New 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 Studies For Free heard the news via film scholar and JMI editor Moinak Biswas, who has contributed a number of very fine pieces to Volume 10. There are also excellent articles on Mani Kaul (see also FSFFs memorial entry on this fine filmmaker), and on the brilliant MediaLab, a fantastic initiative by Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University (also the publishers of JMI), by Anustup Bastu.

All the contents are linked to below. Great work!

• Editorial by Moinak Biswas
• The Persistence of Rajasthan in Indian Cinema : One Region, So Many Views by Kaushik Bhaumik (Deputy Director, Osians Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, New Delhi)
• John Abraham : Cinema and the Idea of the Collective by Rajan Kurai Krishnan (Senior Research Fellow, IDCR, Loyola College, Chennai)
• Alternative Cinema : Response of Indian Film Studies by Manas Ghosh (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University)
• The Story of Arri : Imagined Landscapes, Emergent Technologies and Bengali Cinema by Madhuja Mukherjee (Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University)
• Spectres of the New Wave : The State of the Work of Mourning, and the New Cinema Aesthetic in a Regional Industry by Parichay Patra (Student, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University)
• Authoring Space, Gender and the Past : A Film Called Shubho Mahurat by Sumit Dey (Student, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University)
• Mani Kaul : DU : KH ke Prakar by Amrit Gangar
• Incomplete Testimonies : Tapan Sinha by Moinak Biswas (Associate Professor, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University)
• A Memorialization Without Destinying : A Revisitation of JU Media Labs National Instruments Project Archive by Anustup Basu (Associate Professor of English, Cinema and Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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New Issue of CINEMA Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image

Jeff Walls photograph A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993 (courtesy of Wikipedia)

Today, in its continuing series of catch up posts on new offerings from open access film e-journals, Film Studies For Free brings you links to the contents of the latest issue of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image.

Of particular interest, this time, are Tom McClellands clear-eyed account of the respects in which the medium of film and the discipline of philosophy can intersect, Agustín Zarzosas detailed evaluation of Rancière’s criticism of Deleuze, and Temenuga Trifonovas terrific discussion of the ways in which contemporary photography, like that of Jeff Wall mentioned above, seeks to reclaim the cinematic within the photographic from within the twilight of indexicality.

Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, No. 2 (2011)

Abstracts and Contributors

Articles

• Tom McClelland, The Philosophy of Film and Film as Philosophy

• Agustín Zarzosa, Layering Images, Thwarting Fables: Deleuze, Rancière and the Allegories of Cinema

• Temenuga Trifonova, The Twilight of the Index

• Flore Chevaillier, Semiotic Images

• Gabriella Calchi-Novati, “Biopolitics on Screen”: Aernout Miks Moving-Image Installations ONLINE

Interview

• Questions for Jacques Rancière around his book Les écarts du cinéma (English version and French version): Conducted by Susana Nascimento Duarte

Conference Report

• William Brown on the Film-Philosophy Conference (Liverpool John Moores University, 6-8 July, 2011)

In Portuguese: 

• Leonor Areal, Para uma teoria do cliché 

• Teresa Pedro, Técnicas cinematográficas e actos mentais: The Photoplay de Hugo Münsterberg

Translation

• Mauro Carbone, trad. Débora Quaresma e Davide Scarso, Merleau-Ponty e o pensamento do cinema

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Memory Screens New Issue of IMAGE AND NARRATIVE

Frame grab from 1975 (Shaun Wilson, version 1 (2005), DV as single channel DVD, colour, sound, 5mins). Visit Shaun Wilsons website here and read his article about home movies here

The concept of memory screens is an overarching term exploring the relationship between forms of media, viewers, practitioners and memory. The notion of memory screens alludes to the ways in which memories become remembered, layered, forgotten and transformed. The range of articles in this volume reflects the relationship between memory and history, both public and personal. [Thematic Cluster: Introduction by Teresa Forde]

Film Studies For Free continues to be impressed by the excellence of the online journal Image and Narrative which has recently published a special issue entitled Memory Screens.

FSFF particularly appreciated film and video artist Shaun Wilsons essay on the art of vintage home movies, Jenny Chamarettes study of the dynamics of the ‘spectre’ or ‘spectral body’ of the auteurist figure of Agnès Varda, Peter Kravanjas exploration of narrative contingencies in Rohmer and Akerman and Teresa Forde and Erin Bells discussions of memory and British television. But this is a very high quality issue throughout and, as always at I and N, particularly characterised by the thoughtful integration of close analysis and film and moving image theory.

