Film Studies For Free's latest entry is replete with openly accessible scholarly goodies. So what's new? Lots of things!

First off, two major journals in our field have moved to new (public) houses! Film Criticism celebrates its fortieth anniversary issue with a move to an open access format, under the expert new editorship of Joseph Tompkins, who, to mark this welcome shift, commissioned lots of scholars to meditate on the ever mutating space of film criticism. Meanwhile, Film-Philosophy, a very long-standing, always fully open access academic journal dedicated to the engagement between film studies and philosophy, is now published by Edinburgh University Press and remains completely open access. A good job by its excellent editor David Sorfa. The new issues of both journals are set out and linked to below, followed by a lovingly compiled list of nine new open access ebooks sourced at Oapen, and a whole host of further delectable items of openly accessible film (and TV) scholarly interest (including three further OA ebooks).

Embedded immediately below, though, are two of the latest instalments in the Fieldnotes series of interviews, with Laura Mulvey and Richard Dyer. Fieldnotes is a Society for Cinema and Media Studies project to conduct, circulate and archive interviews with pioneers of film and media studies. In addition to recognizing the contributions of key scholars, the project also aims to foster knowledge of and interest in the diverse and dynamic developments that have shaped -- and continue to shape -- our expanding field. Fieldnotes is currently led by Haidee Wasson, with the help of a committee comprised of Patrice Petro and Barbara Klinger. It is sponsored both by SCMS and by ARTHEMIS, a Concordia University based research team investigating the history and epistemology of moving image studies.




The full list of Fieldnotes interviewees, to date, is given below - all interviews are accessible here: 

Francesco Cassetti interviewed by Luca Caminati; John Caughie interviewed by Haidee Wasson; Mary Ann Doane interviewed by Patrice Petro; Richard Dyer interviewed by Barbara Klinger; Thomas Elsaesser interviewed by Patrice Petro; Lucy Fischer interviewed by Paula Massud; Tom Gunning interviewed by Scott Curtis; Gertrud Koch interviewed by Robin Curtis; Scott MacDonald interviewed by Joan Hawkins; Laura Mulvey interviewed by Catherine Grant; James Naremore interviewed by Jake Smith; Ted Perry interviewed by Christian Keathley; Janet Staiger interviewed by Charles Acland; Linda Williams interviewed by Tom Waugh.

Film Criticism, 40.1, 2016. 
Now OPEN ACCESS and online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fc?page=home (will shortly be accessible also at its existing URL: http://filmcriticism.allegheny.edu)

• Editor's Note: Film Criticism—The Reboot Tompkins, Joe 
• Ethics and Digital Film Aaron, Michele 
• Representations of Arabs, Muslims, and Iranians in an Era of Complex Characters and Storylines Alsultany, Evelyn 
• “Untitled”: Black Sounds and Music Video as an Object of Study Ball, Kevin D. 
• A Case for Close Analysis Belton, John 
• Confessions of a Platform Agnostic, or Film Criticism after Film Benson-Allott, Caitlin 
• The Film Critic Between Theory and Practice; (Or: What Every Film Critic Needs to Know) Buckland, Warren 
• Feminist Film Criticism in the 21st Century Cobb, Shelley; Tasker, Yvonne 
• The Glare of Images, and the Question of Value Corrigan, Timothy 
• The Dysfunction of Criticism at the Present Time Flaxman, Gregory 
• Ideology Critique and Film Criticism in the New Media Ecology Flisfeder, Matthew 
• Netflix Crit in the Twenty-First Century Frey, Mattias 
• On Not Running in Place Ganguly, Keya 
• Beyond Tautology? Audio-Visual Film Criticism Grant, Catherine 
• “‘What Will Students Ever Do with That?’” Griffin, Hollis 
• Film Criticism: the Challenge of the Specific Gunning, Tom 
• Digital Auteurism in Film Criticism Jeong, Seung-hoon 
• The Academic Film Blog (2000-2015), A Eulogy Klein, Amanda Ann 
• What is Evaluative Criticism? Klevan, Andrew 
• On the Couch Martin, Adrian 
• Binge-Reviews? The Shifting Temporalities of Contemporary TV Criticism McNutt, Myles 
• “There’s Something Rotten in Film Criticism, and His Name is, Regrettably, Not Johnny” Metz, Walter 
• “Witness, Worker, Mercenary: Race and Labor in the New Culture Industries” Mukherjee, Roopali 
• GIFs: The Attainable Text Newman, Michael Z. 
• The Task of the Film Critic in Times of Streaming Video Niessen, Niels 
• The Futures-Market for Film Criticism Polan, Dana 
• The Power of Black Film Criticism Reich, Elizabeth 
• In This World, Not Above It Rushton, Richard 
• Third Cinema Now Saljoughi, Sara 
• A Matter of (Informed) Taste Sayad, Cecilia 
• Audiovisual Futures Shaviro, Steven 
• Art and Realism in a Digital Age Sperling, Joshua 
• The More the Change, the More the Same Staiger, Janet 
• The Subject of Film Studies Stoddard, Matthew 
• The Cinematic Return Verevis, Constantine 
• Figures for Figuring Out Yu, Chang-Min 

