Expanded Cinema Studies? Free eBook on Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art

Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theatre and the home, but also in the art gallery and the museum. The author of this engaging study takes stock of this development, offering an in-depth inquiry into its genesis, its defining features, and the ramifications it has for art and cinema alike. Through the lens of contemporary art history, she examines cinema studies’ great disciplinary obsession – namely, what cinema was, is, and will become in a digital future. (blurb for Erika Balsom,  Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art [Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013])

Thanks to the legend that is Girish Shambu, Film Studies For Free heard of the latest, wonderful, freely accessible book from Amsterdam University Press: Erika Balsom's Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art. The table of contents is below. It's a valuable addition to the burgeoning field of Expanded Cinema Studies. Read it for free but please order it for your libraries! It has been added to FSFF's permanent and regularly updated listing of online Open Access Film Studies e-Books

Another related resource: six video recordings have been uploaded online of all the sessions from the recent Mediamorphosis Symposium and Exhibition at the University of Sussex at which researchers, practitioners, artists (including filmmakers), designers, scientists were invited to submit, discuss, exchange and engage with analogue and digital practices as mediamorphosis. You can find links to the videos here. 

It's been so quiet around here that FSFF's readers probably won't even notice that it is going on holiday for two weeks (it will be taking Erika's book!). It promises to return refreshed, reinvigorated and possibly even sun-tanned after that, with LOTS of new Open Access items to link to. But, in the meantime, please check out this little video on a different kind of "expanded cinema studies" - it has one or two useful resources that you may find interesting.

Erika Balsom,  Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013)

Table of Contents

Introduction – The Othered Cinema 

Chapter 1 – Architectures of Exhibition
The Passages of Cinema Projection and Patrimony Black Box/White Cube The New Blockbusters The Myth of Activity Media at MoMA 

Chapter 2 – Filmic Ruins  
Post-medium Post-mortem Indexing the Past A Little History of 35mm Ruinophilia Analogue Aura

Chapter 3 – The Remake: Old Movies, New Narratives Ambivalent Appropriations The Four Operations Precursors The False Promises of the “Utopia of Use” Remaking Fandom “Room-for-Play” VCR Memories 

Chapter 4 – The Fiction of Truth and the Truth of Fiction Anti-anti-illusionism Hybrid Forms Rehabilitating Narrative A Return of the Real Two Images of Death 
Conclusion – “Cinema and...” 

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Great e-Books on British and American cinema, and film theory and history

Image from Pleasantville (Gary Ross, 1998) [Read Paul Grainge's wonderful essay 'Colouring the past: Pleasantville and the textuality of media memory' linked to below]

Film Studies For Free today sings the praises of the very marvellous Manchester University Press. MUP has an excellent record in Open Access publishing, and especially in Film Studies OA journal publishing, as previously reported by FSFF. But it is also in the process of making some of its full-length film books freely accessible.

So far, there are two books available, one on British cinema and one on memory and popular cinema. Direct links to the PDF files of both books and full tables of their contents and contributors are given below. These links have also been added to FSFF's  permanent, and frequently updated, listing of Open Access film and moving image studies e-books, which now links to 90 free, scholarly tomes.

• Paul Grainge (ed.), Memory and Popular Film (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003)

'Memory and popular film' uses memory as a specific framework for the cultural study of film. Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present. Considering the relationship between official and popular memory, the politics of memory, and the technological and representational shifts that have come to effect memory's contemporary mediation, the book contributes to the growing debate on the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse. By gathering key critics from film studies, American studies and cultural studies, 'Memory and popular film' establishes a framework for discussing issues of memory IN film and of film AS memory. Together with essays on the remembered past in early film marketing, within popular reminiscence, and at film festivals, the book considers memory films such as Forrest Gump, Lone Star, Pleasantville, Rosewood and Jackie Brown. 'Memory and popular film' provides a wide-ranging analysis that will benefit both students and critics of popular culture, film studies and the past. [Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/]

Table of Contents:

• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 'Introduction: memory and popular film' by Paul Grainge

