35 Shots of Claire Denis (and more)

Image from Vendredi soir (Claire Denis, 2002)

Film Studies For Free's author is excitedly preparing to give a talk at the event 'Drifting: The Films of Claire Denis'. This is the first of an annual series of symposia on 'Modern Directors' to be held at the University of Sussex on May 2nd (programme here), and is organised by Rosalind Galt and Michael Lawrence.

Below are more than sixty links to freely-accessible, mostly scholarly (or otherwise top-notch) material about Denis's work that FSFF's author has found helpful for this and previous work on this filmmaker (HERE's a link to the text of her paper on Denis's 2002 film Vendredi soir). The lists will be added to (all suggestions welcome), so please bookmark this post (last updated June 1, 2009).

Audio and/or Visual Resources Online:

In English/or with subtitles:

• Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher, author and writer, discussing and screening L'Intrus, her film based on his book, at the European Graduate School in 2007 - online at at YouTube
• Claire Denis at European Graduate School 2003 - 'Claire Denis, a director talking about the film making process...' at YouTube (also at Denis's EGS page)
• Dickon Hinchliffe's remarkable music from the score of Vendredi soir is currently available HERE (Click on 'Films & Discography' and scroll down to 'Vendredi soir' to listen to it, or to download it for free)
• At v2v you can download a video which contains the full recording of the wonderful 1.5 hours long 'Vienna Conversation' between Claire Denis and the Austrian film critics Michael Omasta and Isabella Reicher on Saturday, May 7th, 2005 (help on downloading the video is given here).
• NEW Via Filmbo's Chick Magnet, FSFF heard of two YouTube videos (part 1 and part 2) in which you can see excerpts of Claire Denis's film of Serge Daney interviewing Jacques Rivette on his early interest in filmmaking, his days with Cahiers du cinéma, and his first meetings with Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Eric Rohmer. A must watch for those who haven't yet seen Denis's Jacque Rivette, The Watchman. Thanks Filmbo!
  

In French:

• YouTube - 35 RHUMS itw de Claire Denis et Alex Descas, par Léa Rinaldi
• YouTube - Lilan Thuram par Claire Denis (Extrait de l'installation de Claire Denis pour l'exposition "Diaspora", musée du quai Branly)
• 'Où va le Cinéma?: L'auteur, le cinéaste, le collectif - Qui fait l'oeuvre?' round table event videoed at the Centre Pompidou, 4 December 2008, with Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Daniel Deshays, and Bruno Dumont (thanks to Screenville for the link - Merci, Harry!)
• 'Interview exclusive de Claire Denis à propos de son dernier film "L'Intrus"'- Entretien réalisé dans le cadre de la Mostra de Venise par Olivier Bombarda - Septembre 2004, Arte.TV (2 RealPlayer video files)
  

Scholarly Articles and Chapters:

• Aimé Ancian,'Making Contact: Claire Denis’ Vendredi soi', translated by Inge Pruks and William D. Routt, Senses of Cinema, No. 23, 2002
• Muriel Andrin,' The Intuition of the Body, Time, and the Sixth Sense - from Chantal Akerman to Contemporary Women Directors [including Claire Denis]', Zehar, n° 58, 2006, pp. 14-19 & 20-24
• Martine Beugnet, 'The Practice of Strangeness: L'Intrus - Claire Denis (2004) and Jean-Luc Nancy (2000)', Film-Philosophy, Volume 12, Issue No.1, 2008
• Samantha Dinning, 'Claire Denis [Great Directors Series]', Senses of Cinema, No. 50, 2009
• Lisa Downing, Re-viewing the Sexual Relation: Levinas and Film', Film-Philosophy, 11.2, August 2007
• Rosalind Galt, 'The Obviousness of Cinema [with reference to the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis], World Picture Journal, 2, Autumn 2008
• Nikolaj Lübecker, 'The Dedramatization of Violence in Claire Denis's film I Can't Sleep (J'ai pas sommeil, 1994)', Paragraph, Vol. 30, July 2007
• Adrian Martin,'Claire Denis and the cinema of the body', Screening the past, 2006
• Todd McGowan, 'Resisting the lure of ultimate enjoyment: Claire Denis' J'ai pas sommeil (I Can't Sleep, 1994)', Kinoeye, Vol 3, Issue 7, 9 June, 2003
• Laura McMahon, 'Deconstructing Community and Christianity: 'A-religion' in Nancy's Reading of Beau travail', Film-Philosophy, 12.1, 2008
• Philippe Met, 'Looking for trouble: The dialectics of lack and excess (Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day, 2001), Kinoeye, Vol. 3, Issue, 7, 9 June, 2003
• Douglas Morrey, “Introduction: Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy”, Film-Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 1, 2008
• Douglas Morrey, 'Open Wounds: Body and Image in Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis', Film-Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 1, 2008
• Douglas Morrey, 'Textures of Terror: Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day', Belphégor: Littérature Populaire et Culture Médiatique, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2004
• Jean-Luc Nancy, 'Icon of Fury: Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day, Film-Philosophy, 12.1, 2008
• Hilary Neroni, 'Lost in fields of interracial desire: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988)' Kinoeye, Vol 3 Issue 7, 9 June, 2003
• Elena del Río, “Performing the narrative of seduction in Claire Denis’ Beau travail (Good Work, 1999)”, Kinoeye, vol. 3, no. 7, 9 June, 2003
• Wim Staat, 'The Other's Intrusion: Claire Denis's L'Intrus', Thamyris/Intersecting No. 19 (2008) 195–208
• Anja Streiter, 'The Community According to Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis,' Film-Philosophy, 11.1, 2008
• R. Emmet Sweeney, 'The Hither Side of Solutions: Body and Landscape in L'Intrus', Senses of Cinema, April 2005
• NEW Justin Vicari, Colonial Fictions: Le Petit Soldat and its revisionist sequel, Beau Travail, Jump Cut, No. 50, Spring 2008
  
• Fiona A. Villella, 'A Postcolonial Reading of Claire Denis' Chocolat', Senses of Cinema, vol. 1, Dec 1999
• Emma Wilson, 'Contemporary French Women Filmmakers,' French Studies 2005 59(2):217-223

Relevant (and Informative) Book Reviews:

• Acquarello, 'Claire Denis by Judith Maine', Strictly Film School, January 16, 2006
  
• John Orr, 'Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet', Senses of Cinema, No. 37, 2005
• Saige Walton, 'Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression by Martine Beugnet, [Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007],' Senses of Cinema, No. 50, 2009
  

Excellent Items of Film Criticism:

• Joe Bowman, 'The Decade List: Trouble Every Day', Fin de Cinéma, 3 April 2009
  
• Joe Bowman, '[on L'Intrus]', Fin de Cinéma, 28 April 2006
  
• Adrian Danks, 'Travellin' Light [Vendredi soir], Senses of Cinema, No. 31, 2004
• Paul Grant, 'Jacques Rivette - Le veilleur', Senses of Cinema, No. 42, 2007
• Daniel Kasman, '35 Shots of Rum: In Honour of Changing the World', The Auteurs: Notebook, 13 September 2008
• Daniel Kasman, 'L'Intrus (The Intruder)', D+Kas, 20 December 2005
• Ryland Walker Knight, '35 Rhums on The Night Shift', The Auteurs: Notebook, 13 March 2009
• Travis Mackenzie Hoover, 'Rewriting Documentary: Claire Denis's Jacques Rivette, le veilleur', The House Next Door Online, April 3, 2007
• Travis Mackenzie Hoover, 'In the realm of Work and Play: Claire Denis's Vers Mathilde', The House Next Door Online, January 16, 2007
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'Unsatisfied Men [on Beau Travail]] , JonathanRosenbaum.com, 6 May 2000 (also published in the Chicago Reader Online same date, with images)
• Diana Sandars, 'Chocolat', Senses of Cinema, No. 17, 2001
• Daniel Stuyck, 'ELETRIK ALCHEMY: Claire Denis Films Sonic Youth', Film Comment, January-February 2008
• Charles Taylor, 'Beau Travail', Salon.com, March 2000, p. 1
• Tamara Tracz, 'Beau travail', Senses of Cinema, No. 42, 2007

Enlightening Interviews in English:

