Issue 64.5 of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (published open access online) is now available! More here: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/oa-is...

Via Jason Mittell: “Check out ADAPTIVE FORMS, Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley's fabulous new open-access book on contemporary science-fiction - complete with video essays on ARRIVAL, SNOWPIERCER, BLACK PANTHER, UNDER THE SKIN, etc.!!!” www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

The Summer 2025 issue of Literature/Film Quarterly is now out: lfq.salisbury.edu#gsc.tab=0

New episode up now. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, with guests Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245...

Check out the brilliant and valuable “Copyright Law and Filmmaking” Special Issue of SCREENWORKS, a marvellous collaborative effort between copyright law expert Bartolomeo Meletti, guest editor, and practice researcher Estrella Sendra, SCREENWORKS associate editor. 
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The thoroughly revised English edition of Jens Eder’s book on characters is now available via open access. You can download it for free here (or purchase a printed copy): www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... .

Punctum Books has just published the great open access collection Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be, edited by Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen. punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

My new video essay featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia, the journal of the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network. vimeo.com/1074720429 You can find the journal at the link below openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/...

TV Dictionary - entry #118: The Tripods, by David Martin-Jones Another lovely entry from David - and a reminder that, even after an entire year's hiatus, the TV Dictionary is always accepting new additions! vimeo.com/1005534120

I've been working on this project for a long time and am excited to finally share "The Video Essay About The Show" publicly! It's a multipart video essay about "The Show About The Show," the cult webseries - check it out:

A new video by Jacob Smith ‘The Holes We Left Behind’, which forms the latest addition to the Audiovisual Approaches and the Archive dossier in MOVIE: a journal of film criticism. vimeo.com/1099652055

A new translation into English by Andrew Castillo of Víctor Erice’s text about Nicholas Ray. metrograph.com/like-in-a-mi...

"As the world continues on a downward spiral of violence and authoritarianism, Senses is left with no choice but to remain committed to the emancipatory power of cinema and its rigorous reflection..." Issue 114 of Senses of Cinema is out now: www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue...

Our latest issue is packed with 12 Feature articles, as well as new interviews, festival reports, book reviews, and more. Wherever and however these inspired texts find you (and in whatever direction they propel you next), we hope you enjoy Issue 114 of Senses of Cinema.

Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.

Applications are still open for the Mid-Career Fellowships. The scheme allows UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a major project and share their insights with the wider public. Apply now: buff.ly/VOWVPuC

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Pleased to share that my latest article, 'The Black Android, Janelle Monáe and Crossover Stardom: Race and Technology On-screen', is now available to read from Film-Philosophy via open access! www.euppublishing.com/doi/epdf/10....

One of the best movie rediscoveries of the last decade was the Iranian film CHESS OF THE WIND (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976). It's currently available for free online with English subtitles mediaspace.msu.edu/media/Chess+...

🎬Great films back on the big screen at Cinema Rediscovered (Wed 23 - Sun 27 July, Bristol) Thanks to Silk Factory for this amazing new trailer showcasing some of our 80+ screenings and events lineup. Passes & tickets are available with a 20% discount when you book 4+ screenings - link in bio 🎟️

On the day it will screen in a competitive Audiovisual Essay forum at the Marienbad Film Festival (see the whole brilliant program later in the thread below), I am thrilled to be able to publicly share PAUSAS | PAUSES, a videographic compilation I co-authored with Rachel Randall. vimeo.com/965986620

The latest issue of [in]Transition is up with 8 new video essays! intransition.openlibhums.org

A great long read on the films of British filmmaker and documentarian Peter Watkins by brilliant film blogger Roderick Heath filmfreedonia.com/2025/06/06/p...

Via Dagmar Brunow, news of the publication of the open access book Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture! The book appears in the Legenda Visual Culture series, edited by Carolin Duttlinger. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Here's how ✨Magic Lantern✨ works: You give it a list of the films you want to research on Lantern. It generates 10+ search strategies for you and performs the searches for you. It scores the results based on your research preferences, weeds out the duplicates, and give you links to the best!

Do you use the Media History Digital Library to research? If so, I need your help. I made a free tool that turns weeks of Lantern/MHDL searching into hours of automated discovery ✨ Now I need testers doing literally any kind of deep or broad MHDL research! github.com/nonmodernist/magic-lantern

This is an incredible Teaching Tool bsky.app/profile/film...

SUPERB! The Film Atlas is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is - or aims to be - an interactive global map of the history of film technology. The site has just gone live and it is free to use for all. www.filmatlas.com

So exciting!

A great new videographic journal initiative created by Cormac Donnelly with Will DiGravio and Jemma Saunders: FRAGMENTS - @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social fragments.video fragments.video/manifesto/

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

📚 My book, "Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film", explores the #Gothic (1920s-1950s) as an aesthetic of memory and exile. Includes chapters on memory-objects, hands, pianos, and amnesia. Download it for free from #PalgraveMacmillan #OA @uclselcs.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

My article, ‘A Wounded Cinema: Failed Utopias, Décor Leitmotifs, and the Homo Minnellianus’, is published in MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism. Among other misfits in Vincente Minnelli's films, I write about one of my favourites: Ginny from Some Came Running (1958). warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

In the latest issue of MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism is my 32 min video study of film continuity & the work of script supervision MAKING FICTION FLOW, co-authored with Melanie Bell, part of a dossier on Audiovisual Approaches and the Archive. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca... vimeo.com/1012108423

RIP Joe Don Baker (1936-2025). So powerful in Edge of Darkness, among many other incredible performances. My video essay EDGE, featuring one of his wonderful scenes in Troy Kennedy Martin’s nuclear thriller, is online here: vimeo.com/585878623

EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors. You can read more about this decision here:

A great new episode of the Video Essay Podcast featuring a marvellous interview with Katie Bird by Johannes Binotto. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Cut to Sound #1: "A Storm Approaching" A collaborative video, with images and words by @filmstudiesff.bsky.social, Farzaneh Yazdandoost, @nilanjana.bsky.social, @sennahojottonib.bsky.social, Yarden Kum, @willdigravio.bsky.social, Katia Arieli, and Amanda Doxtater: vimeo.com/1077301421

"Cut to Sound" is a group exercise prompt based on a collaborative videographic experiment, exploring the relationship between sounds, images, and words. See detailed instructions + 3 videos made by 24 participants here: www.arielavissar.work/cut-to-sound Check them out - and make your own!

The 2nd episode of "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary": open.spotify.com/episode/4JY8... featuring Alisa's interview with Deirdre Boyle on her new book about Rithy Panh, Cambodia's most important filmmaker. @alisalebow.bsky.social, @suninthebelly.bsky.social

Calling UK-based film curators! Park Circus is teaming up once again with Cinema Rediscovered to invite you to pitch a 4-5 repertory film season idea curated from their catalogue for 2026. Submit your proposal(s) via the link in bio by Monday 2nd June 2025, midnight BST.

lectures dating back to 2012 are available for streaming via the website. The talks by Berton and Semerene will go online soon after the in-person events. Made possible through the generous support of the hessische Film- und Medienakademie. More at the link: www.kracauer-lectures.de/de/sommer-20...

Announcing the Kracauer Lectures for the Summer Term 2025 @goetheuni.bsky.social: On April 29 Mireille Berton (Lausanne) will talk about "The Psychiatric Film and the Franz Breundl Enigma" and on May 27 Diego Semerene (Amsterdam) will talk about "Desire for Trans-ness". All previous Kracauer /

Delighted to see my article '“Reminiscence Therapy”: Musical Nostalgia in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (2015–2019)' published in Émergences! I've so much to say about these complex scores, far beyond the wordcount! But I try scratch the surface here! publications-prairial.fr/emergences/i...

We've joined Bluesky! Follow us for research about women's film and television history, especially from the UK and Ireland. More info on our work on our website wfthn.com

This hits hard, as 10 years ago we got a @neh-odh.bsky.social grant to launch our Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop. That grant was truly transformative, as we just saw at #scms25 - it's no exaggeration to say that videographic criticism as we know it would not exist without #NEH support!

Writing a book indebted to Jonathan’s thinking (solidarity to his grad students) is freighted and weighted with memory. “What would Jonathan do,” as Mack Hagood said on Phantom Power recently? Today I encountered Jonathan's humility and humor in advice on “good” writing: superbon.net/2021/04/13/o...

This week on In Media Res (April 7 - April 10): Respecting the Balance: Thoughts on THE SUBSTANCE: Here is the lineup: mediacommons.org/imr/