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

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:

• Christian Keathley, 'Teaching the Scholarly Video Essay', Frames, Issue 1, July 2012

• Christian Keathley,  'Bonjour Tristesse and the Expressive Potential of Découpage', MOVIE, 3, 2011

• Christian Keathley, 'Otto Preminger and the Surface of Cinema', World Picture Journal, 2, 2008

• Christian Keathley, 'A Whirlpool of Things [on critical commentary and Otto Preminger’s Whirlpool]', In Media Res, May 14 , 200

• Christian Keathley et al, 'The Scholarship of Sound and Image: Producing Media Criticism in the Digital Age', MIT6 Stone Papyrus Storage and Transmission Conference, April 24-26, 2009

• Christian Keathley, 'The Cinephiliac Moment', Framework, 42, Summer 2000

Online Video Essays by Christian Keathley:

Pass the Salt from Christian Keathley on Vimeo.
Pass the Salt from 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).

About Christian Keathley's work:

• Jason Sperb, 'Review of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees by Christian Keathley (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006)', Scope: an online journal of film & TV studies, Issue 12, October 2008

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"Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia" Masterclasses in Film Criticism by Adrian Martin, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Jacques Rancière

Adrian Martin - Sint Lukas Brussels - 20/10/'11 from Courtisane Festival on Vimeo.

Jonathan Rosenbaum RITS-cinema Brussels 27/10/11 from Courtisane Festival on Vimeo.

Jonathan Rosenbaum KASK cinema Gent 28/10/11 from Courtisane Festival on Vimeo.

Jacques Rancière - Bozar studios Brussels - 18/11/'11 from Courtisane Festival on Vimeo.

“For me, film criticism is not a way of explaining or classifying things, it’s a way of prolonging them, making them resonate differently”

- Jacques Rancière

Today, Film Studies For Free presents some videos it's been meaning to link to here for an age: a series of very extensive, and very wonderful, masterclasses given by Adrian Martin, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Jacques Rancière in Brussels in 2011.

Their talks, part of the "Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia" project, explore the status and possibility of cinephilia and film critical thinking. These astonishingly good events took their title from the wonderful 2010 book by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Below are a few related links, including one to FSFF's mammoth collection of online writing on cinephilia.

• Catherine Grant, 'C is for Cinephilia Studies (plus some telephilia, too)', Film Studies For Free, May 28, 2009
• Adrian Martin, 'That Summer Feeling', Fipresci, 2005
• Adrian Martin's monthly Filmkrant columns, July 2010-present 
• Jacques Rancière, 'The Thwarted Fable', Rouge, 8, 2006
• Jacques Rancière , 'Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art',  Art and Research, 2.1, 2008
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia', JonathanRosenbaum.com, June 24, 2004
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'The Missing Image - From Cinephilia to the World - The Trajectory of Serge Daney', originally published in The New Left Review, 34, July-August 2005
• Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin, 'Preface to Movie Mutations: The changing face of world cinephilia', Fipresci Documents, 2004
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'Movie Love: Film-history tidbits in a monument to French cinephilia', Moving Image Source, March 5, 2009
• Jason Sperb, Be Kind...Rewind', Jamais Vu, May 13, 2012

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A 'Borgesian' Film Studies Library?

Charalambos Charalambous on Film Studies for Free

Film Studies For Free shamelessly contemplates its own hypertextual, pedagogical, navel today, but it blushingly hopes, nonetheless, that the above embedded document will be of interest to some of its fellow educator readers. Just click on this link to transport yourself to a better-sized version for reading (and downloading).

The above document, authored by film researcher and filmmaker Charalambos Charalambous (Χαράλαμπος Χαραλάμπους) of the University of Kent's School of Arts (Film Studies) in 2010, describes itself as

A study of Web 2.0 as an actualization of the concept of the Borgesian Library: a critical evaluation of WEB 2.0 technology in reference to the academic blog Film Studies For Free authored by Dr. Catherine Grant.   

