NECSUS #3 The GREEN Issue

Frame grab from Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon, 2004). Read Brady Hammond's article in the new issue of NECSUS, which explores 'green skin' in contemporary Hollywood cinema

Things have been a little busy in Film Studies For Free's offline universe and so rather quiet in its online one. But it's back with an ecologically sound bang, in the form of some updates about excellent, recent, open access journal issues.

First up is Issue 3 of NECSUS, the European Journal of Media Studies. Its last issue touched on 'Tangibility’. This time round its focus is on ‘"Greenness" in a broader pallet of media-related issues, from sustainable media production to the use of the colour green in a variety of films.'


NECSUS #3_Spring 2013_’Green’

• Editorial Necsus

Articles:

• Anecdotal evidence by Sean Cubitt
• Still TV: On the resilience on an old medium by Alexander Dhoest and Nele Simons
• Nenette: Film theory, animals, and boredom by Barbara Creed
• Advertisarial relations and aesthetics of survival: Advertising –> advertisign by Jonathan Beller

Special Section: Green

• Greening media studies: An interview with Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller by Jaap Kooijman
• ‘Global warming is not a crisis!’: Studying climate change skepticism on the web by Sabine Niederer
• Painting the town green: From urban teleology to urban ecology in New York cinema, 1960-present by Brady Fletcher and Cortland Rankin
• A filmic exploration by means of botanical imagery: Notes on Rose Lowder by Enrico Camporesi
• Dialectical modes of nature in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line by Tyson Wils
• Her green materials: Mourning, Melancholia, and not-so-vital materialisms by Catherine Lord
• Disharmonious designs: Colour contrast and curiosity in Jane Campion’s In the Cut by Liz Watkins
• Greenface: Exploring green skin in contemporary Hollywood cinema by Brady Hammond
• Scalar entanglement in digital media ecologies by Sy Taffel

Book Reviews:

edited by the NECS Publication Committee

• Subjectivity and ostrannenie: Key debates in European film studies review by Pietro Bianchi
• Screen dynamics: Mapping the borders of cinema review by Lavinia Brydon
• Branding television review by Alison Payne

Festival Reviews:

edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist of the Film Festival Research Network

• Go east by southeast: 13th Festival of Central and Eastern European Film Wiesbaden review by Greg de Cuir, Jr
• From Chernobyl to Fukushima: The Uranium Film Festival review by Courtney Sheehan
• Indigenous film festival as eco-testimonial encounter: The 2011 Native Film + Video Festival review by Salma Monani

Exhibition + Website + Conference Reviews:

• Discovering repetition review by Francesco Pitassio
• Playing with digital byproduct data: An indictive example review by David Beer
• Screen industries in East-Central Europe: Cultural policies and political culture review by Olof Hedling

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New WORLD PICTURE on Distance: André Bazin, Henri Bergson, Barbara Hammer, Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Phil Solomon, Yorgos Lanthimos, and much more

Frame grab from Κυνόδοντας/Kynodontas/Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009). Read Eugene Brinkema's new essay on this film

Distance suggests a standing apart—a separation, an opening or difference, a gap in space. And mirroring broader swaps of categories of time for categories of space, “distance” can also stand for remoteness on the level of time: James Phillips, for example, neatly summarizes this shift as “Odysseus longs for home; Proust is in search of lost time.”6 But neither this sense of a spatial gap or a temporal remove is precisely the sense in which distance is taken seriously in Dogtooth. For that, we require an older sense of the word. [Eugenie Brinkema, 'e.g., Dogtooth', World Picture 7, 2012]

It's been busy, busy, busy round these parts, but today Film Studies For Free stirs itself from its travails to bring you the, as usual, wonderful news that World Picture, that most original of online humanities journals, has just published a new issue.

The keyword for WP 7 is Distance, and it has activated a wide range of brilliant cultural and philosophical readings on that topic. FSFF particularly loved filmmaker Barbara Hammer's contributions to this issue here and here (see this earlier FSFF entry on her marvellous work), as well as Eugenie Brinkema on Dogtooth, Sam Ishii-Gonzales on Bergson, and  Domietta Torlasco on The Actress as Filmmaker: On Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini.

There is much more in WP of huge worth and interest, so please dip into the below contents.

Oh, and also, please come, if you can, to the upcoming annual World Picture conference, held this year at the University of Sussex, November 2-3, 2012. A terribly excited FSFF will be in attendance!


World Picture 7: Table of Contents

• Zach Barocas Givens
• Eugenie Brinkema e.g., Dogtooth
• Robert Cavanagh Contact Sport
• David L. Clark “Not ours, this death, to take into our bones”: The Postanimal after the Posthuman
• Lorenz Engell Apollo TV: The Copernican Turn of the Gaze
• Victor Fan Approaching Reality: Epistemic Distance, Political Crises and Temporal Imaginations
• in the Sino-French Dialogue on Cinema Ontology
• Alexander García Düttmann The Worst, or The Lesser of Two Evils
• Sam Ishii-Gonzales Suspended Meaning: On Bergson and Cinema Perception
• Barbara Hammer, in Correspondence with John David Rhodes
• Film is Thinking: A Conversation Across Distance
• Barbara Hammer Bent Time
• Sorin Radu Media on Target in the Global System: Military Strategy and Narrative Practice
• Alessandra Raengo Reification, Reanimation and the Money of the Real
• Phil Solomon While You Were Asleep
• Phil Solomon, in Conversation with Brian Price and Meghan Sutherland
• Mediating the American Idea
• Keston Sutherland The World and John Wieners
• Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece In the House, In the Picture: Distance and Proximity in the American Mid-Century Neutralized Theatre
• Matthew Tierney The Eclipse of the Eclipse of Distance: Talking Politics in a Global Village
• Domietta Torlasco The Actress as Filmmaker: On Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini's New Erotics of Vision

More about → New WORLD PICTURE on Distance: André Bazin, Henri Bergson, Barbara Hammer, Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Phil Solomon, Yorgos Lanthimos, and much more