A new score for Georges Méliès's Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902). Written for The New Music Players and Orchestra of Sound and Light for concerts in London and Sussex, UK, with funding support from the RVW Trust and Arts Council England. (Music © University of York Music Press, 2015). More information here.
Hello there! It's been a rather busy few months, so Film Studies For Free had to take a little break from its long-form advocacy activities at this website, although its bountiful open-access recommendations continued to issue forth as usual on Twitter and Facebook. But the extended version of FSFF returns now with news of a number of fabulous online publications for your autumnal (Northern Hemisphere) or Spring (Southern Hemisphere) viewing and reading pleasure. Do scroll down for all the contents listed in the title. Oh and one more thing: don't miss Sight and Sound's ongoing "Women on Film" coverage.
[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, 2.3, 2015
- Tag by Rob Stone
- Joining Up: Scotland, Cinema and the First World War by David Archibald and Maria A. Velez-Serna
- Ceylan's Women: Looking | Being Looked At by Elif Akcali
- Observe-Engage-Adapt: Hulot's Method in Playtime by Glenn Stillar
- There Is Nothing Outside the Real: Preston Sturges on André Bazin by David Sorfa
Some Recent Theme weeks:
- Monday, August 24, 2015 - Shohini Chaudhuri (University of Essex) presents: Gaza and the Trope of Encirclement
- Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - Sara Saljoughi (University of Toronto) presents: Nostalgic Returns
- Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - Michelle Baroody (University of Minnesota) presents: "A River Runs Through It": Visualizing Fluency
- Thursday, August 27, 2015 - Aisha Jamal (Sheridan College) presents: The ‘Afghan girl" Sherbat Gula’s popularity with Afghans
- Friday, August 28, 2015 -Negar Mottahedeh (Duke University) presents: A revolutionary meme
- Monday, August 10, 2015 - Shani Heckman (College of Marin) presents: Celebrity Skinned: Patty Schemel Lesbian Hero featured in film Hit So Hard
- Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - Landon Palmer (Indiana University) presents: Rocking the Transmission: Vulgar Spontaneity in Live Television Music
- Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - Jesse Scholtterbeck (Denison University) presents: Performance and the Pursuit of Stardom in Anvil: The Story of Anvil
- Thursday, August 13, 2015 - Michael Bass (Georgia State University) presents: Filth, Fury, and Fiction: Creating a Mythology in The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle
- Friday, August 14, 2015 - Laura Mayne (University of York) presents: Seeking the variety of live performance in The Rolling Stones’ Rock n Roll Circus (1968)
FOUND FOOTAGE ART
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DELETION The Open Access Forum in Science Fiction Studies
Episode 10: The Science Fiction Blockbuster
- Monday, August 17, 2015 - Shane Denson (Duke University) presents: VHS Found Footage and the Material Horrors of Post-Cinematic Images
- Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - Laura Wilson (University of Manchester) presents: Affective Horror of the Found Footage Anthology
- Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - Anthony C. Bleach (Kutztown University) presents: Video Aesthetics and Nostalgia Deployed in Better Call Saul
- Thursday, August 20, 2015 - Rebecca Jackson (Johnston Community College) presents: JOLT! And The Glitch Aesthetic
- Friday, August 21, 2015 - Leo Goldsmith (New York University) presents: The All-Consuming: Scratch Video’s Ambivalent Bodies
- Monday, June 29, 2015 - Maria San Filippo (University of the Arts Philadelphia) presents: Captive Viewers: Learning In/humanity through Film in ‘Dogtooth’ and ‘The Wolfpack’
- Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - Emily Carman (Chapman University) presents: Illicit Achive: Sony Hack as Access for Media Industry Studies
- Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - Catherine Grant (University of Sussex) presents: Scholarly Striptease. Or, The Unintended Consequences of Film Studies For Free
- Thursday, July 2, 2015 - Zoe Shacklock (University of Warwick) presents: Kathryn Alexandre and the Performance of the Body
- Friday, July 3, 2015 - Kevin L. Ferguson (Queen’s College) presents: Pee-Wee’s Daddy
VIEW 4.7, 2015: Archaeologies of Tele-Visions and -Realities
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- Editorial: Towards an Archaeology of Television HTML PDF Andreas Fickers, Anne-Katrin Weber
- Adapt Simulation: 16mm Film Editing for Television PDF HTML Amanda Murphy, Vanessa Jackson, Rowan Aust, John Ellis
- The lessons of Counterpoint: Ernst’s media archaeology and practical archival research PDF HTML Ken Griffin
- Nonconformist Television in the Netherlands: Two Curious Cases of Amateur Media as Counter-Technologies HTML PDF Tom Slootweg, Susan Aasman
- Digital Media Archaeology: Uncovering the digital tool AVResearcherXL PDF HTML Jasmijn Van Gorp, Sonja de Leeuw, Justin van Wees, Bouke Huurnink
- Tom Swift’s Three Inventions of Television: Media History and the Technological Imaginary PDF HTML Doron Galili
- Picking Up (On) Fragments PDF HTML Phil Ellis
- Extending the Aerial: uncovering histories of Teletext and telesoftware in Britain PDF HTML Alison Gazzard
- Immersive Televisual Environments: Spectatorship, Stereoscopic Vision and the Failure of 3DTV PDF HTML Ilkin Mehrabov
- Streaming: A Media Hydrography of Televisual Flows PDF HTML Ghislain Thibault
- Without Latency: Cathode Immersions and the Neglected Practice of Xenocasting for Television and Radio PDF HTML Adam Hulbert
- Editorial
- The 1950’s Blockbuster: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Mark Jancovich
- Secret Origins: The evolving science of superheroes Liam Burke
- The Contradictions of Guardians of the Galaxy Sean Cubitt
- Medial Singularity and Transmedial Blockbusters Tanya Krzywinska and Douglas Brown
- ‘It’s Bigger on the Inside’: Blockbuster Science Fiction TV Stacey Abbott
- [+] Episode 9: Deletion|Deviation: The Perversions of Science Fiction
- [+] Episode 8: Dissolves
- [+] Episode 7: Retrospective futures
- [+] Episode 6: Young Adult Science Fiction
- [+] Episode 5: Special Episode - Doctor Who
- [+] Episode 4: The New! The Now! The Fantastic!: Artistic and Scholarly Innovation
- [+] Episode 3: The Third
- [+] Episode 2: The Second
- [-] Episode 1: The pleasures of science fiction
FILM QUARTERLY Vol. 68 No. 4, Summer 2015 for free until September 30th, 2015: http://fq.ucpress.edu/content/68/4
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Indiancine.ma is an annotated online archive of Indian film. It is intended to serve as a shared resource for film scholars and enthusiasts in India and beyond.
Indiancine.ma has been initiated by Pad.ma, and is operated in collaboration with a number of organisations and film studies institutions. These include:
At present, Indiancine.ma is being utilized as a backbone structure for several research projects on Indian film, including a project for an 'Annotated Repository on the Art Cinemas of India" being conducted by the University of Chicago Center in Delhi, a project on the Left and the early Malayalam cinema being overseen by Prof. Satish Poduval of the English & Foreign University, a repository for precious historical print holdings on the history of Tamil and Telugu cinemas being assembled by Samyuktha P.C. (Chennai) and Dr. S.V. Srinivas (Bangalore), and a project on early Bengali films at the Media Lab, Jadavpur. A general focus at the moment is on out-of-copyright films, currently pre-1954.