It was based in part on a research questionnaire filled in by FSFF's author, and, in the opinion of the latter, is a fascinating and very well-informed reflection on the pedagogical possibilities of the kinds of anthologizing, virtual librarianship (or digital curation) that this blog so adores, and which are completely made possible by Web 2.0 technology.

The study will shortly be permanently stored at FSFF's page dedicated to discussion of Open Access, Digital Scholarship and the Digital Humanities.

In the meantime, FSFF would like to thank Charalambos for his thoughtful words, which have made its little digital body swell with pride!

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Film Critics of Tomorrow, Yesteryear and Today: Two Competitions

"Notes for a David Lynch adaptation of [Michael Jackon's autobiography] Moonwalk" 
by Steven Boone 

(If you'd like to help with Boone's next venture, click here).

Film Studies For Free begins its rather atypical post with the following questions: does FSFF have any film fanatical/cinephile, teenage readers? Or, do any of its venerable, film-academic readers have any film fanatical/cinephile, teenage relatives? If so (and if they are UK based), please read/get them to read about the "Film Critic of Tomorrow" competition - all details given at the foot of this post. Do please fondly remember this potentially life-changing blog-post if any of you or yours win...

Secondly, FSFF would like to help whip up some timely interest in the work one of the more talented, cinema-inspired, video essayists working today, New-York based Steven Boone, in order to help him make some more films. So, it proudly presents its first ever competition (and there's no age restriction, unlike the Film Critic of Tomorrow comp, as set out at the foot of this post)!

Here are the rules: write a piece of film criticism, in 200-400 words, about Boone's video "Notes for a David Lynch adaptation of [Michael Jackon's autobiography] Moonwalk" embedded above. Submit your entry by email to this address by next Thursday, July 1st (deadline extended), 17.00 hours GMT.

The most interesting entries received (and hopefully there will be some...) will be published in a future FSFF post. And the author of the most insightful and well-crafted will be mailed the more pristine copy (of the two in FSFF's possession) of Scott Balcerzak and Jason Sperb's important and fascinating 2009 collection of essays Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture, Vol. 1. . Let the competition commence! (And thank you for your kind indulgence).

Finally, today's FSFF post exists to exhort you, were such exhortation really necessary, to read David Bordwell's latest brilliant blogpost: "Glancing backward, mostly at critics".

You may not believe it, but magical things will happen if you do. Indeed, it was while she was doing just that, that FSFF's author noticed for the first time an item in Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's wonderful list of freely accessible research items (in the upper left hand column of the site): a link to a PDF file of the introductory chapter to Bordwell's magnificent opus The Way Hollywood Sees It: Story and Style in Modern Movies [Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006]). If you haven't read this before, you must. And now you easily can!

Here’s looking at you kids......

VIRGIN MEDIA and JAMES KING LAUNCH SEARCH FOR THE FILM CRITIC OF TOMORROW

Virgin Media has joined forces with broadcaster, James King [a Film and Television Studies graduate from the University of Warwick's brilliant degree programme], in searching the country for aspiring young film critics, to join the judging panel for the third annual Virgin Media Shorts competition.

As one of the industry’s finest film critics, James has already secured his place on the Virgin Media Shorts judging panel and is now looking for one lucky teenager to join him, alongside follow judges:

-          Award-winning British film actress, Thandie Newton

-          Film director, Duncan Jones, best known for his directorial debut Moon

-          Film director, Mike Newell, director of Four Weddings and a Funeral

-          Executive director of digital entertainment at Virgin Media, Cindy Rose

-          Senior production executive at the UK Film Council, Chris Collins

As part of the judging panel, the lucky teen will work with the expert panel to select the Grand Prize Winner from the short-listed films entered into this year’s competition. The winner will also get the Hollywood treatment, receiving an all expenses paid trip to London to attend the red carpet awards ceremony and mingle with the star-studded judging panel. Following in the footsteps of last year’s winner, 14-year old Jordan Campbell from Glasgow, who described the experience as feeling as popular as Susan Boyle!

