Audiovisual Alfred Hitchcock Studies For the Love of Film The Film Preservation Blogathon 2012

Does Your Dog Bite? 
A video essay by Christian Keathley on a canine moment in Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951).

Skipping Rope (Through Hitchcocks Joins) 
A videographic assemblage by Catherine Grant of all the edits in Rope (Hitchcock, 1948), together with adjacent dialogue.
You can read more about Rope and about the context of this video here.

Film Studies For Free proudly presents, above and below, its annual contribution in support of the wonderful "For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon", May 13-18, 2012. Two video essays (above) -- one newly published online for this occasion by Christian Keathley, the other newly made for it by FSFFs author -- plus (below) links to/embeds of lots more, fascinating and openly accessible, audiovisual studies of Hitchcocks films.

This year, this Blogathon will raise funds to finance the online streaming of, and recording of a new score for, The White Shadow (1923), directed by Graham Cutts and with everything else done by Hitchcock:

The film was long thought to have be a lost film. In August 2011, the National Film Preservation Foundation announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in the garden shed of Jack Murtagh in Hastings, New Zealand in 1989 and donated to the NFPF. The film cans were mislabled Two Sisters and Unidentified American Film and only later identified. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive [The White Shadow Wikipedia entry] 

Please consider supporting this cause by making a donation-- however small or large -- at this link. Thank you! 

And a huge thanks, also, to Farran Nehme (read her great post on Farley Grainger who features in both of the new video essays), Marilyn Ferdinand and Rod Heath for devoting their marvellous websites and energies to assembling a team of well over one hundred bloggers from around the world to respond to this cause -- the third, great, year in a row.

If you know of any further Alfred Hitchcock video essays of interest online, which arent listed above or below, please leave a link in the comments.

1. Vertigo Variations, Pt 1 A few ways of seeing Alfred Hitchcocks impossible object by B. Kite and Alexander Points-Zollo
2. Vertigo Variations, Pt 2 by B. Kite and Alexander Points-Zollo
3. Vertigo Variations, Pt 3 by B. Kite and Alexander Points-Zollo

    
Garden of Forking Paths? Hitchcocks BLACKMAILs by Catherine Grant

Rear Window Timelapse by Jeff Desom

Alfred Hitchcocks cameo performances

(except for: Easy Virtue (1927); Blackmail (1929); Foreign Correspondent (1940); Suspicion (1941); Spellbound (1945); The Paradine Case (1947); Under Capricorn (1949))

 
Saul Basss Title Sequences for Alfred Hitchcock

 

Vertigini by Ivano
 

DEATH/HITCHCOCK

Death scenes from 36 of Alfred Hitchcocks movies, synchronised to climax in unison (via Buzzfeed)

Touch of Psycho by Matthew Cheney

Psycho(s) by Frank Hudec

 Psycho (1960) vs. Psycho (1998) by Konstantin Mishchenko

McGuffin by Hitchcock by isaac niemand

Film Techniques of Alfred Hitchcock by Pierre Villeneuve and Theresa Villeneuve 

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Audiovisual Thinking Online Video Journal about Audiovisuality Communication Media

Screen caps from What is Academic Video by Inge Ejbye Sørensen  
for Audiovisual Thinking 

Film Studies For Free predicted at the beginning of this year that 2010 would be the year of the video essay. And thus it has come to pass... Woohoo!

Audiovisual Thinking -- an online video journal about "audiovisuality, communication and media" -- has just launched and it looks to FSFF to be a very worthwhile venture indeed. All relevant information has been pasted in below to tempt you to the excellent AT website. There are lots of introductory videos embedded there which will inform you audiovisually about the Audiovisual Thinking ethos.

Audiovisual Thinking has issued its first call for videos for its first proper issue which will explore the "legacy and merit of the use of audiovisual material in academic thinking, research and teaching, in the past, present and in the future" (deadline: June 15, 2010; do note: according to the submission form (as of April 22) the videos should be no longer than seven minutes and a maximum of [an as yet quite tiny] 10 Mb [Update: The editors reported to FSFF that they are working on achieving a larger, automated, upload volume. If you have larger submissions, these can be uploaded manually, so just get in touch with the editors via the websites contact page].

If you dont yet completely understand why FSFF is so pleased with this development, you should check out the following propaganda piece that it published last July: Video Essays on Films: A Multiprotagonist Manifesto. Also, do have a peruse of all the video essays embedded at FSFF, including this little one we prepared earlier (sadly, its just a little longer than seven minutes and larger than 10Mb or 100Mb...).

About Audiovisual Thinking

Audiovisual Thinking is a pioneering forum where academics and educators can articulate, conceptualize and disseminate their research about audiovisuality and audiovisual culture through the medium of video.

     International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, the purpose of Audiovisual Thinking is to develop and promote academic thinking in and about all aspects of audiovisuality and audiovisual culture.

    Advised by a board of leading academics and thinkers in the fields of audiovisuality, communication and the media, the journal seeks to set the standard for academic audiovisual essays now and in the future.

    Video submissions are welcome from all fields of study and, as one would expect, the main criteria for submissions are that the discussion and thinking are conveyed through audiovisual means.

Audiovisual Thinking Issues

Each issue of Audiovisual Thinking will call for and then showcase academic videos around a specific theme within audiovisual culture and the media. The journal also accepts ‘opinion’ or ‘reflective’ audiovisual pieces on any area of audiovisual research or pedagogy. 

    Submissions are welcome from the areas of the Arts, Journalism, Media and Communication studies, as well as Education and the Social Sciences where audiovisual material is routinely used, or is gaining ground, as an academic research tool or teaching method.
     This first issue will explore the legacy of audiovisual content in contemporary academic research and thinking. Submit your video here.

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