"Horror in Homeopathic Doses": Franju's Eyes Without a Face

Les Yeux sans visage/Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju,  France/Italy, 1959)

More than any other image, an erased human face remains horribly eloquent. In fact, a face cannot be made to vanish completely: it stays sufficiently human to horrify by its exact lack of humanity. Hence the unnerving effect of Georges Franju's film Eyes Without a Face (1959), in which a young woman, disfigured in a car crash, is subjected to her father's insane and murderous plan to give her a new face. We never see the daughter's ravaged face, but the featureless white mask she wears for most of the film is enough to suggest her uncanny oscillation between human and inhuman.
Brian Dillon, 'The Revelation of Erasure', Tate Etc., Issue 8, Autumn 2006

Being a horror buff of the rather squeamish and easily frightened kind, Film Studies For Free usually likes its scary, gory movies to be Lyrical... Poetic... Beautiful. That way, it finds, it doesn't have to avert its eyes from the screen too much. 

Thus, FSFF is a particular fan of the truly horrific but extraordinarily beautiful film Les Yeux sans visage/Eyes Without a Face. Georges Franju's classic delivers its 'horror in homeopathic doses', as Franju himself so aptly put it. 

So, it's the film FSFF just had to choose for its little homage in scholarly links this Halloween. (P.S. If you are based in the USA or Canada, you can also currently watch it for free online as part of October Halloween Festival of free films at The Auteurs website).

• Curtis Bowman, 'A film without politics: Georges Franju's Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face, 1959)', Kinoeye, Vol 2,  Issue 13, Sept 2002
• Elizabeth Cowie,  'Anxiety, ethics and horror: Georges Franju's Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face, 1959)', Kinoeye, Vol 2,  Issue 13, Sept 2002
• Paul Cronly, 'Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face)', Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, Issue 5, December 2008
  
• Lee Hill, 'Skin Deep', Vertigo Magazine, No. 17, May 2008
  
• Reynold Humphries, 'Dr Franju's "House of Pain" and the political cutting edge of horror', Kinoeye, Vol 2, Issue 13, Sept 2002 
• Kate Ince, 'Reply to Michael du Plessis', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 11, 2007
• Gary Johnson, "Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face', Images Journal, 2004 
• Katerina Loukopoulou, 'Review of Georges Franju by Kate Ince [Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005]', Scope, Issue 9, October 2007
• Michael du Plessis, 'Fantasies of the Institution: The Films of Georges Franju and Kate Ince’s Georges Franju', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 11, 2007  
• Donato Totaro, 'Martyrs: Evoking France's Cinematic and Historical Past', Offscreen, Vol. 13, Issue 5, 2009
  
• Donato Totaro, Salute Alida', Offscreen, Vol. 10, Issue 5, May 31, 2006 
• Catherine Wheatley, 'Les Yeux sans visage', Senses of Cinema, Issue 42, 2007
  

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LEMON-GLAZED BANANA BUNDT CAKE

    

Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we could solve problems with cake? 

I have my own reasons for baking and one of them is of course my quest for the best darned fool-proof cake recipes.  Another reason is that baking cakes brings me immense pleasure.  I actually like the feeling you can get when the cake’s in the oven and the aromas wafting out are sweet and enticing.  I like the anticipation when you have to wait until the cake cools on its rack—or you’ll risk unmolding a broken cake if it hasn’t had time to firm up. I like my fingers dancing a hot chunk of cake into my mouth; the crust still crunchy, caramelized and warm. 

However, one of the more esoteric reasons I bake, is so that I can give away my goodies.  Only that doesn’t jive with some people I know.  The concept eludes them.  They must think I’m nuts to spend good hard-earned money, time and effort to feed people I don’t have any reason to feed.   I understand.   It must seem weird.   But it feels good.  So I do it.   

I must not be alone though.  There are a kajillion food blogs out there (hello, fellow foodies!) and not a small number of these food bloggers also gift the products of their labour away. 

I do wonder what those other people (the food recipients) think though.  Sure, you get recipients who, like Pavlov’s dog, start salivating when they see you.  Or the Hoovers who eat pretty much everything and anything you place on the staffroom lunch table (bless them!) and profess their undying love for your baked goods.  But there are a few recipients who kind of smile a little funny at you and you can detect their little hamster wheels turnin’ inside as they’re thinking “what the heck does she want in return?” 

Nothing.   Don’t wanna be your friend if you aren’t already.  Don’t want a favour.  Don’t want you to bake me something in return (unless of course you want do).  Don’t want to pad my “Owes me something” list.  Don’t want to get rid of stuff ‘cause it tastes bad. 