Speaking about the competition, James King said: “Virgin Media Shorts already offers a fantastic opportunity for British film-making talent – shining a light on new and established individuals. However, what I am most looking forward to is discovering the talent of tomorrow. The search for a young film critic to join me on the Virgin Media Shorts judging panel will open the door to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for one aspiring youngster. And, I may even pick up some tips from them too!”

Entry is open to film fanatics aged between 13-19 years old and who think they’ve got what it takes to impress James. To enter, young film fans should visit www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/vipjudge and fill out the simple entry form. Deadline for entries is 5pm on Wednesday 30^th June when all entries will be reviewed and one teenager crowned the overall winner.

For more information about Virgin Media Shorts and to view some of this year’s entries, visit www.virginmediashorts.co.uk

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The Value of Style: Film Criticism in Scholarship

In memoriam: Alexis Tioseco (Criticine) and Nika Bohinc (ECRAN), September 2, 2009

"The first impulse of any good film critic, and to this I think you would agree, must be of love. To be moved enough to want to share their affection for a particular work or to relate their experience so that others may be curious. This is why criticism, teaching, and curating or programming, in an ideal sense, must all go hand in hand."
"The Letter I would Love To Read To You In Person" by Alexis Tioseco [to Nika Bohinc], July 15, 2008, pt 1, pt 2, pt 3

Image from The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

Today, Film Studies For Free is very merrily celebrating its first birthday. It is marking this auspicious date -- in style and on style -- by posting one of its longest links lists yet: to online and openly accessible articles and essays on the subject of film criticism (scholarly and otherwise) that FSFF's author has found important and/or stimulating over the last years.

FSFF would like its list to be even longer, though, so do please take note of the four headings below (on film style: on film criticism; on film critics; and important, self-reflexive, examples of film criticism online) and do let the blog know of links to other relevant work (especially to good examples of online film criticism), preferably in the comments section, please.

This post was inspired, in great part, some weeks back by the peerless Girish Shambu who launched a characteristically thoughtful and important discussion, in a blog entry entitled "Building A Large Conversation", about the divide that exists between the fields of film scholarship and film criticism. Girish wrote:

Except for a small number of invaluable critic-scholars who work to bridge the gap, the two groups similarly shy away from citing each other. Why is this so? For critics, it would require the significant effort of familiarizing themselves with scholarly literature past and present, an effort made more difficult by the presence of a specialized scholarly vocabulary. For scholars, whose jobs already require them to do vast amounts of reading, this would mean widening their field of vision to include writing in film magazines, the Internet (including blogs), and newspapers. Added to this are the demands in both professions of watching scores of films on a steady basis.

Like Girish, the many important commenters to his blog post, and other thoughtful respondents to it, such as HarryTuttle, FSFF readily acknowledges the difficulties in bridging these gaps.

In his response to Girish's post, film scholar and blogger Chris Cagle wrote eloquently and concisely about those difficulties, but in an optimistic frame, he noted that what might be needed is

a model that's different than pure specialization or pure dilettantism. For lack of a better name, I'd call it randomization. Each scholar specializes but looks to new ideas, methodologies, and inspiration in a limited fashion with the hope that collectively we mitigate the downside of stale intellectual mindsets. The journalist, blogger, or public intellectual could have a role in this.

Film Studies For Free owes its very existence to the desire to help to 'join up' scholars and critics in the global online arena. And it very much seconds Cagle's assertions about what is required to achieve this. Today, then, it reaffirms its own mission by helping to encourage a richer and more connected 'scholar-critic conversation' through the below list of 'randomly collected' but also 'specialized' links.

On a final note, FSFF has received lots of encouragement in its first year of existence, but none warmer, more timely or more generous than that given in its early days by Girish, whose own website continues to be a huge inspiration in all sorts of ways. Thanks a million to him, and to all of you who have welcomed and supported this blog. Onwards!

