Journal of the Moving Image: Indian and South Asian cinema and media studies

Image from Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (Anil Sharma, 2001). 

For more on this film, read "Beyond Partition: The Political Horizons of Contemporary Indian and Korean War Films" by Bhaskar Sarkar

Film Studies For Free just came across a really good e-journal that it hadn't bumped into before: Journal of the Moving Image, an annual publication of the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. 

It was launched in print format in 1999, but its print and online versions now co-exist. As its mission statement puts it,

JMI seeks to represent critical work on the state of contemporary screen cultures. There are many regions in the world with large viewing populations, often with vast production infrastructures for film and television; but corresponding institutions or forums for critical engagement with such audio-visual regimes are still highly inadequate. JMI seeks to address a broad set of issues ranging from formal properties of the moving image to the social foundation of its production, transmission and reception. There will be a special focus on India and South Asia, and on issues of transnational media transactions, but we would like to offer a wider range of discussion on film and television from various parts of the world made from different perspectives.

FSFF wanted to share its contents with you promptly, so direct links to all items so far online are pasted in below, with the most recent issue first. The first three issues of JMI are also being prepared for online publication. 

There are some excellent items here (you might try out Ravi Vasudevan's The Meanings of ‘Bollywood’ just for starters). So FSFF heartily recommends that you subscribe to JMI ready for its next issue in December. 

(Also, please check out, if you haven't yet, FSFF's own related entry: "Bollywood" for Beginners and Beyond: Introductions to Popular Hindi Cinema Studies)

JMI, Number 8, December, 2009

• Editorial Note

• Preserving Film (on Film) in a Digital Age Josef Lindner

• Together against the Mafia: Godard, Scorsese, Bit Torrent Sebastian Lutgert

• Cinema’s Floating Point Matt Hanson

• Of Jesters, Clowns and Pranksters: YouTube and the Condition of Collaborative Authorship Nishant Shah

• Photoshop Landscapes: Digital Mediations and Bollywood Cities Madhija Mukherjee

• Special Feature Conjunction and Flow: The Gendered Temporalities of (Media) Disasters Kumkum Sangari

JMI, Number 7, December, 2008

• Editorial Note

• Querying the ‘Traditional’ Roots of Silent Cinema in Asia  Kaushik Bhaumik

• Beyond Partition: The Political Horizons of Contemporary Indian and Korean War Films Bhaskar Sarkar

• The Subject of Representation in Korean Cinema: Two Limit Cases  Earl Jackson, Jr.

• Meet John Doe’s Order: Piracy, Temporality and the Question of Asia  Lawrence Liang

• Missing in the Original: Twin Dragons Remade in India S.V. Srinivas

• Theorizing New Asian Cinemas: Problems of the Historicist Approach Manas Ghosh

• Student Paper New Urban Spaces: Films of Tsai Ming-liang Michelle Baitali Bhowmik

• Special Feature The Meanings of ‘Bollywood’ Ravi Vasudevan

JMI, Number 6, December, 2007

• Editorial Note

• An Aesthetic for Film Sound in India? Ashish Rajadhyaksha

• Communication and Signification: Voice in the Cinema M. Madhava Prasad

• Early Indian Talkies: Voice, Performance and Aura Madhuja Mukherjee

•  Musical Contests: Reflections on Musical Values in Popular Film Amlan Das Gupta

• Speaking through Troubled Times Moinak Biswas

• Seeing through the Sound: Certain Tendencies of the Soundtrack in Satyajit Ray's Films of the 1970s Anindya Sengupta

• Student Papers Sound Memories: In Search of Lost Sounds in Indian Cinema Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and  Sound of Horror: Sound and Dread in Hindi Cinema Shubham Roy Choudhury

• Special Feature  Space, Interiority and Affect in Charulata and Ghare Baire Supriya Chaudhuri

