As the brilliant Jump Cut issue 56 has just been published, FSFF wanted to rush that news to you, but will also add further links of note to the foot of the entry in the coming days. So do come back to take a look at those.
CINEMA: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, 6 (2014): GILLES DELEUZE AND MOVING IMAGES
ARTICLES
- Cinema: The “Counter-Realization” of Philosophical Problems, by Mirjam Schaub PDF
- Visual Effects and Phenomenology of Perceptual Control, by Jay Lampert PDF
- Double-Deleuze: “Intelligent Materialism” Goes to the Movies, by Bernd Herzogenrath PDF
- Bringing the Past into the Present: West of the Tracks as a Deleuzian Time-Image, by William Brown PDF
- Thought-Images and the New as a Rarity: A Reevaluation of the Philosophical Implications of Deleuze’s Cinema Books, by Jakob Nilsson PDF
- Visions of the Intolerable: Deleuze on Ethical Images, by Joseph Barker PDF
- Artaud Versus Kant: Annihilation of the Imagination in the Deleuze’s Philosophy of Cinema,
- Jurate Baranova PDF
- Para Além da Imagem-Cristal: Contributos para a Identificação de uma Terceira Síntese do Tempo nos Cinemas de Gilles Deleuze, by Nuno Carvalho PDF
BOOK REVIEWS
CINEMA COMPAR/ATIVE CINEMA, No. 4, Fall 2014 (English language version)
JUMP CUT No. 56, fall 2014 (all items below are available here: http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html)
- Editorial Gonzalo de Lucas
- The Law of the Frame Jean-Pierre Gorin and Kent Jones
- The Gimp Manny Farber
- Ozu's Films Manny Farber
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson
- Nearer My Agee to Thee (1965) Manny Farber
- Introduction to 'White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art and Other Writings on Film' José Luis Guarner
- Termite Makes Right. The Subterranean Criticism of Manny Farber Jim Hoberman
- Preface to 'Negative Space' Robert Walsh
- Other Roads, Other Tracks Robert Polito
- The Filmic Space According to Farber Patrice Rollet
- Hybrid: Our Lives Together Robert Walsh
- The Dramaturgy of Presence Albert Serra
- The Kind Liar. Some Issues Around Film Criticism Based on the Case Farber/Agee/Schefer Murielle Joudet
- The Termites of Farber: The Image on the Limits of the Craft Carolina Sourdis
- Popcorn and Godard: The Film Criticism of Manny Farber Andrew Dickos
- Coral Cruz. Imágenes narradas. Cómo hacer visible lo invisible en un guión de cine Clara Roquet
- Who Can Tell of the Heroic Deeds of Israel?: Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher by Jay Kuehner
- Don’t Look Back: Life and Death and the Films of Mary Helena Clark by Phil Coldiron
- The Face of Another: Christian Petzold’s Phoenix by Adam Nayman
- Dead Meat: Bruno Dumont’s P’tit Quinquin by Michael Sicinski
- Of Human Bondage: Peter Strickland on The Duke of Burgundy by José Teodoro
JUMP CUT No. 56, fall 2014 (all items below are available here: http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html)
HOLLYWOOD, MAINSTREAM
- Saving Mr. Banks and building Mr. Brand: the Walt Disney Company in the era of corporate personhood by Mike Budd
- The horrors of slavery and modes of representation in 12 Years a Slave and Amistad by by Douglas Kellner
- Django Unchained—thirteen ways of looking at a black film by Heather Ashley Hayes and Gilbert Rodman
- The artificial intelligence of Her By Robert Alpert