• Aimé Ancian, “Claire Denis: An Interview”, translated by Inge Pruks, Senses of Cinema, No. 23, 2002
• Annett Busch, 'Claire Denis about Intrusions', (Interview, May 2005), Theory Kit, January 2006
• Chris Darke, 'Desire is violence' [Interview with Claire Denis] Sight and Sound Vol. 10 no. 7 July 2000. p. 16-18
• Robert Davis, 'Interview: Claire Denis on 35 Shots of Rum', Daily Plastic, March 10, 2009
• Robert Davis, 'Outtakes from Claire Denis Interview', Errata, 14 August, 2008
• Darren Hughes, 'Dancing Reveals So Much: An Interview with Claire Denis [about 35 Rhums]', Senses of Cinema, No. 50, 2009
• Kevin Lee, 'Spectacularly Intimate: An Interview with Claire Denis', The Auteurs: Notebook, 2 April 2009
• Craig Phillips, with Jonathan Marlow, '"Making Film is to Be Inside": a Talk with Claire Denis [on Vendredi Soir]', GreenCine, May 14, 2003 (Continues on Page 2 HERE)
• Mark A. Reid, 'Interview by Claire Denis', from Jump Cut, no. 40, March 1996, pp. 67-72
• Jonathan Romney, 'Claire Denis Interviewed', The Guardian Online, 28 June, 2000
• Gavin Smith, 'Claire Denis', Film Comment, January/February 2006
  
• Damon Smith, 'L’Intrus: An Interview with Claire Denis”, Senses of Cinema, No. 35 (April-June 2005), p. 2

Unmissable Articles, Criticism, and Interviews in French:

• Séverine Boularan, 'Un article sur le film "Vendredi Soir" réalisé par Claire Denis', www.cinema-poet.com, N. 4, 2008
• Saad Chakali, 'A Corps ouvert[s]', Cahiers du Cinéma (22 avril 2005)
• Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, '«L'Intrus» - Transférer la greffe', Atopia: The Polylogic E-Zine, 2009
  
• Jean-Luc Nancy, 'L'Intrus selon Claire Denis', remue.net, Spring Issue, 4 mai 2005
• Jean Luc Nancy, ‘L’Areligion (Beau travail de Claire Denis)’. Vacarme, n. 14, 2001
• Jean-Philippe Renouard & Lise Wajeman, '« ce poids d'ici-bas » Entretien avec Claire Denis', Vacarme, n. 14, 2001

Relevant Google Books Links (limited previews):

• Martine Beugnet, Claire Denis (Manchester: Manchester and New York University Press, 2004)
• Judith Mayne, Claire Denis (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005)
• Martine Beugnet, Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
  

Open Access campaigning note:
(Film Studies For Free's hobby horse...)
There are, of course, many further, excellent Denis resources available 'for free' if one is a student or member of faculty at an educational institution with a well-supplied library or with relevant online subscriptions. But the above list indicates, if nothing else, that truly openly accessible, high-quality, and, indeed, essential resources for researchers in and outside the academy are plentiful nowadays, especially on contemporary topics.

A big thanks, then, to the authors, artists, editors and publishers of the above works who helped to ensure that their writings, recordings, or videos about Claire Denis's films were freely available to any reader or viewer on the internet.

Film Festival Studies Online

As regular Film Studies For Free readers will know, this blog likes to flag up worthwhile examples of innovative online pedagogy in the film and media studies field (see previous related posts HERE, HERE, and HERE).

It was thrilled to hear, therefore, that internationally regarded film writer Adrian Martin, Senior Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies in Monash University's Faculty of Arts, is teaching part of a World Film Festivals unit more or less entirely online.

Martin introduces this excellent venture as follows:

This Monash University 2009 Unit aims to give an understanding of the contemporary phenomenon of the International Film Festival as an event within global circuits of film culture. It is not a Unit devoted to film analysis per se; but rather to the socio-cultural institutions of the Festival circuit – taking in issues of audience, economics, promotion, programming and curation, cultural and ideological agendas, etc, and the relationship to other circuits of film culture such as mainstream exhibition/distribution, cinémathèques and museums, etc.

FSFF very much recommends that you visit the World Film Festivals blog (here) and read the work produced by the Unit's four festival reporters (Lesley Chow, Farah Azalea Mohamed Al Amin, Alida Tomaszewski, and Nienke Huitenga). They have been posting on a variety of topics, to date, as follows: What Tongue? (Chow); Interview with Amir Muhammad (Azalea and Chow); Albert Serra’s Birdsong (Chow); Amir Muhammad's Malaysian Gods (Azalea); The [Audi Festival of German Films] Festival as a Cultural Meeting Point (Huitenga); Interview with Amos Gitai (Chow and Azalea); Reconstructed Homelands [on the Gitai mini-retrospective at the Singapore International Film Festival] (Chow); Singapore Panorama (Azalea); and Sprechen Ze Deutsche? [on audience development at the German Film festival] (Tomaszewski).