On film style:

• David Bordwell [interviewed by Jakob Isak Nielsen], 'Bordwell on Bordwell: Part I – Hitchcock, Hartley and the Poetics of Cinema' 16:9, Volume 2, Number 7, June 2004
• David Bordwell [interviewed by Jakob Isak Nielsen], 'Bordwell on Bordwell: Part II - Functions of Film Style', 16: 9, Volume 2, number 8, September 2004
• David Bordwell [interviewed by Jakob Isak Nielsen], 'Bordwell on Bordwell: Part III - Writing On Film Style', 16: 9, Volume 2, number 9, November 2004
• Edward Colless, 'The Possessed', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990): 'Film: Matters of Style' Issue, edited by Adrian Martin
• Jeffrey Crouse, ' Cinema's Recounting of the Ordinary [Review of Andrew Klevan, Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film, Trowbridge, Wiltshire: Flicks Books, 2000]', CineAction, Fall, 2001
• Barrett Hodsdon, 'The mystique of mise en scene revisited', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Kent Jones, 'Can Movies Think?', Rouge, 2008
• Andrew Klevan, 'A Reply to Adrian Martin['s review of Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2008
• Adrian Martin, 'Review of John Gibbs & Douglas Pye (eds). Style and meaning: studies in the detailed analysis of film. Manchester University Press, 2005', Screening the Past, July 2005
• Adrian Martin, 'Secret Agents [ A review of Andrew Klevan, Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2007
• Adrian Martin, 'S.O.S.', Continuum, The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5, no 2 , 1990
• William D. Routt, 'L'Evidence', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Robin Wood, 'Only (Dis)Connect; and Never Relaxez-Vous; or, "I Can’t Sleep"', Film International, Issue 11
  

On film criticism:

• Richard Armstrong, 'Notes on a Scandal: On Film Criticism and Its Teachers', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 57, August 2007
• Mark Asch, 'What I Took From ‘Film Criticism in Crisis?’ ', The L Magazine, September 29, 2008
• David Bordwell, 'Film Interpretation Revisited', Vol. 27, No. 3, Winter-Spring 1993
  
