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Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
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New today on the site: "Whenever I speak about THE CLOCK, the first, inevitable question I’m asked is ‘How?’ followed almost immediately by ‘Why?’ It’s impossible to discuss the work without thinking about it mechanically & logistically. How do you make a 24-hour movie?" - @bcwallin.com

THE MOVING IMAGE: A USER'S MANUAL examines how video shapes our world. 🌐 Join PETER B. KAUFMAN & RICK PRELINGER for an in-person #booktalk. 📅 Mar 18 | 🕡 6:30 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1256028939... #InternetArchive #FunCheapSF #SFevents

Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️ Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez’s new book is out in its open access edition! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

“... the transformative power of her voice will continue to resonate within and far beyond the LGBTQ+ movements to which she dedicated her life and will encourage the radical convergences—her dream of a common movement—that hold the promise of a truly democratic future.” - Angela Y. Davis

Out now… and in open access! It can be read and download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This week on In Media Res: (February 24 - February 28) "Through Forbidden Frames: New Visions in Contemporary Iranian Cinema" Here is the lineup: mediacommons.org/imr/

The 2025 @baftss.bsky.social New Connections Schedule is now available! Showcasing research undertaken by ECRs in Film, Media and Screen Studies, providing them with bursaries to present their work to new audiences. Thanks to our sponsor Manchester University Press www.baftss.org/new-connecti...

Hello and welcome to our new Bluesky account!

Issue 28 is launched! “Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals” edited by Sheila Petty and Estrella Sendra @ucclibrary.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uregina.bsky.social @filmstudiesff.bsky.social doi.org/10.33178/alp...

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 2024 has its live YouTube premiere this coming Tuesday! Register for free (or support Prelinger Library with a contribution) and engage in spirited real-time repartee with other viewers. Hope to see you online! www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-lands...

For those interested in learning more about my research on Screen Two, I have written a blog post for Forgotten Television Drama: forgottentelevisiondrama.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/s...

Free article! 😀 Michele Washington (@culturalboundaries.bsky.social) analyzes Take Your Bags (1998), an experimental film steeped in the semiotics of racial identity and the enslavement of black bodies. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

THIS FRIDAY!

TOMORROW!

amidst everything, i did a podcast episode! i chatted with the amazing Sandra and Kasey at @idlingintheimpala.bsky.social about fanfiction, what makes a healthy fandom ecosystem, how to ethically research fans, and why the Supernatural fandom makes so many Tulpas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=su-E...

Our new Issue 15: Next (Winter 2025) is live. Eight new essays plus an interview with critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. See what's Next: worldpicturejournal.com

Out now! The wonderful Karen Pearlman’s new book on filmmaker Shirley Clarke, published in the @edinburghup.bsky.social Visionaries series (including in an open access version) edited by Lucy Bolton and Richard Rushton. uplopen.com/books/m/10.1...

For future viewing

CAUGHT IN THE DREAM OF THE OTHER: Audiovisual essay by Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin on/with Vincente Minnelli's 'MADAME BOVARY' (1949) & 'A MATTER OF TIME' (1976). This is number 88 of their series 'THE THINKING MACHINE' for De Filmkrant. vimeo.com/1054831788?s...

Stoked to announce our new series, DIGITAL FRONTIERS with our first episode on Thomas Vinterberg's THE CELEBRATION (1998). Give us an RT, follow, sub, listen! More on the way. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Evelyn Kreutzer and Kathleen Kreutzer have announced that the special issue “#polyphony: Sound and Music in Videographic Scholarship” is now online on the ZfM Videography blog: zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/video....

My friend, the brilliant film scholar Christian Keathley will be screening his new videographic work on March 17 at the University of Reading, UK! Free screening followed by Director Q&A. Cinephilia and History or The Mystery of William Keighley (2024, 57 mins) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cinephilia...

Interview transcripts in the Cinema Memory Archive, accessioned and ready For storage.

MUST FOLLOW!! @annettekuhn.bsky.social

New video essay by Alison Peirse: “Suffocated But Screaming”, a video essay that explores how the ageing woman is made monstrous in kaibyō eiga (Japanese ghost cat films), published in Open Screens: www.openscreensjournal.com/article/id/1...

My new article, a roundtable discussion of amazing New York-based script supervisors talking about their crucial work in film and TV, is out today in Open Screens! (completely open access so get stuck in) #dontcallmescripty www.openscreensjournal.com/article/id/1...

Out now! MONSTRUM 7.2, “Queer/ing Horror,” guest-ed: @Daynarama.bsky.social. The 9 video essays in this issue think about what queer reuse of queerness looks like through a horror lens, and are also acts of queer re-telling and reviewing practices of horror. www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v7-...

My Response to @sennahojottonib.bsky.social's wonderful video "Gestures of Thought: Glance" (which you can watch - and read about - here: transferences.org/videoessays/...)

“Auteurs in the Age of Social Media“: Great looking new theme week at In Media Res |MediaCommons! mediacommons.org/imr

The new issue of Film-Philosophy (29:1, 2025) is now live and open access: www.euppublishing.com/toc/film/29/1

My videographic tribute to the wonderful Spanish actress Marisa Paredes (1946-2024) in her role as Leo Macías in LA FLOR DE MI SECRETO (Pedro Almodóvar, 1995) Featured song - from Almodóvar's film - AY AMOR, composed and sung by Bola de Nieves. vimeo.com/1050828984

Our videographic criticism winter school started today with watching work by @filmstudiesff.bsky.social, @mikloskiss.bsky.social, and the wonderful "Explosive Paradox" by Kevin B. Lee.

A perfect tribute to (and videographic study of) David Lynch’s filmmaking by the brilliant film scholar Will Scheibel, just published at Film Obsessive. filmobsessive.com/film/film-an...

New in #openaccess! STRETCHING THE ARCHIVES TOWARD A GLOBAL FILM WOMEN’S FILM HERITAGE. Eds. Lizelle Bisschoff, Ana Grgić, Stefanie Van de Peer. Book has particular emphasis on feminist cultural memory and film heritage in the Global South. www.archivebooks.org/stretching-t...

The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week

New Open Access book on Archives and Global Women’s Film Heritage, edited by Lizelle Bisschoff, Ana Grgić and Stefanie Van de Peer Stretching the Archives: Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage www.archivebooks.org/stretching-t...

ICYMI. Also, @alphavillej.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!

OTD in early British television: The whole of the afternoon schedule on Monday 24 January 1938 was occupied by a presentation of act 2 of Richard Wagner’s music drama Tristan and Isolde. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

Excellent videographic meditation on audiovisual apocalypses. Collaboration by Dayna McLeod (Project Lead), Colleen McLeod, Jessie McGoff, Celia Sainz, Caroline Langhorst, Supriti Malhotra, & Desirée de Jesús for Ian Garwood's "Indy Vinyl for the Masses” Project. vimeo.com/1044979519?s...

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