Part 1: Public history, popular memory

• 'A white man’s country: Yale’s Chronicles of America' by Roberta E. Pearson
• 'Civic pageantry and public memory in the silent era commemorative film: The Pony Express at the Diamond Jubilee' by Heidi Kenaga
• ‘Look behind you!’: memories of cinema-going in the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood' by Sarah Stubbings
• 'Raiding the archive: film festivals and the revival of Classic Hollywood' by Julian Stringer

Part 2: The politics of memory

• 'The articulation of memory and desire: from Vietnam to the war in the Persian Gulf' by John Storey
• 'The movie-made Movement: civil rites of passage' by Sharon Monteith
• 'Prosthetic memory: the ethics and politics of memory in an age of mass culture' by Alison Landsberg
• ‘"Forget the Alamo": history, legend and memory in John Sayles’ Lone Star' by Neil Campbell    

Part 3: 'Mediating memory

• '‘Mortgaged to music’: new retro movies in 1990s Hollywood cinema' by Philip Drake
• 'Colouring the past: Pleasantville and the textuality of media memory' by Paul Grainge
• 'Memory, history and digital imagery in contemporary film' by Robert Burgoyne
• 'Postcinema/Postmemory' by Jeffrey Pence

• Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard (eds), British Cinema in the 1950s: A celebration (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003)

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements 
• A 1950s timeline
• 'Celebrating British cinema of the 1950s' by Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard

Critics 

• 'Raymond Durgnat and A Mirror for England' by Robert Murphy
• 'Lindsay Anderson: Sequence and the rise of auteurism in 1950s Britain' by Erik Hedling

Mirroring England

• 'National snapshots: fixing the past in English war films' by Fred Inglis
• 'Film and the Festival of Britain' by Sarah Easen
• 'The national health: Pat Jackson’s White Corridors' by Charles Barr
• 'The long shadow: Robert Hamer after Ealing' by Philip Kemp
• ‘"If they want culture, they pay": consumerism and alienation in 1950s comedies' by Dave Rolinson
• 'Boys, ballet and begonias: The Spanish Gardener and its analogues' by Alison Platt
• 'Intimate stranger: the early British films of Joseph Losey' by Neil Sinyard

Painfully squalid?

• 'Women of Twilight' by Kerry Kidd
• 'Yield to the Night' by Melanie Williams
• 'From script to screen: Serious Charge and film censorship' by Tony Aldgate
• 'Housewife’s choice: Woman in a Dressing Gown' by Melanie Williams

Adaptability

• 'Too theatrical by half? The Admirable Crichton and Look Back in Anger' by Stephen Lacey
• 'A Tale of Two Cities and the Cold War' by Robert Giddings
• 'Value for money: Baker and Berman, and Tempean Films' by Brian McFarlane
• 'Adaptable Terence Rattigan: Separate Tables, separate entities?' by Dominic Shellard

Personal views

• 'Archiving the 1950s' by Bryony Dixon
• 'Being a film reviewer in the 1950s' by Isabel Quigly
• 'Michael Redgrave and The Mountebank’s Tale' by Corin Redgrave

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35 Open Access Film and Moving Image Studies Books from Amsterdam University Press

Image from Rhapsody of Steel, a 1959 animated industrial film by John Sutherland, which you can watch online. You can read about industrial films in Vinzenz Hediger and Patrick Vonderau's remarkable collection Films that Work : Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media (Amsterdam University Press, 2009)

What a remarkable start to the week! In one fell swoop, Film Studies For Free has almost doubled its already lengthy listing of openly accessible film and moving image studies e-books.

Yesterday, FSFF heard that Vinzenz Hediger and Patrick Vonderau's marvellous 2009 edited collection Films that Work : Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media had been made freely available online as part of Amsterdam University Press's wonderful commitment to Open Access publishing.

FSFF followed up on that news with its customary, industrial-strength, dogged meticulousness (that is to say, in its totally imitable fashion) to sort through the 640 plus e-books from AUP's collected OA offerings to single out the 35 film and moving image studies-related items you can see linked to below, which include many titles from its excellent "Film Culture in Transition" series.

They've also all been added to FSFF's existing free e-book list, which is now approaching its first one hundred items.

And this blog has learned how to say hartelijk dank!

