An audiovisual essay by Adrian Martin. Read Martin's accompanying text at [in]Transition 1.3, 2014, where you can see the other entries in this latest issue of the new journal of videographic film and moving image studies. Also, check out the latest issue of LOLA (co-edited by Martin and Girish Shambu), which features great new essays by Joe McElhaney (on German cinema) and Lesley Stern (on the ghostliness of gesture in film), among others.
Life, travel and lots happening at the good old salaried job rather got in the way, in the last three months, of Film Studies For Free's foolish claim that it would be "right back" after its last entry. This miscalculation heralded the longest hiatus in this blog's six and half year long existence! But FSFF is BACK and (even more foolishly) claiming that December should see some further new entries! Don't believe a word of it, people, till you see them with your own eyes!
Just be thankful, then, if you're so inclined, for all the openly accessible film and moving image studies that have appeared or been located online since the last entry. Links to many of these are lovingly gathered below for your reading and viewing pleasure and for your film and media studies edification.
Two further items of interest: first, you still have time to apply to attend a free two-week long workshop on making videographic criticism at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA, in June 2015, run by Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell, with Eric Faden and Catherine Grant as guest presenters! In case you think that, while free, this will still be an expensive venture, through a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, participants will receive a small stipend as well as having all travel, housing, and food expenses covered. The application deadline is Monday December 1, 2014.... So go to it! Full details here: http://sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/.
Finally, do be sure to tune in to In Media Res from Monday (December 1) for a weeklong discussion of Open Source Academia: "Featuring communications and media scholars from various avenues and alleyways, this multimedia discussion will take place at the In Media Res website as well as at Facebook, Twitter and beyond! Curators for this week include Catherine Grant, of Film Studies for Free, writing on "Scholarly Striptease," and Suzanne Scott, drawing on the troublesome canard of the "Fake Geek Girl" to address the possibility of the 'Fake Geek Academic.' Open Source Academia week is a collaboration between In Media Res and the students of IML 501, Seminar in Contemporary Digital Media in the Media Arts and Practices Division in The University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Follow Open Source Academia on Facebook and Twitter to enjoy custom curated web content to enrich the conversation as it unfolds."
P.S. It's not open access, sadly, but USC film and media scholar Holly Willis published a great profile of Film Studies For Free in the Fall 2014 issue of FILMMAKER Magazine. If you're a subscriber you can find it here: "Film Studies in the 21st Century": http://filmmakermagazine.com/87920-film-studies-for-the-21st-century/.
- LATEST ISSUE! [IN]TRANSITION: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, Issue 1.3, 2014 - edited by Catherine Grant (also see the companion website on The Audiovisual Essay linked to below)
- Grant, Catherine, 'The Audiovisual Essay: My Favourite Things'
- Álvarez López, Cristina, ‘From Idea to Concept' (Link to CAL's "Making of" reflection; link to Henrike Lindenberger's "Making of" reflection)
- Garwood, Ian, ‘The Poetics of the Explanatory Audiovisual Essay’ (Link to "Making of" reflection)
- Kiss, Miklós, ‘The Audiovisual Research Essay as an Alternative to Text-Based Scholarship’, (Link to Thomas van den Berg's "Making of" reflection)
- Martin, Adrian, 'The Inward/Outward Turn,' (Link to AM's "Making of" reflection; link to Timo Cromm's "Making of" reflection)
- NEW WEBSITE! THE AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY: Practice and Theory of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies.