- Attack the Block: monsters, race, and rewriting South London’s outer spaces by Lorrie Palmer
- Class warfare in the Robocop films by Milo Sweedler
- Pirates without piracy: criminality, rebellion, and anarcho-libertarianism in the pirate film by Michael D. High
- Demon debt: Paranormal Activity as recessional post-cinematic allegory By Julia Leyda
- Wolfen: they might be gods by Tyler Sage
- As beautiful as a butterfly? Monstrous cockroach nature and the horror film by Robin Murray and Joseph Heuman
- U.S. ambivalence about torture: an analysis of post-9/11 films by Jean Rahbar
TECH AND BUSINESS
- Hugo. The Artist—specters of film new nostalgia movies and Hollywood’s digital transition
- by Jason Sperb
- The tail wags: Hollywood’s crumbling infrastructure by Jonathan Eig
- The white flag of surrender? NBC, The Jay Leno Show, and failure on contemporary broadcast television by Kimberly Owczarski
INTERNATIONAL
- Inhabiting post-communist spaces in Nimród Antal’s Kontroll by György Kalmár
- A 'Failed Brotherhood': Polish-Jewish relations and the films of Andrzej Wajda by Tim Kennedy
- "Made in Bollywood”: Indian popular culture in Brazil's Caminho das Indias by Swapnil Rai
- Of radio, remix, and Rang de Basanti: rethinking film history through film sound by Pavitra Sundar
- Cinema and neoliberalism: network form and the politics of connection in Icíar Bollaín’s Even the Rain by Shakti Jaising
- The revolution must (not) be advertised: The Players vs. Ángeles Caídos, the discourse of advertising, and the limits of political modernism by Greg Cohen
- The film as essay: Jafar Panahi’s search for self in This is Not a Film by Bebe Nodjomi
BOOKS AND FESTIVALS
- Buffoon queers by Andrew J. Douglas [Review of Scott Balcerzak, Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013]).
- Montgomery Clift: or, the ambiguities
- by David Greven (Review of Elisabetta Girelli, Montgomery Clift, Queer Star [Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014])
- ‘Factory of new film expressions’: Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade festival review by Kamila Kuc
CLASSICS FROM THE PAST
- Broken Blossoms—artful racism, artful rape by Julia Lesage
SPECIAL SECTION ACTIVIST COUNTER-CINEMA
- Part one: Jump Cut 40th anniversary
- Introduction by Chuck Kleinhans
- Marxism and film criticism: the current situation (1977) by Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage
- Introduction to Jump Cut: Hollywood and Counter Cinema (1985) by Peter Steven
- The Sons and Daughters of Los: culture and community in Los Angeles by David E. James
- Part two: the current scene, recurring issues
- Perpetual subversion by Julia Lesage
- Flying under the radar: notes on a decade of media agitation by Ernest Larson
- Subversive media: when, why, and where by Chuck Kleinhans
- Activist street tapes and protest pornography: participatory media culture in the age of digital reproduction by Angela Aguayo
- Anarchist aesthetics and U.S. video activism by Chris Robé
- THE LAST WORD
- John Hess, award for activism Looking back, deliciously
L'ATALANTE. REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS CINEMATOGRÁFICOS N°19You'll need to create a user account for free at this journal but once you have you'll be able to access lots of wonderful articles.