Film Studies For Free's author very much approves of Martin's teaching practice on this unit. (She established an undergraduate course on Film Programming a couple of years ago, which is still running, albeit under new management these days.)

So here, to celebrate Martin's work, are a few excellent online (and, of course) Open Access film festival-studies resources (on festival programming, politics, business and other matters) from FSFF's dusty reading-list archive (last updated June 17, 2009):

• Thomas Elsaesser, 'Film Festival Networks: The New Topographies of Cinema in Europe' (from European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood [Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2005])
• Lars Henrik Gass, 'Trade Market or Trade Mark? The Future of Film Festivals', Rouge 13, May 2009
  
• Frances Gateward, 'Introduction' to Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007)
• NEW Mike Hertenstein, 'Programming: Flickerings ‘09', Filmwell, May 5, 2009
  
• NEW Mike Hertenstein, 'Programming: Imaginarium ‘09', Filmwell, May 12, 2009
  
• Olivia Khoo, 'Slang Images: On the Foreignness of Contemporary Singaporean Films', Asia Research Institute Working Paper series, No. 40, May 2005
  
• Simone Kurtzke, 'Webfilm Theory', e-Thesis, Queen Margaret University, School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, 12. Aug. 2007
• Skadi Loist and Marijke de Valck, 'Film Festivals / Film Festival Research: Thematic, Annotated Bibliography', Compiled for the Film Festival Research Network, December 2008
• Pauline Webber, 'The History of the Sydney Film Festival 1954-1983', e-Thesis, University of Sydney, 2005
• Cindy Wong, Producing Film Knowledge, Producing Films: Festivals in a New World' Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 21, 2008

Also, further essential reading can always be found at Professor Dina Iordanova's brilliant blog DinaView: Film Culture Technology Money (see all her postings on Film Festivals and Film Programming).

Professor Iordanova is one the lead team members of the Dynamics of World Cinema research project undertaken by the Centre for Film Studies at the University of St Andrews and sponsored by The Leverhulme Trust. (Full disclosure note: Adrian Martin and FSFF's own author are both members of the International Advisory Board of this project). The project describes itself thus:

This two-and-a- half-year-long study will examine the patterns and cycles of various distinctly active circuits of contemporary film distribution and exhibition, and the dynamic patterns of complex interaction between them.

[Project attention] attention focuses predominantly in four areas of the global circulation of non-Hollywood cinema: the international penetration of international blockbusters mainstream distribution, the film festival circuit, the film circulation via diasporic channels, as well as the various Internet-enabled forms of dissemination. The project's distinctiveness is in the endeavour to correlate these diverse strands and foreground their dynamic interactions.

For updated news, as it happens, the Dynamics of World Cinema Blog can be found here.

Note added: This blog brought news (on June 17th) of the following great online resources:

Film Festival Workshop - Video Clips

During the Film Festival Workshop held on 4 April 2009 in St Andrews, our discussants talked about some of the most pressing issues that were concerned with the development of Film Festival Studies.

Click on the links below to hear what they said:

Clip 1

Michael Gubbins, former Editor, Screen International, UK

Clip 2

Richard Porton, Editor, Cineaste Magazine, USA

Clip 3

Nick Roddick (aka Mr. Busy), film journalist and critic, Sight & Sound, UK

Clip 4

Nick Roddick (aka Mr. Busy), film journalist and critic, Sight & Sound, UK

Clip 5

Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Clip 6

Irene Bignardi, Filmitalia and former Locarno Festival Director, Italy

Clip 7

Núria Triana Toribio, University of Manchester, UK

Clip 8

Dina Iordanova, Director, Centre for Film Studies, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Also, please check out the Fipresci (international federation of film critics) website for an abundance of fascinating and useful material about film festivals.