Film-Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 1, February, 2016:

• What is Film-Philosophy? David Sorfa

Special Section: Film-Philosophy and a World of Cinemas

• Introduction: Film-Philosophy and a World of Cinemas by David Martin-Jones
• Real Images Flow: Mullā Sadrā Meets Film-Philosophy by Laura U. Marks 
• Islam, Consciousness and Early Cinema: Said Nursî and the Cinema of God by Canan Balan 
• Trolls, Tigers and Transmodern Ecological Encounters: Enrique Dussel and a Cine-ethics for the Anthropocene by David Martin-Jones
• Non-Cinema: Digital, Ethics, Multitude by William Brown
• Non-Cinema, or The Location of Politics in Film by Lúcia Nagib
• The Filmmaker as Metallurgist: Political Cinema and World Memory by Patricia Pisters 
• Sympathy for the Other: Female Solidarity and Postcolonial Subjectivity in Francophone Cinema by Kathleen Scott and Stefanie Van de Peer

9 Open Access eBOOKS sourced at Oapen! (3 more OA ebooks in the list after this!)

• An excellent excerpt from Sophie Mayer's important new book Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2015)
• A new book by Peter Sutoris on the history of documentary film in India is supported by this website with dozens of films! (Thanks to Anupama Kapse, Rachel Dwyer and Corey Creekmur for alerting us to this amazing resource.)
• Alisa Lebow's magnificent metadocumentary project Filming Revolution features in the online journal Warscapes
• Film scholar Kelley Conway's magnificent lecture on Agnès Varda's LES PLAGES D’AGNÈS/THE BEACHES OF AGNES https://youtu.be/jC7hoJWL2vc and David Bordwell's introduction to her book on the French filmmaker: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2015/11/23/still-agnes/ 
• Further fabulous recent entries at Observations on Film Art:
• Pick your protagonist(s)
• Open secrets of classical storytelling: Narrative analysis 101
• They See Dead People [on how ghosts and other unworldly beings are figured in the movies]
• Living in the spotlight and the shadows: Jeff Smith on TRUMBO
• SERIES Journal, a new open access publication devoted to the study of international TV serials. Two issues are up here: http://series.unibo.it/search/titles
• BFI article: "Colour in Film: the 10 best film colour systems"
• The Problem with Disney Movies......
• Adrian Martin's latest FILMKRANT column, on CAROL and SAINT LAURENT
• Free download (PDF) of Nick Aikens's edited collection on the work of artist Hito Steyerl: TOO MUCH WORLD (thanks to Vinzenz Hediger for the link).
• Max Nelson's book review on "The Wonder of Hand-Painted Early Cinema" (via Thomas Groh)
• New video essay by Shane Denson: hijab.key (http://wp.me/p1xJM8-O7): "In part, it's about suture and ideology in Michael Bay's Benghazi movie. But it's also a formal experiment: the video is made completely in Keynote -- but completely automated, no clicking on my part."
• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture, an open-access edited collection on the politics of region control and circumvention in digital medihttp://flavorwire.com/556553/50-films-by-women-you-can-watch-online-right-now?platform=hootsuitea. Eds. Ramon Lobato and James Meese, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016. To download the PDF, visit this website.
• Website devoted to women animators from the late 1800s to the present. (Via Isabel Stevens and Girish Shambu)
• 'An Intimate Encounter: Negotiating Subtitled Cinema' by Niall Flynn, at Open Library of Humanities
• Via Adrian Martin comes news of the archive of the Australia/New Zealand-focused SCREEN SOUND journal, which has its whole archives (annual issues since 2010) downloadable online.
• All of documentarist John Pilger's films are online!
• A video essay on Andrea Arnold's adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Luis Rocha Antunes. Also see a written articulation of this research by him here: http://journals.sfu.ca/vict/index.php/vict/article/view/157/81
• Really interesting piece on recent cinema and screen culture, including ROOM, by Sophie Mayer.
• Interplay: Audiovisual or Videographic Film Studies Research Publications by Catherine Grant, 2012-2015 - all online and open access.
• COLUMBIA FILM LANGUAGE GLOSSARY - Rather useful online resource. (Via Anupama Kapse)
• New Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier at http://TeachingMedia.org! This one is edited by Leah Shafer and Melanie E.S. Kohnen and focuses on Digital Humanities and Media Studies pedagogical crossovers.
• Jordan Cronk with a wonderful interview with Girish Shambu on the new cinephilia and THE NEW CINEPHILIA.
• Great video playlist for the Q&A sessions of the Institute for Contemporary Art's recent "Onwards and Outwards" programme of films made by British women filmmakers. https://www.ica.org.uk/off-site/ica-cinema/onwards-outwards
• 50 Films by Women You Can Watch Online Right Now
• Some interesting videographic experiments introduced and discussed by Jason Mittell.
• Watch Miklós Kiss's latest audiovisual essay: "Denarration in Michael Haneke's funny FUNNY games GAMES"
• 'Letter to Harmony Korine' from Gerard-Jan Claes and Anton Jaeger at the marvellous Sabzian website, which has lots of items of interest (HT Ruben Demasure)