1. Allen, Richard, Malcolm Turvey (eds), Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson (Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
2. Bay-Cheng, Sarah, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, Robin Nelson (eds), Mapping Intermediality in Performance (Amsterdam University Press, 2010) 
3. Bergfelder, Tim, Sue Harris, Sarah Street (eds), Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2007)
4. Bijsterveld, K, J. Van Dijck (eds), Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (Amsterdam University Press, 2009)
5. Blom, Ivo, Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade (Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
6. Boomen, Marianne van den, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, Mirko Tobias Schäfer (eds), Digital Material : Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology (Amsterdam University Press, 2009)
7. Clemens, Justin, Dominic Pettman, Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object (Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
8. Elsaesser, Thomas, European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood(Amsterdam University Press, 2005)
9. Elsaesser, Thomas (ed), Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-Lines (Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
10. Elsaesser, Thomas, Noel King, Alexander Horwath (eds), The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s (Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
11. Elsaesser, Thomas (ed), A Second Life : German Cinema's First Decades (Amsterdam University Press, 1996)
12. Elsaesser, Thomas, Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject (Amsterdam University Press, 1996)
13. Elsaesser, Thomas,  Jan Simons, Lucette Bronk (eds), Writing for the Medium: Television in transition (Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
14. Grønstad, Asbjørn, Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema Amsterdam, 2008)
15. Hagener, Malte, Moving Forward, Looking Back : The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 (Amsterdam University Press, 2007)
16. Hediger, Vinzenz, Patrick Vonderau (eds), Films that Work : Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media (Amsterdam University Press, 2009)
17. Heide, William van der, Malaysian Cinema, Asian Film: Border Crossings and National Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2002)
18. Kester, Bernadette, Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films from the Weimar Period (1919-1933) (Amsterdam University Press, 2002)
19. Kooijman, Jaap, Patricia Pisters, Wanda Strauven (eds), Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam University Press, 2008)
20. Kooijman, Jaap, Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2008)
21. Lauwaert, Maaike, The Place of Play: Toys and Digital Cultures (Amsterdam University Press, 2009)
22. Phillips, Alastair, City of Darkness, City of Light: Emigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939(Amsterdam University Press, 2003)
23. Pisters, Patricia, Wim Staat, Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values (Amsterdam University Press, 2005)
24. Schoots, Hans, Living Dangerously: A Biography of Joris Ivens (Amsterdam University Press, 2000)
25. Simons, Jan, Playing the Waves: Lars von Trier's Game Cinema(Amsterdam University Press, 2007)
26. Steene, Birgitt, Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide (Amsterdam University Press, 2005)
27. Strauven, Wanda, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded (Amsterdam University Press, 2006)
28. Thompson, Kristin, Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (Amsterdam University Press, 2005)
29. Törnqvist, Egi, Between Stage and Screen: Ingmar Bergman Directs (Amsterdam University Press, 1996)
30. Valck, Marijke de, Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (Amsterdam University Press, 2007)
31. Valck, Marijke de, Malte Hagener (eds), Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory (Amsterdam University Press, 2006)
32. Verhoeff, Nann, The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning (Amsterdam University Press, 2006 [on the emergence of the  Western]) 
33. Walker, Michael, Hitchcock's Motifs (Amsterdam University Press, 2005)
34. Zanger, Anat, Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise: From Carmen to Ripley (Amsterdam University Press, 2006)
35. Zielinski, Siegfried, Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History (Amsterdam University Press, 1999)

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E-book Index: University of California Press Public Access Film Studies Books

Image of Katherine Joyce (Ingrid Bergman) from Viaggio In Italia/Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
In honour of Peter Brunette's great book on Rossellini, now publicly acessible online via the University of California Press archives

Film Studies For Free regularly visits the brilliant online archive of the University of California Press to check out its range of public-access e-books. There are now more than thirty full-length, UC Press film-studies, or film and media-studies related, books openly accessible online now. So FSFF delightedly and painstakingly put together the list, below, of direct links to each and every last one of them. FSFF will keep you updated about future, film-related developments at the archive, too.

Thanks to UC Press and their book authors for their great attitude to publishing scholarly works online.

