Ten Monday Must Visits

Some great (recent) reading, listening, and viewing links with which to begin the week - from (a far too chilled out for its own good) Film Studies For Free:

• Paul Bowman, 'The Fantasy Corpus of Martial Arts' (essay draft), Cultural Studies, June 25, 2009
• Vicki Callahan, 'Interview with Joan Myers on her research regarding Virginia Rappe and Fatty Arbuckle', Feminism 3.0, July 2, 2009 podcast and slideshow
• Dublin2009, 'From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith', [Opening post from new blogspot] From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith: Explorations in British Film, July 2, 2009
• Ed Howard's superb idea for a new blog, The Film Blog Calendar, July 1, 2009 (great listings of notable blog events)
• Dan Jardine, 'My Year in Film Studies Part 1', Cinemania, June 29, 2009
• Jason Mittell, 'Previously On: Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory', Just TV, July 3, 2009
• Meaghan Morris, 'Banality in Cultural Studies', Cultural Studies, June 8, 2009
• Anne Helen Petersen, 'Everything Old is New, Everything New is Old [on the history and study of celebrity gossip]', Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style - proto-scholastic musings on star studies 2.0, June 9, 2009
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'GERTRUD as Nonnarrative: The Desire for the Image', JonathanRosenbaum.com, July 5, 2009
• Matt Zoller Seitz, 'Do the Right Thing Is About More Than Just Race', The L Magazine, July 4, 2009 Video essay (also see HERE)
  

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Enlightenus

A reclusive author has asked for your help! Travel to the mysterious world of Enlightenus and use your detective skills to track down Edgar Lee`s missing novels! Explore an entirely different maze full of perplexing puzzles and intricate locks, as you collect each chapter of the missing books. This unique Hidden Object Adventure game challenges you to solve each riddle in order to escape the land of Enlightenus!

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Yesterday and Today was registered members around 350.All they could not get the activation mail because my forum have some problems, but this problem will be fixed soon.
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My Frustration - Finally Over!

I couldn't remember when, but I think it was more than a month ago that I started getting this error message whenever I click the "View Blog" tab on my blogger page: "Internet Explorer cannot display the site...my blog address/link...and it will abort the operation". I had to click the 'Back' buttons a few times to get around with it. It was really frustrating! I thought it was due to our broadband service, and the problem will go off, soon, naturally. But it didn't!

Well, I got up this morning feeling that I shouldn't be tolerating this glitch any longer and started doing a search. I was so happy to be able to find the root cause of it and the problem was solved in a matter of a click!

If you are facing the same problem, let me tell you, it is all the fault of the 'GOGGLE FRIEND CONNECT" or aka 'FOLLOWERS' gadget displayed at my sidebar. Simply remove the gadget and the glitch is gone. I guess Blogger is working on it, and hopefully they could come up with a solution soon as I find that it is actually a neat and cool gadget.

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Adrian Martin Podcast

Film Studies For Free is delighted to inform its readers, today, about a really worthwhile podcast by Adrian Martin - a recording of a great talk he gave in the Provisional Insight Colloquium series at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, on July 18 2008, entitled 'Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking in Auerbach, Kracauer, Benjamin and some others'.

The abstract for the talk is given below. The podcast (just over an hour long) can be accessed (with or without a slideshow) from the Monash University Arts website HERE.

For further great podcasts from the same series (by Ian Aitken; Andrew Benjamin; Graeme Gilloch; Helen Grace; Deane Williams; and the wonderful Lesley Stern) click HERE.

Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking in Auerbach, Kracauer, Benjamin and Some Others

Adrian Martin

In “A Philosophical Interpretation of Freud”, Paul Ricoeur (drawing upon Hegel) remarks: “The appropriation of a meaning constituted prior to me presupposes the movement of a subject drawn ahead of itself by a succession of ‘figures’, each of which finds its meaning in the ones which follow it.” The notion of the figural has recently become popular in European film theory and analysis, especially due to the work of Nicole Brenez – in which the figure stands for “the force … of everything that remains to be constituted” in a character, object, social relation or idea. Her use of the term refers back to magisterial work of German literary philologist Erich Auerbach (Mimesis), who decoded the religious interpretive system wherein all persons and events are grasped as significant only insofar as they prefigure their fulfilment on the ‘last day’ of divine judgement. Auerbach’s 1920s work on figuration in Dante was an important influence on his friend Walter Benjamin; and it was this ‘theological’ aspect of Benjamin’s thought that caught Kracauer’s attention, leading to the problematic of the redemption of worldly things. In this lecture I will trace the notion of figural thinking from Weimar then to Paris (and beyond) today, taking in writings by William Routt and Giorgio Agamben, as well as two filmmakers also touched by figural thinking: Josef von Sternberg and Douglas Sirk.

Adrian Martin is Senior Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). His books include What is Modern Cinema? (Uqbar 2008), Raul Ruiz: Magnificent Obsessions (Altamira 2004), The Mad Max Movies (Screensound/Currency 2003), Once Upon a Time in America (BFI 1998) and Phantasms (Penguin 1994), and he has regular columns in Film Quarterly (US), De Filmkrant (Holland) and Cahiers du cinéma España (Spain). He is the Co-editor of Movie Mutations (BFI 2003) and the Internet film magazine Rouge.

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