A concise video primer by Catherine Grant on phenomenological film theory as well as a tribute to the works of René Clément, Henri Decae, Vivian Sobchack, Steven Shaviro and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Published in NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Spring, 2015, where you can also read an accompanying text: "Film studies in the groove? Rhythmising perception in Carnal Locomotive."
Today, Film Studies For Free brings very glad tidings of two newly published, open access journal issues, from NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies (still rolling out, and which, alongside its regular features and sections, offers a special dossier on 'animals') and PARTICIPATIONS: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. All the contents are listed and linked to below.
If you're attending the annual gathering of the Network of European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) in Łódź, Poland, have fun! It's a great conference. This year, FSFF's author is presenting instead at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities-funded workshop on Scholarship in Sound and Image, taking place from next week at Middleburg College in Vermont, U.S.A. from which some wonderful (and certainly open access) things will soon come.
If you're attending the annual gathering of the Network of European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) in Łódź, Poland, have fun! It's a great conference. This year, FSFF's author is presenting instead at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities-funded workshop on Scholarship in Sound and Image, taking place from next week at Middleburg College in Vermont, U.S.A. from which some wonderful (and certainly open access) things will soon come.
NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Spring 2015
All the below contents are linked to here: http://www.necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/spring-2015_animals/
Features:
Editorial Necsus
Features:
Editorial Necsus
- In search of ‘Sauve la vie (qui peut)’ by Michael Witt
- Oppositional banality: Watching ordinary Muslims in ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’ by Jenifer Chao
- Dancing in the sun: The musical as touristic hook in ‘Honeymoon’ by Lidia Merás and Sarah Wright
- Feminist film studies 40 years after ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, a triologue by Laura Mulvey, Anna Backman Rogers, and Annie van den Oever
Audiovisual essays:
- The audiovisual essay as art practice: An introduction by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
- Carnal Locomotive by Catherine Grant
- Club Video by Philip Brophy
Special section: Animals (rolling out shortly)
- Animals, anthropocentrism, media by Barbara Creed and Maarten Reesink
- Why not look at animals? by Anat Pick
- When Lulu met the Centaur: Photographic traces of creaturely love by Dominic Pettman
- Tasmanian tigers and polar bears: The documentary moving image and (species) loss by Belinda Smaill
- Cinematic slowness, political paralysis?: Animal life in ‘Bovines’, with Deleuze and Guattari by Laura McMahon
- Horseplay: Equine performance and creaturely acts in cinema by Stella Hockenhull
- Cows, clicks, ciphers, and satire by Tom Tyler
Book reviews:
(edited by Lavinia Brydon and Alena Strohmaier [NECS Publication Committee])
- Television studies reloaded: From history to text review by Massimo Scaglioni
- The documentary film book review by Malin Wahlberg
- Storytelling in the media convergence age: Exploring screen narratives review by Emre Caglayan
- Education in the school of dreams: Travelogues and non-fiction films review by Adam Freeman
Festival reviews:
(edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist [Film Festival Research Network])
- Dossier: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 edited by Marijke de Valck
- Dispatches from the dark: A conversation with Neil Young at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 by Daniel Steinhart
- Hollywood legacies and Russian laughter: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto / Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2014 review by Gert Jan Harkema
- We can haz film fest!: Internet Cat Video Festival goes viral review by Diane Burgess
Exhibition reviews:
(edited by Miriam De Rosa and Malin Wahlberg [NECS Publication Committee])
- Too much world: A Hito Steyerl retrospective review by Paula Albuquerque
- McMansion of media excess: Ryan Trecartin’s and Lizzie Fitch’s SITE VISIT review by Lisa Åkervall
- Reaching out!: Activating space in the art of Olafur Eliasson review by Olivia Eriksson
- David Reeb: Traces of Things to Come review by Leshu Torchin
PARTICIPATIONS 12. 1, May 2015
All the below contents are linked to here: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2012/Issue%201/contents.htm
Editorial: Barker, Martin (Editor): 'Thinking differently about "censorship"''
Articles
- Bergström, Annika: ‘The contexts of internet use: From innovators to late majority’
- Knight, Victoria: ‘Television, emotion and prison life: Achieving personal control’
- Matikainen, Janne: ‘Motivations for content generation in social media’
- Reinhard, CarrieLynn D. and Kevin Miller: ‘Men watching Sex and the City, My Little Pony, and Oklahoma: The interpretation of gender appropriateness in the reception of cross-gendered media products’
- Wroot, Jonathan: ‘Reviewing distinctive DVD experiences: NEO Magazine and the critical reception of Asian media distributors’
- Chambers, Amy C. and R. Lyle Skains: ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the multimodal mash-up: Film as participatory narrative’
Themed Section 1: 'Theatre Audiences' (Guest editors: Matthew Reason and Kirsty Sedgman)
- Reason, Matthew and Kirsty Sedgman: ‘Editors’ general introduction: Themed Section on theatre audiences’
- Sedgman, Kirsty: Introduction to Part 1: ‘Be reasonable! On institutions, values, voices’
- Wilkinson, Julie: ‘Dissatisfied ghosts: Theatre spectatorship and the production of cultural value’
- Hadley, Bree: ‘Participation, politics and provocations: People with disabilities as non-conciliatory audiences’
- Schuitema, Karian: ‘A provocation: Researching the diverse child audience in the UK’
- Richardson, John M.: ‘Live theatre in the age of digital technology: “Digital habitus” and the youth live theatre audience’
- Pasquier, Dominique: ‘“The Cacophony of Failure”: Being an audience in a traditional theatre’
- Lindelof, Anja Mølle and Louise Ejgod Hansen: ’Talking about theatre: Audience development through dialogue’
- Johanson, Katya and Hilary Glow: ‘A virtuous circle: The positive evaluation phenomenon in arts audience research’
- Reason, Matthew: Introduction to Part 2: ‘Participations on Participation: Researching the “active” theatre audience’
- Gomme, Rachel:
- ‘Not-so-close encounters: Searching for intimacy in one-to-one performance’
- Biggin, Rose: ‘Reading fan mail: Communicating immersive experience in Punchdrunk’s Faust and The Masque of the Red Death’
- Wozniak, Jan: ‘The value of being together? Audiences in Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man’
- Wilson, Anna: ‘“Playing the Game”: Authenticity and invitation in Ontroerend Goed’s Audience’
- Gröschel, Uwe: ‘Researching audiences through Walking Fieldwork’
- Breel, Astrid: ‘Audience agency in participatory performance: A methodology for examining aesthetic experience’
Themed Section 2: 'Tweeting the Olympics: International broadcasting soft power and social media' (Guest editors: Marie Gillespie and Ben O'Loughlin)
- Gillespie, Marie and Ben O’Loughlin: ‘Editorial Introduction: International news, social media and soft power: The London and Sochi Olympics as global media events’
- Burchell, Kenzie and Ben O’Loughlin, Marie Gillespie and Eva Nieto McAvoy: ‘Soft power and its audiences: Tweeting the Olympics from London 2012 to Sochi 2014’
- Dennis, James, Marie Gillespie and Ben O’Loughlin: ‘Tweeting the Olympics: Towards a methodological framework for Big Data analysis of audience engagement during global media events’
- Procter, Rob, Alex Voss and Ilia Lvov: ‘Audience research and social media data: Opportunities and challenges’
- Willis, Alistair, Ali Fisher and Ilia Lvov: ‘Mapping networks of influence: Tracking Twitter conversations through time and space’
- Shreim, Nour: ‘Tweeting the Olympics: Transcending national, religious and gender identities on BBC Arabic’
- Voss, Alex and Marzieh Asgari-Targhi: ‘The inescapable history and politics of Anglo-Iranian relations: Audience engagement with BBC Persian on social media during the London 2012 Olympics’
- Aslan, Billur, James Dennis and Ben O’Loughlin: ‘Balding goes trolling? Cross-media amplification of controversy at the 2012 Olympics’
- Aslanyan, Anna and Marie Gillespie: ‘The Russian-language Twittersphere, the BBC World Service and the London Olympics’
- Hutchings, Stephen Marie Gillespie, Ilya Yablokov, Ilia Lvov and Alexander Voss: ‘Staging the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 on Russia Today and BBC World News: From soft power to geopolitical crisis’
- Burchell, Kenzie: ‘Infiltrating the space, hijacking the platform: Pussy Riot, Sochi protests, and media events’
Themed Section 3: 'EIFAC 2014' (Guest editors: Lesley-Ann Dickson)
- Dickson, Lesley-Ann: ‘Section Introduction: Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference, 2014’
- Ateşman, Özge Özdüzen: ‘The Politicisation and “Occupy”sation of the Istanbul Film Festival Audience’
- Dickson, Lesley-Ann: ‘“Ah! Other Bodies!”: Embodied spaces, pleasures and practices at Glasgow Film Festival’
- Martinez, Josu, Miriam Frances, Katixa Agirre and Miren Manias-Muñoz: ‘Zinegin Basque film festival: A non-existent audience revealed’
- Ralph, Sarah and Martin Barker: ‘What a performance! Exploring audiences’ responses to film acting’
- Saryusz-Wolska, Magdalena: ‘Watching films in the ruins: Cinema-going in early post-war Berlin’
Reviews
- Burland, Karen and Stephanie Pitts (eds.): Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience (reviewed by Rose Biggin)
- Radbourne, Jennifer, Hilary Glow and Katya Johanson (eds.): The Audience Experience: A Critical Analysis of Audiences in the Performing Arts (reviewed by Kirsty Sedgman)