• Armbrust, Walter, editor. Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000 2000
• Bloch, R. Howard, and Frances Ferguson, editors Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1989 1989
• Brunette, Peter, Roberto Rossellini. University of California Press, c1996 1996
• Byg, Barton. Landscapes of Resistance: The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995 1995
• Day, James. The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995 1995
• Flinn, Caryl. The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004 2004
• Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl. Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995 1995
• Henderson, Brian, and Ann Martin, editors. Film Quarterly: Forty Years - A Selection. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999 1999
• Higashi, Sumiko. Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994 1994
• Horton, Andrew, Play it again, Sam: retakes on remakes. Berkeley: University of California Press, c 1998 1998
• Iampolski, Mikhail. The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998 1998
• Karlstrom, Paul J., editor On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996 1996
• Kenner, Hugh. Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings, Portraits of American Genius. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994 1994
• Kinder, Marsha. Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991 1991
  
• Lawrence, Amy. Echo and Narcissus: Women's Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991 1991
  
• Matsumoto, Valerie J., and Blake Allmendinger, editors Over the Edge: Remapping the American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999 1999
• McGilligan, Patrick. Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991
• McGilligan, Patrick. Backstory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 60s. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997 1997
• Murphy, Timothy S. Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, c1997 1997
  
• Musser, Charles. Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991 1991
  
• Pearson, Roberta E. Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992 1992
• Riskin, Robert. Six Screen Plays by Robert Riskin. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997 1997
• Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Moving Places: A Life at the Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995 1995
• Roy, Parama. Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998 1998
• Saunders, Thomas J. Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994 1994
• Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945-1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998 1998
• Smoodin, Eric, and Ann Martin, editors. Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957. Berkeley: University of California, c2002 2002
• Tai, Hue-Tam Ho, editor. The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001
• Toepfer, Karl. Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997 1997
• Walters, Suzanna Danuta. Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
• Wees, William C. Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992 1992
• Yeh, Wen-hsin, editor. Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000 2000
  
• Zolov, Eric. Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999 1999

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Classic Latin American film studies in memory of Mario Benedetti

Sequence from El lado oscuro del corazón (The Dark Side of the Heart, Argentina, 1992, directed by Eliseo Subiela) featuring Mario Benedetti's poem 'No te salves'/'Don't Save Yourself' (recited by Oliverio/Dario Grandinetti to Ana/ Sandra Ballesteros) and starring Benedetti himself as 'El poeta alemán'/'the German Poet' reading his poem 'Corazón coraza'

Film Studies For Free was just going to post today on three classic Latin American film studies texts that are now fabulously available as free e-books from the wonderful people at University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions:

• Julianne Burton, The Social documentary in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1990)
• Randal Johnson, The film industry in Brazil: culture and the state (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1987)
• Eva Paulino Bueno and Terry Caesar, Imagination beyond nation: Latin American popular culture (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998)
  

But then FSFF's author heard of the sad death at 88 of the great Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, who devoted his life to demonstrating, so beautifully, that 'the South also exists', in literature, politics, and the cinema.

As the BBC website reports: 'Born to Italian immigrants, Benedetti wrote more than 80 novels, poems, short stories and essays during a career spanning six decades. His 1960 novel [La tregua] The Truce was translated into 19 languages and made into a film', La tregua directed by Sergio Renán based on a script by Benedetti and Aída Bortnik (the film was also remade in 2003) .

While Renán's La tregua was probably the most important film based on Benedetti's writing (at least in terms of its political impact), he was, in FSFF's opinion, the most cinematic of South American poets, with over eighteen screenplays to his name. He had a particular association with the highly lyrical film work of Argentine writer-director Eliseo Subiela (an auteur on whose work FSFF's author has published), especially the films El lado oscuro del corazón (1992, sequence embedded above; also see here) and Despabílate amor (aka Wake Up Love, 1996).

Below, as is FSFF's wont, are links to some online and freely accessible studies of the 'Benedettian' films of Subiela, as well as of Uruguayan and Southern Cone cinema more generally.

Nunca te salvaste, Mario... Gracias.