Werner Herzog Links inc YouTube Fest

Film Studies For Free wanted to let academic fans of Werner Herzog know that (certainly in the UK, but most probably elsewhere, too, if no geoblocking) they can currently watch eight of his films on YouTube in their glorious entirety. This is thanks to the video distributor Starzmedia, one of the companies participating in YouTube's growing efforts to stream full-length films with the support of the movie companies who own the rights. Below, FSFF has embedded the trailers of seven of the Herzog films that are currently available. Click on the titles to visit the YouTube pages for the full-length films, which can be watched freely online in relatively good quality versions (Even YouTube Screens Started Small...). (Click HERE for The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser added later. The Starzmedia channel for Herzog is HERE).

And, if that weren't enough excitement for one FSFF day, beneath the video-trailers, at the foot of this post, are some other choice links to freely available Herzog material online.

Aguirre The Wrath Of God

My Best Fiend

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Fitzcarraldo

Lessons Of Darkness

Woyzeck

Little Dieter Needs To Fly

Scholarly online writing about Herzog:

• Adam Bingham, 'Images from the end of the world: Werner Herzog's La Soufrière', Senses of Cinema, September 2006
• Tom Bissell, 'The Secret Mainstream: Contemplating the Images of Werner Herzog', Harpers Magazine, December 2006
• Buffalo Film Seminars - selected writings about Herzog (and, especially, Aguirre: Wrath of God)
• Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, 'An Adaptation With Fangs: Herzog's Nosferatu,' Kinoeye, Vol. 2, Issue 20, December 2002
• Alkan Chipperfield, 'Murmurs from a Shadowless Land: Fragmentary Reflections on the Cinema of Werner Herzog', Senses of Cinema, June 2001
• David Church, 'Werner Herzog', Senses of Cinema, June 2006
• Roger Dawkins, 'Thoughts of Deleuze, Spinoza and the Cinema (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)', Contretemps, 3 July 200
• Michael Koller, 'The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner', Senses of Cinema, February 2002
• Joe Muszynski, 'A Legacy of Quality: Werner Herzog's Nosferatu and the New German Cinema'
• Benjamin Noys, 'Antiphusis: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man', Film-Philosophy, 11.3, November 2006
• Ingo Petzke, 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God', Senses of Cinema, February 2002
• Cynthia Rockwell, 'Werner Herzog and the Documentary Film', e-Thesis, Boston University 1994
• Antonia Shanahan, 'My Best Fiend', Senses of Cinema, February 2002

• Herzog's Official Website is HERE
• Ray Pride gathered a load of great Herzog paraphernalia/paratextuality a couple of years back at Movie City Pride (videos/articles/interviews) and you can access it HERE (link courtesy of GreenCine Daily, April 4 2007). Link added April 21
  
• And you can listen to a great interview with Herzog HERE, by Jonathan Demme, courtesy of Pinewood Dialogues
  

Queer Film and Theory Links In Memory of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Image from Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999)

Film Studies For Free was very sad to hear of the death at 58 of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, one of the founders of the discourse of 'queer theory', and an inspirational teacher and critic.

Like many other film researchers, some of FSFF's author's own writing on queer films was deeply influenced by Sedgwick's brilliant exploration of the epistemology of the closet.

In memory of Sedgwick, FSFF has assembled a webliography, below, of links to pieces of high quality, freely accessible, scholarly writing (or recordings/videos) on the web on the topic of queer/glbt films and/or queer film theory, a number of which, unsurprisingly, employ her critical insights. Further links added since original post: last updated June 2, 2009.

• John S. Bak, 'Suddenly Last Supper: Religious Acts and Race Relations - Tennessee Williams's 'Desire',Journal of Religion and Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 2005


• John Bannister, 'Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, and Susan Sontag: Campaigners of Camp and the Carry On films', Forum, Issue 4, Spring 2007
  

• Harry M. Benshoff, 'Notes on Gay History/Queer Theory/Gay Film'


• Chris Berry, 'East Palace, West Palace: Staging Gay Life in China', from Jump Cut, no. 42, December 1998, pp. 84-89


• Chris Berry, 'My Queer Korea: Identity, Space, and the 1998 Seoul Queer Film & Video festival', Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 2, May 1999
  

• Orla Juliette Borreye, 'The Significance Of The Queer And The Dog In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros (2000): A Masculinity At War', Wide Screen Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009

• NEW R. Bruce Brasell, 'The Making of "Monsters": The Queer as Producer', from Jump Cut, no. 40, March 1996, pp. 47-54
  

