Last updated January 2, 2018
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To commemorate the somewhat sad and strange outgoing year -- and very much to welcome in 2018 --- Film Studies For Free has selected, below, twelve of its favourite online film studies items encountered (or re-encountered) in 2017 for your delectation and delight - in no particular order of category.
Some of these involved poignant encounters, associated with terribly untimely passings of pathbreaking scholars (see no. 1). Some are amazing new resources from (already) the most generous of brilliant scholars (see no. 2). All come with associated links, and are well worth your time exploring.
Wishing you a radically happy and active 2018!
With openly accessible love (and a brand new video, above) from FSFF xx
P.S. Remember to follow Film Studies For Free on Twitter and Facebook for frequent news and links.
Some of these involved poignant encounters, associated with terribly untimely passings of pathbreaking scholars (see no. 1). Some are amazing new resources from (already) the most generous of brilliant scholars (see no. 2). All come with associated links, and are well worth your time exploring.
Wishing you a radically happy and active 2018!
With openly accessible love (and a brand new video, above) from FSFF xx
P.S. Remember to follow Film Studies For Free on Twitter and Facebook for frequent news and links.
1.
Favourite Online Lecture
Favourite Online Lecture
Dr. Frank tragically died on August 28, 2017, at the age of 33. She was one of the most original, accomplished and promising scholars of her generation. She will be hugely missed but much remembered.
See Hannah Frank's Vimeo account; and her Google Scholar citations;
Also see the following tributes to Dr. Frank:
- Remembering Hannah Frank by Tom Gunning
- On Ones (and Zeroes): A Tribute to Hannah Frank by Ian Bryce Jones
- Videogame Cat of the Week: The Fabulous Screech / Remembering Hannah Frank by Ian Bryce Jones
2.
Favourite new website
Favourite new website
"Long awaited" doesn't even get close to describing film critic and scholar extraordinaire Adrian Martin's website project to gather much of his published film criticism work and offer it up for free! But it arrived in 2017, starting with over 2000 entries to amazing pieces of writing and thinking, which are being added to every week!
Titled FILM CRITIC: ADRIAN MARTIN, the website also points to a connected 'Patreon' campaign to raise some funds to help keep it maintained and regularly updated. FSFF's author has signed up to do just that.
It's not every day that one of the world's leading writers about film gives away quite so much of his lifetime's work to the public domain. Good on ya, and thank you, Adrian!
- FILM CRITIC: ADRIAN MARTIN http://www.filmcritic.com.au/
3.
Favourite Film and Media Studies Podcast
Favourite Film and Media Studies Podcast
Film and Media Studies podcasts continued to delight us in 2017. The following three (listed in alphabetical order) tied for their place as FSFF's favourite.
Also, check out new podcast on the block:
4.
Favourite longstanding website
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5.
Favourite Online Film Studies Journal
A tie this year between The Cine-Files, which brings some truly wonderful material online, year after year, thanks largely to the amazing talents of Editor-in-Chief Tracy Cox-Stanton, and Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, similarly run by a passionate team of academics, which introduced a brilliant new audiovisual essay section!
FSFF is very much looking forward to the publication of a new Jump Cut issue in Spring 2018 following on from the very sad loss of one of its pioneering editors, Chuck Kleinhans, to whom this blog dedicated its previous entry in tribute.
6.
Favourite Video Essay on a Film Studies Topic
Chloé Galibert-Laîné's desktop documentary My crush was a superstar
This was at the the top of my top ten picks in the end of year Sight and Sound poll: "The best video essays of 2017" expertly and painstakingly gathered by Kevin B. Lee and David Verdeure.
Also check out this top 17 list curated by Jacob Oller for the ONE PERFECT SHOT (now FILM SCHOOL REJECTS) website.
7.
Favourite video essayist
A two-way tie between:
Cristina Alvarez López and Adrian Martin for MUBI, Filmkrant, and themselves (see also this great video interview with them by Julia Vassilieva from Monash Film and Screen Studies);
8.
Favourite video essay publisher/curator
(ahem...after [in]Transition and Audiovisualcy....)
9.
Best online scholarly collaboration between a filmmaker and a film scholar (who is also a filmmaker!)
How Action Movies are Spectacular… and Boring
Science of Editing Series, This Guy Edits/Sven Pape and Dr Karen Pearlman
Science of Editing Series, This Guy Edits/Sven Pape and Dr Karen Pearlman
10.
Best open access eBook appearing online in 2017
Two-way split between:
and
11.
Favourite online article:
Nina Menkes’s article "The Visual Language of Oppression: Harvey Wasn’t Working in a Vacuum," FILMMAKER Magazine’s most popular post in 2017. Menkes' brilliantly uses the work of Laura Mulvey. http://filmmakermagazine.com/103801-the-visual-language-of-oppression-harvey-wasnt-working-in-a-vacuum/
12.
Favourite Film Studies Related Instagram Account:
Fictitious Interiors Curated by Davide Rapp
And finally...
Some very very very honourable mentions
- David Hudson, formerly at Fandor, is now producing the brilliant Criterion Daily website and Twitter feed for essential film links and roundups
- Best Facebook page for Film and Media Studies in 2017: Teaching Media
- Charlie Lyne's discussion of Fair Use and Fair Dealing in Found Footage work with a film/TV analytical purpose (and the film he is talking about: Missing Episode)
- Best Digital Humanities work in Film Studies: Jason Mittell and Kevin L. Ferguson's Deformin' in the Rain work on Singin' in the Rain for SCMS 17. See here and here, for example.
- For its continued brilliance: Timeline of Historical Film Colors
- For its continued brilliance: animationstudies 2.0 blog
- For its continued brilliance: In Media Res, a mediaCommons project
- For its continued brilliance and generosity: Shane Denson's medieninitiative website
- Most unmissable film/TV-studies and film/TV-criticism related Twitter accounts: So Mayer/@tr0ublemayer, Kristen Warner/@kristenwarner and Steven Shaviro/@shaviro
- Best historiographical video essay series: The Per una controstoria del cinema italiano/Towards a Counter History of Italian Cinema project organised by Filmidée and Chiara Grizzaffi with multiple videos and authors. Watch the trailer here.
- Silent film accompanist and composer Neil Brand's new website about silent cinema music: http://originals.neilbrand.com/
More to follow as FSFF remembers further 2017 links of great note!
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