• Michael Chanan, Cinema in Latin America (1930-1960) and New Cinemas in Latin America (1960-1995) both essays from The Oxford History of World Cinema, ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, OUP, 1996
  
• Michael Chanan, 'Latin American Cinema in the 90s. Representational Space in Recent Latin American Cinema', E.I.A.L, Vol. 9, no. 1, Enero-Junio, 1998
• Michael Chanan, The Changing Geography of Third Cinema (Screen Special Latin American Issue, Volume 38, number 4, Winter 1997) The history of the concept of Third Cinema, from the introduction of the term by Solanas and Getino in 1968 to the 1990s.
• Tamara L. Falicov, 'Film Policy under MERCOSUR: The Case of Uruguay', Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 27, No 1 (2002)
• Catherine Grant, 'Giving up Ghosts: Eliseo Subiela's Hombre mirando al sudeste and No te mueras sin decirme a dónde vas', Changing Reels: Latin American Cinema against the Odds, ed. Rob Rix and Roberto Rodríguez-Saona (Leeds: Leeds Iberian Papers - Trinity and All Saints/University of Leeds, 1997), pp. 89-120
• Gustavo Iribarne, 'El último tren: Uruguayan cinema for the new millenium?, El Ojo Que Piensa, 2002
• Geoffrey Kantaris, 'The Last Snapshots of Modernity: Argentine Cinema after the '"Process"' Bulletin of Hispanic Studies [Glasgow] (April 1996)
• Geoffrey Kantaris, "The Repressed Signifier: the Cinema of Alejandro Agresti and Eliseo Subiela". Originally published in Identity and Discursive Practice. Ed. Francisco Domínguez. London: Peter Laing Publishers, 2000
• Geoffrey Kantaris, "Holograms and Simulacra: Bioy Casares, Subiela, Piglia". Web resource based on a seminar paper given at the Science and the Creative Imagination conference, Institute of Latin American Studies, London (22-Mar-2001). Includes video clips
• Jill S. Kuhnheim, Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004, via Google Books preview - on the sequence embedded above)
• David Oubiña, 'Between Breakup and Tradition: Recent Argentinean Cinema', Senses of Cinema, March 2004
  
• Joanna Page, 'Postmodernism, history and social critique in post-dictatorship Argentine cinema: a reading of Eliseo Subiela's El lado oscuro del corazon', The Modern Language Review, 2001; 96 (2)
  

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Music to the Eyes: Film Music Essays and Resources Online

Film Studies For Free silently but sonorously brings you its list of links to high-quality and freely accessible online scholarly writings pertaining to music, sound, film, video, and television (last updated 19 May 2009).

• Tim Anderson, 'Review of Michel Chion, The Voice in Cinema'
  

• Raphael Atlas, 'That Loving Feeling Meets the Danger Zone: Men, Sex, and Music in Top Gun'


• David Baker, 'I'm glad I'm not me!" Marking transitivity in Don't look back'


• Randall Barnes, 'Barton Fink: Atmospheric Sounds of the Creative Mind'


• Giorgio Biancorosso, 'Beginning Credits and Beyond: Music and the Cinematic Imagination'


• Ian Biddle, 'Love thy Neighbour? The Political Economy of Musical Neighbours?'


• Alexander Binns, 'Music in the films of Wong Kar-wai'


• Baldur Bjarnason, 'An Audiovisual Heterotopia'
  

• David Butler, 'The Days Do Not End: Film Music, Time and Bernard Herrmann'


• Lesley Chow, 'What the Sound Is Saying: How Music Moves in Bertolucci'


• Lesley Chow, 'Music, Morricone, and Jack Nicholson's Voice: The Soundscape of Wolf'


• Rebecca Coyle and Michael Hannan, 'Marking time in the Barry McKenzie films' music'


• Rebecca Coyle, 'Identifying Film Scoring [review of Anahid Kassabian, Hearing Film]'
  

• Leonardo D'Amico, '"People and sounds”: Filming African music between visual anthropology and television documentary'
  

• Lynda Dee Dixon and Patricia A. Washington, 'Rap Music Videos: The Voices of Organic Intellectuals'
  

• Aniruddha Dutta, 'Nation, Liberalisation And Film Songs: Technology And Hybridisation In Contemporary Hindi Film Music'


