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Diposting oleh good reading on Jumat, 30 November 2012

HAPPY WEEKEND...
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New issue of SCOPE: Nicole Holofcener, Realism, Self-Transformation Narratives, Károly Makk, the Feature Film as "Short Story" and More

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Framegrab from Lovely and Amazing (Nicole Holofcener, 2001). You can read Rachel Lister's article about Holofcener's films here

Life is good, thinks Film Studies For Free: a new issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies has just been published. There's a small but well-edited selection of great articles, and an enormous number of hugely useful book reviews and conference reports. FSFF particularly liked Rachel Lister on Nicole Holofcener's "short story" films and Miklós Kiss on Károly Makk's Szerelem/Love.

All contents are listed and linked to below.

Scope: Issue 24 October 2012

Articles

Book Reviews

Film and Television Reviews

Conference Reports
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Food Reward Friday

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This week's winner... the Starbuck's Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino!



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Christmas Sweets & Treats

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I am gearing up for the holidays. I know, I'm a little behind, but if it makes you feel any better, I do have about half of my Christmas cards mailed out!

Here's a little roundup of the treats I made last year. I have a few good ones I can't wait to make this year that I ran out of time to do last Christmas.
Do you have some treats you just can't survive the holidays without?? Tell me about them in the comments section below!

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Entwined - Strings of Deception

Diposting oleh good reading on Kamis, 29 November 2012

Uncover the dark scheme of a deceptive criminal in Entwined - Strings of Deception, an elaborate murder mystery. The famous inventor Christopher Edward is found dead in his home brutally murdered. Detective Karla Robbins is called in to investigate and begins to uncover a conspiracy that revolves around five suspects - the inventor's wife, his secretary, the butler, the housemaid, and the family physician. Can she unmask the culprit? Step into the shoes of Detective Robbins and solve the case. Search the Edward family mansion for evidence and question the suspects to determine the cause of the crime. Was it driven by love, money, or power? Locate valuable clues, solve bewildering puzzles, and keep track of everything you find in your case file.

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Nanny Mania

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Help keep a chaotic home in order in this frantically fun game of household management. Pick up the house, take care of the children (and the parents!), prepare dinner and more in 150 original levels. There are dozens of upgrades to help handle your hectic schedule but as this family grows so does their mess! Featuring unique challenges, three different characters to play, colorful full-screen graphics and more, Nanny Mania is an original escape to frenzied fun.
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Elf Bowling 7 1-7 - The Last Insult

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Hold on to your stockings! The elves are up to no good and Santa needs your help to show those crazy elves what the true meaning of "strike" is. It`s quirky, hilarious bowling fun just in time for the holiday season! Compete in a crazy bowling game with the elves - oh that naughty Santa - serving as the pins and providing their own special, colorful commentary. With just the flick of your mouse, bowl to get a spare or strike, winning trophies along the way.
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Nanny Mania 2: Goes to Hollywood

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Emma is back in action, this time as the nanny for a prominent Hollywood couple. But this household is anything but tidy. It`s a mad-dash to clean up the mansion before the parents come home. You`ll have a baby to watch, kids to clean up after, clothes to launder, and a whole living room, bedroom, kitchen and playroom to take care of. Purchase deluxe cleaning supplies and prove to that household what a real nanny can do!

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The Mirror Mysteries

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A young family stops at a mysterious old home for a picnic and as the mother closes her eyes to enjoy the sun, she hears a horrific crash, the kids! As she enters the house, she is confronted by a mystical mirror that’s taken her kids and locks them away in a magical world. A Hidden Object quest is placed upon you to not just save the children, but to help a unique character in very mystical places! Can you solve The Mirror Mysteries!?
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The Dreamatorium of Dr. Magnus

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Step into the shoes of detective Sarah Green and solve the mystery of a missing town doctor in The Dreamatorium of Dr. Magnus. The town doctor, Dr. Magnus withdrew from society following the tragic death of his wife and daughter in a car accident. In his despair, Dr. Magnus became obsessed with the idea of contacting the souls of his loved ones. He began conducting ever more dangerous experiments ruinous to his own health until he himself, disappears. What secrets will be revealed in your investigation?