Don’t eat it if it’s causing you any angst whatsoever because it’s simply flour, butter and sugar.   It’s not a covert operation where I’m baking and gifting for some sort of world domination.

or maybe?

BWA-HAHAHA!

Well, not this time.  I was recently inspired to make yet another cake with bananas when I noticed a frozen lump of ripe bananas in the back of my freezer.  No, it didn’t have freezer burn.  Frozen bananas don’t really last too long in my household.  Not when there are so many different banana cake recipes to try!

 

This Lemon Glazed Banana Bundt cake was inspired by Greenspan’s “Classic Banana Bundt Cake” recipe in her Baking:  From My Home to Yours.  I say inspired because I totally took liberties with it and adapted the heck out of it.   However, the overall recipe and technique is still pretty much the same.  I discovered that I don’t really like sour cream in my banana cake.  It’s too twangy for me.  But buttermilk’s okay.  So I tried an experiment using a soured whipping cream.  I added a tablespoon of lemon juice to one cup of whipping cream and let it sit for a while while I readied my other ingredients. I swapped out the regular sugar for a combination of brown sugar and organic evaporated cane sugar and used all organic ingredients to ensure profound yumminess.

LEMON GLAZED BANANA BUNDT CAKE

(inspired by and adapted from Greenspan’s “Classic Banana Bundt Cake” from Baking:  From My Home to Yours)

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 sticks (8 oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup organic evaporated cane sugar
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• approx. 4 very ripe bananas, pureed (1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups)
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

1. Centre a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Generously butter a 9-to 10-inch (12 cup) Bundt pan. 
2. In a cup, add the lemon juice to the whipping cream and allow to sit until ready to use.
3. Whisk the flour, baking soda and salt together.
4. Working with a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter until creamy.  Add the sugars and beat at medium speed until pale and fluffy.  Beat in the vanilla, then add the eggs one at a time, beating for 1 minute after each egg goes in.  Reduce the mixer speed to low and mix in the bananas.  Finally, mix in half the dry ingredients (don’t be disturbed when the batter curdles), all the soured whipping cream and then the rest of the flour mixture.  Scrape the batter in the pan, rap the pan on the counter to de-bubble the batter and smooth the top.
5. Bake for 65 to 75 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.  Check the cake after about 30 minutes—if it is browning too quickly, cover it loosely with a foil tent.  Transfer the cake to a rack and cool for 10 minutes before unmolding onto the rack to cool to room temperature.
6. Glaze with the Lemon Glaze (recipe follows).  Or eat plain because it’s SO good on its own too!  Wrap in plastic and allow to sit on the counter overnight before serving—if you can wait that long!

LEMON GLAZE

Sift 3/4 cups confections’ sugar into a bowl and squeeze in enough lemon juice to make an icing thing enough to drizzle down the Bundt’s curves (2 teaspoons, added in drops).

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Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients

* 2-3 lbs chicken (thighs and drumsticks, skin on and bone in)
* 1/2 lb of carrot chips or sliced carrots
* 4 stalks celery, halved
* 1/2 large onion, halved
* 2 bay leaves
* water to cover
* salt and pepper to taste
* Egg noodles

Directions

1. Put the chicken, carrots, celery and onion in a large soup pot and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil and then reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until the chicken meat falls off of the bones (skim off foam every so often). (It took about hour and 20 minutes to cook, when we did it.) When soup has about 10 minutes left to simmer, cook noddles according to directions.
2. Take everything out of the pot. Strain the broth. Pick the meat off of the bones and chop the carrots, celery and onion. Season the broth with salt, pepper to taste. Return the chicken, carrots, celery and onion to the pot, stir together.
3. Serve with egg noodles.

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Big City Adventure: New York City

Explore magnificent New York City on your next Big City Adventure! The Big Apple has become home to thousands of hidden items and minigames. Discover fascinating and obscure facts about NYC and its history. Earn magnificent mementos and beautiful postcards as you travel around the huge city, finding Hidden Objects and playing mini games. Challenge all of your friends and family to beat your high score!

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Everyday Genius: Square Logic

Introducing the next generation of number puzzles!
Taking Suduko and Ken Ken games to a whole new level, Square logic allows you to spend more time playing and less time jotting down possibilities.
Combining simple arithmetic with colorful cages and logical problem solving, this new puzzle game makes sure you never have to guess and you don't have to be a math wiz! with puzzles ranging from easy to hard, you'll progress along the path to enlightenment as you build your problem - solving brain power with Square Logic.