Image and Narrative, Vol 12, No 2 (2011): Memory Screens

Table of Contents

• Thematic Cluster: Introduction by Teresa Forde ABSTRACT PDF
• Remixing Memory through Home Movies by Shaun Wilson ABSTRACT PDF
• Video Installation, Memory and Storytelling: the viewer as narrator by Diane Charleson ABSTRACT PDF
• Spectral bodies, temporalised spaces: Agnès Vardas motile gestures of mourning and memorial by Jenny Chamarette ABSTRACT PDF
• Television and memory: history programming and contemporary identities by Erin Bell ABSTRACTPDF
• Television Dramas as Memory Screens by Teresa Forde ABSTRACT PDF
• The Lives of Others: re-remembering the German Democratic Republic  by Margaret Montgomerie and Anne- Kathrin Reck ABSTRACT PDF
• Nostalgic [re]remembering: film fan cultures and the affective reiteration of popular film histories by Nathan Hunt ABSTRACT PDF

Various Articles

• Cinema, Contingencies, Metaphysics by Peter Kravanja ABSTRACT PDF

Review Articles

• Hillary Chutes Ambivalent Idiom of Witness by Charlotte Pylyser  ABSTRACT PDF
• Naissances de la bande dessinée de William Hogarth à Winsor McCay by Pascal Lefèvre ABSTRACT PDF

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Forty more film and moving image studies theses online

Frame grab from Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951), a film discussed in Andrew Klevans PhD thesis Disclosure of the Everyday

Film Studies For Free brings you its latest roundup of links to online and openly accessible film and moving image studies theses. These links (all of them to theses stored in European research repositories) will very shortly be added to FSFFs permanent listing of already more than 150 theses (the vast majority of them at PhD level, though one or two high quality MPhils are also included).

Particular highlights in this roundup, in FSFFs view, are the recent online publication of Andrew Klevans 1996 thesis Disclosure of the everyday, Catherine Fowlers The films of Chantal Akerman (1995), Martin Stollerys 1994 Alternative empires on Soviet montage cinema, the British documentary movement and colonialism, Ximena Triquells 2000 socio-semiotic approach to cinematic representations of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983),  and David Martin-Jones 2002 Becoming-other in time: the Deleuzian subject in cinema.

If any of FSFFs esteemed readers know that their own thesis is available online but not yet added to these listings, please email this blog with a link.

1. Aaltonen, Minna-Ella, Touch, taste and devour: phenomenology of film and the film experiencer in the cinema of sensations, MPhil Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011
2. Archibald, David, The Spanish Civil War in cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004
3. Baker, Rosemari Elizabeth, Shklovsky in the Cinema, 1926-1932, PhD Thesis, Durham University, 2010
4. Berridge, Susan, Serialised sexual violence in teen television drama series, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010
5. Bissell, Laura, The female body, technology and performance: performing a feminist praxis. PhD thesis University of Glasgow, 2011
6. Bourkiba Larbi, Abdelrhaffar, Parody and ideology: The case of Othello, PhD Thesis, Universitat de València, 2005
7. Carrasco, Rocio, Of men and cyborgs: the construction of masculinity in contemporary U.S. science fiction cinema, PhD Thesis, Universidad de Huelva, 2010
8. Chalkou, Maria, Towards the creation of quality Greek national cinema in the 1960s, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008
9. Copsey, Dickon, Race, gender and nation : the cultural construction of identity within 1990s German cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004 
10. Dymek, Mikolaj, Industrial Phantasmagoria : Subcultural Interactive Cinema Meets Mass-Cultural Media of Simulation, PhD Thesis, KTH, Sweden, 2010
11. Ferguson, Laura E., Kicking the Vietnam syndrome? Collective memory of the Vietnam War in fictional American cinema following the 1991 Gulf War, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011 
12. Fowler, Catherine, The films of Chantal Akerman: a cinema of displacements, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995
13. Goode, Ian, Voices of inheritance: aspects of British film and television in the 1980s and 1990s, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000
14. Heeren, Catherine Quirine van, Contemporary Indonesian film : spirits of reform and ghosts from the past, PhD Thesis, Leiden University, 2009
15. Hibberd, Lynne A., Creative industries policy and practice. a study of BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009
16. Hinchliffe, Alexander, Contamination and containment: representing the pathologised other in 1950s American cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010
17. Johnston, Cristina, The use of the spoken word in contemporary French minority cinema, with specific reference to banlieue and gay cinema (1990-2000), PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005
18. Joo, Chang-Yun, The interpretative positions of the audience and the invitations of television drama, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997 
19. King, Martin S., "Running like big daft girls." A multi-method study of representations of and reflections on men and masculinities through "The Beatles", PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield 2009
20. Kiss, Robert James, The Doppelganger in Wilhelmine cinema (1895-1914) : modernity, audiences and identity in turn-of-the-century Germany, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000 
21. Klevan, Andrew, Disclosure of the everyday : the undramatic achievements in narrative film, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996
22. Lehin, Barbara, Cinema and society: Thatchers Britain and Mitterands France, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003 
23. Martin-Jones, David, Becoming-other in time: the Deleuzian subject in cinema, PhD Thesis,  University of Glasgow, 2002 
24. Morris, Julia, An investigation into subtitling in French and Spanish heritage cinema, PhD Thesis,  University of Birmingham, 2010
25. Natzén, Christopher, The Coming of Sound Film in Sweden 1928-1932 : New and Old Technologies, PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, 2010 
26. Newsinger, Jack, From the grassroots: regional film policy and practice in England, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010
27. Pescetelli, M., The art of not forgetting: towards a practical hermeneutics of film restoration, PhD Thesis, University College London, 2011 
28. Pigott, Michael, Time and film style, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009
29. Ragazzi, Rossella, Walking on uneven paths : the transcultural experience of migrant children in France and Ireland, PhD Thesis, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2005
30. Robinson, Rebecca Grace, Scottish television comedy audiences, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002
31. Shand, Ryan John, Amateur cinema: history, theory and genre (1930-80), PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007  
32. Shields, Ryan John, Amateur cinema: history, theory and genre (1930-80), PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007
33. Smit, Alexia Jayne, Broadcasting the body: affect, embodiment and bodily excess on contemporary television, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010
    