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To Cinephilia and Beyond! Christian Keathley's Film Studies Online

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A free-to-attend University of London Screen Studies Group series event. Full details are given here: http://events.sas.ac.uk/ies/events/view/13234.

A free-to-attend University of Sussex Centre for Visual Fields event. Further details are given here: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cvf/newsandevents/events?id=16509.

Film Studies For Free is almost unspeakably thrilled that its author is helping to host a visit to her shores by the wonderful film scholar Christian Keathley. So thrilled, in fact, that a collected edition of links to his generously-shared, online, film scholarship is given below. 

Keathley, Associate Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA, is the author of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees (Indiana University Press, 2006), and is currently completing a second book, The Mystery of Otto Preminger (under contract to Indiana University Press). Professor Keathley’s research interest also focuses on the presentation of academic scholarship in a multi-media format, including video essays.

In addition to the two UK events detailed above, Keathley will also give a keynote lecture on his work as part of the lineup for a two-day symposium in Antwerp, Belgium, entitled "FROM PHOTOGÉNIE TO CINEPHILIA 2.0, a seminar on cinephilia then and now". The event takes place between December 7-8. Unlike the two events above, it isn't free-to-attend, but it is incredibly good value. 

This superb looking symposium is hosted by the Flemish Service for Film Culture, Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (UGent) and Research Group Visual Studies and Media Culture (University of Antwerp) organised in collaboration with Research Center for Visual Poetics (University of Antwerp) and CINEMATEK, with two other internationally recognised keynotes Malte Hagener and Sarah Keller. You can find further details of the symposium here.

There should be some open access resources emerging from the above events, and if that happens, FSFF will be among the first to let you know about them.

Online Written Texts by Christian Keathley:
Online Video Essays by Christian Keathley:
Video essay on a scene from Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder.

50 Years On from Christian Keathley
Revision of a video made for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies' 50th anniversary conference.


Does Your Dog Bite? from Christian Keathley
A video essay by Christian Keathley on a canine moment in Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951).

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Sprinkle Sprinkle Cake in the Pioneer Press

Diposting oleh good reading on Rabu, 28 November 2012

First... there were these Rainbow Half-Cakes.

Then, the Pink with Sprinkles Cake.

And now we have the sprinkle/sprinkle cake. Sprinkles on the inside, sprinkles on the outside! Awesome!

Photo Courtesy TwinCities.com
You may have seen this cake with me in the Eat Section of today's St. Paul Pioneer Press. No? Well, go check out the short article. I'll wait right here for you to come back! ;-)

What You Need:
White Cake Mix or Vanilla Cake Recipe
1/3-2/3 cup jimmies sprinkles*
Buttercream Icing
1-2 small bottles of rainbow nonpareils sprinkles
Optional:
Piping Bag
Tip #21

*Note on the sprinkles: Do not try to use nonpareils (ball-shaped) sprinkles in batter. It doesn't work out. They all just lose their color, turn white, and turn your batter a highly disgusting shade of grey. To make a sprinkle cake, you need to use jimmies or another "shaped" sprinkle like the dots or the flower-shaped ones. I like jimmies best.

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FRAMES Cinema Journal Issues 2 and 1!! - Kubrick, Resnais, War Films, Digital Film Studies and more!

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Frame grab from The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980). Read Hannah Mowat's article on this and other 'hotel films' in the new issue of Frames Cinema Journal

Film Studies For Free is very happy to announce the online publication of Issue 2 of Frames cinema journal,. The issue contains six fine articles, on a variety of topics, produced in collaboration with the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS). Details and links are given below.

The publication of issue 2 marks Frames' move to a new server and a great new look. As a consequence of this move all of the original URLs for the forty or so contributions to Issue 1 (guest edited by FSFF's supremo) on Film and Moving Image Studies Re-Born Digital? have had to be changed. For this reason, there's a second list of that issue's contents given below, replete with all the new links......


Frames, Issue 2,  November 2012: BAFTSS Fall 2012

Editorial
Feature articles

Frames, Issue 1, July 2012: Film and Moving Image Studies Re-Born Digital? Guest-edited by Catherine Grant

Editorial
Feature articles
P.O.V.
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