SCREENING THE PAST 37 and LA FURIA UMANA 17

Mirror Visions in MODESTY BLAISE (Joseph Losey, 1966) 

Companion video/trailer for the written essay by Catherine Grant, 'Notes on Mirror Visions in MODESTY BLAISE (Joseph Losey, 1966)', LA FURIA UMANA, 17, 2013 (online) and  LA FURIA UMANA, Paper #3, 2013/ (paper copy)

Film Studies For Free is under the cosh of a few deadlines right now (there are some great things to come at this here open access campaigning website in the next weeks!).

But it has temporarily cast off its work shackles to rush you tidings of two new ejournal issues: the latest Screening the Past, co-edited by Adrian Martin and Anna Dzenis, and replete with Part One of a brilliant dossier on Aesthetic Issues in World Cinema and a marvellous essay by Nicole Brenez, among other treasures (Hediger, Martin and Tofts, Phelps); and the very welcome return online of the multilingual La furia umana (whose website, and fabulous archive [soon to return fully], were devastated by a malware attack), edited by Toni D'Angela and replete with dossiers on Joseph Losey and Bertrand Bonello, and a marvelous essay by Nicole Brenez, among other treasures (Ramani, Calder Williams, Small, to cite just some anglophone ones)!

Scroll down for all the wonderful contents. FSFF will be back properly soon!


SCREENING THE PAST 37, 2013

Aesthetic Issues in World Cinema (Part 1)

• Political Cinema Today – The New Exigencies: For a Republic of Images  by Nicole Brenez
• Materialist Performance in the Digital Age  by Dirk de Bruyn
• Sublime Materiality: Un lac  by Sarinah Masukor
• Innocent When You Dream: Affect and Perception through Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence  by Julie Banks
• Foreign Bodies, Community and Trauma in the Films of Claire Denis: Beau Travail (1999), 35 Rhums (2008) and White Material (2009)  by Kath Dooley
• Enfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis’ Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation  by Saige Walton
• The Immobilised Body: Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange  by Anthony Macris
• Affectless Empathy, Embodied Imagination and The Killer Inside Me  by Jane Stadler
• The Bloody Innocence of a Dream: Borges, Cammell, Tourneur and the Western  by Adrian Martin and Darren Tofts
• What Do we Know When We Know Where Something Is? World Cinema and the Question of Spatial Ordering  by Vinzenz Hediger

First Release

• The Western Suburbs  by Niall Lucy
• Documenting The Dark Side: Torture and The “War On Terror” in Zero Dark Thirty, Taxi To The Dark Side, and Standard Operating Procedure  by Shohini Chaudhuri
• Interactive Cinema from Vending Machine to Database Narrative: The Case of Kinoautomat  by Marina Hassapopoulou
• A League of Their Own: The Impossibility of the Female Sports Hero by Katharina Bonzel
• ’Make Mine a Movie! In a Movie Theater!’ (Or on My Pay-TV Service): How America’s Theater Owners Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Cable Television, 1969-1976  by Deron Overpeck

Reviews

• Ford at Fox 4  by Bill Routt
• Becoming Jack Nicholson: The Masculine Persona from Easy Rider to The Shining  by Adam Ochonicky
• Rosebud Sleds and Horses’ Heads: 50 of Film’s Most Evocative Objects  by Ben McCann
• Heritage Film: Nation, Genre and Representation by Dion Kagan
• Alfred Hitchcock’s America  by Jonathan Kirshner
• The Film Experience: An Introduction (3rd ed.)  by Kathleen Loock
• Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-makers from Iran and Turkey (2nd ed.)  by Mike Walsh
• De-Westernizing Film Studies  by Rea Amit
• The Cinema of Béla Tarr: The Circle Closes  by Olivia Harsan
• Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australian Screen Classics Series)  by Lynn Smailes

 Classics and Re-runs

• The Aquarium Syndrome: On the Films of Michael Mann  by Jean-Baptiste Thoret
• Ben Hecht’s Funny Valentine  by Donald Phelps

LA FURIA UMANA 17, 2013

Editorial: T.D. / La critique comme concaténation

Confidential report
D'UNE CRITIQUE DE CINÉMA DIGNE DE SON NOM (EN FRANCE)
NICOLE BRENEZ / La Critique comme concept, exigence et praxis

JOSEPH LOSEY

• MICHEL MOURLET / Sur Joseph Losey
• LUÍS MENDONÇA / Losey e Losey: O Exílio Britânico e a Fractura Pinteriana
• TONI D'ANGELA / Lo spazio della massima pendenza del sogno americano nel primo Losey
• SUDARSHAN RAMANI/ Losey and Adolescence: The Big Night
• CATHERINE GRANT / Notes on Mirror Visions in Modesty Blaise
• EVAN CALDER WILLIAMS / Figures in A Threatscape
• CHRISTOPHER SMALL / The Postman

BERTRAND BONELLO

• CLEMENT RAUGER / Introduction au travail de Bertrand Bonello
• ALEJANDRO DÍAZ / Dos o tres cosas que (creo que sé) de Bertrand Bonello
• RICARDO ADALIA MARTIN / Ir de putas
• ÀNGEL QUINTANA / El burdel como convento o la profanación de lo mítico
• ELENA DUQUE / Manuales de autoayuda: buscándose a sí mismos. The Romantic Englishwoman de Losey y De la guerre de Bonello

Prima linea

• TONI D'ANGELA / Terrence Malick e la voce dell'essere: To the Wonder
• MICHAEL GUARNERI / Militant elegy. A conversation with Lav Diaz

Histoires du cinéma

• BEATRICE BALSAMO / I muti di Hitch. La vertigine onirica del desiderio. Il restauro dei film del periodo inglese presentati a Il Cinema Ritrovato 2013

L'occhio che uccide

• CARLOS LOSILLA / Intervenciones#7 A favor de este cine español
• PIETRO BIANCHI, TONI D'ANGELA / La percezione e lo spazio visivo. Dialogo su Merleau-Ponty, Lacan e il cinema

Flaming creatures

• ENRICO CAMPORESI / Quelques notes sur Teenage Dream Sequence: An Invocation of Jeanne d’Arc, de Katherine Bauer

The new world

• STEPHEN RAMSTEDT / Cinéma du Réel 2013: Documents, Layouts/Memories, Dreams/Reflections, Projections
• TONI D'ANGELA / Festa per gli occhi e discorsi di giustizia al Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte