VIEW, the Journal of European Television History and Culture: European Television Memories

Screenshot from The Paradox of the Monarchy, an archive-film video collage (by Catherine Grant) exploring some of the psychological and mediatized components of the public's relationship with the UK monarchy. Read Hazel Collie's discussion of significant, gendered, televisual memories, such as those of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, in "It's Just So Hard to Bring It to Mind": The Significance of ‘Wallpaper’ in the Gendering of Television Memory Work

Film Studies For Free is delighted to announce that EUscreen has presented issue 03 of VIEW, the Journal of European Television History and Culture.

The new issue treats the subject of 'European Television Memories', and it's full of wonderful discussions of 'dynamic memory practices that take place in the contemporary media landscape as an ongoing, active and performative engagement with the past', as the issue's editorial puts it. Such discussions are highly relevant to film scholars, too.

The full table of contents is given below, with FSFF's congratulations to VIEW on an excellent issue.


Editorial

• Editorial Jérôme Bourdon, Berber Hagedoorn PDF HTML

Discoveries

• ‘Remembering Our First TV Set’. Personal Memories as a Source for Television Audience History Cecilia Penati HTML PDF
• "It's Just So Hard to Bring It to Mind": The Significance of ‘Wallpaper’ in the Gendering of Television Memory Work Hazel Collie HTML PDF
• Martin Luther in Primetime. Television Fiction and Cultural Memory Construction in Cold War Germany Stewart Anderson HTML PDF 
• The Production of Czechoslovakia´s Most Popular Television Serial 'The Hospital On The Outskirts' and Its Post-1989 Repeats Petr Bednařík  HTML PDF
• Parallel Stories, Differentiated Histories. Exploring Fiction and Memory in Spanish and Portuguese Television José Carlos Rueda Laffond, Carlota Coronado Ruiz, Catarina Duff Burnay, Susana Díaz Pérez, Amparo Guerra Gómez, Rogério Santos  HTML PDF
• Looking for What You Are Looking for: a Media Researcher’s First Search in a Television Archive Jasmijn Van Gorp HTML PDF

Explorations

• Television as a Hybrid Repertoire of Memory. New Dynamic Practices of Cultural Memory in the Multi-Platform Era Berber Hagedoorn HTML PDF  
• Why Should We Study Socialist Commercials? Anikó Imre HTML PDF
• Window to the West: Memories of Watching Finnish Television in Estonia During The Soviet Period Annika Lepp, Mervi Pantti  HTML PDF 
• The Life and Afterlife of a Socialist Media Friend. On the Longterm Cultural Relevance of the Polish TV Series 'Czterdziestolatek' Kinga S. Bloch  PDF HTML 
• Chronology and Ideology. Temporal Structuring in Israeli Historical Documentary Series Bosmat Garami HTML PDF
• Great Escapes from the Past. Memory and Identity in European Transnational Television News Andreas Widholm HTML PDF
• Memory, Television and the Making of the BBC’s 'The Story Of Wales' Steve Blandford, Ruth McElroy HTML PDF

VIEW is published by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in collaboration with Utrecht University, Maastricht University and Royal Holloway University of London. It is supported by the EUscreenXL project, the European Television History Network and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

VIEW, the Journal of European Television History and Culture is the first peer-reviewed, multi-media and open access e-journal in the field of European television history and culture. It offers an international platform for outstanding academic research and archival reflection on television as an important part of our European cultural heritage. The journal is proud to present its third issue: European Television Memories. It has been guest-edited by Jérôme Bourdon and Berber Hagedoorn and is freely available at: http://www.viewjournal.eu
In the context of the fast development of media studies, the third issue of VIEW highlights debates around the moving borders of national memories, fostered by television in the context of European history. The articles in this issue focus on the contribution of European television researchers, covering all three areas of media studies: production, text and reception. We wish you a pleasant and inspiring journey through European Television Memories!

www.viewjournal.eu - Twitter: @ViewjournalEU

Corrected entry (February 12): FRAMEWORK: The Journal of Cinema and Media

'Snakes&Funerals' by Emily Jeremiah, James S. Williams and Gillian Wylde. Taking Jean-Luc Godard’s canonic film Le Mépris / Contempt (1963) as a starting-point, Snakes&Funerals set out to explore the queer possibilities of image and sound, especially of colour and of ‘straight’ repetition. First published in Frames, Issue 1, July 2012.

Film Studies For Free [thought it had] had a lovely surprise today. It found, through Google Scholar, that NINE full issues of Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media (including the most recent five issues) were freely accessible through the Digital Commons of its publisher Wayne State University Press. It jumped to the pleasing conclusion (encouraged by the use of the word Commons + free access), that this great journal had turned to open access publishing.

