Film Studies For Free: End of July Round Up! Grusin and Kara on the post-cinematic, new ALPHAVILLE, WORLD PICTURE and ANIKI, Keathley, Bellour, Mittell, and Wasko videos, and lots more!

Monday, 28 July 2014

End of July Round Up! Grusin and Kara on the post-cinematic, new ALPHAVILLE, WORLD PICTURE and ANIKI, Keathley, Bellour, Mittell, and Wasko videos, and lots more!

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Film Studies For Free is delighted to present its latest handy round up of links to great online, open access items of film and media scholarly interest!

New SEQUENCE One essays:

SEQUENCE is delighted to announce the publication of two further individual responses -- by Richard Grusin and Selmin Kara -- to Steven Shaviro’s magisterial article “MELANCHOLIA, Or The Romantic Anti-Sublime”, SEQUENCE 1.1 (2012), the launch essay for PLANET MELANCHOLIA, the inaugural issue of SEQUENCE, REFRAME‘s experimental, peer-reviewed, media, film and music studies serial publication.
Following Rupert Read’s engagement with Shaviro in SEQUENCE 1.2, which offered a personal, affective (and deeply philosophical) account of Lars von Trier’s 2011 film Melancholia, in their very fine, equally philosophically-informed, contributions Grusin and Kara turn their detailed attention to the questions of "post-cinematic atavism" and "primordigitality" raised by the hybrid analog/digital technical and aesthetic contexts of a number of recent films, including Melancholia as well as Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist (2011), Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011), Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011), Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), and Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light (2010) .
SEQUENCES continues to invite further responses to Shaviro’s article as well as to those which have followed it in the SEQUENCE One thread, as well as to the second issue of SEQUENCE: ‘We Need to Talk about the Maternal Melodrama'.

Video essay on the documentaries of late Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho by Michael Chanan

Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/mediatico/2014/07/28/675/
Also at Mediático, see "Letter from San Sebastian: Basque Cinema - Three Generations of Filmmakers" by Rob Stone. Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/mediatico/2014/07/14/letter-from-san-sebastian-basque-cinema-three-generations-of-filmmakers/

Video essay on Editing Space and Time in Satoshi Kon's films by Tony Zhou

Online at https://vimeo.com/101675469 (thanks to Michael Mirasol for the link)
Also check out FSFF's ealier posting on the work of Satoshi Kon: http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2010/08/dreaming-movies-rip-satoshi-kon-1963.html
And... Routledge is currently offering free access to the following excellent article by Chris Perkins, 'Flatness, depth and Kon Satoshi's ethics', Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2012. Online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1386/jjkc.4.2.119_1#.U9YdKKgqC8I

Network of European Cinema and Media Studies 2014 conference videos and audio:

Watch Prof. Raymond Bellour's keynote lecture "The Cinema and Other Moving Images": http://youtu.be/veEMnByTU28
Prof. Jason Mittell's keynote lecture "Complex Television and the Serial Functions of Authorship" video recording now available at
http://youtu.be/P_rNU1Zer6g
Watch Prof. Janet Wasko's keynote on "Commodification of Creativity: the Case of Disney": http://youtu.be/j6VXl4AuabU
'The Conflict of Experiences': Francesco Casetti's keynote speech at HoMER workshop http://goo.gl/MQzDFy
Great short imovie on HoMER Workshop at #NECS2014 Conference by Charlotte Crofts: http://vimeo.com/98911197
See earlier items pertaining to the NECS conference here: http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2014/06/happy-holidays-round-up-adrian-martin.html http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2014/06/happy-holidays-round-up-adrian-martin.html

New issue of ALHAVILLE, Issue 7, 2014, on Corporeal Cinema

Corporeal Cinema: Editorial by Ian Murphy and Gwenda Young (Issue Editors)
01 Corporeality and Embodiment in the Female Boxing Film by Katharina Lindner, University of Stirling
02 Art as a Guaranty of Sanity: The Skin I Live In by Tarja Laine, University of Amsterdam
03 Dark Fragments: Contrasting Corporealities in Pasolini's La ricotta by Jill Murphy, University College Cork
04 Reconsidering the Body Genre: Rape-Revenge and Postfeminist Softcore as Biocultural Phenomena by David Andrews, Independent Scholar
05 The Work of an Invisible Body: The Contribution of Foley Artists to On-Screen Effort by Lucy Fife Donaldson, University of Reading
06 Beyond the Human Body: Claire Denis's Ecologies
by Laura McMahon, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Book Reviews
Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship, by Jonathan Auerbach (2011) Reviewer: Christina Parker-Flynn, Florida State University
Authorship and the Films of David Lynch: Aesthetic Receptions in Contemporary Hollywood, by Antony Todd (2012)
Reviewer: Deborah Mellamphy, University College Cork
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema, by Cecilia Sayad (2013) Reviewer: Laura Busetta, Sapienza University of Rome
Film Festival Reports:
33rd International Istanbul Film Festival Istanbul, Turkey, 5–20 April 2014 Reporter: Özge Özdüzen Ateşman, Edge Hill University
The 2014 Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., 26 March–4 April 2014 Reporter: Erin Lee Mock, University of West Georgia
Imagining the Past: Ken Russell, Biography and the Art of Making History Cinema RITS, Brussels, BE, 19–20 March 2014 Reporter: Kevin M. Flanagan, University of Pittsburgh

