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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

'Video Essay alert' A new issue of [in]Transition to enjoy. Find it here intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1729/i...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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-...

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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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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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...

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Journal of Cinema and Media Studies - Oa-issue

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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...

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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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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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...

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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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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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...

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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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/...

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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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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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

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TV Dictionary - The Tripods

"The Tripods" in one word. Part of the TV Dictionary collection: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8660446

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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:

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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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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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

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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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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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

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Like In A Mirror - Journal - Metrograph

A new translation of Victor Erice’s tribute to Nicholas Ray.

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Senses of Cinema @sensesofcinema.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"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...

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Senses of Cinema @sensesofcinema.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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.

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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...

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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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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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

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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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Dr Liam Rogers @liamrogers95.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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....

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The Black Android, Janelle Monáe and Crossover Stardom: Race and Technology On-screen

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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+...

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🎬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 🎟️

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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

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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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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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[in]Transition

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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...

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Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture - Edited by Annie Ring and Lucy Bollington

Modern Humanities Research Association - Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture - Edited by Annie Ring and Lucy Bollington

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alex @nonmodernist.com · 04/06/2025

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!

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alex @nonmodernist.com · 04/06/2025

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

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GitHub - nonmodernist/magic-lantern: Automated research toolkit for film historians working with the Media History Digital Library

Automated research toolkit for film historians working with the Media History Digital Library - nonmodernist/magic-lantern

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@misslabores @misslabores.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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

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FILM ATLAS

The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing of films both as art and as historical documents

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

So exciting!

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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/

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A Journal of videographic form and method

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

📚 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...

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Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film

This open access book traces the origins & development of the Gothic cinematic aesthetic, focusing especially on 3 key concepts: migration, memory, objects

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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...

Shirley MacLaine as Ginny in Some Came Running (V. Minnelli, 1958).

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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

Screenshot from the video essay MAKING FICTION FLOW, setting out a sequence analysis of shots from an early scene in ORLANDO (Sally Potter, UK 19920)

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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

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Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org · 16/05/2025

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:

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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...

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Katie Bird on Approaches to Videographic Practice

Podcast Episode · The Video Essay Podcast · 09/05/2025 · 56m

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"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!

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Topiary Land @topiaryland.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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

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Deirdre Boyle on her new book about Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: The Podcast About All Things Documentary · Episode

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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.

Park Circus representatives present upcoming restorations during Reframing Film Sessions at Cinema Rediscovered 2024 - Two people stood at a microphoned plinth look to a big screen with various films, anniversaries and dates in white text.

Red text in all caps above the image - Pitch to Park Circus, and white logos of Cinema Rediscovered, Park Circus and Watershed

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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...

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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 /

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