Our 4th Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. This themed collection comes courtesy of Alan O'Leary, comprising outtakes from his videographic project 'Men Shouting: A History in 7 Episodes' and featuring a response letter by Will Knowles. Find it all here fragments.video
Catherine Grant
@filmstudiesff.bsky.social
Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
'Video Essay alert' A new issue of [in]Transition to enjoy. Find it here intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1729/i...
Our 3rd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 12 fragments (from nine creators). Read our editorial and view them all here fragments.video
Barbara Zecchi’s latest brilliant videographic thinkpiece, just published in 16:9 as part of Ariel Avissar and Colleen Laird’s collective series in response to the New York Times’ list of 100 best films of the 21st century. vimeo.com/1141239458?f... 16-9.dk/2025/11/the-...
The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century: "All About Numbers: 100 Films – 11 Women"
This is "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century: "All About Numbers: 100 Films – 11 Women"" by 16:9 Film Journal on Vimeo, the home for…
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Found Footage Magazine launches its new - now fully open access - issue! foundfootagemagazine.com/online-issue...
ISSUE #11 – Found Footage Magazine
December 2025 ISSN: 2462-2885 Online Edition | Full Open Access English Contributors Issue #11: Jiří Anger, Alejandro Bachmann, Michael Betancourt, Donald Brackett, Pamela Breda, Marie-Pierre Burquier...
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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...
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies - Oa-issue
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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...
Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film
An examination of media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film, with 14 video essays <br><i>Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/videographicbooks/">Videographic Books</a> series</...
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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...
245. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney — Backlisted
Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams join us to discuss A Taste of Honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney's first play, written and produced when the author was not yet 20 years old. To describe this as an ...
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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. doi.org/10.37186/swr...
Volume 15.2
Vol. 15.2 Copyright Law and Filmmaking Special IssueISSN 2514-3123https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/15.2
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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... .
Characters in Film and Other Media: Theory, Analysis, Interpretation
Characters are central to the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance is profound, but they also raise a wide range of questions. This book provides a comprehensi...
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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...
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
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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/...
The Anthropocene Will Eat Itself
Featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/issue/view/1380 Screening…
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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
TV Dictionary - The Tripods
"The Tripods" in one word. Part of the TV Dictionary collection: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8660446
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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:
The Video Essay About The Show
For the past year, I’ve been working on a long-form project that I’m finally ready to share publicly. In Fall 2024, I taught a new course entitled Faking Reality: Mockumentaries, Hoaxes…
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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
The Holes We Left Behind
This video essay has been published in Movie: a journal of criticism issue 12, and an accompanying statement can be read here.
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A new translation into English by Andrew Castillo of Víctor Erice’s text about Nicholas Ray. metrograph.com/like-in-a-mi...
Like In A Mirror - Journal - Metrograph
A new translation of Victor Erice’s tribute to Nicholas Ray.
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"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.
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...
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...
The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025
92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
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New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...
Understanding Video Activism on Social Media | Intellect
What political power do videos on social media have? In what ways do they exert influence, shape publics and change political life? And how can committed civil society actors in this field assert them...
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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
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
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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....
The Black Android, Janelle Monáe and Crossover Stardom: Race and Technology On-screen
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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
PAUSAS / PAUSES
A videographic compilation, by Rachel Randall and Catherine Grant, that draws on seven contemporary Latin American films featuring women protagonists who undertake…
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The latest issue of [in]Transition is up with 8 new video essays! intransition.openlibhums.org
[in]Transition
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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...
Privilege (1967) / Edvard Munch (1974)
. Director: Peter WatkinsScreenwriters: Norman Bogner, Peter Watkins / Peter Watkins & Cast This essay is presented as part of the Ninth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, a festival found…
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