New issue of WORLD PICTURE, 9, 2014, on 'Serious'

Alexander García Düttmann Against Self-Preservation, or Can SCUM be Serious?
Paul Davies Remarks on an Unknowing and Unforgiving Seriousness:
A Reply to Alexander García Düttmann
Andrea Actis Notes on “Seriousness”
Adam Kildare Cottrel Poets of the Flesh, Jugglers of the Mundane: Serious Endurance and The Limits of Control
Clint Enns Lost Traces Found
Daniel Kane Whimsy, the Avant-Garde and Rudy Burckhardt’s and Kenneth Koch’s The Apple
Joe Luna My Little Poetry
Brian Price Aesthetic Inequality and Political Seriousness
Pooja Rangan For a Critique of the Documentary Logic of Sobriety
Andrew Reszitnyk Shattering the “Macabre Mirror”: Towards a Non-Decisional Critical Animal Studies
Rebecca Rutkoff O
Kyle Stevens Where Vanity Meets Volition: Technicity, Self-Monitoring, and the Comedy of Exasperation
Damon Young Queer Seriousness

Great new issue of the Portuguese film studies journal ANIKI (1.2, 2014) w/ LOTS of research published in English, including a dossier on art and cinema, an interview with Jia Zhang-ke and Marshall Deutelbaum's article on Raúl Ruiz's Mysteries of Lisbon.

Online at: http://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/issue/view/9/showToc

Updates at David Bordwell and Kristin Thomspon's Observations on Film Art website:

Great report by Kristin Thompson on the 1950s and 1960s cinematic strands at the Bologna Cinema Ritrovato festival. Online at: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2014/07/12/28267/
David Bordwell's final notes on the Bologna festival. Online at: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2014/07/16/addio-bologna-2014/
David Bordwell on authorship and the films of Wes Anderson. Online at: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2014/07/20/moonrise-kingdom-wes-in-wonderland/
And an intriguing update by DB to the preceding entry: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2014/07/27/proof-and-a-minor-mystery/

Girish Shambu's latest blog entry 'On Video Essays, Cinephilia and Affect', which includes lots of great suggestions for further reading and an excellent comments thread

Online at: http://girishshambu.blogspot.com/2014/07/on-video-essays-cinephilia-and-affect.html

Check out all the updates to Wikipedia as a result of the #SheMustBeWiki, feminist film studies wiki writing event at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, July 25, 2014:

Online at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SHE_MUST_BE_WIKI:_Feminist_Film_Wiki-a-thon

Excellent video on Brian De Palma's cinematic art of looks and looking by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin:

Online at https://vimeo.com/93053346

Barbara Flueckiger's important update about her wonderful open access project on Film Colors

Online at: http://filmcolors.org/2014/07/21/how-to-sustain-a-digital-humanities-project-or-why-i-am-looking-for-private-sponsors/

Desistfilm Issue 6, 2014

Online here: http://desistfilm.com/category/issue-006/
PETER WHITEHEAD: REVOLUTION, REVELATION – PINK FLOYD LONDON 1966-1967 By Lu Juejing
EMBRACING BY NAOMI KAWASE By Adrian Martin
SHAKING TRACKS: THE DOCUMENTARY WAYS IN THE WORK OF KORE-EDA HIROKAZU By Claudia Siefen
ON Hi-8/DIGITAL AND THE INTIMATE: THE FILM DIARIES OF ALAIN CAVALIER By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
DAY IS DONE DE THOMAS IMBACH Por Mónica Delgado
A REAL DEAD RINGER FOR LOVE. VIDEO FOOL FOR LOVE By Adrian Martin
DIALOGUE WITH A WOMAN DEPARTED BY LEO HURWITZ By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
ROUTE ONE/USA DE ROBERT KRAMER Por Nicolás Carrasco
VARIACIONES DEL “FILMADOR” EN ALGUNAS PELÍCULAS INDEPENDIENTES Y EXPERIMENTALES DE AMÉRICA LATINA Por Mónica Delgado
FEATURED FILMMAKER: JENNIFER REEDER By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
EL DIARIO FÍLMICO EN ESPAÑA, HOY Por Ricardo Adalia Martin
NEARSIGHT BY SAUL LEVINE By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Check out this fantastic resource on the work of Chris Marker, including IMMEMORY, Guillaume sightings worldwide, and other gems (link via Via Genevieve Yue and Nico Baumbach):

Online at http://gorgomancy.net/

Innovative, Canada-based, film studies publisher caboose has launched the collaborative on-line project Planetary Projection, introducing some of the world’s remarkable film projectionists. We invite you to help us find a few more, in every corner of the globe, so that they might tell us their stories

Online at http://www.caboosebooks.net/planetary-projection

Online extract from Madelon Sprenthnether's remarkable book Crying at the Movies:

Online at http://www.madelonsprengnether.com/creative-works/crying-at-the-movies/excerpt/ (link via Adrian Martin)
Plus link to an article in which I discuss Sprengnether's work. Online at: http://www.photogenie.be/photogenie_blog/article/use-illusion

Great video in which director John Akomfrah talks to Baroness Lola Young about The Stuart Hall Project, which paints a sensitive and emotionally charged portrait of the celebrated cultural theorist.