Screen Attachments: new Issue of SCREENING THE PAST

Framegrab from Nuovo cinema Paradiso/Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988), a film which is the starting point of film theorist Francesco Casetti in his new article "Cinema Lost and Found"

Film Studies for Free rushes you the wonderful news that a special issue (no. 32) of Screening the Past has just gone online. The issue treats the topic of Screen Attachments and is edited by Catherine Fowler and Paola Voci. 

The obvious highlight is a brilliant article by Francesco Casetti, but a quick glance at all the other articles indicates a very high quality issue indeed. FSFF's own favourite is Fowler and Voci's study 'Brief Encounters: Theorizing Screen Attachments Outside the Movie Theatre', with its compelling use of Sara Ahmed's notion of orientation.

The Classics and Reruns section also has some real gems.

Screen Attachments

• "Screen Attachments: An Introduction" by Paola Voci and Catherine Fowler
• "Cinema Lost and Found: Trajectories of Relocation" by Francesco Casetti
• "DVD Screen Culture for Children: Theories of Play and Young Viewers" by Karin Beeler
• "Brief Encounters: Theorizing Screen Attachments Outside the Movie Theatre" by Catherine Fowler and Paola Voci
• "Fingers, Futures, Fates: Viewing Interactive Cinema in Kinoautomat and Sufferrosa"by Jenna Ng
• "Waterbodies: Moving-image installations at Termemilano Spa" by Adriano D′Aloia
• "A Minoritarian Digital Poetics of YouTube" by Eu Jin Chua 
• "Rethinking Screen Encounters: Cinema and Tamil Migrant Workers in Singapore" by Vijay Devada

Classics and Reruns

• The Artist as Ecologist by Gene Youngblood
• Cerebrum: Intermedia and the Human Sensorium by Gene Youngblood
• Intermedia Theatre  by Gene Youngblood
• What is Digital Cinema? by Lev Manovich

Reviews

• The Fall of Buster Keaton by Anna Gardner
• Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry by David Ehrenstein
• Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition by Daniel Fairfax
• Television as Digital Media by Gin Chee Tong
• Twilight of the Idols by Jonathan Auerbach
• Drawn To Sound: Animation Film Music and Sonicity by Johnny Milner
• Terry Gilliam (British Film Makers) by Josh Nelson
• Cinema Beyond Film: Media Epistemology in the Modern Era by Meredith A. Bak
• The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture by Mas Generis
• Scotland: Global Cinema: Genres, Modes and Identities by Miriam Ross
• Beyond Dolby (Stereo): Cinema in the Digital Sound Age by Mike Walsh
• The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film by Patricia Aufderheide
• Steven Soderbergh by Paul Ramaeker
• Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History by Roger Hillmann
• Marketing Modernity: Victorian Popular Shows and Early Cinema by Tom Salek
• Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship by Tony Williams
• Counter-Archive. Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planète by Jan-Christopher Horak
• Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema by Gerald Sim