TABLE OF CONTENTSEditorial
Pablo Hernández Miñano, Violeta Martín NúñezNotebook
- Imitation, Eccentricity, and Impersonation in Movie Acting James Naremore
- The three bodies of narration: a cognitivist poetics of the actor’s performance Héctor Julio Pérez López
- Towards a comparative montage of the female portrait. The theatre of the body: fictional tears and real tears Gonzalo de Lucas Abril
- Modernity from classic cinema: the body of Marlene Dietrich in the Josef Sternberg films Núria Bou
- Who am I? The politics of the actor in Anna Magnani’s art Marga Carnicé Mur
- Acting: Central to a Director’s Cinema such as American Independent Film Cynthia Baron
- Are we the actors of our own life? Notes on the experimental actor Nicole Brenez
Dialogue
- Filming / being filmed. The acting work according to Iciar Bollaín, filmmaker and actress “The actors are great screenwriters because they invent things that the screenwriter should have written” Pablo Hernández Miñano, Nuria Castellote Herranz, Violeta Martín Núñez
(Dis)agreements
- A shared task: acting work faced by filmmakers and actors Pablo Hernández Miñano, Violeta Martín Núñez, Daniel Gascó, Lola Mayo, Mariano Barroso, Celina Murga, Felipe Vega, Pablo Berger, Àlex Brendemühl, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Eduard Fernández, Tristán Ulloa
Vanishing Points
- Black Swan or on how to turn a dream into a nightmare Eugenia Rojo
- Kino Kino Kino Kino Kino: Guy Maddin’s Cinema of Artifice Sérgio Dias Branco
- Visions of the Present: the Zombie Invasion in Post 9/11 American Cinema Inés Ordiz Alonso-Collada
- Logic, poetics and ontology of Alphaville Miguel Alfonso Bouhaben
- Approach to the definition of hosted trailer through the work of Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock and William Castle Javier Lozano Delmar
L'ATALANTE. REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS CINEMATOGRÁFICOS N°18
Notebook: Cinephile directors in modern times. When the Cinema Interrogates ItselfTable of ContentsIssue Masthead2EditorialRebeca Romero Escrivá 5Notebook
- Cinephilia in the Age of the Post-Cinematographic PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Malte Hagener 7-16
- Metacinema as cinematic practice: a proposal for classification PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Fernando Canet 17-26
- Le Mépris and its story of cinema: a fabric of quotations PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Laura Mulvey 27-35
- The surviving images of Quentin Tarantino PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Àngel Quintana 36-42
- The remake of memory: Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Vera Dika 43-51
- Writing cinema: Cinephilic passion in the work of Víctor Erice PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Santos Zunzunegui 52-59
- Psycho universe: “The anxiety of influence” in Hitchcock’s work PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Rebeca Romero Escrivá 60-70
Dialogue
- Martin Scorsese interviewed by Michael Henry Wilson about Hugo. “The antidote for film is more film” PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Michael Henry Wilson, Fernando Canet, Rebeca Romero Escrivá 72-86
(Dis)agreements
- Why do we need to return to film classics? PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Javier Alcoriza, Gonzalo Aguilar, Karen Fiss, Patricia Keller, José Antonio Pérez-Bowie, Hidenori Okada 88-101
Vanishing Points
- Artificial paradises: the cybernetic utopia in eXistenZ PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Lidia Merás 102-110
- Michel Chion in Audio-Vision and a practical approach to a scene from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia. PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Josep Torelló, Jaume Duran Castells 111-117
- Before Hollywood? A Girl’s Folly as a testimony to the Paragon Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey PDF (ESPAÑOL) PDF Carmen Guiralt Gomar 118-126
MOVIE: A JOURNAL OF FILM CRITICISM Issue 5, 2014 (Edited by Alex Clayton and Kathrina Glitre)
- The Art of Indirection in Trouble in Paradise Andrew Klevan
- Dear Friend: The Shop Around the Corner and In the Good Old Summertime Josh Cluderay
- The Inexpressible: The Sense of the Metaphysical in The Thin Red Line Katerina Virvidaki
- Complex Staging: The Hidden Dimensions of Roy Andersson’s Aesthetics Julian Hanich
Jim Hillier: 1941 – 2014 - A Tribute
- A Tribute to Jim Hillier Editorial Board
- (nostalgia) Jim Hillier
- Ma Nuit chez Maud Jim Hillier
Other Online Items of Note (MANY MORE TO BE ADDED IN THE NEXT DAYS):
- A link to OAPEN's 62 open access books on cinema: http://t.co/7cwS7spoa6
- Masha Tupitsyn's truly remarkable work on the cinematic sounds of love showcased at Photomediations : http://t.co/cQnGlKGIOp Sarah Lawrence College faculty tributes to their late colleague Gilberto Perez. http://www.slc.edu/gilberto-perez/ (link via Corey Creekmur)
- Kevin B Lee's top video essays of 2014: https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/the-best-video-essays-of-2014