- Table of Contents in alphabetical order by author surname:
- Álvarez López, Cristina (with Adrian Martin), ‘The One and the Many: Making Sense of Montage in the Audiovisual Essay’ [Frankfurt Papers]’
- Álvarez López, Cristina, ‘On SMALL GESTURES’/’From Idea to Concept [Extract]’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Álvarez López, Cristina, (with Catherine Grant, Carlos Losilla, Adrian Martin, Manu Yáñez ), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’
- Álvarez López, Cristina (with Adrian Martin), ‘SCREENING PROGRAMME: From Found Footage to the Audiovisual Essay ESSAY ‘Frankfurt papers]
- Berg, Thomas van den,‘On (UN)RELIABLE (UN)RELIABLITY’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Chanan, Michael, ‘On SPIRIT OF COUTINHO’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Cook, Pam, ‘On MILDRED’S KISS’/’Word vs. Image: Making…‘, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Cromm, Timo, ‘On DOLCE FAR NIENTE: An Audiovisual Essay on Bully (Larry Clark, 2001) and The Big Lebowski (Coen Bros, 1998)’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Garwood, Ian, ‘On HOW LITTLE WE KNOW: AN ESSAY FILM ABOUT HOAGY CARMICHAEL’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Grant, Catherine, ‘INTRODUCTION [to the Frankfurt Papers’]
- Grant, Catherine, ‘THE AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY: MY FAVORITE THINGS [INTRODUCTION to [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014: Videos and Reflections] as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Grant, Catherine, ‘How Long is a Piece of String? On the Practice, Scope and Value of Videographic Film Studies and Criticism’ [Frankfurt Papers]‘
- Grant, Catherine (with Cristina Álvarez López, Carlos Losilla, Adrian Martin, Manu Yáñez ), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’
- Hediger, Vinzenz, ‘What makes an excerpt? The video essay as an experiment performed on the work of art [Frankfurt Papers]‘
- Keathley, Christian, ‘On 50 YEARS ON’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Kiss, Miklós, ‘On UN/RELIABLE UN/RELIABILITY’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Lahera, Covadonga G., ‘On INFLAMES’, [in REFLECTIONS ON AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS]
- Law, Hoi Lun, ‘On ANGST/FEAR (Adrian Martin & Cristina Álvarez López, 2014)‘ [in REFLECTIONS ON AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS]
- Lee, Kevin B., ‘On THE CAREER OF PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON IN FIVE SHOTS’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Lindenberger, Henrike, ‘On ALPHAVILLE – THE CRYSTAL MAZE’/The Audiovisual Essay as Lego Construction’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Losilla, Carlos, ‘The Absent Image, The Invisible Narrative [Frankfurt Papers]’
- Losilla, Carlos (with Cristina Álvarez López, Catherine Grant, Adrian Martin, Manu Yañez ), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’
- Martin, Adrian (with Cristina Álvarez López), ‘The One and the Many: Making Sense of Montage in the Audiovisual Essay’ [Frankfurt Papers]’
- Martin, Adrian, ‘On WHERE I COME FROM, WHERE I’M GOING’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Martin, Adrian (with Cristina Álvarez López), ‘SCREENING PROGRAMME: From Found Footage to the Audiovisual Essay [‘Frankfurt papers]’
- Martin, Adrian (with Cristina Álvarez López, Cristina, Catherine Grant, Carolos Losilla, Manu Yáñez ), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’
- Morton, Drew, ‘On FROM THE PANEL TO THE FRAME: STYLE AND SCOTT PILGRIM’/ ‘THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS, YET THERE IS METHOD IN IT: Notes on Producing and Revising Videographic Scholarship‘, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- van den Berg, Thomas, ‘On (UN)RELIABLE (UN)RELIABLITY’, as curated at [in]Transition, 1.3, 2014
- Yáñez, Manu, ‘Thought, Action and Imagination [Frankfurt Papers]’
- Yáñez, Manu, (with Cristina Álvarez López, Cristina, Catherine Grant, Carlos Losilla, Adrian Martin), ‘Roundtable Discussion [Frankfurt Papers]’
- NEW ISSUE! Issue 5 of LOLA has begun to roll out with the entries below published and others to come:
- Survival Tactics: German Filmmakers in Hollywood, 1940-1960 Joe McElhaney
- To Be or Not to Be (A Jew) Dorian Stuber and Marianne Tettlebaum
- Putting on a Show, or The Ghostliness of Gesture Lesley Stern
- NEW ISSUE! Participations now out - includes an article on fan studies methodology and many other audience studies of note: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2011/Issue%202/contents.htm …
- NEW ISSUE! The new look FRAMES CINEMA JOURNAL on animation: http://framescinemajournal.com/?issue=issue5
- NEW ISSUE! Issue 72 of SENSES OF CINEMA! http://sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue-72/
- NEW ISSUE! Media Industries Journal 1.2 is now out with twelve think pieces from its editorial board: http://www.mediaindustriesjournal.org/index.php/mij/issue/view/2