Film Studies For Free begins its rather atypical post with the following questions: does FSFF have any film fanatical/cinephile, teenage readers? Or, do any of its venerable, film-academic readers have any film fanatical/cinephile, teenage relatives? If so (and if they are UK based), please read/get them to read about the "Film Critic of Tomorrow" competition - all details given at the foot of this post. Do please fondly remember this potentially life-changing blog-post if any of you or yours win...

Secondly, FSFF would like to help whip up some timely interest in the work one of the more talented, cinema-inspired, video essayists working today, New-York based Steven Boone, in order to help him make some more films. So, it proudly presents its first ever competition (and there's no age restriction, unlike the Film Critic of Tomorrow comp, as set out at the foot of this post)!

Here are the rules: write a piece of film criticism, in 200-400 words, about Boone's video "Notes for a David Lynch adaptation of [Michael Jackon's autobiography] Moonwalk" embedded above. Submit your entry by email to this address by next Thursday, July 1st (deadline extended), 17.00 hours GMT.

The most interesting entries received (and hopefully there will be some...) will be published in a future FSFF post. And the author of the most insightful and well-crafted will be mailed the more pristine copy (of the two in FSFF's possession) of Scott Balcerzak and Jason Sperb's important and fascinating 2009 collection of essays Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture, Vol. 1. . Let the competition commence! (And thank you for your kind indulgence).

Finally, today's FSFF post exists to exhort you, were such exhortation really necessary, to read David Bordwell's latest brilliant blogpost: "Glancing backward, mostly at critics".

You may not believe it, but magical things will happen if you do. Indeed, it was while she was doing just that, that FSFF's author noticed for the first time an item in Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's wonderful list of freely accessible research items (in the upper left hand column of the site): a link to a PDF file of the introductory chapter to Bordwell's magnificent opus The Way Hollywood Sees It: Story and Style in Modern Movies [Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006]). If you haven't read this before, you must. And now you easily can!

Here’s looking at you kids......

VIRGIN MEDIA and JAMES KING LAUNCH SEARCH FOR THE FILM CRITIC OF TOMORROW

Virgin Media has joined forces with broadcaster, James King [a Film and Television Studies graduate from the University of Warwick's brilliant degree programme], in searching the country for aspiring young film critics, to join the judging panel for the third annual Virgin Media Shorts competition.

As one of the industry’s finest film critics, James has already secured his place on the Virgin Media Shorts judging panel and is now looking for one lucky teenager to join him, alongside follow judges:

-          Award-winning British film actress, Thandie Newton

-          Film director, Duncan Jones, best known for his directorial debut Moon

-          Film director, Mike Newell, director of Four Weddings and a Funeral

-          Executive director of digital entertainment at Virgin Media, Cindy Rose

-          Senior production executive at the UK Film Council, Chris Collins

As part of the judging panel, the lucky teen will work with the expert panel to select the Grand Prize Winner from the short-listed films entered into this year’s competition. The winner will also get the Hollywood treatment, receiving an all expenses paid trip to London to attend the red carpet awards ceremony and mingle with the star-studded judging panel. Following in the footsteps of last year’s winner, 14-year old Jordan Campbell from Glasgow, who described the experience as feeling as popular as Susan Boyle!

Speaking about the competition, James King said: “Virgin Media Shorts already offers a fantastic opportunity for British film-making talent – shining a light on new and established individuals. However, what I am most looking forward to is discovering the talent of tomorrow. The search for a young film critic to join me on the Virgin Media Shorts judging panel will open the door to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for one aspiring youngster. And, I may even pick up some tips from them too!”

Entry is open to film fanatics aged between 13-19 years old and who think they’ve got what it takes to impress James. To enter, young film fans should visit www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/vipjudge and fill out the simple entry form. Deadline for entries is 5pm on Wednesday 30^th June when all entries will be reviewed and one teenager crowned the overall winner.

For more information about Virgin Media Shorts and to view some of this year’s entries, visit www.virginmediashorts.co.uk

'If I were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood, I think it would be Rio Bravo.' Robin Wood

Film Studies For Free briefly emerges from an enforced absence due to illness (back properly soon, it hopes), to mark the sad passing, on December 18, of Robin Wood, one of the true giants of the difficult endeavour of film criticism and also of the discipline of film studies.

