Labor Day Round Up! Jean Cocteau, Opera and Film, Film-Philosophy on Cavell and Rothman and much more!

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(A Conversation between James S. Williams and Ed Hughes)

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Film Studies For Free is slowly gearing up for the new academic year. Quite a few open access publications of its own (including the illustrated video conversation embedded above) are rolling off the presses at the moment - with plenty more to come in September, so please do expect further FSFF entries this month! [UPDATE! That didn't happen as a few life events got in the way, but this blog will be back very soon!].

Given all the pro bono work that goes into producing and distributing all openly accessible scholarly work, what better day to publish its latest round up than Labor Day! Thanks to all those who have published their work online in the list below and elsewhere.

• Just out! Film-Philosophy Vol 18 (2014)

Table of Contents: Special Section on Stanley Cavell

• Acknowledgment - No Knowledge Without It: Introduction to William Rothman and his Work by Alan Cholodenko PDF
• Keynote Article: On Stanley Cavell's Band Wagon by William Rothman PDF
• William Rothman's Vertigo by Rex Butler PDF
• Cavellian Meditations: How to do Things with Film and Philosophy by Robert Sinnerbrink 
• PDF
• Montage and Tableau in King Vidor's Stella Dallas by Richard Smith PDF
• What Goes Without Seeing: Marriage, Sex and the Ordinary in The Awful Truth by David Macarthur PDF
• Cavell and the Politics of Cinema: On Marie Antoinette by Richard Rushton 
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• Being on the Outside: Cinematic Automatism in Stanley Cavell’s The World Viewed by Lisa Trahair PDF
• Vertigo and the Spectator of Film Analysis by Andrew Klevan PDF

• Tribute to the late, brilliant film scholar Jim Hillier by Doug Pye, Lib Taylor and Jonathan Bignell: http://fttreadingnews.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/jim-hillier-1941-2014/ Thanks to Lisa Purse for the link.

• New issue of PHOTOGENIE on The Everyday!! (link via Girish Shambu): http://www.photogenie.be/photogenie_blog/topic/2-everyday-once-more

• Find out about the upcoming Cary Grant Festival in the actor's home city of Bristol and a related filmmaking challenge! http://www.carycomeshome.co.uk/film-challenge.php Also see: https://www.facebook.com/carycomeshome

• A previously unpublished chapter of Adrian Martin's 2006 PhD: on Hitchcock's NOTORIOUS, at the great Danish journal 16:9.

• New audiovisual essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin on Fritz Lang's SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR at @NotebookMUBI : https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/felicity-conditions-seek-and-hide

• Also, see "Paratheatre: Plays Without Stages"by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin made for the 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival premiere of Jacques Rivette's 1971 magnum opus Out 1 - Noli me tangere: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/paratheatre-plays-without-stages. Plus Audiovisual essay here: Paratheatre - Plays Without Stages (From I to IV).

• A 1968 unaired BBC interview with John Ford (link via Mubi): http://youtu.be/2P2fY75Qlxs

• David Bordwell: "Must we find reflections of cultural needs in every aspect of a movie that might appeal to somebody?"http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2014/08/24/zip-zero-zeitgeist/

• New issue of CLÉO: A Journal of Film and Feminism on labour: http://cleojournal.com/category/vol-2-issue-2-labour/

• MEDIA FIELDS Issue 8 Playgrounds has some great film studies items!

• "Lost, found and refurbished, TOO MUCH JOHNSON reveals a young Orson Welles familiarizing himself with the techniques that would eventually turn Hollywood filmmaking upside down." http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/sowing-the-seeds-of-kane-orson-welles-too-much-johnson

• Twenty of the "best experimental films you can see online": http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-of-the-best-experimental-short-films-you-can-watch-online/http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-of-the-best-experimental-short-films-you-can-watch-online/

• Must-watch and read: Miriam Ross's excellent new work on vertical framing (the video contains some shocking documentary footage at the beginning, by the way)
• Link to her article: http://refractory.unimelb.edu.au/2014/08/06/ross/
• Link to her video essay: https://vimeo.com/99499627

• The rest of the new issue of REFRACTORY (on Intermediations: Disney, colour, Herzog, vertical framing, online videos and much more) is here: 

• A new video essay by film scholar extraordinaire Pam Cook in which Wong Kar-wai meets David Lean: "Corridors of Desire: Brief Encounter and In the Mood for Love" (2' 11").

• Brilliantly illustrated and informative essay by Rebecca Naughten on ROCÍO, an important Spanish documentary.

• Remembering Richard Attenborough, 1923 - 2014: essential links by David Hudson

• Check out the Cinema Film & Projection Heritage Network in order to share information, ideas and knowledge about this heritage: http://www.cfphn.org/

• Jonathan Rosenbaum has posted online the introductory chapter to his 1993 book PLACING MOVIES, with lots of useful links: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2014/08/placing-movies-part-1-the-critical-apparatus-introduduction-tk/

• Also see Jonathan Rosenbaum's The Voice and the Eye: A Commentary on the Heart of Darkness script

• Brilliant online documentary: Going Dark: The Final Days of Film Projection https://vimeo.com/101235645

• Jan-Christophe Horak on Exile Noir

• At In Media Res, Cinema Journal Presents InFocus: African American Media [August 25 - August 29, 2014]. Also read the related dossier: Cinema Journal 53:4 Summer 2014 - IN FOCUS (PDF)

• Links to all the other openly accessible online content associated with the latest issue of CINEMA JOURNAL (53.4, 2014): http://www.cmstudies.org/news/187135/Announcing-Cinema-Journal-53.4.htm

• Katherine Groo's great film archival news gathering for CJ/SCMS (fabulous links!): http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=CJ_Archival_News

• PALESTINEDOCS, created by Dina Iordanova and Eva Jørholt: a new web resource on films "chronicling the life of palestinians in and outside the middle east": http://www.palestinedocs.net/

• Tony Zhou's latest video essay - on texting and the internet in the cinema :http://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/internet

• Film genre studies: all you need to know?  http://wronghands1.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/anatomy-of-films/

• Great video essay by Tim Klobuchar: Souls at Hazard: The Coens & Their Cops in FARGO and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MENhttps://vimeo.com/101676796

• Fascinating interview about mental health and cinema at the monthly Minds on Film blog at the Royal College of Psychiatrists UK website, with Canadian filmmaker Shelagh Carter on her autobiographical film Passionflower. 

• EFFACE (1:29, below) the video essay made while the one embedded at the top of this week's entry was exporting - also on Cocteau's ORPHÉE.

EFFACE from Catherine Grant on Vimeo.