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Peruvian Cinema (in the age of transnational film finance)

Image of Fausta/Magaly Solier, in La teta asustada/The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Spain/Peru, 2009) - see a review of this film here

Film Studies For Free's author attended a very stimulating seminar yesterday given by Sarah Barrow of Anglia Ruskin University, entitled 'Transnational Film Financing in the Hispanic World: A Peruvian Case Study'.

Barrow presented a fascinating overview of Peruvian cinema in the last five years, and, in particular, of the efforts made by an emerging set of filmmakers to take advantage of new international funding and support opportunities. These include the regional Ibermedia programme, Rotterdam Film Festival’s Hubert Bals project, the Berlin World Cinema Fund (WCF), and the Cannes screenwriting residency awards for developing writer-director talent from developing economies. Barrow focused on the career trajectories of two Peruvian writer-directors: Josué Méndez (Días de Santiago [2004]; Dioses [2008]) and Claudia Llosa (Madeinusa [2006]; La teta asustada/The Milk of Sorrow [2009], Winner of the Golden Bear Award at the Berlinale 2009 and 2009 Foreign-Language Oscar Nominee).

FSFF wanted to follow up on Barrow's valuable seminar with some online resources for researchers working on Peruvian cinema as well as on transnational film finance. Below, then, are some links to high-quality, openly-accessible, scholarly work on these topics, most of them in English. See also FSFF's earlier post on Studies of 'Third Cinema' and anti-Eurocentric film culture

• Buzz Alexander, 'Interview with Pancho Adrienzén: Radical film in Peru today', from Jump Cut, no. 28, April 1983, pp. 27-30

• Sarah Barrow, 'Images of Peru: A National Cinema in Crisis', from Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender and Nationhood. Ed. Stephanie Dennison and Lisa Shaw. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005: 39-58

• Scott L. Baugh & Michael Schoenecke, 'Special Issue Introduction: Historical Reflection/Cinematic Projections of Latin American Film', Film & History, Vol. 34.1 (2004)

• Jon Beasley-Murray, “Subalternity, Betrayal, and Flight: Three Recent Films from Peru”, essay draft (2007). See also Beasley-Murray's blog: Posthegemony

• Michael Chanan, 'The economic condition of cinema in Latin America', from Third World Affairs 1985, London: Third World Foundation, pp.379-389

• Tamara Falicov, 'Programa Ibermedia: Co-Production and the Cultural Politics of Constructing an Ibero-American Audiovisual Space', Spectator, Vol. 27, Issue 2, 2007, Special Issue on Media Co-Productions, 21-30

• Francisco da Gama, 'Filming the war with Sendero', Jump Cut, No. 49, spring 2007

• Gabriela Martínez, 'New Readings of Past and Recent Latin American Cinema', A Contra corriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America [Review of Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison (Editors), Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender and National Identity. (Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 2005)], Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall 2006, 163-174

• Gabriela Martínez, 'Cinema law in Latin America:Brazil, Peru and Colombia ', Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, No. 50, spring 2008

• Sophia A. McClennen, 'The theory and practice of the Peruvian Grupo Chaski', from Jump Cut, No. 50, spring 2008

• Jeffrey Middents, Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru (UPNE, 2009: Google Books Limited Preview) Also see Middents' blog
  

• Violeta Núñez, 'PERUVIAN CINEMA : An ongoing battle', Cinema Journal/El ojo que piensa, 2007
  

• Miriam Ross, 'Social Engagement, Empowerment and Change - Grupo Chaski’s Microcines: Engaging the Spectator', eSharp, Issue 11, 2008

• Libia Villazana, [Audio file of soundtrack of] 'Latin America in Co-production' (46 minute long documentary directed by Villazana, UK/Peru 2007, partly in English, partly in Spanish), followed by a panel discussion at the Tate Modern Film Synergies event (November 25, 2007) added Nov 2, 2009

• Libia Villazana, 'De una política cultural a una cultura politizada: La República Bolivariana de Venezuela y su revolución cultural en el sector audiovisual', ZiF: Center for Interdisciplinary Research, 2007 added Nov 2, 2009

• Libia Villazana, 'Hacia un cine peruano de coproducción Entrevista con Francisco “Pancho” Lombardi', Contratexto digital. Año 4, N° 5, 2007
  

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Lastingly good work on Ephemeral Media

The Psycho Shower Scene: A Reenactment: a YouTube fan video discussed by Barbara Klinger in her talk linked to below.