FSFF's own special-favourite Wood works are the talk on 'Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic', his books on Hitchcock (especially the Vertigo chapter), the book he co-authored with Michael Walker on Claude Chabrol's films, his incredibly enlightening study of Hawk's Rio Bravo and the other BFI book on The Wings of a Dove. Each of these was paradigm-shifting in their own ways, as was much of Wood's other writing on cinema.

As online tributes to this major film writer appear in the next days they will be added to the list of online and freely accessible works by or about Wood given below.

May this hugely prolific, influential, and talented writer, film-thinker, and teacher rest in peace.

Posthumous online tributes to Robin Wood:

• Mark Asch, 'Robin Wood, Film Critic, 1931-2009', The L Magazine, December 22, 2009 
• Charles Barr, 'Robin Wood Obituary', The Guardian, January 4, 2010
  
• David Bordwell, 'Robin Wood', Observations on Film Art, December 19, 2009
• New Gregory A. Burris, 'Farewell, Robin Wood (1931-2009): The Relevance of a Radical Film Critic', MRZine [Monthly Review online], June 2, 2010
• Robert Cashill, 'RIP Robin Wood',  Between Productions,December 18, 2009
• Matthew Cheney, 'Robin Wood: 1931-2009', The Mumpsimus, December 21, 2009
• Dennis Cozzalio, 'Robin Wood and Rio Bravo', Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, January 6, 2010
  
• Jim Emerson, 'Robin Wood: He was as good as they say', Scanners, January 7, 2010
  
• William Grimes, 'Robin Wood, Film Critic Who Wrote on Hitchcock, Dies at 78', New York Times, December 22, 2009 
• Liz Helfgott, 'Robin Wood: 1931-2009', Criterion.com, December 21, 2009
  
• David Hudson, 'Robin Wood, 1931-2009', The Auteurs Notebook, December 19, 2009 
• Dave Kehr, 'Robin Wood, 1931-2009', davekehr.com, December 19, 2009 (also see the comments strand at Kehr's blog here for many more brief tributes --scroll down -- on December 18, 2009)
  
• Glenn Kenny, 'Robin Wood, 1931-2009', Some Came Running, December 18, 2009
  
• C. Jerry Kutner, 'Robin Wood (1931-2009)', Bright Lights After Dark, December 19, 2009
• James MacDowell, 'Robin Wood: 1931-2009', The Lesser Feat, December 20, 2009
• Janine Marchessault, 'Robin Wood - In Memoriam',  Film Studies Association of Canada, December 2009
  
• Stuart Ross, 'Robin Wood — off to the Big Screen in the Sky', Bloggamooga, December 24, 2009
  
• Girish Shambu, 'Robin Wood, 1931-2009', girish, December 19, 2009
• Michael Tapper, 'In Memoriam: Robin Wood', Film International, December 2009
  
• Donato Totaro, 'Robin Wood: 23 February 1931 - 18 December 2009, December 20, 2009 to March 31, 2010', Offscreen Journal, December 2009
• Keith Uhlich, 'Robin Wood: February 23, 1931 - December 18, 2009', The House Next Door, December 19, 2009
  
• David Walsh, 'Film Critic Robin Wood Dies at 78', World Socialist Web Site, December 21, 2009
• James Zborowski, 'Robin Wood', Between Sympathy and Detachment, December 31, 2009

Online works by or about Robin Wood:

• Robin Wood A descriptive, illustrated bibliography of the work of the noted film critic, Compiled by D. K. Holm and Brad Steven, October 2005 
• Armen Svadjian, 'A Life in Film Criticism: Robin Wood at 75', YOURflesh Magazine, November 9, 2006 (via Jim Emerson) 
• CineAction's 'A tribute to Robin Wood', CineAction, Summer 2007 
•  Robin Wood, 'Only (Dis)Connect; and Never Relaxez-Vous; or, "I Can’t Sleep"', Film International, Issue 11
• Robin Wood, 'Revenge is Sweet: The Bitterness of "Audition"', Film International, Issue 7
• Robin Wood, 'A BETTER TOMORROW: Lee Isaac Chung’s astonishing debut, Munyurangabo, finds life after death in the killing fields of Rwanda', Film Comment, International, Volume 44, Issue No. 2, March/April 2008
• Robin Wood, 'Fresh Meat', Film Comment, Volume 44, Issue No. 1, January - February, 2008
• Robin Wood, 'What Lies Beneath?', Senses of Cinema, Issue 15, 2001
• Robin Wood, 'Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic',  Film Comment, Issue No. 1, January - February, 1978
• Robin Wood, 'Michael Haneke: beyond compromise', CineAction, Summer 2007
  
