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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SFR (Swiss Family Robinson [Ken Annakin, 1960]) by Christian Keathley on Vimeo.

Read more about this video here: 'The Use of an Illusion: Childhood cinephilia, object relations and videographic film studies', PHOTOGÉNIE 0, 2014

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.htmlhttp://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.  

• Online at: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/5243f0ab88e3a
  

For a few more days, enjoy temporary free online access to many articles from Routledge Film and Cinema Studies journals

• Online here: http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/ah/routledge-film-and-cinema-studies-articles

'I Have to Trust My Intuition': A 40-Minute Chat Between Ingmar Bergman & AFI Film Students at NoFilmSchool:

• Online at http://nofilmschool.com/2014/07/trust-intuition-chat-ingmar-bergman-afi-students/

The "Motherhood Archives" - Irene Lustzig's epic multimedia essay on institutionalization of birth and motherhood: 

• Online at: http://canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the_motherhood_archives

New ADA: A JOURNAL OF GENDER, NEW MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY issue on Queer Feminist Media Praxis:

• Online at http://adanewmedia.org/issues/issue-archives/issue5/