Then, on February 11, FSFF received a very courteously worded email with the following message from a very nice representative of Wayne State University Press:

Unfortunately, this journal is not open access, and we have no plans to make it so at this time. I'm writing to you so that you have the correct information about Framework. 

When you visited the site, BePress (administrator of Digital Commons) had not yet activated the toll-access barrier to the journal content. That was an error on our part, one that we have since rectified. Those who click on the links you have posted on your blog will not be able to download the article for free. Instead, a $5 fee is charged before access is granted. I apologize for the confusion [...].

$5 is much, much cheaper than most traditional "gated" online academic publication access, for sure. But FSFF must apologise to its readers -- who, up until a short while ago, will have been able to access contents for free -- for drawing a premature conclusion.

C is for Cinephilia Studies (plus some telephilia, too)

Still from Jean-Luc Godard's Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinéma, 2004

A veritable labour of love, today, from Film Studies For Free: a list of links to freely available online resources devoted to the study of cinephilia, telephilia and videophilia - the putatively excessive love for whatever is projected (or broadcast or played) on screens large and small. Truth be told: FSFF can't really see what's excessive about that... (Updated June 1, 2009)

• Scott Balcerzak, 'Pleasures of Analysis/Pleasures of Film/Pleasures of Teaching', Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-scope, September 7, 2007
• David Bordwell, 'Games Cinephiles Play', Observations on film art and Film Art, August 3, 2008
• Peter Bosma, 'Cinephilia and the Institutional View on Film Culture', Some General Notes on Film Studies, Spring 2008, from p. 12 (23) - E-view, Vol 2009, No 1 (2009)
• Jodi Brooks, 'The Lure of the breach: invisibility and the dissolution of cinematic vision', Screening the Past, December 2007
• NEW Zach Campbell, 'Cinephile Business: Key Texts', Elusive Lucidity, December 18, 2005
  
• NEW Zach Campbell, 'The Tribalism of Cinephilia', Elusive Lucidity, June 23, 2007
  
• Paul Coughlin, 'Sublime Moments', Senses of Cinema, December 2000
• Dennis Cozzalio, 'Pleasures Worthy of Guilt: A Cinephile's Confession (2005), with Postscript (2009)', The House Next Door Online, January 12, 2009
• Serge Daney (interview with Bill Krohn), 'Les Cahiers du Cinéma 1968-1977', The Thousand Eyes, 1977, republished by Steve Erickson
• Serge Daney, 'The tracking Shot in Kapo', Originally published in Trafic, No. 4, Fall 1992
• Manohla Dargis, The 21st Century Cinephile', New York Times, November 14, 2004 (and continues here)
• Steve Erickson, et al. "Permanent Ghosts: Cinephilia in the Age of the Internet and Video." Senses of Cinema 4 (2000) and 5 (2000) (Essay 1 by Steve Erickson | Essay 2 by Theo Panayides | Essay 3 by David Sterritt | Essay 4 by Jeff Lambert | Essay 5 by Bryant Frazier)
• Bill Flavell, 'Cinephilia and/or Cinematic Specificity', Senses of Cinema, July 2000
• Mas Generis , 'Review of Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener (eds), Cinephilia: movies, love and memory (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005), Screening the Past, 2006
• NEW Asbjørn Grønstad, 'No one goes to the movies anymore:'Cinema and Visual Studies in the Digital Era Blue, Kinema, Fall 2008
• Tim Groves, 'CInema/Affect/Writing', Senses of Cinema, February 2003
• Tim Groves, 'Night Surfing: On Telefilia', Senses of Cinema, January 2004
• Benjamin Halligan, 'Against Cinephiliphobia: Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin', Senses of Cinema, May 2004
• Christian Haye, 'Steve McQueen', Frieze Magazine, Issue 28, May 1996
• Anthony Kaufman, 'The Vanishing: The demise of VHS, and the movies disappearing along with it', Moving Image Source, February 26, 2009
• Christian Keathley, 'A Whirlpool of Things [on critical commentary and Otto Preminger’s Whirlpool]', In Media Res, May 14 , 2007
• Christian Keathley, 'The Cinephiliac Moment', Framework, 42, Summer 2000
• Christian Keathley, 'Otto Preminger and the Surface of Cinema', World Picture Journal 2, Autumn 2008
• Christian Keathley, 'The Scholarship of Sound and Image: Producing Media Criticism in the Digital Age', MIT6 Stone Papyrus Storage and Transmission Conference, April 24-26, 2009
• Noel King, 'Manny Farber', Framework 40, Spring 1999
• Tony McKibbin, 'THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: High Mimetics in Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma', Experimental Conversations, Issue 3, Spring 2009
• Justus Nieland, 'Archives of Modernist Cinephilia [Review Essay on Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1894–1941]', Modernism/modernity 2007
• NEW Quintín, 'An Anorexic’s Case Against Uchida Tomo', Cinema Scope, No. 22,
  