• Joe McElhaney, 'Review of Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin Wood, revised edition, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)', Senses of Cinema, Issue 24, January 2003
• Frances Pheasant-Kelly, 'Review of Hitchcock’s Films Revisited: Revised Edition by Robin Wood, New York: Columba University Press, 2002', Scope, Issue 1, February 2005 
• Arthur M. Eckstein, 'Review of Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan… and Beyond by Robin Wood', Film International, Issue 7  
• Bill Krohn, 'Friedkin Out', Rouge, 3, 2004
  
• Christiane Gerblinger, '"Fiery the Angels Fell": America, Regeneration, and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner', Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, July 2002

"The first impulse of any good film critic, and [with] this I think you would agree, must be of love. To be moved enough to want to share their affection for a particular work or to relate their experience so that others may be curious. This is why criticism, teaching, and curating or programming, in an ideal sense, must all go hand in hand."

"The first impulse of any good film critic, and to this I think you would agree, must be of love. To be moved enough to want to share their affection for a particular work or to relate their experience so that others may be curious. This is why criticism, teaching, and curating or programming, in an ideal sense, must all go hand in hand."
"The Letter I would Love To Read To You In Person" by Alexis Tioseco [to Nika Bohinc], July 15, 2008, pt 1, pt 2, pt 3

Today, Film Studies For Free is very merrily celebrating its first birthday. It is marking this auspicious date -- in style and on style -- by posting one of its longest links lists yet: to online and openly accessible articles and essays on the subject of film criticism (scholarly and otherwise) that FSFF's author has found important and/or stimulating over the last years.

FSFF would like its list to be even longer, though, so do please take note of the four headings below (on film style: on film criticism; on film critics; and important, self-reflexive, examples of film criticism online) and do let the blog know of links to other relevant work (especially to good examples of online film criticism), preferably in the comments section, please.

This post was inspired, in great part, some weeks back by the peerless Girish Shambu who launched a characteristically thoughtful and important discussion, in a blog entry entitled "Building A Large Conversation", about the divide that exists between the fields of film scholarship and film criticism. Girish wrote:

Except for a small number of invaluable critic-scholars who work to bridge the gap, the two groups similarly shy away from citing each other. Why is this so? For critics, it would require the significant effort of familiarizing themselves with scholarly literature past and present, an effort made more difficult by the presence of a specialized scholarly vocabulary. For scholars, whose jobs already require them to do vast amounts of reading, this would mean widening their field of vision to include writing in film magazines, the Internet (including blogs), and newspapers. Added to this are the demands in both professions of watching scores of films on a steady basis.

Like Girish, the many important commenters to his blog post, and other thoughtful respondents to it, such as HarryTuttle, FSFF readily acknowledges the difficulties in bridging these gaps.

In his response to Girish's post, film scholar and blogger Chris Cagle wrote eloquently and concisely about those difficulties, but in an optimistic frame, he noted that what might be needed is

a model that's different than pure specialization or pure dilettantism. For lack of a better name, I'd call it randomization. Each scholar specializes but looks to new ideas, methodologies, and inspiration in a limited fashion with the hope that collectively we mitigate the downside of stale intellectual mindsets. The journalist, blogger, or public intellectual could have a role in this.

Film Studies For Free owes its very existence to the desire to help to 'join up' scholars and critics in the global online arena. And it very much seconds Cagle's assertions about what is required to achieve this. Today, then, it reaffirms its own mission by helping to encourage a richer and more connected 'scholar-critic conversation' through the below list of 'randomly collected' but also 'specialized' links.

On a final note, FSFF has received lots of encouragement in its first year of existence, but none warmer, more timely or more generous than that given in its early days by Girish, whose own website continues to be a huge inspiration in all sorts of ways. Thanks a million to him, and to all of you who have welcomed and supported this blog. Onwards!

On film style:

• David Bordwell [interviewed by Jakob Isak Nielsen], 'Bordwell on Bordwell: Part I – Hitchcock, Hartley and the Poetics of Cinema' 16:9, Volume 2, Number 7, June 2004
• David Bordwell [interviewed by Jakob Isak Nielsen], 'Bordwell on Bordwell: Part II - Functions of Film Style', 16: 9, Volume 2, number 8, September 2004
• David Bordwell [interviewed by Jakob Isak Nielsen], 'Bordwell on Bordwell: Part III - Writing On Film Style', 16: 9, Volume 2, number 9, November 2004
• Edward Colless, 'The Possessed', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990): 'Film: Matters of Style' Issue, edited by Adrian Martin
• Jeffrey Crouse, ' Cinema's Recounting of the Ordinary [Review of Andrew Klevan, Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film, Trowbridge, Wiltshire: Flicks Books, 2000]', CineAction, Fall, 2001
• Barrett Hodsdon, 'The mystique of mise en scene revisited', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Kent Jones, 'Can Movies Think?', Rouge, 2008
• Andrew Klevan, 'A Reply to Adrian Martin['s review of Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2008
• Adrian Martin, 'Review of John Gibbs & Douglas Pye (eds). Style and meaning: studies in the detailed analysis of film. Manchester University Press, 2005', Screening the Past, July 2005
• Adrian Martin, 'Secret Agents [ A review of Andrew Klevan, Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2007
• Adrian Martin, 'S.O.S.', Continuum, The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5, no 2 , 1990
• William D. Routt, 'L'Evidence', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Robin Wood, 'Only (Dis)Connect; and Never Relaxez-Vous; or, "I Can’t Sleep"', Film International, Issue 11
  