- NEW DOUBLE ISSUE! Offscreen 18 (6-7) on gender and horror (including horror girls!): http://offscreen.com/issues/view/volume-18-issues-6-7
- NEW ISSUE! Cinergie n. 6, Special dossier on Film Festival Studies: http://www.cinergie.it/
- CALL FOR PAPERS: Film-Philosophy Conference 2015: The Evaluation of Form (University of Oxford) 20-22 July: http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/index.php/conf/FP2015
- David Bordwell has published lots of brilliant entries in the last three months - all are linked to below. He has also made chapter from Chapter 6 | Film Futures from his 2007 book Poetics of Cinema available as a pdf online (going lots of other freely available chapters from that book:
- On "what-if" or "forking path" narratives
- Little things mean a lot: Micro-stylistics
- Say hello to GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE
- Ode to the New Beverly; and a downbeat coda
- Gone Grrrl
- Here be dragons, and tigers
- Of horses, avalanches, and architecture
- Peter von Bagh
- Cinematic storytelling: A podcast on narrative
- An auteur, three archives, and the archivist as auteur
- ADIEU AU LANGAGE: 2 + 2 x 3D
- Where movies live and breathe
- A Celestial Cinémathèque? or, Film Archives and Me: A Semi-Personal History
- Kristin Thompson published these great blog entries, too:
- Also see Anca Caramelea's essay at the same website Auteuse Theory: "A new cinema, a new interest – women’s issues and new Romanian cinema"
- Richard Rushton on the Year's Work in Film Theory (reviews of Hansen, Elsaesser, and Kracauer and Lukács collections): http://ywcct.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/1/64.fullhttp://ywcct.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/1/64.full
- Allister Mactaggart on "‘‘Silencio’’: hearing loss in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive": http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/view/22836/37116
- Dietmar Kammerer created a German language site for open access film studies resources, like Film Studies For Free! http://filmwissenschaftumsonst.wordpress.com/.
- Girish Shambu put up a great new blog entry with links to lots of wonderful online reading: http://girishshambu.blogspot.com/2014/10/tiff-2014-part-2-loznitsa-alonso.html
- Scott Mackenzie present a 60 page excerpt from his new book Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology for the first of Film Quarterly's Book Preview features: http://www.filmquarterly.org/2014/09/manifestos-a-forgotten-history-2/
- voicesonfilm, an excellent and promising new video based web project, launches with a fabulous interview with film scholar Charles Barr on Hitchcock, Robin Wood, Movie vs Sight and Sound Magazine, and much more: http://voicesonfilm.com/
- Podcasts of sessions from the recent Melancholia conference at University College Dublin: http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/podcasts/2014/melancholia/
- More podcast brilliance: the Aca Media team have published two episodes since FSFF's last entry:
- Episode 18 (aka The Halloween episode) has lots of laughs and frights! Also: Forrest Gump and the SCMS-U conference. http://www.aca-media.org/episode18
- Episode 17 features Courtney Brannon Donoghue discussing Sony's film production in Brazil. an introduction to an exciting new outlet for video essays, [in]Transition, and a discussion of baseball players who don't have a clue and a couple of British detectives who do: http://www.aca-media.org/episode17
- Dolores Tierney writes up her open access work with Ana Lopez for Cinema Journal on Latin American film research in the 21st Century here, with lots of excellent links:
- Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jacques Tati: http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3337-jacques-tati-composing-in-sound-and-image
- Omar Ahmed on "New Waves: The Story of 'Hindie' Cinema": http://omarsfilmblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/new-waves-story-of-hindie-cinema.html
- Jan Christopher Horak's tribute to the late great film curators and archivists, festival artistic directors and writers (and so much more) Mary Lea Bandy and Peter von Bagh: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2014/09/25/memoriam-mary-lea-bandy-peter-von-bagh
- David Hudson's tribute round up to Peter von Bagh at Keyframe: http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-peter-von-bagh-1943-2014
- Great resources on Spanish cinema are gathered here at Mediático:
- Further REFRAME content of interest:
- Mini Web Operas launched online and at Glyndebourne by the Opera and the Media of the Future project
- Re. Framing Activism website under new editorship
- New project call for submissions: THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF LEWES
- New eBook versions of articles in SEQUENCE One Planet Melancholia