34. Smith, Sarah, A complicitous critique: parodic transformations of cinema in moving image art,  PhD thesis, University of Glasgow 2007
35. Sorrentino, Giuseppe, The Disappearance of the Real - Mass Media in Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy, PhD Thesis, Università degli studi Roma, 2008
36. Stollery, Martin, Alternative empires : Soviet montage cinema, the British documentary movement and colonialism, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick 1994
37. Thomas, Sarah, Face-maker : the negotiation between screen performance, extra-filmic persona and conditions of employment within the career of Peter Lorre, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008
38. Triquell, Ximena, Projecting history: a socio-semiotic approach to the representations of the military dictatorship (1976-1983) in the cinematic discourses of Argentine democracy, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000
39. Walsh, John, A Space and Time Machine: Actuality Cinema in New York City, 1890s to c. 1905, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005
40. Yam, Chi-Keung, Study of popular Hong Kong cinema from 2001 to 2004 as resource for a contextual approach to expressions of christian faith in the public realm after the reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008

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Cinema Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image

Image from Possession (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981). Read Patricia MacCormacks article on the film here.

Film Studies For Free is delighted to pass on news of the launch of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image. You can find the table of contents for its inaugural issue and links to all article PDFs below

Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image is a refereed publication published online by the Philosophy of Language Institute of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. The journal publishes original essays and critical articles, reviews, conference reports and interviews, and releases original art work in the field of philosophical inquiry into cinema. The term “cinema” is here taken in its broadest sense as moving image (and image that moves). Historically, cinema studies have centered on film, but with the digitization and proliferation of new means of production and distribution have also studied video, television and new media. This deep engagement with cinematic culture, so understood, can provide tools for a better understanding of contemporary visual culture. Cinema is particularly interested in philosophical approaches to the aesthetics of the moving image as well as in philosophical investigations on particular works and about the contexts in which these works are seen and produced. It accepts submissions in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish and it offers free access to its content.

Cinema aims at:

• disseminating philosophical investigations into cinema in the broadest sense, that is, including video, television, and new media;
• promoting the link between Portuguese and international scientific communities that develop work simultaneously within the fields of cinema studies and philosophy;
• providing a platform for a fruitful dialogue between various approaches, particular methodologies, topics and interdisciplinary contributions, within the scope of the journal.

The make up of the international editorial team bespeaks the very high quality of this new journal. And the star-studded line-up for its first issue, together with its extraordinarily interesting table of contents, shows just how thrilling those all too unusual analytic philosophy and continental philosophy juxtapositions can be!

FSFF really looks forward to reading more, and sincerely wishes CJPMI the very best for a long and always openly accessible life!

Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image

Issue 1 (December 2010) 

Contents: 

Editorial 

• Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco, Sérgio Dias Branco, Susana Viegas (New University of Lisbon) 

ARTICLES 

• A Care for the Claims of Theory D. N. Rodowick (Harvard University)

• Carroll on the Moving Image Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College) 

• Deleuze: The Thinking of the Brain Raymond Bellour (CNRS/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)

• Mucous, Monsters and Angels: Irigaray and Zulawski’s Possession  Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University)

• Film Theory Meets Analytic Philosophy; or, Film Studies and l’affaire Sokal  Murray Smith (University of Kent)

INTERVIEWS 

• Georges Didi-Huberman: « .... Ce qui rend le temps lisible, c’est l´image»  Susana Nascimento Duarte, Maria Irene Aparício (New University of Lisbon)

CONFERENCE REPORTS 

• Cognitive Deleuze: Report on the SCSMI Conference (Roanoke, 2-5 June 2010) and the Deleuze Studies Conference (Amsterdam, 12-14 July 2010)  William Brown (Roehampton University) 

CFP for Issue 2 here.

CINEMA: JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE

Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco, editor

Sérgio Dias Branco, associate editor

Susana Viegas, associate editor

www.fcsh.unl.pt/revistas/cjpmi

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