On film criticism:

• Richard Armstrong, 'Notes on a Scandal: On Film Criticism and Its Teachers', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 57, August 2007
• Mark Asch, 'What I Took From ‘Film Criticism in Crisis?’ ', The L Magazine, September 29, 2008
• David Bordwell, 'Film Interpretation Revisited', Vol. 27, No. 3, Winter-Spring 1993
  
• David Bordwell, 'Against Insight', Cinema Scope, Issue 26
  
• David Bordwell, 'In critical condition', Observations on film art and Film Art, May 14, 2008
• David Bordwell, 'Studying Cinema', Observations on film art and Film Art, 2000
• Nicole Brenez, 'The ultimate journey: remarks on contemporary theory', Screening the Past, December 1997
• Chris Cagle, 'Taste and Scholarship', Category D: A Film and Media Studies blog, July 23, 2009
• Lorena Cancela, 'Import or Confront?', Fipresci, Issue 2, 2006
• Stanley Cavell interviewed by Harry Kreisler, 'Philosophy and film criticism', Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, 2002
• 'Crisis Averted: Film Comment Reports on “Film Criticism in Crisis?”', FilmLinc Blog, September 30, 2008
• Dublin2009, 'From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith', Explorations in British Film, July 2, 2009'
• Matthew Clayfield, 'Missionaries and Sceptics', Esoteric Rabbit Blog, December 16th, 2005
• Matthew Clayfield, 'Reading, Closely', Esoteric Rabbit Blog, November 18th, 2005
• Jim Emerson, 'Film Criticism Blogathon!', Scanners, December 1, 2006
• Jim Emerson, '"Oh yeah? Well, I criticize you back!"', Scanners, June 29, 2009
• 'Film Criticism in Crisis?: A New York Film Festival panel discussion [Contributions from Jonathan Rosenbaum, Emmanuel Burdeau, Cahiers du cinéma Editor, Kent Jones, Film Comment Editor-at-Large, David Hudson, GreenCine Daily Editor, Jessica Winter, O magazine film critic, Pascual Espiritu (aka Acquarello) of Strictly Film School, Seung-hoon Jeong, former critic for Korean film weekly Cine 21, and hosted by Gavin Smith]', Film Comment, September 27, 2008
• 'Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium [contributions from Zach Campbell, Robert Cashill, Mike D’Angelo, Steve Erickson, Andrew Grant, J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Glenn Kenny, Robert Koehler, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, Adrian Martin, Adam Nayman, Theodoros Panayides, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Dan Sallitt, Richard Schickel, The Self-Styled Siren, Girish Shambu, Michael Sicinski, Amy Taubin, Andrew Tracy, and Stephanie Zacharek]', Cineaste, Vol. 33 No.4 (Fall 2008)
• Tag Gallagher, 'Truly Doing Movie Criticism', Kunst-der Vermittlung, May 2009
• Girish Shambu [and commenters], ' Building A Large Conversation', girish, July 13, 2009
• Girish Shambu, 'A Cinema Haunted By Writing', girish, May 3, 2009
• Matthew Holtmeier, 'Solanas and Getino's Problem with Film Criticism', Cinema without Organs, August 13, 2009
• 'How Film Critics Work [Contributions from Julie Rigg, Adrian Martin, Klaus Eder, Richard Kulpers, and chaired by Roslyn Petelin]', A forum, presented by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School as part of the Brisbane International Film Festival 2005, Fipresci, Issue 1, 2006
• Nick James, 'Who needs critics?', Sight and Sound, October 2008
• Noel King, 'Critical alibis and thin description', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 6 no 2 (1991)
• Noel King, 'Critical occasions: David Bordwell's Making Meaning and the institution of film criticism', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 6 no 1 (1992)
• Andrew Klevan, 'A Reply to Adrian Martin['s review of Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2008
• Joseph "Jon" Lanthier, 'Window to the (Critic's) Soul: Film Criticism 101: Why You Should Recycle the Promo Packet', Bright Lights After Dark, May 06, 2009
• Scott Macaulay, 'How to (maybe?) make a lving as a film journalist', Filmmaker Magazine blog, July 12, 2009
• Adrian Martin, 'Scanning Godard', Screening the Past, June 2000
• Adrian Martin, 'The State of Film Criticism', La lectora provisoria, October 9, 2007
• Adrian Martin and Cinemascope – Independent Film Journal, 'Responsibility and Criticism', Cinemascope, Issue 7, January-April 2007
• Maya, 'A Critical Moment: Three Perspectives [B. Ruby Rich, David D'Arcy, John Anderson]', based on a panel moderated by SF360 editor Susan Gerhard. Panel participants included Gerald Peary, B. Ruby Rich, David D'Arcy, Dennis Harvey, John Anderson, Jonathan Curiel, and Mary Pols, The Auteurs Notebook, August 25, 2009
  
• Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, 'The Rise and Fall of Film Criticism', Film Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 1, Fall 2008
• Tom O'Regan, 'Writing an Australian film history: some methodological notes', Continuum, 1996
• William D.Routt, 'Textual criticism in the study of film', Screening the Past, 3 July, 1997
• William D. Routt, 'L'Evidence', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Girish Shambu, 'On Film Criticism', girish, February 12, 2007
• Andrew Schenker, 'On the interview in film criticism', The Cine File, August 24, 2009
• Sam Thorne, 'Back & Forward [on the changing role of cultural theory ]', Frieze Magazine, Issue 125, September 2009
• HarryTuttle, 'Bordwell on cliché in criticism', Screenville, July 17, 2009
• HarryTuttle, 'Nomad Cinephilia (Adrian Martin) [on Martin's 'The State of Film Criticism]', Screenville, October 17, 2008
• Chuck Tryon, 'Blogging, Film Criticism, and Niche Audiences', The Chutry Experiment, August 6, 2009
• Chuck Tryon, 'Has Film Criticism Lost its (Box Office) Mojo?', The Chutry Experiment, July 24, 2009
• Chuck Tryon, 'Film Criticism in the Internet Age', The Chutry Experiment, May 3, 2009
• Chuck Tryon, 'Blogging and Criticism: Some Reflections', The Chutry Experiment, May 25, 2008
• Two Week Film Collective, 'Film Criticism: Evolution and Importance In the Digital Age', #2wkfilm (aka Royal Baronial Theatre), May 4, 2009
• Robin Wood, 'Only (Dis)Connect; and Never Relaxez-Vous; or, "I Can’t Sleep"', Film International, Issue 11
  

On film critics:

• Patrick Amos and Jean-Pierre Gorin, 'The Farber Machine', Rouge, 2008
• Richard Armstrong, 'Review of "It’s Only a Movie!": Films and Critics in American Culture, by Raymond J. Haberski Jr. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 35, January 2002
• Jason Bellamy et al, 'Pauline Kael Week', The Cooler, June 20, 2009
• David Bordwell, 'Weather Bird Flies Again [on Gary Giddins], Observations on film art and Film Art, January 30, 2007
• Stanley Cavell interviewed by Harry Kreisler, Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, 2002
• Dennis Cozzalio, 'Seeing and Writing (and Sewing): Quality Time with Stephanie Zacherek', Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, July 28, 2009
• 'Critics on Critics [Contributions from Geoff Andrew, Michael Atkinson, Tom Charity, Ian Christie, Michel Ciment, Hamid Dabashi, Jean-Michel Frodon, Graham Fuller, Ryan Gilbey, Kent Jones, Mark Le Fanu, Adrian Martin, Olaf Moller, Kim Newman, Jonathan Rosenbaum,Sukhdev Sandhu, Tadao Sato, David Thomson, Kenneth Turan, Armond White]', Sight and Sound, October 2008
• Serge Daney interviewed by Bill Krohn for Cahiers du Cinéma and The Thousand Eyes, 1977
• Anna Dzenis, 'Review of Serge Daney, Postcards from the cinema. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 2007', Screening the Past, 2007
• Raymond Durgnat, ‘Culture Always is a Fog’, Rouge, 2006
• Roger Ebert, 'I'm a proud brainiac', Chicago Sun-TImes, July 5, 2009
• Richard Eldridge, 'Review of Russell Goodman (ed.), Contending with Stanley Cavell, Oxford University Press, 2005', Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August 2004
• Colin Fleming, 'Review of Britton on Film: The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton, edited by Barry Keith Grant. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2008', CIneaste, Vol.XXXIV No.4 2009
  