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FROM THE EDITOR
- Looking Back, Looking AheadWhat's At Stake B. Ruby Rich
- Black Media Matters: Remembering The Bombing of Osage Avenue by Karen Beckman
- China Unraveled: Violence, Sin, and Art in Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin by Jiwei Xiao
- Mickey Horror: Escape from Tomorrow and the Gothic Attack on Disney by Aviva Briefel
- Attention Duras by William Caroline
- Maximum Emotions, Minimum Words: Interview with Eugène Green by Megan Ratner
- Crónica de castas (Chronicle of Castes) and Sangre bárbara (Barbarous Blood) by Paul Julian Smith
- The Vulnerable Spectator: On the Contagion of Vulnerability by Amelie Hastie
- Marking Time: The Long form Documentary at IDFA 2014 by Deirdre Boyle
- Sundance 2015, The Crystal Ball by B. Ruby Rich
- Remembering Resnais: An Encounter on the First Anniversary (Approximately) of His Death by Paul Thomas
- Bernie Cook Reflects on Katrina Media at the Ten-Year Mark in FLOOD OF IMAGES: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina by Regina Longo
- Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics by Julie A. Turnock DANA POLAN
- Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter by Richard Barrios CARRIE RICKEY
- Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military by Alice Lovejoy TANYA GOLDMAN
- L.A. Plays Itself / Boys in the Sand (Queer Film Classics series) by Cindy Patton GREG YOUMANS
- Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywoodby Kaveh Askari
- VITO ADRIAENSENS
- Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance by Lea Jacobs MASHA SHPOLBERG
Indiancine.ma has been initiated by Pad.ma, and is operated in collaboration with a number of organisations and film studies institutions. These include:
- The Media Lab, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- The Department of Cultural Studies, English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
- SARAI, Delhi
- The Cinema Studies Programme, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- The Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore
- 0x2620, Berlin
- CAMP, Mumbai
At present, Indiancine.ma is being utilized as a backbone structure for several research projects on Indian film, including a project for an 'Annotated Repository on the Art Cinemas of India" being conducted by the University of Chicago Center in Delhi, a project on the Left and the early Malayalam cinema being overseen by Prof. Satish Poduval of the English & Foreign University, a repository for precious historical print holdings on the history of Tamil and Telugu cinemas being assembled by Samyuktha P.C. (Chennai) and Dr. S.V. Srinivas (Bangalore), and a project on early Bengali films at the Media Lab, Jadavpur. A general focus at the moment is on out-of-copyright films, currently pre-1954.
Books:
- Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema By Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen
- Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid
- Ideology of the Hindi Film: Part I
- Ideology of the Hindi Film: Part II M Madhava Prasad’s Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction is a work of seminal importance. Drawing on the Marxist analysis of Indian society and history, the book places Hindi cinema firmly in the context of nationalism and development of capitalism. We present in a textual-moving visual format for readers. The moving visual images function as illustrations for the analysis undertaken by the Prasad. Split into two parts, Part One explains the economic, political and ideological conditions of possibility for the emergence of the social as the dominant genre in Hindi Cinema.
- Communication and Signification: Voice in the Cinema By M. Madhava Prasad
Texts:
- Three Bombay Talkies Films from the 1930s Debashree Mukherjee, as a part of a Pad.ma film histories fellowship, selected and annotated a trio of major Franz Osten Bombay Talkies films. Debashree writes about her selection and annotation strategy and presents an interview with Peter Dietze, grandson of Himanshu Rai with rare images from his Melbourne collection.
- A Filmi Twist of Fate: An Interview with Peter Dietze, Grandson of Himansu Rai Debashree Mukherjee's interview with Peter Dietze, grandson of Himanshu Rai with rare images from his from his Melbourne collection. In her own words, 'the only extant and accessible collection of studio papers from any Indian talkie studio of this time'.
- A Second Bibliography Around John Abraham Jenson Joseph is researching Malayalam cinema around the key figure of filmmaker John Abraham. This is part of the Annotated Repositories of the Art Cinemas of India project supported by the University of Chicago's Delhi Centre. This is a first Visual Bibliography of his researches, and includes previously inaccessible material around the Odessa Film Collective and other material on and by Abraham.
- A Second Select Bibliography on the Cinema of Mrinal Sen This is the first set of materials assembled as a part of the Annotated Repository of the Art Cinemas of India project supported by the University of Chicago Delhi Centre. It includes key texts around the work of Mrinal Sen, and includes publicity materials around Sen's films, the reception of the films when they were first released, on the making of the films, and reviews.
- A Second Select Bibliography on the Cinema of Jahnu Barua This is the first set of materials assembled as a part of the Annotated Repository of the Art Cinemas of India project supported by the University of Chicago Delhi Centre. It includes reviews and writings on the cinema of Jahnu Barua.
- Signifying Nativity: ‘Documentary reels’ in early South Indian films By Jenson Joseph
- The Complete ICC Reports Five complete volumes of the Indian Cinematograph Committee evidence (1927-28).
