Documentary and Space New issue of MEDIA FIELDS JOURNAL

Framegrab from El Valley Centro (James Benning, 2000). Read Elizabeth Cowies article on Documentary Space, Place, and Landscape which discusses Bennings film, among others. Cowie is author of the new book Recording Reality, Desiring the Real (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

Film Studies For Free brings you openly accessible brilliance from the latest issue of Media Fields Journal. Its a really excellent issue on documentary and space - a must-read. And however hyperbolically positive (the always hyperbolically positive) FSFF is, it doesnt always say that. So, do yourselves a big favour and click on the below links without further ado.

• Ryan Bowles and Rahul Mukherjee, Documentary and Space: Introduction, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Alexandra Juhasz, A Place in the Online Feminist Documentary Cyber-closet, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Jason Alley, Spaces of Reticence, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Laura Rascaroli, Sonic Interstices: Essayistic Voiceover and Spectatorial Space in Robert Cambrinus’s Commentary (2009), Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Elizabeth Cowie, Documentary Space, Place, and Landscape, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• André Jansson and Erik Gandini, Gitmo Space: A Dialogue about Mediatized Warfare, Documentary Filmmaking and Heterotopic Truth, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Nonny de la Peña, Physical World News In Virtual Spaces: Representation and Embodiment in Immersive Nonfiction, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Brett Lashua, Popular Music Memoryscapes of Liverpool 8, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Erica Stein, The Road to Heaven Twists: The City, Urban Planning, and Experiential Space, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Christina Corfield, Flexible by Nature: Video and the Cultural Production of Concrete Fact, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Dan Fleming, The Staging of Affect and the “Elsewhens” of Documentary Space, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Sukanya Sen, Encountering Space: Documenting the Topography of the Migrant Home, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Maggie Hennefeld, The Geopolitics of Narrative Parody in Ulrike Ottinger’s Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Mapping Documentary: Roundtable with Filmmaker Ido Haar and Film and Media Studies Scholar Janet Walker in Conversation with David Gray and Jade Petermon, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Renée Rhodes, Moving Makes a Map, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Bernadette Flynn, Spatial Praxis in the Staging of Material Evidence, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

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New Issue of MEDIASCAPE on Film and Media Space

Image montage from Lou Romanos wonderful Cinemosaic website of frame grabs from The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955). Read Bryan Wuests article on space in this film.

The theme of our newest issue is “space,” which has spawned a range of approaches in cinema and media studies. “Space” is a nebulous concept, but the very difficulty in pinning down how a spatial discussion of media should proceed is why Mediascape thought this would be an appropriate discussion to tease out in our non-traditional format.[Introduction by Bryan Hikari Hartzheim and Katy Ralko, Co-Editors-in-Chief, Mediascape, Winter 2012 Issue]

Film Studies For Free is back from its trip to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Boston. You can watch videos of some of the conference highlights here. And you can read the live tweets and other reports from the conference from the conference via this page. 

FSFF had a truly wonderful time meeting old friends and new, including a whole bunch of talented people who are responsible for the new issue of one of its favourite online journals, the UCLA-produced Mediascape. And a great issue it is, too. Links to all contents may be found below.

Features:

• Watching the River: Mise en Scène and Safe Space in The Night of the Hunter By Bryan Wuest
• Disneyomatics: Media, Branding, and Urban Space in Post-Katrina New Orleans By Helen Morgan Parmett
• War Games at Home, Home Games at War: Geography and Military First-Person Shooting Games By Diana M. Pozo

Reviews:

• "Between Heaven and Here": Inner-City Apartheid and Socio-Spatial Marginalization in By Ioana Literat
• The Driving Forces and Scope of The Mapping of Taiwan By Jerome F. Keating

Columns:

• Christopher Nolan’s Inception: The Oneiric Intruder and the Architecturalism of Space By Andrew Young
• Negotiating Utopia and Dystopia: Space and Architecture in Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) By Annie Dell’Aria
• "Is Space Political?": Oppositional Strategies in Treme By Katie Moylan

META:

• Media Boundaries and Bullet Time: A Hard Boiled Fan Plays Stranglehold By Harrison Gish
• Urban Metaphysics: Creating Game Layers on Top of the World By Nettrice R. Gaskins
• Revenge of the (Angry Video Game) Nerd: James Rolfe and Web 2.0 Fandom By Jim Fleury
• Video Games: The State of the Field - A Discussion with Steve Mamber, Peter Lunenfeld, and Eddo Stern (March 28, 2011). Moderated by David O’Grady

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