The Godard Is Issue of the new VERTIGO

Image from Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-99)

Film Studies For Free had a nagging doubt that it was omitting something BIG from its recent entry of links to Godard studies. And, boy, it was!

It really should have waited....

Some time back, the very kind people at the great Close Up film centre were in touch to announce their relaunch of excellent film magazine Vertigo as an online publication.

The (just published) reboot issue -- Godard Is. -- is astonishingly, mouth-wateringly good! The luscious links are below.

A très contrite FSFF has added the link to Vertigo to its permanent listing of online Film Studies journals.

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VERTIGO, Issue 30 | Spring 2012: Godard Is.

• EDITORIAL: A Double Bind By Damien Sanville

Contents

• Jean-Luc Godard: Vivre sa Vie By Frieda Grafe
• The Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art By David Brancaleone
• “Elpenor, Unburied”: Ezra Pound, Jean-Luc Godard And the Descent of Dwelling By Corin Depper
• King Lear By James Norton
• "I am playing leapfrog with myself" By Jürgen E. Müller
• Scénario du Film Passion: Writing Video at the End of Cinema By Duncan White
• Entering the Desert: The Book of Film Socialisme by By James S. Williams
• Godard in the Gallery: Story of a Ruination By Adrian Martin
• "Tensional Differences": The Anxiety of Re-Mediation in Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave Films By Ágnes Pethő
• For a Reconsideration of Soft and Hard By Jerry White
• Its Not Blood, Its Red: Colour(s) of Jean-Luc Godard By Robert Barry
• A Photograph and a Camera: Two Objects in Film Socialisme By Roland-François Lack

From the Archive

• An Old Place By Cyril Neyrat

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Issue 35 of SCREENING THE PAST Martin Ruiz Godard Marker Malick Ophuls and RIP Vikki Riley

Corrected edition! [Thanks AM!]

Screen cap from Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968). Read Adrian Dankss new article on this film and its director. And read Roger Eberts fascinating review of the film at the time of its release.

It was somewhat remiss of Film Studies For Free to tweet the link to a new, and excellent, issue of Screening the Past, and then not to follow up with an entry here. This little oversight is corrected today with the below list of contents and links.

There are a huge number of film studies topics covered in the issue (although a fair few of them, in a variety of great contributions, by Adrian Martin!). FSFF particularly liked Lorraine Sim on the ensemble film and Roger Hillman on Malick.

This blog especially recommends, also, the dossier (introduced by Martin) dedicated to the work and memory of Vikki Riley, a highly original writer on film and a tireless political activist who tragically died in a road accident in Darwin, Australia, last September.

Screening the Past, Issue 35, 2012

First Release

• Hanging Here and Groping There: On Raúl Ruiz’s “The Six Functions of the Shot”
  by Adrian Martin
• The Art of Falling Apart: Petulia and the Fate of Richard Lester
  by Adrian Danks
• Tending the Wounds of the Nation: Gender in Contemporary Iranian War Cinema
  by Michelle Langford
• Ensemble Film, Postmodernity and Moral Mapping
  by Lorraine Sim
• JLG/Jean Améry
  by Alan Wright
• Malick’s Music of the Spheres: The Tree of Life
  by Roger Hillman
• The Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, and the Liberalisation of Film Censorship in Australia
  by Cathy Hope and Adam Dickerson 

Vikki Riley (1962-2012): Early Writings

• VOLA X (Introduction)
  by Adrian Martin
• The Canonisation of Junk (1982)
  by Vikki Riley
• Poetics of Pop: The Titles of Things (1982)
  by Vikki Riley
• ‘This Magazine is for Airing Personal Complaints’ (1983)
  by Vikki Riley
• Caught … Sunless and The State of Things (1984)
  by Vikki Riley

Classics and Re-runs

• Which Hollywood? Which Ophuls?
  by Adrian Martin
• The Six Functions of the Shot
  by Raúl Ruiz 

Web-teque

• Adrian Martin interview about his book Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez,
  interviewer Anna Dzenis

Reviews

• Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-In-Pain as Redemptive Figure
• by Jeremy V. Adolphson
• One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television
  by Lauren Anderson
• Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube
  by Rebecca Bell-Metereau
• A Post-May Adolescence: A letter to Alice Debord
  by Jan Bryant
• Sergio Leone Something To Do With Death (reprint edition)
  by Patrick Condliffe
• Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism
  by Maura Edmond
• Fantasy Film: A Critical Introduction
  by Michael Grant
• Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia.
  by David Hanan
• Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction
  by Adam Knee
• British Film Design: A History
  by Brian McFarlane
• New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images
  by Sarinah Masukor
• David Lynch
  by Josh Nelson
• The Neorealist body in Postwar Italian cinema
  by Luca Peretti
• Olivier Assayas
  by Claire Perkins
• The Miracle Woman
  by Eloise Ross
• Jedda
  by Shane Smithers
• Fashion in Film
  by Sue Thomas
• Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece
  by Jay Daniel Thompson
• Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács
  by Jeni Thornley
• Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches
  by John Vanderhoef
• Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution
  by Mike Walsh
• Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodore Adorno
  by Tyson Wils
• South African Cinema 1896-2010
  by Suzanne Woodward

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Online theses on the work of Jean Luc Godard

Image from Vivre sa vie/My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)

Film Studies For Free was delighted to discover that Douglas Morreys wonderful PhD thesis on the work of Jean-Luc Godard was now openly accessible online. Then, ecstatic, it found two more, highly worthwhile pieces of graduate research work on that filmmaker. The direct links are given below for your own delectation, delight, and film-educational betterment....

• Gary Elshaw, The Depiction of late 1960s Counter Culture in the 1968 Films of Jean-Luc Godard, MA e-thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, November 2000
• Douglas Morrey, Jean-Luc Godard and the other history of cinema. PhD e-thesis, University of Warwick, 2002
• Thibaut Schilt, Marginal Pleasure and Auteurist Cinema: the Sexual Politics of Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Catherine Breillat and François Ozon, PhD e-thesis, Ohio State University 2005
  

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