Today, Film Studies For Free is delighted to pass on details of some great freely accessible film and media studies research resources from the Institute of Film and Television at the University of Nottingham.

This summer, the Institute held two Arts and Humanities Research Council 'Beyond Text' workshops on ‘ephemeral media,’ focusing on the growth of the brief or ‘ephemeral’ texts that exist beyond, below and between the films, television programmes, and radio broadcasts more commonly isolated for analysis.

For those interested, the plenary sessions can be found as YouTube recordings and/or sound files on the Beyond Text website (following the photo and video gallery). Also see below.

The Ephemeral Media website has great resources links, too, so do please explore those.

1. The Promotional Surround: logos, promos, idents, trailers (Click here for the Abstracts)

• Charlie Mawer (Executive Creative Director, Red Bee Media) – Perspectives on media branding and TV design (this including a fascinating discussion of BBC idents and the branding of Dave, from a highly influential figure in media brand design) (YouTube)
  

• Professor William Uricchio (MIT) ‘The recurrent, the recombinatory, and the ephemeral: thoughts on a textual system in transition’ (YouTube)

• Professor John Caldwell (UCLA) - “The Insider’s Promotional Surround: Rationing Production Knowledge, Managing Unruly Machines, and Worker Buy” (MP3)

2. Internet Attractions: online video and user-generated ephemera (Click here for the Abstracts)

• Professor Barbara Klinger, ‘Reenactment: Fans Performing Movie Scenes from the Stage to Youtube’ (YouTube)
  

• Hugh Hancock (Strange Company) – Machinima (an overview from one of the pioneers of the genre) (YouTube)
  

• Professor Jon Dovey (UWE) –‘User-generated content: archeologies, economies and ecologies (YouTube)
  

• Rik Lander (U-soap Media) – Web drama (a practitioner’s perspective on the creative and business challenges of online drama) (MP3)
  

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Fruit Jigsaw

Put each puzzle-piece on it's place to revive the picture. 100 stunning, ripe, juicy jigsaw levels. From 3x3 to 6x6 puzzle-pieces difficulty.Y ou HAVE to taste this game! Vitaminize Yourself!

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The Tudors

Political intrigue spans national borders in The Tudors, a historical hidden object game. When King Henry VIII asks you to be his eyes and ears in Europe, you are drawn into a world of deception and murder. As you assume the role of the spy, you will find that even the simplest objects can hold vital clues. Royal intrigue abounds in The Tudors!

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Sensing cinema: phenomenological film and media studies

Image from Ta'm e guilass/Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1997)

Film Studies For Free is using all of its searching senses today to bring you lots of links to perceptive film and media studies of the phenomenological kind, or to studies which at least touch meaningfully on issues of phenomenology, perception, and haptics.

Those especially interested in these topics might also like to experience the fascinating Cinesensory website once they've dipped into some of the wonderful, openly-accessible, scholarly resources below:

• Henry Bacon, 'Synthesizing Approaches in Film Theory', The Journal of Moving Image Studies, Volume 4, 2005
  

• Jennifer M Barker, 'Chapter 1: Skin', The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009)

• Melinda Barlow, 'Review of TOUCH: SENSUOUS THEORY AND MULTISENSORY MEDIA Laura U. Marks Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002', Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Fall 2003
  

• Tammy L. Bennington and Geri Gay, 'Mediated Perceptions: Contributions of Phenomenological Film Theory to Understanding the Interactive Video Experience', Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 5 (4) June 2000
  

• Martha Blassnigg, 'Review of Documentary Time: Film and Phenomenology by Malin Wahlberg [University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2008]', Leonardo on-line, July 2008
  

• Jay David Bolter, 'Digital Media and Cinematic Point of View',Telepolis (14.02.1997)

• Havi Carel, 'A phenomenology of tragedy: illness and body betrayal in The Fly', SCAN, vol. 4, number 2 august 2007
  

• Josh Cohen, 'Phenomenology, History and the Image: A Reply to Kathleen Fitzpatrick', Film-Philosophy, vol. 3 no. 11, March 1999
  

• Sarah Cooper, 'Mortal Ethics: Reading Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2007

• Glorianna Davenport and Brian Bradley, 'Everyone's Cinema: Towards the Future of Cinematics', Oberhausen Film Festival - April 28, 199
  

• Trevor G. Elkington, 'Between Order and Chaos: On Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema', Film-Philosophy, vol. 8 no. 2, January 2004
  

• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, 'Images of/and the Postmodern', Film-Philosophy, vol. 3 no. 8, February 1999
  

• Daniel Frampton, 'The Way that Movements Speak [on Damnation and Werckmeister Harmonies by Bela Tarr, and Last Resort by Pawel Pawlikowski]', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 10, 2001

• Alex Gerbaz, 'Direct Address, Ethical Imagination, and Errol Morris’s Interrotron', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 2, December 2008

• Sam B. Girgus, 'Beyond Ontology: Levinas and the Ethical Frame in Film', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 2, August 2007
  

• Julien Guillemet, 'Painting/Cinema: A Study on Saturated Phenomena', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 2, September 2008
  

• Jan Holmberg, 'Ideals of Immersion in Early Cinema, Cinémas : revue d'études cinématographiques / Cinémas: Journal of Film Studies, vol. 14, n° 1, 2003, p. 129- 147
  

• Robert Hopkins, 'Pictures and Film; Philosophy and the Empirical Disciplines: A Reply to Dean', Film-Philosophy, vol. 3 no. 27, June 1999
  

• Mike Jones, 'Composing Space: Cinema and Computer Gaming - The Macro-Mise en Scene and Spatial Composition', Imaginary Worlds: Image and Space International Symposium, Sydney, 14 October 2005
  

• Marcia Landy, 'Traveling in Film Theory: Giuliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion', Film-Philosophy, vol. 7 no. 44, November 2003

• Abigail Loxham, 'Veo, veo; Leo, Leo?: A re(-)viewing of haptic and visual discourse in Bigas Luna’s Bilbao (1978)', Studies in European Cinema, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2007

• Laura U. Marks, 'Haptic Visuality: Touching with the Eyes', Framework" the Finnish Art Review, No. 2, 2004

• Laura U. Marks, 'Information, secrets, and enigmas: an enfolding-unfolding aesthetics for cinema', 2009

• Laura U. Marks, 'Multisensory Culture', 2008

• Laura U. Marks, 'Mohamed Soueid's Cinema of Immanence', Jump Cut, 49, 2007

• Laura U. Marks, 'Asphalt Nomadism', 2006

• Laura U. Marks, 'Enfolding and Unfolding: An Aesthetics for the Information Age',
  
  An interactive essay produced in collaboration with designer Raegan Kelly in Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, 2006.
  
  
  

• Douglas Morrey, 'Bodies that Matter - Review: Vivian Sobchack (2004) Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2006

• Douglas Morrey, 'Open Wounds: Body and Image in Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2008

• Edward R. O'Neill, 'Apprehending Deleuze Apprehending Cinema [on Der Film bei Deleuze/Le cinema selon Deleuze, edited by Fahle & Engell], Film-Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 2, January 1998
  

• Per Persson, 'Chapter 1: Understanding and Dispositions', Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery (Cambridge University Press, 2003
  

• Dominic Michael Rainsford, 'Tarkovsky and Levinas: Cuts, Mirrors, Triangulations', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2007

• Elena del Río, “Antonioni’s Blowup: Freeing the Imaginary from Metaphysical Ground”, Film-Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 32, June, 2005
  

• Jason Kelly Roberts, 'Review of The Virtual Life of Film by D.N. Rodowick [London: Harvard University Press, 2007]', Scope, Issue 13, February 2009

• Anne Rutherford, 'Cinema and Embodied Affect', Senses of Cinema, 2002

• Anne Rutherford, 'Precarious Boundaries: Affect, Mice en Scene, and the Senses in Angelopoulos' Balkan Epic', Senses of Cinema 2004
  

• Philipp Schmerheim, ‘Film, not Sliced up into Pieces, or: How Film Made me Feel Thinking: Review of Filmosophy’, Film-Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 2, 2008

• Vivian Sobchack, 'Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime', Millennium Film Journal No. 34 (Fall 1999): The Digital

• A. Soltani, 'Cinesensory: A Filmic Design for Mapping Haptic Space', International Design and Cinema Conference, Istanbul, November 2009

• David Sterritt, 'Taste of Kiarostami,' Senses of the Cinema, Issue no. 9, Sept-Oct. 2000

• David Sullivan, 'Noemata or No Matter?: Forcing Phenomenology into Film Theory', Film-Philosophy, vol. 1 no. 3, July 1997

• Melanie Swalwell, 'The Senses and Memory in Intercultural Cinema [on Laura U. Marks's The Skin of the Film]', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 32, 2002