JMI, Number 5, December, 2006

• Editorial Note

• The Curious Case of Bombay’s Hindi Cinema: The Career of Indigenous ‘Exhibition’ Capital Ashish Rajadhyaksha

• Acceleration and Conflicts: Comments on the Cinematic Object in the 1990s and After Jeebesh Bagchi

• Persistence of the Feudal: Star and Film Form in Post 1970s Telugu Cinema S V Srinivas

• Mourning and Blood-Ties: Macbeth in Mumbai Moinak Biswas

• Live(li)ness and Network Publics in Post-Liberalization Indian Popular Films Abhijit Roy

• Memories of Development: The Fantastic Non-Presence of Kolkata in Post-Liberalization Bangla Cinema Sovan Tarafder

• The Middle Class: Consuming and Consumed: The Romance of Bombay Cinema Neha Chadha

JMI, Number 4, November, 2005

• Editorial Note

• The Apparatus and its Constituencies: On India’s Encounters with Television Abhijit Roy

• Panoramas of Asia and the Electronic Hearth: Michael Palin’s Connections John Hutnyk 

• The Subjects of News Television M. Madhava Prasad

• Kyunki Main Bhi Kabhi Tulsi Thi : Opening and Using the Black Box of Primetime Telereality Ipsita Chanda

• Media Trials and Courtroom Tribulations : The Battle of Images, Words and Shadows in the 13 December Case Suddhabrata Sengupta

• Television, Nationalism and Indian Cricket in the Era of Global Media Manas Ghosh

• Development (without) Communication: Viewing Doordarshan Methodologically Dipankar Sinha

• 'Reading' Television: Towards a Definition of Audio-Visual Literacy Nilanjana Gupta

• Remote Control Nationalism: Media politics in Guyana Atticus Narrain

Kinocultura: on Russian, Russo-Soviet, Eastern European, & Central Asian cinemas & television

Excerpt from the beginning of Nastroishchik/The Tuner (Kira Muratova, Russia/Ukraine, 2004)

Muratova’s tight and intricate narrative is punctuated by familiar cinematic devices, red herrings, and pranks immediately identifiable—even beyond cinema production—with Muratova’s sui generic style. [F]irst, her inclusion of a “cultural intermezzo” by an amateur artist-enthusiast.  [...]  In The Tuner, this device takes the form of a girl singer-songwriter performing on public transport and a number of other charmingly inept musicians (a clarinetist, two tuba players, random, elderly singers, and Andrei’s spontaneous “Uzbek” improvisation).  This is the utopian dimension of Muratova’s creative act: irredeemably unprofessional, yet utterly complete, self-sufficient in itself, the flawless conjuration of an inner hallucination. Nancy Condee, 'Kira Muratova, The Tuner [Nastroishchik] (2004)', Kinocultura, Issue 7  January 2005

(See also Emma Widdis: Muratova's Clothes, Muratova's Textures, Muratova's Skin Kinocultura, Issue 8, April 2005; Acquarello, 'The Tuner, 2004', Strictly Film School, July 27, 2006)

Film Studies For Free was alerted yesterday by David Hudson at The Auteurs Daily that the April 2010 issue of Kinocultura, the Open Access journal of New Russian Cinema, had just been published online.  

This journal has been appearing since July 2003, and that simple fact makes for a true wealth of freely accessible scholarly resources. With its editorial board of leading scholars in this field, Kinocultura is quite simply one of the best film studies e-journals, with its incredibly wide-ranging scholarly articles alongside wonderful film and book reviews and dossiers/reports/roundtable discussions/videos.  

Below, FSFF has copied and pasted in the index of all full-length articles and interviews published by the journal to date. Here also is a list of Kinocultura's special issues on particular countries:#1 Central Asia (2004); #2 Poland (2005); #3 Slovakia (2005); #4 Czech Rep. (2006); #5 Bulgaria (2006); #6 Romania (2007); #7 Hungary (2008); #8 Serbia (2009); #9 Ukraine (2009); #10 Estonia (2010). Note that there are forthcoming issues on Kazakhstan and Croatia.
 
