New issue of SCOPE! Performance and Sound, Lynne Ramsay, Contemporary...
Frame grab from Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002) Film Studies For Free is thrilled, as ever, to pass on news of a new issue of SCOPE: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies. The February 2013...
View ArticleStudies of the Remediation of Films, Comics and Video Games
Transmedia Synergies - Remediating Films and Video Games from Matthias Stork on Vimeo. See Matthias Stork's Mediascape, Winter 2013 essay 'Transmedia Synergies – Remediating Films and Video Games',...
View ArticleOn CINEMATIC DIRECT ADDRESS - Part One: Mapping the Field
CINEMATIC DIRECT ADDRESS Part One: Mapping the Field - Video by Catherine Grant On Friday March 1, 2013, Film Studies For Free's author had the very great pleasure of interviewing Tom Brown, Lecturer...
View Article¡Cine fantástico! In Memory of Jess Franco (1930-2013)
Frame grab image of Lina Romay in Jess Franco's Les possédées du diable/Exorcism (1974) Serge Daney distinguishes between love of cinema and passion for cinema. The latter state concerns the...
View ArticleNew MOVIE! VERTIGO, Hal Ashby, Luis Buñuel, Charles Chaplin, Kenji Mizoguchi,...
Frame grab of Robert Mitchum in The Wonderful Country (Robert Parrish, 1959). Read Pete Falconer's study of this film in the great new issue of MOVIE Woohoo! The wonderful issue 4 of MOVIE: A Journal...
View ArticleBreaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address and Metalepsis in the Cinema and...
You can read Tom Brown's essay on the above video here. [L]istening back to our conversation, I was worried about how often the two of us [...] said that characters in the film “look at...
View ArticleA Long Hard Look at Slow Cinema Studies
Frame grab from Teodors/Theodore (Laila Pakalniņa, Latvia 2006). Read about Pakalniņa's films in the context of "slow cinema" 'Cinema is the art of playing with time.' (Alain Resnais cited in Freddy...
View ArticleNECSUS #3 The GREEN Issue
Frame grab from Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon, 2004). Read Brady Hammond's article in the new issue of NECSUS, which explores 'green skin' in contemporary Hollywood cinema...
View ArticleThe Cine-Files' special issue on mise-en-scene: Laura Mulvey, Kristin...
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...
View ArticleCINEPHILE 8.1 on the Voice-Over in Cinema
Frame grab from Borom Sarret/The Wagoner (Ousmane Sembène,1963). Read Alexander Fisher's article on Sembène's use of voice-over in this film in the latest issue of Cinephile While it is true that film...
View Article10th Anniversary Issue of PARTICIPATIONS on Fan Studies, and Audience...
Screenshot extract from 'Ten years old - and ready to try new things, an editorial by Martin Barker and Sue Turnbull in the the tenth anniversary issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and...
View ArticleStudy of a Single Film: Todd Haynes' [SAFE] (1995)
Video Essay on Todd Haynes's [SAFE] (1995) by Amber Jacobs and Catherine Grant. You can read more about this work in 'Un[Contained]? On Todd Haynes's [SAFE]', Filmanalytical, June 17, 2013 Today, Film...
View ArticleVIEW, the Journal of European Television History and Culture: European...
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...
View ArticleExpanded Cinema Studies? Free eBook on Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art
Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theatre and the...
View ArticleComic Book INTENSITIES
Screenshot of the new issue header for INTENSITIES Way back in the dim mists of online time (on January 23, 2013, to be precise), Film Studies For Free publicised its discovery of the new online...
View ArticleOn Documentary Film Styles: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Frame grab from Человек с киноаппаратом / Chelovek s kinoapparatom/ Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929), a film mentioned in Carsten Heinze's introduction to the Documentary Film Styles....
View ArticleCinema in the Interstices: Issue 5 of ALPHAVILLE
Frame grab from Mon oncle d'Amérique/My American Uncle (Alain Resnais, 1980). Read Angela Dalle Vacche's article which treats this film in the latest issue of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen...
View ArticleWoo, To, Wong Kar-wai, Asian Horror, Anime and More: Twelve Open-Access Film...
A little interchange on Twitter, this morning, with the fabulous open access book library OAPEN has revealed to Film Studies For Free that TWELVE film studies books published by Hong Kong University...
View ArticleFilm and Media Studies Podcasts Galore! Cinema Journal's Aca-Media, New Books...
Accompanying illustration for Episode 7: Aca-Media Podcast As its regular readers will know, Film Studies For Free is always delighted to promote non-open access film studies items if their authors...
View ArticleNew WORLD PICTURE on 'Left': PT Anderson, Hollis Frampton, Vincente Minnelli...
Screenshot from The Cobweb (Vincente Minnelli, 1955). Read Agustín Zarzosa's article on this film in the new issue of World Picture It's that wonderful time of year when a new issue from one of Film...
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