New SCREENING THE PAST on 'Untimely Cinema'
Framegrab from Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998). Please read Adrian Martin's new essay A Skeleton Key to Histoire(s) du cinéma The question of whether cinema has run out of time, and the...
View ArticleNew WORLD PICTURE on Distance: André Bazin, Henri Bergson, Barbara Hammer,...
Frame grab from Κυνόδοντας/Kynodontas/Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009). Read Eugene Brinkema's new essay on this film Distance suggests a standing apart—a separation, an opening or difference, a gap...
View ArticleNew JOURNAL OF THE MOVING IMAGE on Alternative cinemas in India
Cover of JOURNAL OF THE MOVING IMAGE 10, 2012 (Alternative cinemas in India) A new issue of Journal of the Moving Image Online, a great, online, open access publication, has hit the e-stands! Film...
View ArticleFilm Philosophy Conference Keynote Presentations Online
A slide from the Film-Philosophy Conference keynote lecture by Francesco Casetti Film Studies For Free can only marvel at, and be very thankful for, the efficiency and commitment to open access...
View ArticleNew SENSES OF CINEMA: Marker, Kubrick, Akerman, Payne, Comolli, Australian...
Frame grab from Les Statues meurent aussi/Statues Also Die (Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, 1953). Read Daniel Vilensky's article on this film Film Studies For Free brings you links to the heady...
View ArticleIntroducing REFRAME: Open-Access and Multimedia Publishing in Media, Film and...
The above video (made by Catherine Grant) frames a substantial interview, which took place on September 26, with Rosalind Galt, author of PRETTY: Film and the Decorative Image (Columbia University...
View ArticleNew JUMP CUT: gender, globalization, Third Cinema, history, political...
Frame grab from La nación clandestina/The Hidden Nation (Jorge Sanjinés, 1989). Read a great selection of new and translated articles on this Bolivian filmmaker among the numerous essays just...
View ArticleOn David Lean: the Centenary Lectures from Queen Mary, University of London
Section from a frame grab from A Passage to India (David Lean, 1985) Film Studies For Free only just bumped into the below videoed lectures which have been archived online for some time, possibly even...
View ArticleHard-Boiled! Studies of Raymond Chandler's Work on Screen
Frame grab from The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946). Read Jonathan Rosenbaum's essay on this film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel. Today, Film Studies For Free brings you the second of...
View ArticleRollin', Rollin', Rollin'! Video Studies of the Western
John Ford's Vision of the West by Matthias Stork This new video essay examines the representation of the frontier in John Ford's Westerns. Ford's visual poetics illustrate Frederick Jackson Turner's...
View ArticleAdrian Martin's new book, Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach...
Cover of Adrian Martin's new book, Last day Every Day (Punctum Books, 2012) Where is film analysis at today? What is cinema theory up to, behind our backs? The field, as professionally defined (at...
View ArticleBelén Vidal's book, Figuring the Past: Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic
Belén Vidal, Figuring the Past: Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012). Vidal is lecturer in film studies at King’s College London, co-editor (with Dina...
View ArticleDreaming of Westerns... More video essays including Tag Gallagher's classic...
Dreaming of Jeanie: Tag Gallagher on Stagecoach by Tag Gallagher When Film Studies For Free published its popular entry on video studies of the Western a few weeks back, it asked its readers if they...
View ArticleTruly Doing Film Criticism: Online Film Studies by Tag Gallagher
Tag Gallagher: A New Reality. Roberto Rossellini's Francesco, guillare di Dio, (US 2006) [T]here is no formula for movie criticism. Cinema is not the same cinema in Ford and Rossellini, so you don’t...
View ArticleReal and Fictional Monarchies on Screen
The Paradox of the Monarchy by Catherine Grant An archive video collage exploring some of the psychological and mediatized components of the public's relationship with the UK monarchy. It features...
View ArticleOn ’Tangibility’ and Relocating Cinema: NECSUS #2, Autumn 2012
To celebrate the new issue of NECSUS on tangibility, above is a reposting of TOUCHING THE FILM OBJECT? by Catherine Grant. Also see version with audio commentary [A] media, singular, is not just its...
View ArticleFRAMES Cinema Journal Issues 2 and 1!! - Kubrick, Resnais, War Films, Digital...
Frame grab from The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980). Read Hannah Mowat's article on this and other 'hotel films' in the new issue of Frames Cinema Journal Film Studies For Free is very happy to...
View ArticleTo Cinephilia and Beyond! Christian Keathley's Film Studies Online
A free-to-attend University of London Screen Studies Group series event. Full details are given here: http://events.sas.ac.uk/ies/events/view/13234. A free-to-attend University of Sussex Centre for...
View ArticleNew issue of SCOPE: Nicole Holofcener, Realism, Self-Transformation...
Framegrab from Lovely and Amazing (Nicole Holofcener, 2001). You can read Rachel Lister's article about Holofcener's films here Life is good, thinks Film Studies For Free: a new issue of Scope: An...
View ArticleBest Online Film Studies Resources in 2012: Announcing a Readers' Poll!
Dear Film Studies For Free Readers, One of FSFF's most popular and most useful blog entries last year was its December 20 roundup: FSFF's Favourite Online Film Studies Resources in 2011. It will...
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