Those of you interested in Russian and Soviet film studies should also know about the following great, online bibliography, too: University of Pittsburgh Russian and Soviet Cinema.

Kinocultura - Issue 28: April 2010

• Mariya Y. Boston: "Speaking in Tongues: Poetic Language in Nikita Mikhalkov’s Burnt by the Sun"

• Andrey Shcherbenok: "Asymmetric Warfare: The Vision of the Enemy in American and Soviet Cold War Cinemas"

Festival Report

• Birgit Beumers: " Restoring Images: Belye Stolby 2010"

Issue 27: January 2010

• David MacFadyen: Cinematic Abuse as Self-Affirmation: Russian Video Mash-ups, Illegal Social Networking, and the Rise of Bekmambetov’s “Office Plankton”

• Maria Vinogradova: Amateur Cinema in the Soviet Union and the Leningrad of Film Amateurs in the 1970s-1980s

Festival Reports

• Dar'ia Borisova: Kinoshok 2009: The Expiring Principle of Soviet Brotherhood

AAASS 2009 Roundtable on Young Kazakh Cinema

• Birgit Beumers: Waves, old and new, in Kazakh Cinema

• Jane Knox-Voina: Young Kazakh Filmmakers:  New “New Wave” on the Road

• Stephen M. Norris: The Gifts of History: Young Kazakh Cinema and the Past

• Eugénie Zvonkine: “Kazakhstan Rules the World:” Satybaldy Narymbetov’s Mustafa Shokai (2008) and the Rewriting of History

Issue 26: October 2009

• Evgenii Margolit: “Monumental Sculptures in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s”

Festival Reports

• Birgit Beumers: “A Return to Folklore?—Suzdal 2009”

• Birgit Beumers, “Kinotavr 2009: The Victory of New Drama”

• Christina Stojanova: “Characters and Circumstances: Notes on the Competition Program of the 31st Moscow International Film Festival”

Issue 25: July 2009

• Kristina Matvienko: With a Cine-Eye through Russia: The Festival “Kinoteatr.doc” 2009

• Irina Mel’nikova: (Re)presentation of The Metamorphosis: Valerii Fokin, Franz Kafka, René Magritte and the Issue of Cinematic Adaptation

• [Interview] Anton Sidarenka: Interview with Sergei Loznitsa. Conversations on Cinema: "A Master of Time"

Issue 24: April 2009

• Nikolai Izvolov: Designed Sound in the USSR

• Jane Knox-Voina: New ‘New’ Wave Filmmakers Welcome Their Audiences’ Discomfort: Kazakh and Kyrgyz Youth Films

• Gulnara Abikeeva: Central Asian Documentary Films of the Soviet Era as a Factor in the Formation of National Identity

Festival Report:

• Gulbara Tolomushova: The Secret Sense of the Tashkent Messages

Issue 23: January 2009

• Maria Belodubrovskaya: Understanding the Magic: Special Effects in Ladislas Starewitch's L'Horloge magique

• Larisa Maliukova: The State of the Art: Russian Animation Today

• Evgenii Margolit: The Image of Germans in Russian Cultural Space

Festival Reports:

• Birgit Beumers: New Voices and Old Images: Eurasia 2008

• Gulbara Tolomushova: Dushanbe Flights to Googoosh's Songs: Didor 2008

Issue 22: October 2008

• Klaus Eder: Moscow 2008: The Center of the Province

• Nina Tsyrkun: "Forward to the Past, or: What kind of millennium has begun?" (on the Russian Program of the Moscow International Film Festival)

• Diliara Tasbulatova: "Kinotavr 19"

• Aliya Moldalieva: "New Cinema in Kyrgyzstan"

Issue 21: July 2008
Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium 2008 — The Ideological Occult: Russian Cinema under Putin:

• Seth Graham: "Two Decades of Post-Soviet Cinema: Taking Stock of Our Stocktaking"
• Stephen Norris: "Packaging the Past: Cinema and Nationhood in the Putin Era"
• Marina Drozdova: "Tremors: Various Types of Unrest"
• Aleksandr Kiselev: " 'No Power Can Force Us to Live Badly' "
• Gregory Dolgopolov: “Liquidating the Happy end of the Putin-era”

• Birgit Beumers: "The 13th Open Russian Animation Festival Suzdal" (2008)

• Dina Goder: "Kinoteatr.doc 2008: Some Notes on the Cuffs"

• David MacFadyen: “The Presumed Threat of Digital Culture to Russian Cinema”

Issue 20: April 2008

• Tom Birchenough: The Koktebel Studio

• Dar'ia Borisova: The Forum of National Cinematographies Played at Being a Film School

• Barbara Wurm: The International Film Festival Rotterdam — A Festival of Significance for Russian Cinema; In Focus: Svetlana Proskurina

• Birgit Beumers: Returning to the Roots: Central Asia in Rottterdam

• [Interview] Inna Smailova: Interview with Abai Kulbai: The Keeper of Eternal Values in Cinema

Issue 19: January 2008

• [Interview] Giulia Marcucci: Interview with Aleksandr Mindadze: From Scriptwriter to Director

• Irina Shilova: Renata Litvinova: Actress and Persona

• Michael Rouland: A Tour through Kinostan

• Inna Smailova: Three Generations of Kazakh Cinematographers: Action - Reaction - Change of Reality

• Eugénie Zvonkine: "On a Motorbike or on a Horse?": The IV Eurasia International Film Festival 2007

Issue 18: October 2007

• Tom Birchenough: "Vladivostok 2007": The lnternational Pacific Meridian Festival

• Mihai Chirilov: "Phony Games: The Moscow International Film Festival 2007"

• Jeremy Hicks: “Reflections of Andrei Tarkovskii: The Zerkalo Festival and Conference”

• David MacFadyen: “Strike Up, Pipers! The Russian Program of the Moscow Film Festival, 2007”

• Kirill Razlogov: "Kinotavr: Caught in the Crossfire"

Issue 17: July 2007
Melodrama and Kino-Ideology: Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium Roundtable:

• Peter Bagrov: "Soviet Melodrama: A Historical Overview"
• Dawn Seckler: "Orphans of the Storm: Economic Destitution, Physical Lack, and Social Alienation in the Contemporary Russian Melodrama"
• Oleg Sulkin: "Melodrama as the Experience of the Moment"
• Dmitrii Savel'ev: "Out of Ideology: The Post-Soviet Melodrama"
• Mikhail Trofimenkov: "Origin of the Species: Post-Soviet Melodrama"
• David MacFadyen: "Ethical Masochism in Recent Russian Melodrama"
• Marcia Landy: "Melodrama: Short Reflections on a Long Subject"

• Kristina Matvienko: The Third Festival of Real Cinema: "Kinoteatr.doc" (2007)

Issue 16: April 2007

• Jose Alaniz: Cinema without Barriers

• Thomas Campbell: A Khakassian Sends a Postcard Home: The Strange Career of Evgenii "Debil" Kondrat'ev

• David MacFadyen: Changing Notions of Realism in Primetime Russian TV Drama

• Stephen Norris: In the Gloom: The Political Lives of Undead Bodies in Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch

Issue 15: January 2007

• Peter Bagrov: Ermler, Stalin, and Animation: On the Film The Peasants (1934)

• Birgit Beumers and Michael Rouland: Eurasia 2006: An International Festival?