• Nitesh Rohit, 'Cinephilia in India: a search for love and identity', Indian Auteur, February 1, 2009
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'The Missing Image - From Cinephilia to the World - The Trajectory of Serge Daney', originally published in The New Left Review, 34, July-August 2005
• Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin, 'Preface to Movie Mutations: The changing face of world cinephilia', Fipresci Documents, 2004
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'Movie Love: Film-history tidbits in a monument to French cinephilia', Moving Image Source, March 5, 2009
• Catherine Russell, 'Cinephilia: The future of cinephilia', Filmreference.com, [date unknown]
• Matthew Salomon, 'Soft Cinema and the Soft Cinephiliac', golempoem, June 14, 2007
• Girish Shambu, 'The Cinephiliac Moment', girish, June 19, 2006
• Girish Shambu, 'Cinephile Accounting: Old vs. New ', girish, March 23, 2008
• Girish Shambu, 'An Alphabet of Cinema ', girish, May 4, 2008
• Ryan Shand, 'Review of Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory By Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener (eds.) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005', SCope: an online journal of film & TV studies, Issue 10, Fenruary 2008
• Steven Shaviro, 'Ingmar Bergman', The Pinocchio Theory, July 31, 2007
• So-young Kim, '"Cine-Mania" or Cinephilia, Film Festival and Identity Question', originally published in Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer, eds. New Korean Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005
• Susan Sontag, 'The Decay of Cinema', New York Times, February 25, 1996
• Jason Sperb, 'Sensing an Intellectual Nemesis', Film Criticism 32.1 (Fall 2007): 49-71
• Jason Sperb, 'Review of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees by Christian Keathley (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006)', Scope: an online journal of film & TV studies, Issue 12, October 2008
• Jason Sperb, 'The Politics of Cinephilia', Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-scope, August 24, 2006
• Jason Sperb, 'Still a Cinephilia of Anticipation', Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-scope, November 15, 2006
• Jason Sperb, 'Bond [. . .] Interrupted', Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-scope, December 28, 2006
• Jason Sperb, 'The cinephiliac practice of everyday life', Jamais Vu, August 12, 2007
• Jason Sperb, 'Scholars cannot write as cinephiles (but academics can)', Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-scope, March 23, 2007
• Jason Sperb, 'While it's simply not that simple', Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-scope, March 28, 2007
• Jason Sperb, 'Metz and Cinephilia', Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-scope, April 15, 2007
• Jason Sperb, 'Cinephilia and Disappointment (review of Cinephilia: Movies, Love, and Memory. Eds. Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2005. 11-43)', Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-scope, May 22, 2007
• Jason Sperb, 'Practising a cinephiliac practice', Jamais Vu, November 27, 2007
• Jason Sperb, 'Punch-Drunk Love', Jamais Vu, May 23, 2008
• Rick Swintice, 'The cinephilia of Le Mépris', Netribution Film Network, January 28th, 2000
• Harry Tuttle, 'Nomad Cinephilia (Adrian Martin)', Screenville, October 17, 2008
• Rashna Wadia Richards, 'Re-Viewing Cinephilia: The Movement and the Moment', Politics and Culture 1, 2006
• Gijs van Wiechen, 'Who Framed F.W. Murnau’s Faust? Intertextuality, Discourse & the Historical Film on DVD', Masters e-Thesis, RMA Media Studies, University Utrecht, August 31, 2008
• Paul Willemen, 'An Introduction to Framework', Framework 42, 1999
• Prakash Younger, 'What is Cinephilosophy? A Bazinian Paradigm, Part 1 & 2', Offscreen Journal, Volume 13, Issue 2 (Bazin Renewed), February 2009

To conclude, the normally parsimonious (Open Access championing) Film Studies For Free blog doesn't usually plug books that you have to pay for (even though its owner both writes and, of course, reads such papercentric objects) but it absolutely must flag up the fact that it is very much looking forward to Scott Balcerzak and Jason Sperb's forthcoming Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture, vol. 1, due to be published by Wallflower Press in June 2009.

This first volume in a twin-anthology project includes contributions by Robert Burgoyne, Zach Campbell, Tobey Crockett, Brian Darr, Kevin Fisher, Andy Horbal, Christian Keathley, Adrian Martin, Jenna Ng, Lisa Purse, Dan Sallitt and Girish Shambu, as well as by Sperb and Balcerzak.

As today's links list so amply testifies, so many of these authors have already tirelessly shared their work on this topic for free online. FSFF thinks this is very much a book worth having.