• David Bordwell, 'Against Insight', Cinema Scope, Issue 26
  
• David Bordwell, 'In critical condition', Observations on film art and Film Art, May 14, 2008
• David Bordwell, 'Studying Cinema', Observations on film art and Film Art, 2000
• Nicole Brenez, 'The ultimate journey: remarks on contemporary theory', Screening the Past, December 1997
• Chris Cagle, 'Taste and Scholarship', Category D: A Film and Media Studies blog, July 23, 2009
• Lorena Cancela, 'Import or Confront?', Fipresci, Issue 2, 2006
• Stanley Cavell interviewed by Harry Kreisler, 'Philosophy and film criticism', Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, 2002
• 'Crisis Averted: Film Comment Reports on “Film Criticism in Crisis?”', FilmLinc Blog, September 30, 2008
• Dublin2009, 'From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith', Explorations in British Film, July 2, 2009'
• Matthew Clayfield, 'Missionaries and Sceptics', Esoteric Rabbit Blog, December 16th, 2005
• Matthew Clayfield, 'Reading, Closely', Esoteric Rabbit Blog, November 18th, 2005
• Jim Emerson, 'Film Criticism Blogathon!', Scanners, December 1, 2006
• Jim Emerson, '"Oh yeah? Well, I criticize you back!"', Scanners, June 29, 2009
• 'Film Criticism in Crisis?: A New York Film Festival panel discussion [Contributions from Jonathan Rosenbaum, Emmanuel Burdeau, Cahiers du cinéma Editor, Kent Jones, Film Comment Editor-at-Large, David Hudson, GreenCine Daily Editor, Jessica Winter, O magazine film critic, Pascual Espiritu (aka Acquarello) of Strictly Film School, Seung-hoon Jeong, former critic for Korean film weekly Cine 21, and hosted by Gavin Smith]', Film Comment, September 27, 2008
• 'Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium [contributions from Zach Campbell, Robert Cashill, Mike D’Angelo, Steve Erickson, Andrew Grant, J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Glenn Kenny, Robert Koehler, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, Adrian Martin, Adam Nayman, Theodoros Panayides, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Dan Sallitt, Richard Schickel, The Self-Styled Siren, Girish Shambu, Michael Sicinski, Amy Taubin, Andrew Tracy, and Stephanie Zacharek]', Cineaste, Vol. 33 No.4 (Fall 2008)
• Tag Gallagher, 'Truly Doing Movie Criticism', Kunst-der Vermittlung, May 2009
• Girish Shambu [and commenters], ' Building A Large Conversation', girish, July 13, 2009
• Girish Shambu, 'A Cinema Haunted By Writing', girish, May 3, 2009
• Matthew Holtmeier, 'Solanas and Getino's Problem with Film Criticism', Cinema without Organs, August 13, 2009
• 'How Film Critics Work [Contributions from Julie Rigg, Adrian Martin, Klaus Eder, Richard Kulpers, and chaired by Roslyn Petelin]', A forum, presented by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School as part of the Brisbane International Film Festival 2005, Fipresci, Issue 1, 2006
• Nick James, 'Who needs critics?', Sight and Sound, October 2008
• Noel King, 'Critical alibis and thin description', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 6 no 2 (1991)
• Noel King, 'Critical occasions: David Bordwell's Making Meaning and the institution of film criticism', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 6 no 1 (1992)
• Andrew Klevan, 'A Reply to Adrian Martin['s review of Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2008
• Joseph "Jon" Lanthier, 'Window to the (Critic's) Soul: Film Criticism 101: Why You Should Recycle the Promo Packet', Bright Lights After Dark, May 06, 2009
• Scott Macaulay, 'How to (maybe?) make a lving as a film journalist', Filmmaker Magazine blog, July 12, 2009
• Adrian Martin, 'Scanning Godard', Screening the Past, June 2000
• Adrian Martin, 'The State of Film Criticism', La lectora provisoria, October 9, 2007
• Adrian Martin and Cinemascope – Independent Film Journal, 'Responsibility and Criticism', Cinemascope, Issue 7, January-April 2007
• Maya, 'A Critical Moment: Three Perspectives [B. Ruby Rich, David D'Arcy, John Anderson]', based on a panel moderated by SF360 editor Susan Gerhard. Panel participants included Gerald Peary, B. Ruby Rich, David D'Arcy, Dennis Harvey, John Anderson, Jonathan Curiel, and Mary Pols, The Auteurs Notebook, August 25, 2009
  
• Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, 'The Rise and Fall of Film Criticism', Film Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 1, Fall 2008
• Tom O'Regan, 'Writing an Australian film history: some methodological notes', Continuum, 1996
• William D.Routt, 'Textual criticism in the study of film', Screening the Past, 3 July, 1997
• William D. Routt, 'L'Evidence', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Girish Shambu, 'On Film Criticism', girish, February 12, 2007
• Andrew Schenker, 'On the interview in film criticism', The Cine File, August 24, 2009
• Sam Thorne, 'Back & Forward [on the changing role of cultural theory ]', Frieze Magazine, Issue 125, September 2009
• HarryTuttle, 'Bordwell on cliché in criticism', Screenville, July 17, 2009
• HarryTuttle, 'Nomad Cinephilia (Adrian Martin) [on Martin's 'The State of Film Criticism]', Screenville, October 17, 2008
• Chuck Tryon, 'Blogging, Film Criticism, and Niche Audiences', The Chutry Experiment, August 6, 2009
• Chuck Tryon, 'Has Film Criticism Lost its (Box Office) Mojo?', The Chutry Experiment, July 24, 2009
• Chuck Tryon, 'Film Criticism in the Internet Age', The Chutry Experiment, May 3, 2009
• Chuck Tryon, 'Blogging and Criticism: Some Reflections', The Chutry Experiment, May 25, 2008
• Two Week Film Collective, 'Film Criticism: Evolution and Importance In the Digital Age', #2wkfilm (aka Royal Baronial Theatre), May 4, 2009
• Robin Wood, 'Only (Dis)Connect; and Never Relaxez-Vous; or, "I Can’t Sleep"', Film International, Issue 11
  

