NECSUS #3 The GREEN Issue

Frame grab from Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon, 2004). Read Brady Hammond's article in the new issue of NECSUS, which explores 'green skin' in contemporary Hollywood cinema

Things have been a little busy in Film Studies For Free's offline universe and so rather quiet in its online one. But it's back with an ecologically sound bang, in the form of some updates about excellent, recent, open access journal issues.

First up is Issue 3 of NECSUS, the European Journal of Media Studies. Its last issue touched on 'Tangibility’. This time round its focus is on ‘"Greenness" in a broader pallet of media-related issues, from sustainable media production to the use of the colour green in a variety of films.'


NECSUS #3_Spring 2013_’Green’

• Editorial Necsus

Articles:

• Anecdotal evidence by Sean Cubitt
• Still TV: On the resilience on an old medium by Alexander Dhoest and Nele Simons
• Nenette: Film theory, animals, and boredom by Barbara Creed
• Advertisarial relations and aesthetics of survival: Advertising –> advertisign by Jonathan Beller

Special Section: Green

• Greening media studies: An interview with Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller by Jaap Kooijman
• ‘Global warming is not a crisis!’: Studying climate change skepticism on the web by Sabine Niederer
• Painting the town green: From urban teleology to urban ecology in New York cinema, 1960-present by Brady Fletcher and Cortland Rankin
• A filmic exploration by means of botanical imagery: Notes on Rose Lowder by Enrico Camporesi
• Dialectical modes of nature in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line by Tyson Wils
• Her green materials: Mourning, Melancholia, and not-so-vital materialisms by Catherine Lord
• Disharmonious designs: Colour contrast and curiosity in Jane Campion’s In the Cut by Liz Watkins
• Greenface: Exploring green skin in contemporary Hollywood cinema by Brady Hammond
• Scalar entanglement in digital media ecologies by Sy Taffel

Book Reviews:

edited by the NECS Publication Committee

• Subjectivity and ostrannenie: Key debates in European film studies review by Pietro Bianchi
• Screen dynamics: Mapping the borders of cinema review by Lavinia Brydon
• Branding television review by Alison Payne

Festival Reviews:

edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist of the Film Festival Research Network

• Go east by southeast: 13th Festival of Central and Eastern European Film Wiesbaden review by Greg de Cuir, Jr
• From Chernobyl to Fukushima: The Uranium Film Festival review by Courtney Sheehan
• Indigenous film festival as eco-testimonial encounter: The 2011 Native Film + Video Festival review by Salma Monani

Exhibition + Website + Conference Reviews:

• Discovering repetition review by Francesco Pitassio
• Playing with digital byproduct data: An indictive example review by David Beer
• Screen industries in East-Central Europe: Cultural policies and political culture review by Olof Hedling