The Cine-Files' special issue on mise-en-scene: Laura Mulvey, Kristin Thompson, V.F. Perkins, Lesley Stern, Adrian Martin, Christian Keathley, Jean Ma, Girish Shambu, John Gibbs and Jesse Green

Scene from the Iranian film Zir-e poost-e shahr/Under the Skin of the City (Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, 2001). Read a study of this film by Laura Mulvey in the new issue of The Cine-Files. Professor Mulvey has recently launched the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) which organises London-based film studies events, many of them with free entry and recorded for global online access. Upcoming BIMI events include some excellent ones on 3D. 

Film Studies For Free was thrilled to learn of the publication of Issue 4 of The Cine-Files. It, in turn, is delighted to feature ten guest scholars (ranging from the top notch to the legendary!) who offer either analysis of a cinematic “moment” or responses to questions about mise-en-scène and the significance of “close reading.” There are two further excellent articles in the issue by Warwick Mules and Mark Balderston. Thank you to The Cine-Files!

Guest contributions: 

• John Gibbs: “Close Reading: The Cry of the Owl” and Interview
• Jesse Green: “Putting Film in its Place”
• Christian Keathley: “The Man in the Back Seat”
• Jean Ma: “Close Reading: The Mise-en-scène of Song Performance”
• Adrian Martin: “Hands Across the Table”
• Laura Mulvey: “Between Melodrama and Realism: Under the Skin of the City (2001)”
• V.F. Perkins: “Acting on Objects”
• Girish Shambu: Interview
• Lesley Stern: “Writing/Images”
• Kristin Thompson: Interview

Features:

• 'Mise-en-scène and the Figural: A Reading of Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life' by Warwick Mules
• “You’ll Get Your Big Trip”: Acousmatic Music, The Voice, and the Mirror Stage in Enter the Void by Mark Balderston

Holy LOLA! Issue 3 on MASKS Online

FSFF's montage of frame grabs from Les yeux sans visage / Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960) and Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012). Read Part One of LOLA's collective hailing of the latter film

Film Studies For Free is delighted to bring you the always lovely news that not only has a new issue of Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu's LOLA been published -- on Masks -- it has already been extended, as per the new rolling publication style of this wonderful online film journal.

There is one final roll-out for this issue coming soon. This will include texts on Jerry Lewis, Rivette and Carpenter compared, Sitges Film Festival, and the conclusion of 'Hail Holy Motors'. FSFF will add links to the below list of contents once these are online.

LOLA, Issue 3 (December 2012): Masks

• Hail Holy Motors Part One A Spontaneous LOLA collective 
• A Pilgrimage to the Peloponnese: Gregory Markopoulos, Eniaios and the Temenos Erika Balsom 
• Is It Weird? Or, Actualising Disallowed Cinema Philip Brophy  
• She Thinks She Looks Dana Linssen  
• Webs of Destiny and Bits of String: Edgar G. Ulmer Luc Moullet  
• Transient and Intrinsically Valuable in Their Impermanence: Television's Changing Aesthetic Norms Tom O'Regan  
• The Macao Gesture Cristina Álvarez López  
• Investigation of a Stolen Life: I giorni contati Yvette Bíró  
• Road Trip: Toronto International Film Festival 2012 Girish Shambu

Notes on Contributors

New online film journal LOLA launches with an issue on "Histories" !!

Framegrab from Ohayo/Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959), an image of the 'in-between' as analysed by Andrew Klevan in the inaugural issue of LOLA.

A big day! Film Studies For Free is delighted to relay the news that Girish Shambu has just published at his blog: LOLA, a new online film journal edited by Adrian Martin and Shambu, has just launched.

Below, FSFF also reproduces the wonderful table of contents which include some very hotly anticipated items, among many other must-read essays... So that's what FSFF is heading off to do now: it must read them!

For once, the links below don't take you straight to the item, but, instead, to the entry at girish's where you can find the full links as well as a brief summary of each article.

Congratulations, and many thanks, Adrian and Girish. Let all film scholars and cinephiles bless the birth of LOLA and all who sail in her!

• Joe McElhaney, "Contemporary Cinema?"
• William D. Routt, "Innuendo 1.5"
• Andrew Klevan, "Expressing the In-Between"
• Luc Moullet, "Ah Yes! Griffith was a Marxist!"
• Richard Porton, "WR: Mysteries of the Organism: Anarchist Realism and Critical Quandaries"
• Shigehiko Hasumi, "Fiction and the 'Unrepresentable': All Movies are but Variants on the Silent Film"
• Sylvia Lawson, "Out of the Mid-Century: History, Memory and Cinema"
• Stephen Goddard, "'So, Did You See Me?': Testimony, Memory and Re-Making Film History"
• Darren Tofts, "In My Time of Dying: The Premature Death of a Film Classic"
• Adrian Martin, "Dinosaurs, Babies and the Sound of Music"
• Justine Grace, "The Streets: Breaking out of the Black Box/White Cube in Rotterdam"
• Nicole Brenez, "F.J. Ossang: The Grand Insurrectionary Style"
• James Guida, "Stuck in the Mud: The Visions of Lucrecia Martel"
• David Phelps, "Think But This ... 36 vues du Pic St-Loup"
• Elena Gorfinkel, "At the End of Cinema, This Thing Called Film"