On film critics:

• Patrick Amos and Jean-Pierre Gorin, 'The Farber Machine', Rouge, 2008
• Richard Armstrong, 'Review of "It’s Only a Movie!": Films and Critics in American Culture, by Raymond J. Haberski Jr. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 35, January 2002
• Jason Bellamy et al, 'Pauline Kael Week', The Cooler, June 20, 2009
• David Bordwell, 'Weather Bird Flies Again [on Gary Giddins], Observations on film art and Film Art, January 30, 2007
• Stanley Cavell interviewed by Harry Kreisler, Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, 2002
• Dennis Cozzalio, 'Seeing and Writing (and Sewing): Quality Time with Stephanie Zacherek', Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, July 28, 2009
• 'Critics on Critics [Contributions from Geoff Andrew, Michael Atkinson, Tom Charity, Ian Christie, Michel Ciment, Hamid Dabashi, Jean-Michel Frodon, Graham Fuller, Ryan Gilbey, Kent Jones, Mark Le Fanu, Adrian Martin, Olaf Moller, Kim Newman, Jonathan Rosenbaum,Sukhdev Sandhu, Tadao Sato, David Thomson, Kenneth Turan, Armond White]', Sight and Sound, October 2008
• Serge Daney interviewed by Bill Krohn for Cahiers du Cinéma and The Thousand Eyes, 1977
• Anna Dzenis, 'Review of Serge Daney, Postcards from the cinema. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 2007', Screening the Past, 2007
• Raymond Durgnat, ‘Culture Always is a Fog’, Rouge, 2006
• Roger Ebert, 'I'm a proud brainiac', Chicago Sun-TImes, July 5, 2009
• Richard Eldridge, 'Review of Russell Goodman (ed.), Contending with Stanley Cavell, Oxford University Press, 2005', Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August 2004
• Colin Fleming, 'Review of Britton on Film: The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton, edited by Barry Keith Grant. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2008', CIneaste, Vol.XXXIV No.4 2009
  
• Chris Fujiwara, 'For the Love of Movies: An Interview with Gerald Peary', Firpresci, Issue 5, 2009
• Tag Gallagher, 'Truly Doing Movie Criticism', Kunst-der Vermittlung, May 2009
• Christian Hamaker, 'Sarris 101: A Film Critic’s Politics', Christian Hamaker's Blog, August 13, 2009
• A. S. Hamrah, 'Only Angels Have Wings: Insoluble Farber', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2008
• D. K. Holm et al, 'A Raymond Durgnat Bibliography', Cinemonkey, February 2007
• Gary Indiana, Annette Michelson, Geoffrey O'Brien, Paul Schrader, and Craig Seligman, 'Prose and Cons. [on Pauline Kael]', Artforum International Magazine, 2002
• Bill Krohn, 'My Budd by Manny Farber, Rouge, 2008
• Adrian Martin, 'The Qualities I Like: Impressions of Manny Farber', Rouge, 2008
• Tony McKibbin, 'Durgnatian Doublethink', Senses of Cinema, April 2002
• Jeffrey Overstreet, 'In memory of Andrew Sarris’s New York Observer reviews', Filmwell, August 11, 2009
• Donald Phelps, 'Critic Going Everywhere [on Manny Farber', Rouge, 2008
• Michael Powell, 'A Survivor of Film Criticism’s Heroic Age' [on Andrew Sarris] The New York Times, July 9, 2009
• Andy Rector, '"Truly doing movie criticism" [on Tag Gallagher and his video essays', Kino Slang, August 16, 2009
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Moving Places: A Life at the Movies, (University of California Press, 1995) e-book
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'Thinking About (Personal) History Lessons: The Movie Paintings of Manny Farber', Rouge 2008
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'They Drive By Night: the Criticism of Manny Farber', JonathanRosenbaum.com, August 18, 2008
• Alexis Tioseco, "The Letter I would Love To Read To You In Person, ROGUE, July 15, 2008, pt 1, pt 2, pt 3
• Josep Torrell, 'Barthélemy Amengual Has Died', Fipresci, Issue 1, 2006
• Harry Tuttle, 'Bazin - on Criticism - 1943', Screenville, May 17, 2006
• Harry Tuttle, Bazin - on Criticism - 1958', Screenville, July 14, 2006
  