• Patrick S. Brennan, 'Cutting through Narcissism: Queer Visibility in Scorpio Rising', Genders 36, 2002


• Michael Bronski, 'From The Celluloid Closet to Brokeback Mountain: The Changing Nature of Queer Film Criticism', Cineaste, 2008


• Stella Bruzzi, 'The Talented Mr Ripley', EnterText 1.2, Spring 2001


• Norman Bryson, 'Todd Haynes's Poison and Queer Cinema', Invisible Culture - An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture Issue 1, Winter 1999


• Kathy Burdette, 'Queer Film Theory - Bibliography'


• Alain Chouinard, 'Queering the Québécois and Canadian Child in Jean-Claude Lauzon’sLéolo', Synoptique13, February 2009


• Lesley Chow, 'The Double Standard: The Twins of Two-Faced Woman and Sylvia Scarlett,' Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 59, February 2008
  

• Douglas Crimp, 'Getting the Warhol we Deserve: Cultural Studies and Queer Culture', Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies, 1999
  

• Rick Curnette, 'Child's Play: The Pixelvision Videos of Sadie Benning', The Film Journal, Issue 4


• Belidson Dias & Susan Sinkinson, 'Film spectatorship between queer theory and feminism: Transcultural readings', Paper for InSEA on Bridge - 7 European Regional Congress 1st - 6th July 2004 Istanbul - Cappadocia
  


• Richard Dyer, 'Homosexuality in Film Noir', from Jump Cut, No. 16, 1977, pp. 18-21


• Tanfer Emin-Tunc and Nichole Prescott, 'Glen or Glenda: Psychiatry, Sexuality, and the Silver Screen', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 41, August 2003
  

• NEW Bryan Ray Fruth, 'Media Reception, Sexuality Identity, and Public Space', e-PhD Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007
  


• Jane Gaines, 'Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Queering Feminist Film Theory', from Jump Cut, no. 41, May 1997, pp. 45-48


• Stefan Jack Garel, 'Queer Bodies and Settlements', (e-PhD Thesis: University of Exeter, 2008)


• 'Gays, Lesbian, and Transgendered People in Motion Pictures: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library'


• David Gerstner, 'Queer Modernism: The Cinematic Aesthetics of Vincente Minnelli', Modernity, Vol. 2, 2000


• Michael Goddard, 'Beauty Lies in the Eye (So Why Can't I Touch It?)', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 25, 1998


• Andrew Grossman, 'Twelve Tone Cinema: A Scattershot Notebook on Sexual Atonality', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 43, February 2004


• Julie Grossman, “The Trouble with Carol: The Costs of Feeling [On Todd Haynes' Safe]', Other Voices 2.3 January 2005


• Adam Hartzell, 'Queer Pal For The Straight Gal - Wanee & Junah and Queer Friendship', The Film Journal, Issue 7


• Todd Haynes interviewed by Richard Dyer [audio recording from the Tate Modern], 'Double Indemnity: Todd Haynes/Edward Hopper' (4 June 2004)


• Todd Haynes's film: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)


• Zoë Heyn-Jones, 'Eye and Brain, Torn Asunder: Reading Ideology in Sally Potter’s Orlando', Synoptique, 11, March 12, 2008
  

• NEW In Media Res GLBT media-themed week, April 21-25, 2008


• Fiona Jenkins, 'Grief's Testimony: On Almodóvar’s All About My Mother', Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, Vol. 4, Number 2, August 2007


• Jamie June, 'Is it Queer Enough?: An Analysis of the Criteria and Selection Process for Programming Films within Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Film Festivals in the United States' (e-Thesis)


• Dmetri Kakmi, 'Queer Cinema: A Reality Check', Senses of Cinema, 2000


• Peter Kemp, 'Bi-Polar Gender-Blender: Sylvia Scarlett,' Senses of Cinema 22, Sept-Oct 2002


• Ewan Kirkland, 'Romantic Comedy and the Construction of Heterosexuality', Scope Issue 9, 2007


• Kevin B. Lee, 'Madchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan, 1931)'


• Dennis Lo, 'The Politics and Aesthetics of “Asian American” Sexuality in Ang Lee’s Cross-Cultural Family Dramas: A Case Study on The Wedding Banquet and The Ice Storm', Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies, Vol. 1, 2008