• Chris Fujiwara, 'For the Love of Movies: An Interview with Gerald Peary', Firpresci, Issue 5, 2009
• Tag Gallagher, 'Truly Doing Movie Criticism', Kunst-der Vermittlung, May 2009
• Christian Hamaker, 'Sarris 101: A Film Critic’s Politics', Christian Hamaker's Blog, August 13, 2009
• A. S. Hamrah, 'Only Angels Have Wings: Insoluble Farber', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2008
• D. K. Holm et al, 'A Raymond Durgnat Bibliography', Cinemonkey, February 2007
• Gary Indiana, Annette Michelson, Geoffrey O'Brien, Paul Schrader, and Craig Seligman, 'Prose and Cons. [on Pauline Kael]', Artforum International Magazine, 2002
• Bill Krohn, 'My Budd by Manny Farber, Rouge, 2008
• Adrian Martin, 'The Qualities I Like: Impressions of Manny Farber', Rouge, 2008
• Tony McKibbin, 'Durgnatian Doublethink', Senses of Cinema, April 2002
• Jeffrey Overstreet, 'In memory of Andrew Sarris’s New York Observer reviews', Filmwell, August 11, 2009
• Donald Phelps, 'Critic Going Everywhere [on Manny Farber', Rouge, 2008
• Michael Powell, 'A Survivor of Film Criticism’s Heroic Age' [on Andrew Sarris] The New York Times, July 9, 2009
• Andy Rector, '"Truly doing movie criticism" [on Tag Gallagher and his video essays', Kino Slang, August 16, 2009
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Moving Places: A Life at the Movies, (University of California Press, 1995) e-book
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'Thinking About (Personal) History Lessons: The Movie Paintings of Manny Farber', Rouge 2008
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'They Drive By Night: the Criticism of Manny Farber', JonathanRosenbaum.com, August 18, 2008
• Alexis Tioseco, "The Letter I would Love To Read To You In Person, ROGUE, July 15, 2008, pt 1, pt 2, pt 3
• Josep Torrell, 'Barthélemy Amengual Has Died', Fipresci, Issue 1, 2006
• Harry Tuttle, 'Bazin - on Criticism - 1943', Screenville, May 17, 2006
• Harry Tuttle, Bazin - on Criticism - 1958', Screenville, July 14, 2006
  
• Charles Warren, 'Cavell, Altman, Cassavetes', Film International, Issue 22
  

Important, self-reflexive, examples of film criticism online:

• Michael J. Anderson, ' Face & Form in Rohmer: From Ma nuit chez Maud’s Talking Cinema to the Denial of Eloquence in Le Rayon vert', Tativille, August 9, 2009
  
• David Bordwell, 'Cognition and Comprehension: Viewing and Forgetting in Mildred Pierce', Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1992
• Serge Daney, 'The Tracking Shot in Kapo' (translation by Laurent Kretzschmar), Senses of Cinema, Issue 30, Jan-Feb 2004
• Raymond Durgnat, 'Extract from A Long Hard Look at Psycho', Senses of Cinema, 2002
• Ross Gibson, 'The Searchers - Dismantled', Rouge, 2005
• James MacDowell, 'Beneath the Surface of Things: Interpretation and Far From Heaven', Offscreen Journal, Volume 10, Issue 5, May 31, 2006
• Shigehiko Hasumi, 'John Ford, or The Eloquence of Gesture', Rouge, 2005
• Alain Masson, 'An architectural promenade', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Alain Masson, 'A sequence from Avanti', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Ken Mogg, 'Will and wilfulness: recent commentary on Hitchcock's The Birds', Screening the Past, March 2001
• Steven Peacock, 'Holding onto Moments in The Age of Innocence', Film Studies, Issue 9, Winter 2006
• VF Perkins, 'You Only Live Once', WRAP: the Warwick Research Archive Project (Date Unknown), plus frame stills (one HERE, two HERE and three HERE)
• VF Perkins, 'Same Tune Again! Repetition and Framing in Letter from an Unknown Woman'(originally published in CineAction! no. 52) republished online by Danish film studies journal 16:9 (September 2003)
• VF Perkins, 'Moments of Choice' [on film directing] (originally published in The Movie, ch. 58, reprinted in Ann Lloyd (ed.), Movie Book of the Fifties, Orbis, 1982) republished online by the Australian journal Rouge (issue 9, 2006)
• William Rothman, 'Chronicle of a Summer', Documentary Film Classics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997)
• Jean-Louis Schefer, 'On La Jetée', (translated by Paul Smith), Chris Marker: Notes from the Era of Imperfect Memory, 2008
• Jason Sperb, 'Punch-Drunk Love', Jamais Vu, May 23, 2008
  
• George Wilson, 'Love and Bullshit in Santa Rosa: On the Coen Brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There,' For a session of the Working Group on Philosophy, Film, and Fiction at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007.
• George Wilson, 'Rapport, Rupture, and Rape: Reflections on Talk to Her,' For a volume devoted to Almodovar's movie Talk to Her, Anne Wescott Eaton (ed.), Routledge Publishing, 2007
• Robin Wood, 'Only (Dis)Connect; and Never Relaxez-Vous; or, "I Can’t Sleep"', Film International, Issue 11
• Robin Wood, 'Revenge is Sweet: The Bitterness of "Audition"', Film International, Issue 7
  

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