• Charles Warren, 'Cavell, Altman, Cassavetes', Film International, Issue 22
  

Important, self-reflexive, examples of film criticism online:

• Michael J. Anderson, ' Face & Form in Rohmer: From Ma nuit chez Maud’s Talking Cinema to the Denial of Eloquence in Le Rayon vert', Tativille, August 9, 2009
  
• David Bordwell, 'Cognition and Comprehension: Viewing and Forgetting in Mildred Pierce', Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1992
• Serge Daney, 'The Tracking Shot in Kapo' (translation by Laurent Kretzschmar), Senses of Cinema, Issue 30, Jan-Feb 2004
• Raymond Durgnat, 'Extract from A Long Hard Look at Psycho', Senses of Cinema, 2002
• Ross Gibson, 'The Searchers - Dismantled', Rouge, 2005
• James MacDowell, 'Beneath the Surface of Things: Interpretation and Far From Heaven', Offscreen Journal, Volume 10, Issue 5, May 31, 2006
• Shigehiko Hasumi, 'John Ford, or The Eloquence of Gesture', Rouge, 2005
• Alain Masson, 'An architectural promenade', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Alain Masson, 'A sequence from Avanti', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, vol. 5 no 2 (1990)
• Ken Mogg, 'Will and wilfulness: recent commentary on Hitchcock's The Birds', Screening the Past, March 2001
• Steven Peacock, 'Holding onto Moments in The Age of Innocence', Film Studies, Issue 9, Winter 2006
• VF Perkins, 'You Only Live Once', WRAP: the Warwick Research Archive Project (Date Unknown), plus frame stills (one HERE, two HERE and three HERE)
• VF Perkins, 'Same Tune Again! Repetition and Framing in Letter from an Unknown Woman'(originally published in CineAction! no. 52) republished online by Danish film studies journal 16:9 (September 2003)
• VF Perkins, 'Moments of Choice' [on film directing] (originally published in The Movie, ch. 58, reprinted in Ann Lloyd (ed.), Movie Book of the Fifties, Orbis, 1982) republished online by the Australian journal Rouge (issue 9, 2006)
• William Rothman, 'Chronicle of a Summer', Documentary Film Classics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997)
• Jean-Louis Schefer, 'On La Jetée', (translated by Paul Smith), Chris Marker: Notes from the Era of Imperfect Memory, 2008
• Jason Sperb, 'Punch-Drunk Love', Jamais Vu, May 23, 2008
  
• George Wilson, 'Love and Bullshit in Santa Rosa: On the Coen Brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There,' For a session of the Working Group on Philosophy, Film, and Fiction at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007.
• George Wilson, 'Rapport, Rupture, and Rape: Reflections on Talk to Her,' For a volume devoted to Almodovar's movie Talk to Her, Anne Wescott Eaton (ed.), Routledge Publishing, 2007
• Robin Wood, 'Only (Dis)Connect; and Never Relaxez-Vous; or, "I Can’t Sleep"', Film International, Issue 11
• Robin Wood, 'Revenge is Sweet: The Bitterness of "Audition"', Film International, Issue 7
  

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