Header image from the symposium website for “Reframing Cinema Histories”

This issue of Alphaville originates in a one-day symposium, “Reframing Cinema Histories”, which was organised at University College Cork in March 2013. The aim of the event was to bring together a select group of scholars working on a range of historical projects and, through presentations of specific case studies and a round table discussion, highlight the variety of methodological approaches that may be adopted by the researcher studying and writing about cinema history [Reframing Cinema Histories: Editorial by Pierluigi Ercole and Gwenda Young, Alphaville, Issue 6, 2013]

And the new journal issues just keep on coming! Today, Film Studies For Free links to a very high quality issue of special interest to film historians and others working in film historiography: Alphaville's latest offering on Reframing Cinema Histories.

Utter brilliance from start to finish, IFSFFHO...


Alphaville, Issue 6, Winter 2013: Reframing Cinema Histories: 

• Editorial by Pierluigi Ercole and Gwenda Young (Issue 6 Editors) Articles:

• "A Taste in Pictures": The Second Birth of Cinema in Cork by Denis Condon, National University of Ireland Maynooth
• Understanding Dutch Film Culture: A Comparative Approach by Judith Thissen, Utrecht University
• "The Greatest Film of the Fascist Era": The Distribution of Camicia nera in Britain by Pierluigi Ercole, Oxford Brookes University
• Exploring Racial Politics, Personal History and Critical Reception: Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949) by Gwenda Young, University College Cork
• An Advertiser's Dream: The Construction of the "Consumptionist" Cinematic Persona of Mercedes Gleitze by Ciara Chambers, University of Ulster
• The Politics of Independence: The China Syndrome (1979), Hollywood Liberals and Antinuclear Campaigning by Peter Krämer, University of East Anglia
• What is the Value of a Technological History of Cinema? by Lee Grieveson, University College London

Book Reviews:

1. A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove, by John Spong (2012) Reviewer: Matthew Carter, University of Essex
2. Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video, by Akira Mizuta Lippit (2012) Reviewer: Niall Flynn, Independent Scholar
3. Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema, by Debbie Ging (2013) Reviewer: Barry Monahan, University College Cork

[Book Reviews Editor: Ian Murphy]

Conference Reports:

1. World Cinema On-Demand: Film Distribution and Education in the Streaming Media Era
2. Queen's University Belfast, 15–16 June 2012; 26 June 2013; 19 September 2013 Reporter: Alexandra Kapka, Queen's University Belfast
3. Revisiting Star Studies, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, 12–14 June 2013 Reporter: Jennifer O'Meara, Trinity College Dublin
4. A Star is Born: Cinematic Reflections on Stardom and the "Stardom Film", King's College London, 13 September 2013 Reporter: Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, King's College London

[Reports Editor: Yuanyuan Chen]

Frame grab from Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)

Film Studies For Free is thrilled, as ever, to pass on news of a new issue of SCOPE: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies.

The February 2013 issue is packed with goodness, but FSFF particularly liked Sarah Artt's wonderful article on Lynne Ramsay's 2002 film Morvern Callar. This essay will come in very handy in preparation for an event at Birkbeck, University of London, on May 28 when FSFF's author will discuss this film in the first of a great series of explorations of cinematic Itinerancy, Dislocation, Nomadic Subjects

SCOPE: Issue 25 February 2013

Articles

• Being Inside Her Silence: Silence and Performance in Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar
  Sarah Artt
• "Family" Entertainment and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
  Noel Brown
• It's Not the Size (of the Screen) that Matters: IMAX, LIEMAX and the "Meaning" of a Brand
  Peter Lester
• Concrete Irrationality: Surrealist Spectators and the Cult of Harry Langdon
  Seth Soulstein

Book Reviews
All Book Reviews

• The Wiley Blackwell History of American Film, Vols. 1-4 Edited by Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann and Art Simon A Review by Paul Elliott
• Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity By Hamilton Carroll and Angel By Stacey Abbott A Review by Ryan Taylor
• The Persistence of Hollywood By Thomas Elsaesser;  Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-Line Edited by Dina Iordanova and Stuart Cunningham; and Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA Edited by Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat A Review by Akshaya Kumar
• Memento By Claire Molloy; Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film, and Social Change By Andrew Nestingen; Introduction to Japanese Horror Film By Colette Balmain A Review by Andrea Virginás
• Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film By Steven Rybin; Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective By Marguerite H. Rippy A Review by Nicholas Godfrey
• Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters By Lisa Downing and Libby Saxton; Michael Haneke’s Cinema: The Ethic of the Image By Catherine Wheatley A Review by Rowena Santos Aquino
• The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film Edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić; Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image By Roger Hallas A Review by Flavia Moncer
• British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure Edited by Sue Harper and Justin Smith; The People’s Pictures: National Lottery Funding and British Cinema By James Caterer A Review by Katie Bowkett
• Chantal Akerman By Marion Schmid; Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices By Sharon Lin Tay A Review by Tess McClernon

Conference Reports

All Conference Reports

• Media Across Borders. The First International Conference on the Localisation of Film, Television and Video Games  A report by Sylwia Szostak
• Cinema of Intimacy and/or Intimacy of Cinema: The Seventeenth Internationals SERCIA Conference A report by Amanda Konkle
• Living British Cinema Presents the Film Finances Archive  A report by Aoife Sheehy