• Patricia MacCormack, 'Barbara Steele's Ephemeral Skin: Feminism, Fetishism, and Film', Senses of Cinema, September 2002


• Patricia MacCormack, Pleasure, Perversion and Death: Three Lines of Flight for the Viewing Body, Transmat Online Book


• James MacDowell, 'What Value is There in Gus Van Sant's Psycho?', Offscreen Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 7, 2005


• Stephen Maddison, 'Pedro Almodóvar and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: the Heterosocial Spectator and Misogyny', Chapter 4 of Fags, hags, and queer sisters : gender dissent and heterosocial bonds in gay culture (New York : St. Martin's, 2000)


• Joseph McBride, 'George Cukor: The Valor of Discretion', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 32, April 2001
  

• Deborah Mellamphy, 'The Paradox Of Transvestism In Tim Burton’s Ed Wood', Wide Screen Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009
  


• Frann Michel, 'The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love', Cineaste, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1995


• D.A. Miller, 'Anal Rope'
  

• D. A. Miller, 'La Ronde', Film Quarterly, Spring 2009
  

• Daniel Mudie Cunningham, 'Driving into the 'Dustless Highway' of Queer Cinema', Film Journal, 2002


• Rebecca Panosky, 'Dorothy Arzner and Gender Representation.” In: “International Female Film Directors: Their Contributions to the Film Industry and Women's Roles in Society.” Chapter 4 of e-Thesis


• Susan Pelle and Catherine Fox, 'Queering Desire / Querying Consumption: Rereading Visual Images of ‘Lesbian’ Desire in Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art', Third Space, Vol. 6 Issue 1, Summer 2006


• Matthew Ogonoski, 'Queering the Heterosexual Male in Canadian Cinema: An Analysis of Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo', Synoptique, 13, February 2009


• Ryan Powell, 'Putting on the Red Dress: Performative Camp in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows,' Forum, Issue 4, Spring 2007


• Kate Rennebohm, 'Queering Childhood: An Examination of Claude Jutra’s Dreamspeaker', Synoptique 13, February 2009


• Elena del Rio, 'Performing the Narrative of Seduction: Claire Denis's Beau Travail', Kinoeye, Vol. 3, Issue 7, Spring 2003


• Julian Savage, 'The Conscious Collusion of the Stare: The Viewer Implicated in Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul,' Senses of Cinema, 16, Sept-Oct 2001


• Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramman, 'Mädchen in Uniform', trans. Leonie Naughton, Screening the Past, 12 January 1998
  

• NEW Ian Scott Todd, 'Outside/In: Abjection, Space, and Landscape in Brokeback Mountain', Scope13, February 2009
  


• Neera Scott, 'Sublime Anarchy in Gus Van Sant's Elephant', Senses of Cinema, 2005


• Steven Jay Schneider, 'A Tale of Two Psychos', Senses of Cinema, 2000


• Yael Sherman, 'Tracing the Carnival Spirit in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Feminist Reworkings of the Grotesque', Third Space, Vol. 3, Issue 2, March 2004


• Anneke Smelik, 'Gay and Lesbian Criticism'


• Anneke Smelik, 'Art Cinema and Murderous Lesbians'


• Anneke Smelik, 'The Carousel of Genders'

• NEW Carter Michael Soles, Falling Out of the Closet: Kevin Smith, Queerness, and Independent Film, e-Thesis University of Oregon, 2008
  

• Irini Stamatopoulos, 'Ang Lee's Cowboys', Offscreen Journal, Volume 11, Issue 2 (February 28, 2007)


• K. E. Sullivan, 'Ed Gein and the Figure of the Transgendered Serial Killer', from Jump Cut, no. 43, July 2000, pp. 38-47


• Denise Tse Shang Tang, 'A Dialogue on Intimacy with Chan Kwok Chan in Yau Ching's Ho Yuk: Let's Love Hong Kong', Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context Issue 14, November 2006


• Donato Totaro, 'Psycho Redux', Offscreen Journal, 2004


• Evangelos Tziallas, 'Looking Beneath the Skin: Reconfiguring Trauma and Sexuality', Stream: A Graduate Journal of Communication, Spring 2008 1(1)


• Justin Vicari, 'Reading/Watching Fassbinder', Film Journal, Vol. 1, No. 13, Winter 2006