- NEW PORTAL! EUscreen has just officially launched http://euscreen.eu. Help it enrich and curate heritage AV materials by becoming a member of its contextualization community! More on: http://blog.euscreen.eu/archives/5806
- Jennifer Proctor's brilliant film and media studies teaching resources: http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Teaching-Resources
- Edward O'Neill's brilliant learning technology website: http://managinglearningtechnology.blogspot.com
- VIEWING! :: kogonada's THE EYES OF HITCHCOCK by "This is probably the most freaky and affecting piece of videographic criticism I've seen": Jason Mittell): http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3306-the-eyes-of-hitchcock
- VIEWING! Drew Morton on BLOW-UP, BLOW OUT, and THE CONVERSATION: "Cross-Cut." https://vimeo.com/109405354
- VIEWING: "Paratheatre: Plays Without Stages - From V to VIII"by Adrian Martin and Cristina Alvarez López on Rivette's OUT 1 - https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/paratheatre-plays-without-stages-from-v-to-viii
- VIEWING! "Out 1 Solitaire": a new audiovisual essay and text by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Kevin B. Lee: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/out-1-solitaire
- VIEWING! Cristina Álvarez López on Jean-Pierre Melville: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/reflections/intransition-1-3/cristina-alvarez-lopez/
- VIEWING! From the OPEN HERE conference and festival on social, technological & cultural issues re. the digital commons: https://vimeo.com/user33775574
- VIEWING! "WHAT IS NOIR? with Peter Labuza: http://vimeo.com/thecriticalpress/whatisnoir
- VIEWING! Tony Zhou - "Characters make choices they can’t undo. How do you show it visually? One example: Snowpiercer" (SPOILERS!) http://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/snowpiercer
- VIEWING! Tony Zhou - "David Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong": http://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/davidfincher
- VIEWING! Nelson Carvajal's tribute to Mike Nichols for PressPlay: https://vimeo.com/112623464 (David Hudson's tribute round up for Keyframe is here: http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-mike-nichols-1931-2014)
- VIEWING! Milena Kan's "Human and Animal: Jodorowsky’s Looking-Glass World" http://cinentransit.com/atravesar-el-espejo-el-mundo-de-jodorowsky/#English
- VIEWING! Miklós Kiss on Philip Seymour Hoffman: https://vimeo.com/110767451
- VIEWING! Milad Tangshir on the reception of Scorsese's 1988 film THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST https://vimeo.com/109426626
- VIEWING! Ian Magor on the masterful use of projection in Hitchcock's REBECCA: https://vimeo.com/109921839
- VIEWING! Ian Magor on the close up - "Some Still Are": http://vimeo.com/107196261
- VIEWING! Pasquale Iannone's MEMORIES AND BROKEN PANES [3.23] https://vimeo.com/110121502
- VIEWING! Chiara Grizzaffi on Io La Conoscevo Bene (Pietrangeli, 1965) And Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger, 1958): https://vimeo.com/101643349
- VIEWING! Chiara Grizzaffi on The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) and The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928): https://vimeo.com/98536906
- VIEWING! Pam Cook on "Performance: Tony Leung in In the Mood for Love": http://profpamcook.com/2014/11/06/performance-tony-leung-in-the-mood-for-love/
- VIEWING! Pam Cook on "Memory: Brief Encounter and In the Mood for Love": http://profpamcook.com/2014/08/31/corridors-of-desire/
- VIEWING! Conor Tierney on the representation of the body as a weapon on screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gng7NgH8ATs
- VIEWING! Todd Haynes on Fassbinder's ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (1974) @Criterion http://bit.ly/1vu8SxY http://youtu.be/Tyr-_gJ6e-A
- VIEWING! Terry Gilliam Reveals the Secrets of Monty Python Animations: A 1974 How-To Guide - http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/terry-gilliam-reveals-the-secrets-of-monty-python-animations.html
- ALSO! A Treasure Trove of Hollywood History on the Redesigned Oscars Website (Via Gizmodo @Gizmodo): http://gizmo.do/wfTwbds
- ALSO! The Alternate Takes website has a tumblr!: http://alttakes.tumblr.com
- ALSO! 1000 Frames of Hitchcock: See Each of Hitchcock’s 52 Films Reduced to 1,000 Artistic Frames: http://goo.gl/Wa8ulI
- ALSO! Picturegoing turns to film itself as evidence for the first time, with Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (via Luke McKernan @lukemckernan): http://picturegoing.com/?p=3413
- ALSO! Darren Tofts and Mark Amerika, joined new media philosophy journal Ctrl-Z editor Niall Lucy and film director Ken Miller to "discuss the flows and eruptions of remix culture, to reflect on its technological and intellectual pre-histories, and to consider its implications for cultural practice": http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/press/media/ (link via Adrian Martin)