• E. Todd Fiegel, 'Bernard Herrmann as Musical Colorist: A Musico-Dramatic Analysis of His Score for The Day the Earth Stood Still'


• Steve Fore, 'From Rock kids to Beijing bastards: PRC youth subcultures on film before and after June 4'


• Liz Garnett, 'Musical Meaning Revisited: Thoughts on an 'Epic' Critical Musicology'
• Ian Garwood, 'Sound and Space in the Split-Screen Movie'


• Claudia Gorbman, 'Vigo/Jaubert' (scroll to p. 69)
  

• Catherine Grant, '''The "Author Function" in Transnational Film Adaptation: the Case of El lugar sin límites' (Arturo Ripstein, Manuel Puig, José Donoso)'


• Andrew Grossman, 'How to Murder John Williams: Toward an Ideology of Contrapuntal Antirealism'


• Andrew Grossman, 'Finding Unlikely Ideology in Prokofiev: Polyphonic and Anti-Authoritarian Gestures in The Gambler'


• Andrew Grossman, 'False Consonance and False Consciousness: Contrarian Notes on the Ideology of Film Music'


• Amanda Howell, 'Spectacle, masculinity, and music in blaxploitation cinema'


• Randolph Jordan, 'Brakhage’s Silent Legacy for Sound Cinema'


• Randolph Jordan, 'Transcending the Fragmentation of Experience: The acousmêtre on the air in the films of Michael Snow'


• Randolph Jordan, 'The Work of Hildegard Westerkamp in the Films of Gus Van Sant'


• Brett Kashmere, 'Beyond Notes: On Music, Improvisation and Film, and Writing [Brakhage]'


• Brett Kashmere, 'Semi-Random Thoughts about Improvisation, Jazz, and/or (a) Film in No Real Particular Order (Then Again, Maybe So)'


• Anahid Kassabian, 'Songstruck: rethinking identifications in romantic comedies'


• Anahid Kassabian, 'Ubiquitous Listening and Networked Subjectivity'


• Andrew L. Kaye, 'The Film Score and the African Musical Experience: Some comments on a work in progress'


• Victoria Large, Clouds and Scattered Sun: Kelly and Donen's It's Always Fair Weather'


• Jerrold Levinson, 'Film Music and Narrative Agency', in David Bordwell and Noël Carroll (eds.) , Post-Theory (via Google Books)


• William Lawrence McGinney, 'The Whole as a Result of its Parts: Assembly in Aaron Copland's Score for The Red Pony' (e-thesis)


• Brian McMillan, 'Complicitous Critique: Dancer in the Dark as Postmodern Musical'


• Patricia Mellencamp, 'Spectacle and Spectator: Looking Through the American Musical Comedy'


• Miguel Mera, 'Reap What You Sow: "Perfect Day" [Lou Reed, 1973] / Trainspotting' in Matthew Caley and Steve Lannin (eds), Pop Fiction: The Song in Cinema (via Google Books)


• Cory Messenger, 'Act naturally: Elvis Presley, the Beatles and "rocksploitation"'


• Tony Mitchell, 'Minimalist menace: The Necks score The boys'


• Mladen Milicevic, 'Film Sound Beyond Reality: Subjective Sound in Narrative Cinema'
  

• Niall Moody, 'Motion as the Connection Between Audio and Visuals'


• Scott Murphy, 'The Major Tritone Progression in Recent Hollywood Science Fiction Films'


• Ellen J. Nasto, 'Bernard Herrmann: An Annotated Index of Materials'


• Andrew Patrick Nelson, 'Notes and Thoughts on the use of popular songs in John Hughes Sixteen Candles (1984)' Part One


• Andrew Patrick Nelson, 'Notes and Thoughts on the use of popular songs in John Hughes Sixteen Candles (1984)' Part Two


• David P. Neumeyer, 'Schoenberg at the Movies: Dodecaphony and Film'


• Louis Niebur, 'Review of Kay Dickinson (ed.), Movie Music: The Film Reader'


• Offscreen Journal's 'Favourite Moments of Film Sound': Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind By: Jim Batcho; Patriot Games By: Aden Evens; The Jazz Singer By: Claudia Gorbman ; La Maman et la putain By: André Habib; The Haunting By: Thomas Phillips; Love is the Devil By: Martin Shingler; Stalker By: Donato Totaro; Tati, Hitchcock, Antonioni By: Elisabeth Weis; The Exorcist By: William Whittington ; The Wilhelm Scream By: Benjamin Wright.