• Donato Totaro, 'Deleuzian film Analysis: The Skin of the Film', Offscreen Journal, June 30, 2002
  

• Saige Walton, '“Cinema as I see-I hear-I feel”: Review of The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film by Brigitte Peucker', Senses of Cinema, Issue 45, 2007

• Robert E. Wood, 'Toward an Ontology of Film: A Phenomenological Approach', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 24, 2001

• Benjamin Wurgaft, 'How Heavy Light Can Be', Film-Philosophy, vol. 6 no. 9, May 2002
  

• Kevin Wynter, 'Of depth and surfaces; notes on Watchmen and other reflections on phenomenological film experience', CineAction, Summer, 2009
  

• Daniel Yacavone, ‘Towards a Theory of Film Worlds’, Film-Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 2, 2008

• Christopher S. Yates, 'A Phenomenological Aesthetic of Cinematic "Worlds"', Contemporary Aesthetics, Oct 22, 2006
  

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Jojo's Fashion Show 3: World Tour

Strut your own clothing designs on runways across the globe with Jojo's Fashion Show - World Tour, the fabulous new adventure in the smashing designer series!After many trials and tribulations, Jojo and Rosalind Cruz have finally earned a name in the fashion world. Now, Ros is leaving the nest to pursue her own dreams and Jojo must find a suitable replacement, but as the backstage drama unfolds, Jojo discovers that enemies are closer than she ever suspected. With Ros across the ocean and the Las Cruces label on the rocks, Jojo needs your fashion savvy more than ever.Join Jojo, from Japan to Barcelona, in her worldwide quest to keep the Las Cruces label hot while fending off devastating scandals. Master over 50 real-life fashion styles including sultry Flamenco, sleek Paris Street and Gothic Lolita. Take an active role and design your own clothing with realistic models to flaunt on the runways. Improve your fashion IQ with up-to-the-minute style descriptions and tips. Do you have what it takes to design clothing worthy of the Las Cruces label?

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Airport Mania: First Flight

Pack your bags for a trip through the skies in Airport Mania! Travel through 8 amusing airports while you land a variety of planes, purchase upgrades, and avoid delays. Stay on your toes as some planes carry precious cargo and will need to land in a hurry, while others might need a trip to the repair shop. But, with good planning, you'll make it to the gate on time! With unique challenges, whimsical characters, and fun that will put a smile on your face, Airport Mania is one flight you can't miss!

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Jig Words

Click on letters to spell words and reveal fun photos. There's two modes to play: "Jig Words" mode challenges you to find all the possible words and includes exciting "Word Duel" bonus rounds. "Letter Racing" mode places you in competition with 3 other players to see who can find words the fastest! As you make words, you're also revealing hundreds of fun photos and you can even add your favorite photos right into the game.

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Concordia cinema studies resources freely accessible online

The woman at the window: image from Jane Campion's Bright Star (2009); a trope explored in Julianne Pidduck's PhD thesis on the costume film now accessible online

Film Studies For Free was excited to hear last week that Concordia University has launched its online Institutional Research Repository Spectrum, with 6,000 full-text theses and dissertations. It was excited because it knows that based at Concordia is the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema of the Faculty of Fine Arts, the largest, university centre for the study of film animation, film production and film studies in Canada.

FSFF also specifically knew that highly significant Canadian scholars, such as Julianne Pidduck (now a professor at the Université de Montréal) and André Habib (also at the Université de Montréal) had produced graduate theses there.

So, it is delighted to bring you the below links to the fabulous (mostly) Film Studies thesis resources accessible via the repository, including ones by Pidduck on the costume film (and also on contemporary film noir), Habib's brilliant francophone thesis on Jean-Luc Godard, and great work by other (now) well-known scholars such as Liz Czach.