• Amy Villarejo, 'Interview with Tish Pearlman for Out of Bounds/Cornell University' [about Queer film and queer film theory] RealPlayer file, 29 mins 30 seconds


• Nicholas de Villiers, 'Glancing, Cruising, Staring: Queer Ways of Looking', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 57, August 2007


• Nicholas de Villiers, '”The vanguard - and the most articulate audience”: Queer Camp, Jack Smith and John Waters', Forum, Issue 4, Spring 2007
  

• Adam P Wadenius, 'The Monstrous Masculine: Abjection And Todd Solondz's Happiness', Wide Screen Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009
  


• Tamsin Whitehead, 'Rejecting the Margins of Difference: Strategies of Resistance in the Documentary Films of Pratibha Parmar', Third Space, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Winter 2008


• Damon Young and Gilbert Caluya, '”A Vessel of Imagery”: An Interview with Gregg Araki',Senses of Cinema, 2005

P.S. Another set of must-reads from the Reverse Shot website - just click on the film-title links below for some great reading on queer cinema and television:

Reverse Shot - Proposition 24: Defining a New Queer Cinema

by MK and JR

Broken Sky by Michael Koresky

The Wire by Chris Wisniewski

Lan Yu by Andrew Chan

I Love You, Man and the Apatow Comedy Factory by Michael Joshua Rowin

Hairspray by Leo Goldsmith

Be Like Others by Joanne Nucho

Casino Royale and the new James Bond by Andrew Tracy

Brokeback Mountain, Milk, and the Queer Prestige Film by Matt Connolly

The House of Mirth by Jeff Reichert

Far from Heaven by Chris Wisniewski

Milk by Michael Koresky

Fruity film and television studies links!

Due to a devastating case of total PC meltdown (following painful months of on-and-off digital trouble and strife), Film Studies For Free brought you nothing new for over a week...

But now it's back.  Its mission is possible once again. And this time it's brought to you by a new, more reliable, and thoroughly inspirational computer host (think Scottish fruit). 

FSFF never wants to go away again (until vacation time at least). But it may struggle for a wee while, while its owner learns the cool new language of her wonderful new i-World.

Anyhoo, here are some choice links to celebrate its stylish return:

• One of FSFF's favourite film blogs -- Videoarcadia -- is back after a hiatus. Lots of things to read, but FSFF really liked the little post on Gus Van Sant's Milk.
• The new online issue of Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture is now available with Martin Roberts on Euro-American subcultural fascination with Japan; Michael Z. Newman on the ethical issues around P2P filesharing; Ben Aslinger on 'popular music and urban place'; Serra Tinic on the US Life on Mars and the cultural politics of imports and adaptations; Jeffrey Sconce on nineties comedy; Carly A. Kocurek on youth, video gaming and the law; Daren C. Brabham on 'Crowdsourced advertising'; and Priscilla Peña Ovalle on racialised bodies in Mexican Breakfast.
• A brilliant stream of posts over at Film For The Soul, thanks to its (now, spinoff) project 'Counting Down the Zeroes: The Noughties in all their glory'. There are twelve great guest posts on noughties films, so far (on Requiem for a Dream, X-Men, Pollock, You Can Count on Me, Traffic, Yi Yi/ A One and a Two, Werckmeister Harmonies,  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, InuYasha, High Fidelity, Boiler Room, and Battle Royale). If you'd like to contribute your own essay on a noughties film, please contact Ibetolis of Film for the Soul asap.
• If your bag is very heavyweight but brilliant philosophy with your film and literary studies (think Wittgenstein, Blanchot, Lacan, T.S.Eliot, plus David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, and Lucio Fulci...), do venture a visit to the remarkable blogspot of Michael Grant, one of FSFF's owner's friends and former colleagues. For the as yet uninitiated, two good posts to try out first are: 'David Cronenberg: Style and Extremity' and  'Clint Eastwood: Avatar of the Undead'. 
• Other great blog posts from AP at the Movies ('Barbara Stanwyck, Cowboy Queen' and 'Waiting on a train [on The Train Robbers, 1972]''); Cinebeats (on Yusako Matsuda); Spectacular Attractions (on M. Night Shyamalan's underrated film Unbreakable); the peerless Tativille on Abbas Kiarostami's Through the Olive Trees; and lots of wonderful recent posts at Shooting Down Pictures (FSFF loved the one on the 'best documentary of the decade').