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!

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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!

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