• Babineau, Dan (2003) Stairs in cinema : a formal and thematic investigation. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Ballantyne Tree, Tanya (1989) Formative evaluation of a documentary film on the effects of poverty on a Montreal family. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Bambic-Workman, Helen (1986) Development and evaluation of an instructional manual concerning the Nagra 4.2 film sound tape recorder. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Baric, Stephanie (2001) Yugoslav war cinema : shooting a nation which no longer exists. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Bird, Charles (1979) The making of 8mm film loops. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Black, Joel Elan (2003) 'Arrested for selling poetry!' or 'You wouldn't want your children reading this' : the historical significance of the "Howl" obscenity trial. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Boudreault-Fournier, Alexandrine (2003) Manufacturing culture in Cuba, an ethnography. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Brook, Glenn Leonard (2002) Canada, a people's history : an analysis of the visual narrative for a colonial nation. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Bruce, Jean Marietta (2003) A melodramatic imagined nation : the unruly subject of Canadian cinemas. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Castiel, Élie (2003) Pour une esthétique du plan-séquence dans Le Voyage des comédiens de Theo Angelopoulos. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Chang, Sandra (2003) Children's pretend play with television and film-scripted character toys. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Cheryl., Dabreo-Ramharack (1998) Uplifting The Black Race - only males need apply : Black male militancy in Malcom X, Panther, Boyz n' the hood, and Get on the bus. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Clarke, Jocelyne (1989) Moving peripheries and marginal cultures : cinema and the "Dark Continent". Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Curcin, Nikola R (1983) Investing in Canadian feature films : production and evaluation of a video-tape for potential investors. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Czach, Elizabeth (2000) Home movies then and now. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• D'Amboise, Paul (2002) "Tinseltown as teacher" : a case study of historical feature films as interpretive sources of history within an educational context. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Dancsok, Michael (1998) Transcending the documentary : the films of Arthur Lipsett. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• De B'béri, Boulou Ebanda (2003) Africanicity in Black cinema : a horizontal labyrinth of trans-geographical practices of identity. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Deschamps, Lisa Anne (2002) The effects of popular culture on youth sub-culture and how it plays a role in the school environment. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Dorland, Michael (1991) The discursive economy of the emergence of the Canadian feature film : discourses of dependency and the governmentalization of a displaced national cinema, 1957-1968. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Dufour, Marianne (2000) Through the looking glass : the therapeutic potential of videotaping as an adjunct tool in non directive art therapy in an object relations perspective. Other thesis, Concordia University.
• Egan, Catherine M (1973) Films for art programmes at the secondary level. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Frigon, Martin (2003) La fonction historique de la figure du patriote dans le cycle abitibien de Pierre Perrault. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Gasher, Mike (1999) The Grey Fox meets Jumanji : the emergence of the feature-film industry in British Columbia. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Gilbert, Sylvie (2000) Sortir de table : les performances alimentaires de Carmen Miranda, Louise Mercille et des religieuses du Moyen Âge. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Gupta, Dipti (1998) Confronting the challenge of distribution : women documentary filmmakers in India. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Habib, André (2001) Origine et fin : Méthode(s). À partir et autour des Histoire(s) du cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Jaafar, Nisrine (2001) The blue flame and the red flame: love and eroticism. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Jordan, Randolph (2003) Starting from scratch : turntables, auditory representation, and the structure of the known universe in the films of David Lynch. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Katadotis, Katina (1995) Quebec's Cinema act : policy and practical perspectives. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Keightley, Keir (1996) Frank Sinatra, hi-fi, and formations of adult culture : gender, technology, and celebrity, 1948-62. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Kolomeir, Harriet T (1987) The neighbourhood movie house in Montreal, 1925-1929 : the harmonious whole. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Kristmanson, Mark (1999) Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture and state security in Canada, 1927-1957. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Laakso, Hanna Maria (2002) DOGMAtic iconoclasm : performative aspects of realism and excess in Lars von Trier's Breaking the waves and The idiots. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Marsh, Susan (2003) As easy as 1,2,4-- : the space of ambiguity in art and teaching. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• McKee, Tracey L (2000) Good girls do it too! : a look at the representation of women who kill in made-for-TV movies. Masters thesis, Concordia University
• McLeish, Anna (2003) To recycle is to author is to create is to recycle : transitory film authorship, from popular European cinema to post-new Hollywood cinema. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Moen, Kristian (2001) "About as shapeless as the Man in the Moon" : the representation of desire and transition in six films of Charles Laughton. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Nagy, Judy (1996) Home grown remedies : in-house innovation in the film-making industry. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Nichols, Robert Darcey (2003) From monuments to cinema : the question of the counter-monument in two works by Mark Lewis. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Pidduck, Julianne (1997) Intimate places and flights of fancy : gender, space, and movement in contemporary costume drama. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Pidduck, Julianne (1993) The "fatal femme" in contemporary Hollywood film noir : reframing gender, violence, and power. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Pinsonneault, Michael (1999) Social dimensions of Hollywood movie music. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Preville, Philip (1997) The effort to forget : collective memory and documentary film in Québec. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Primeau, François (2001) Enquête sur la représentation de la masculinité et la Méthode dans le cinéma états-unien des années mille neuf cent soixante-dix : vers une nouvelle conception de l'acteur cinématographique. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Pycock, Elizabeth (1992) Memory and anger : teen films and the female body. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Read, Robert J (2003) The film noir collection and the legacy of nineteenth century modernity. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Ryan, Cyril (1996) Black movie : five picture deal to make gun movies. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Schyngera, Wes (1993) Experiencing media : the resonance of post(modern) culture. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Shalinsky, Bernard (1977) Multi-sensory exploration of the natural environment : production and evaluation of a super 8 film-based videotape. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Simon, Cheryl Inez (1998) Gender, genre and globalization : discourses of "Femininity" in the popular culture of the 1990's. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Sinkinson, Susan (1999) The self as "other" : accessing issues of difference in Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Reassemblage. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Smith, Donna Lee (1989) Mombasa days : a feature-length film script. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Smith, Matthew (1996) Introducing a new medium : newspaper reviews of the first film screenings in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto and New York in 1896. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Spivak, Robert (1991) Christopher Durang : satire and beyond. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Stober, JoAnne (2001) That's not what I heard : synchronized sound cinema in Montreal 1926-1931. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Stoianova, Christina (1999) The Eastern European crisis of self-knowledge (1948-1989) : the relationship between state and society as reflected in Eastern European film : a genre approach. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Suchet, Simone (1994) Le cinéma rural et la société italienne des années soixante-dix : représentations idéologiques et impuissance politique : étude sur Novecento de Bernardo Bertolucci, Padre, padrone de Paolo et Vittorio Taviani, [et] l'Albero degli zoccoli de Ermanno Olmi. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
• Verma, Tina (1999) Re-imagining multiculturalism : how newness enters the world. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Weir, Jodi (1999) Performing gender : transgenderism as critique. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Zhou, Hao (2003) Application of 3D facial animation techniques for Chinese opera. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
• Zielinski, Ger (1996) Towards the "Utopie film" : aspects of Adorno's thought in Alexander Kluge's antagonistic concept of realism. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
  

