New Issue of JUMP CUT!

Frame grab from The Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939). See the Jump Cut dossier on Ford's film, Spielberg's version of the Lincoln story, and the classic Cahiers du Cinéma debate on the earlier film. Also see  Film Studies For Free's earlier entry on On the art (and ideology) of John Ford's films

Film Studies For Free has been away, gadding about and gabbling at a wonderful conference in Frankfurt on The Audiovisual Essay (organised by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, with Vinzenz Hediger, for Deutsches Filminstitut and Goethe University), about which you will hear a great deal in the coming weeks and months.

Next, tomorrow, it departs for yet another exciting public event - a panel discussion on 'The Future of Film Criticism" at King's College, London, speaking alongside Jean-Michel Frodon (Editor of Cahiers du Cinéma and film critic for Le Monde) and Nick James (Editor of Sight & Sound).

In between these two magnificent events, it had to bring you news of a huge new issue of the online journal Jump Cut, which is absolutely full of incredibly interesting looking contents - FSFF particularly liked the dossier on Lincoln and ideology, but there's so much more to enjoy here. Thank you, Jump Cut!

Back soon.


Current issue, No. 55, fall 2013: INSTITUTIONS, TECHNOLOGIES, and LABOR

• Digital dreams in a material world: the rise of Netflix and its impact on changing distribution and exhibition patterns by Kevin P. McDonald
• “From, by, for”: Nairobi’s Slum Film Festival, film festival studies, and the practices of development by Lindiwe Dovey, Joshua McNamara, and Federico Olivier
• The normativity of 3D: cinematic journeys, “imperial visuality” and unchained cameras by Bruce Bennett
• Native images: the otherness and affectivity of the digital body by Adam Davis
• Sounds of Hong Kong cinema: Johnnie To, Milkyway Image, and the sound track by Gary Bettinson
• To work or not to work: the dilemma of Hong Kong film labor in the age of mainlandization by Mirana M. Szeto and Yun-chung Chen

THIRD CINEMA/INTERNATIONAL

• Jai Bhim Comrade: tales of oppression and songs of resistance by Catherine Bernier
• “The revolutionary founding moments of a contra-Grierson tradition” by Brian Winston (a review of Joshua Malitsky, Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations)
• Thauk gya paw hee thwi deh thwi /Blood’s Oath to Beautiful Flower —Blood’s Oath, drama of insurgency in a Burmese Pwo Karen Film by Violet Cho
• Amnesiac memory: Hiroshima/Nagasaki in Japanese film by Inez Hedges
• Body memories, body cinema: the politics of multi-sensual counter-memory in György Pálfi’s Hukkle by György Kalmár
• We lost our way: the time and space of alienation in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together by Caroline Guo
• Hong Kong’s liminal spaces: unveiling nature and identity in Tsang Tsui-shan’s Big Blue Lake by Winnie L. M. Yee
• Capitalist childhood in film: modes of critique by Susan Ferguson
• National identity, cultural institutions, and filmmaking in “Paradise” —the Puerto Rican successes of Talento de barrio and Broche de oro by Naida García-Crespo
• “Behind her laughter…is fear!” Domestic abuse and transnational feminism in Bollywood remakes by Gohar Siddiqui

GENDER

• New queer cinema by Roxanne Samer
• Feminist porn by Erica Rand (a review of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure, edited by Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young)
• The gay-for-pay gaze in gay male pornography by Kevin John Bozelka
• Dire straights: the indeterminacy of sexual identity in gay-for-pay pornography by John Paul Stadler
• Sartorial signifiers, masculinity, and the global recession in HBO's Hung by Chris Vanderwees
• The multivalent feminism of The Notorious Bettie Page by Steven S. Kapica
• Descent: “Everything’s okay now”—race, vengeance, and watching the modern rape-revenge narrative by Jenny Lapekas
• Bringing out Baby Jane —camp, sympathy, and the horror-woman’s film of the 1960s by David Greven
• Doing his homework by David Greven (a review of David Halperin’s How to be Gay)

IN AND AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM

• Skyfall: a mother and her twin boys by Robert Alpert
• “Propane is for pussies” —Bellflower’s bromance of retro technology and hip masculinity by David Church
• Take Shelter; Meek’s Cutoff; The Turin Horse — the end of everything by Timothy Kreider
• Workers' confessions and the reality TV series Undercover Boss by Lyell Davies
• From Hoover to Bush Jr. — home and crisis scripts in U.S. social cinema by Antonio Sánchez-Escalonilla
• Ecocinema by Joe Heumann and Robin Murray (a review of Ecocinema Theory and Practice, ed. Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt
• The earth bites back: vampires and the ecological roots of home by Robin Murray and Joe Heumann
• Broomhilda Unchained: Tarantino’s Wagner by Adrian Daub and Elisabeth Bronfen

EXPERIMENTAL/INDEPENDENT

• Movies in miniature by Midi Onodera
• Amateurization of the entire media universe by Patricia R. Zimmermann (a review of Amateur Media: Social, Cultural and Legal Perspectives, ed. Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas)
• Varient cinematic artistic expression by Greg DeCuir (a review of Pavle Levi, Cinema by other means)

LINCOLN & IDEOLOGY FORUM

• Introduction by Chuck Kleinhans
• Young Mr. Lincoln and ideological analysis: a reconsideration (with many asides) by Chuck Kleinhans
• Lincoln in contemporary U.S. culture and politics by Douglas Kellner
• Equality before the law in Spielberg’s Lincoln by Gary Bettinson and Richard Rushton
• Symptomatic reading in Althusser, Cahiers du cinéma, and Zizek by Warren Buckland
• Lincoln: shared myths in a revisionist age by Frederick Wasser
• The hysteric, the mother, the natural gal:
• male fantasies and male theories in films about Lincoln by Deborah Tudor
• The significance of Steven Spielberg's Old Mr. Lincoln:
• political emotions and intertextual knowledge by Janet Staiger
• Mr. Spielberg's Mr. Lincoln by Chuck Kleinhans

HIV/AIDS ACTIVIST MEDIA

• Introduction: Ghost stories by David Oscar Harvey, Marty Fink, Alexandra Juhasz, Bishnu Gosh
• Ghosts caught in our throat —
• of the lack of contemporary representations of gay/bisexual men and HIV by David Oscar Harvey
• Two ghost stories: disability activism and HIV/AIDS by Marty Fink
• Acts of signification-survival by Alexandra Juhasz
• What time is it here? by Bishnupriya Ghosh

CLASSICS FROM THE PAST
S/Z and Rules of the Game by Julia Lesage
 
THE LAST WORD The war on/in higher education by the Editors