• Offscreen Journal's 'Discourses on Diegesis': The Success Story of a Misnomer By: Henry M. Taylor; Diegetic Commentaries By: Martin F. Norden; Constructing the Diegesis in a Multi-Channel World By: Mark Kerins; Does Anybody Hear? By: Randolph Jordan; Acoustics of the Soul By: Randy Thom.


• Offscreen Journal's 'The State of the Art [on integration between sound and image]': Visual Music as Performing Art By: Fred Collopy; Synchronous Form In Visual Music By: Michael Betancourt ; On Sound and Image as a Single Entity By: Barry Spinello


• Ted Pigeon, 'On the Cinema of Music'
  

• Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, 'Apprehending Beauty [Review of Michel Chion, The Thin Red Line]
  

• Robert Robertson, 'Eisenstein on his audiovisual collaboration with Prokofiev'
  

• Karyn Charles Rybacki and Donald Jay Rybacki, 'Cultural Approaches to the Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Music Videos'
  


• Hannu Salmi, 'Composing the past: music and the sense of history in Hollywood spectacles of the 1950s and early 1960s'
  

• Diane Sandars, 'From the warehouse to the multiplex: techno and rave culture's reconfiguration of the late 1990s sci-fi spectacle as musical performance'
  

• Diana Sandars, 'Review of The Pop The Song in Cinema, edited by Matthew Caley and Steve Lannin'


• Tom Schneller, 'Death and Love: Bernard Herrmann's Score for Vertigo'
  

• Julia Schpinitskaya, 'Solaris by A. Tarkovsky: Musical-Visual Troping, Paradigmatism, Cognitive Stereoscopy'


• Linda Schubert, 'The Film Scores of Henry Vars in the United States: An Overview'
  

• Dennis C. Schweitzer, 'Ton and Traum: A Critical Analysis of the Use of Sound Effects and Music in Contemporaary Narrative Film' e-thesis
  

• 'Silent Jane', 'Beautiful Fragments of a Traumatic Memory: Synaesthesia, Sesame Street, and Hearing the Colors of an Abusive Past'
  

• Greg M. Smith, 'Streisand Shops the Museum Store: Consuming Art on Television'


• Jeff Smith 'The edge of seventeen: class, age, and popular music in Richard Linklater's School of Rock'


• Murray Smith, 'Music, Film, and Emotion'


• Robynn J. Stilwell, 'It May Look Like a Living Room…: The Musical Number and
  the Sitcom'


• Robynn J. Stilwell, 'Music in Films: A Critical Review of Literature, 1980-1996'


• Randy Thom, 'Designing a Movie for Sound [Soundscape: The School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001]'


• Gordon Thomas, 'Will the Shark Bite? G. W. Pabst and The Threepenny Opera'


• Boris Trbic, 'Norbert [Schultze], We Hardly Knew Ye: Rethinking the Late German Composer'
  

• Ben Turner, 'Acoustic Ambience in Cinematography: An Exploration of the Descriptive and Emotive Impact of the Aural Environment'


• Alan Vanneman, 'When Fred Met Red: Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, and Vera-Ellen Commingle in Three Little Words'


• Steve Vertlieb, 'Herrmann and Hitchcock: The Torn Curtain'


• Justin Vicari, 'Space Here We Come: P. J. Harvey's Please Leave Quietly Redefines the Concert Film DVD'


• James Wierzbicki, 'Review of Anahid Kassabian: Hearing Film'


• Ken Woodgate, '"Young and in love": music and memory in Leander Haussmann's Sun Alley'


• Bill Wrobel, 'The Nature of Bernard Herrmann's Music'


• Bill Wrobel, 'Herrmann Music in Have Gun Will Travel and Other Classic CBS Television Series'

Further essential resources may be found at FilmSound.Org, SonicObjects and USC Thornton Film Composers Know the Score (YouTube video).

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