Latest issues of KINEMA: von Trier, Czech cinema, Romanian cinema, Woody Allen, cult cinema, de Mille, Schnabel, Practice vs. Theory

So bad it's good? Framegrab from The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003). Read Rod Stoneman's study of cult cinema "Inside The Room and Beyond"

Film Studies For Free continues to catch up with (fairly) recently published issues of online Film Studies journals. Below are links to the articles from the Spring and Fall 2011 issues of Canadian journal Kinema.

Lots of good stuff here, and even some good stuff on bad stuff, but FSFF especially recommends Mette Hjort's wonderful article on Lars von Trier.

Fall 2011

• "On Lars von Trier, Enfant Terrible of Danish Art Film: by Mette Hjort
• "Inside The Room and Beyond" by Rod Stoneman
• "Czech Surrealism and Czech New Wave Realism" by Alison Frank
• "Remarks on the Actual Status of Romanian Cinema" Christina Stojanova
• "Moral Luck in the Films of Woody Allen" by Ewa Mazierska

Spring 2011

• "Gerald Arthur Pratley, OC (1923-2011)" by The Editor   
• "Themes in the Cinema of Darrell James Roodt" by Martin P. Botha   
• "The Primacy of Practice?" by Desmond Bell   
• "Cecil B. DeMille and the Art of Applied Suggestibility" by Anton Karl Kozlovic    
• "The Films of Julian Schnabel" by Alex Britton   

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Issues of KINEMA (Spring and Fall 2010)

Image from Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007). Read Alessandro's Zir's article on this film for Kinema (Spring 2010)

Film Studies For Free continues with its roundup of recent offerings from online film studies journal by catching up with the last two issues posted at Kinema: a Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media.

Lots of good stuff here, but FSFF particularly enjoyed Alessandro Zir's essay on Paranoid Park, Antonio Sanna on the connections between the Alien series of films and Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, and Des O'Rawe's study of Godard's Film Socialisme.

Spring 2010

'The Art of Creative Scriptural Extrapolation [on Celil B. De Mille's films]' by Anton Karl Kozlovic
'Reproducing the Fin-de-siècle Gothic with Techno-Gothic Vampires' by Antonio Sanna
'Film, Arts and Culture as Community Outreach Tools' by Victor S. O. Yu
'Interview with Gary Tooze' by Jan Uhdeby
'Going to the Movies in Egypt' by Mustafa Mahmoud Yousry
'The Desire for History in Lars von Trier’s Europa and Theo Angelopoulos’ The Suspended Step of the Stork' by Angelos Koutsourakis
'Non-Realism and Ontology in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park' by Alessandro Zir

Fall 2010

'The Fraternity of Metaphors: Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme' by Des O'Rawe'
'Interview with Kevin Brownlow on the Making of Winstanley' by Tony Tracy
'Targeting Alien Filmmakers in 1930s Hollywood' by J. Emmett Winn
'Woody Allen as Impossible Cassandra' by Alessandro Zir
'The Language and Genealogy of Early Spy Cinema' by Lukasz Boron
'Interview with Singapore Filmmaker Boo Junfeng' by Yvonne Ng
'The New Vicissitudes of Auteur Cinema' by Christina Stojanova

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