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Ghost Town Mysteries Bodie

In Ghost Town Mysteries Bodie, don't stay past dark in the Ghost Town of Bodie. Tourists have reported seeing the ghost of Evelyn Byers, a little girl who was killed by a pick axe over a hundred years ago. The tombstones of the twelve witnesses are missing and something is definitely up. Pick up the investigation from where the famous reporter Amy Brown left off. Recover the keys to the thirteen homes she was investigating, find the items in her notebook, and solve this hundred year old mystery once and for all. Over 30 locations, 13 haunted houses, 17 puzzles, 13 mini puzzles. And oh! Did we mention the ghosts? Yeah, there are ghosts!

Game Size 102MB

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Evoly

Hours of match-making and creature-creating fun await you in Evoly, a delightful new arcade life sim! Make fast matches in the puzzle rounds to clear the board and watch your income grow. Then use the money you've earned to purchase a range of plants and creatures and bring a barren world back to life. As you progress, you can upgrade your creatures to produce hundreds of unique species and populate three worlds with a variety of eye-popping delights. Don't pass up the chance to play this new classic!

Game Size 58MB

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Spirited Heart

Create your fantasy alter ego choosing between an apparently normal human, a cute elf and a wicked demoness. Every character has different starting attributes that will greatly influence the gameplay. They also behave differently in the various dialogue choices you'll encounter during the game.
Once the game start you'll be able to run your life in a virtual fantasy world: choose a job from the 20 different ones available, but carefully check the minimum requirements.
Each starting job will improve some of your basic character skills, giving you the possibility to unlock more advanced jobs once you have trained your character long enough.
From time to time, random events will occur and you'll also make random encounters: there are six potential partner for your character in the game, two for each one of the three races. Each partner will have his own personality and will react differently depending on which race you're playing, offering over 100 different dialogue combinations!
Can you win their hearts and maybe, one day, marry one of them?
Play with your character for 10 in-game years in which you have to do your best! The full game has 20 normal endings plus 6 special marriage endings, providing hours of gameplay and lots of replayability.

Game Size 24MB

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Picket Fences

Compete with the neighbors for the highest score in ten home-themed card games including furnish your home, remodel the kitchen, landscape the yard, and plan a party, to name just a few.
Achieve 'Full House' for a big bonus, or shoot for the risky, but rewarding high-end sets. Use bonus cards to make special plays and gain additional points. Earn medals, awards, and badges as you unlock the advanced card games.

Game Size 13MB

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