-scène and the Figural: A Reading of Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life' by Warwick Mules
• “You’ll Get Your Big Trip”: Acousmatic Music, The Voice, and the Mirror Stage in Enter the Void by Mark Balderston