THE CINE-FILES on Film Sound (Chion, Flinn, Beck) & FRAMES CINEMA JOURNAL on "Conflicting Images, Contested Realities"

Screenshot from Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006). You can read Mack Hagood's article “The Tinnitus Trope: Acoustic Trauma in Narrative Film”, which refers to this film)

Film Studies For Free is thrilled to rapidly relay news to its readers of two new open access film journal issues: The Cine-Files (8, 2015) on Film Sound and Frames Cinema Journal, Conflicting Images,Contested Realities (7, 2015). Both volumes boast truly magnificent contents, but the Sound Dossier and Issue at The Cine-Files is something really special, with contributions from the likes of Michel Chion, Caryl Flinn, Jay Beck and Kate Lacey among many other luminaries.

FSFF's author also contributed to this excellent issue - on the emergent focus on film sound, music and listening in audiovisual essays.

The Cine-Files, Issue 8, 2015 (on Film Sound)

• Dossier:
• Introduction by Jacob Smith, “Listening to Film Sound”
• Jay Beck, “Submerged in Sound: Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénega“
• Michel Chion, “The Player (Robert Altman, 1992)”
• Caryl Flinn, “The Sound of Music: The Music Festival Scene”
• Mack Hagood, “The Tinnitus Trope: Acoustic Trauma in Narrative Film”
• Keir Keightley, “The Pantophonographic Patsy”
• Kate Lacey, “Listening In/To Germany, Pale Mother"
• Jean Ma, “Listening to Early Chinese Sound Film: Two Stars in the Milky Way"
• Mara Mills, “Listening to Images: Audio Description, the Translation Overlay, and Image Retrieval”
• Robert Spadoni, “New Worlds and Dark Traditions: Back Winding and Forward Propulsion in The Woman Who Came Back"
• Neil Verma, “The Huge Listening Contraption”
• Shane Vogel, “Projection without Representation: Screening Maya Angelou in Calypso Heat Wave"
• William Whittington, “A Conspiracy of Sound: Modes of Listening in Brian De Palma’s Blow Out"
• Girls And Old Men Talking: Gender, Power, And Sound In The Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men And True Grit" by Laura L. Beading
• "Noise In Its Contexts At The Dawn Of Sound Cinema" by Matt Von Vogt
• "Turning Up The Volume? The Emergent Focus On Film Sound, Music And Listening In Audiovisual Essays" by Catherine Grant

Frames Cinema Journal, Issue 7, June 2015 on Conflicting Images,Contested Realities, (click here to access all the below contents)

Contents

• Conflicting Images, Contested Realities: An Introduction to Frames 7 by Eileen Rositzka and Amber Shields

Feature Articles

• "Goya on his Shoulders: Tim Hetherington, Genre Memory, and the Body at Risk" by Robert Burgoyne and Eileen Rositzka
• "New Ethical Questions and Social Media: Young People’s Construction of Holocaust Memory Online" by Victoria Grace Walden
• "The War Tapes and the Poetics of Affect of the Hollywood War Film Genre" by Cilli Pogodda and Danny Gronmaier
• "A Revolution for Memory: Reproductions of a Communist Utopia through Tsui Hark’s The Taking of Tiger Mountain and Posters from the Cultural Revolution" by Nathan To
• "The Long Life of Belgian WWI Documentaries in the Interwar Period" by Natalia Stachura
• "'Choirs of Wailing Shells': Poetic and Musical Engagements in Derek Jarman’s War Requiem –between Documentary and Fiction" by Caroline Perret

Point of View

• "Matricídio, or Queerness Explained to My Mother" by Diego Costa
• "Bollywood Bodies: Turning the Gaze from Babes to Boys and Back Again in Farah Khan’s Happy New Year" by Amber Shields
• "Civil War Photography and the Contemporary War Film" by John Trafton
• "Argentine Documentaries on the Malvinas (Falklands) War: Between Testimony and Televisual Archive" by Mirta Varela
• "The British Docudramas of the Falklands War" by Georges Fournier

Book Reviews

• In Contrast: Croatian Film Today by Ana Grgić