• Konstantine Klioutchkine: The Kamenskaia Television Series and the Conventions of Russian Television

• Alena Solntseva: KINOTEATR.DOC: The First Three Years

Issue 14: October 2006

• Svetlana Khokhriakova: Starless, Prize-less: The Moscow International Film Festival 2006

• Adam Lowenstein: From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema (Lincoln Center Program, August 2006)

• Elena Plakhova: Victims of Euphoria: The 17th Open Russian Film Festival (Kinotavr 2006)

• Birgit Beumers: Cannes 2006: The Russian Presence

Issue 13: July 2006

• Natalia Lukinykh: Inspired by the Oscar, Hardened by the Marketplace. On the Everydays and Holidays of Russian Animation. (Suzdal Animation Festival)

• Eugenie Zvonkine: The Tenth Forum for National Cinematographies of the CIS and the Baltic States (Kinoforum)

• Aleksandr Deriabin: Judgment Day: Recreation and Stylization (On Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking and Other Matters)

Issue 12: April 2006

• Bauyrzhan Nogerbek: "The Eurasia-2005 Film Festival: Ambitions and Realities"

• Vladimir Padunov: Storing and Restoring History: Gosfil'mofond and the 10th Belye Stolby Archival Film Festival

• Thomas Campbell: Five Theses About Timur Bekmambetov's Day Watch

Russian TV-Serials: AAASS Roundtable 2005: "Russian TV: Past Issues of Present Concern"

• Birgit Beumers: "The Serialization of the War"
• David MacFadyen: "The Significance of Brezhnev for Russian TV Drama Today"
• Alexander Prokhorov: "Size Matters: The Ideological Functions of the Length of Soviet Feature Films and Television Mini-Series in the 1950s and 1960s"

Issue 11: January 2006

• José Alaniz: Moscow Conceptualism and the ArtKomiks of Gosha Ostretsov

• Thomas H. Campbell: The Bioaesthetics of Evgenii Iufit

• Seth Graham: Iusup Razykov and Contemporary Uzbek Cinema

Issue 10: October 2005

• Elena Stishova: There's No Point Arguing with the Marketplace: The Ninth KinoForum

• Aleksandr Shpagin: Newly Sprouting Seedlings in the Rustling Field of Domestic Cinema (Kinotavr 2005)

• Diliara Tasbulatova: Study, Study, Study: The Grand Prize of the 27th Moscow International Film Festival Went to Aleksei Uchitel''s Dreaming of Space  

Issue 9: July 2005

• Ian Christie: Iakov Protazanov: A Timely Case for Treatment

• Konstantine Klioutchkine: "Fedor Mikhailovich Lucked Out with Vladimir Vladimirovich": The Idiot

• Television Series in the Context of Putin's Culture

Issue 8: April 2005

• John MacKay:  The "Spinning Top" Takes Another Turn: Vertov Today

• Petre Petrov:  The Freeze of Historicity in Thaw Cinema

• Emma Widdis: Muratova's Clothes, Muratova's Textures, Muratova's Skin

• David MacFadyen: Literature Has Left the Building: Russian Romance and Today 's TV Drama

Issue 7: January 2005

• Special Feature: Dziga Vertov: John MacKay: Disorganized Noise: Enthusiasm and the Ear of the Collective

• KinoShock 2004: Gul'nara Abikeyeva: KinoShock: A Panorama of National Cinemas  

Issue 6: October 2004
"National Cinema": Pittsburgh Film Colloquium roundtable featuring:  

• Nancy Condee: Imperial Ectoplasm
• Marcia Landy: Frames or Frame Ups of National Cinema
• Adam Lowenstein: David Cronenberg and the 'Face' of National Authorship

Moscow International Film Festival 2004 : Susan Larsen: At the Intersection of Art, Commerce, and National Pride  

Issue 5:  July 2004

• Kinoforum 2004: Vladimir Padunov: Imperial Acorn -→ National Oaks: The Eighth KinoForum .

• Kinotavr 2004: Victor Matizen: Masses and Classes: Kinotavr 2004 .

Issue 4:  April 2004

• Josephine Woll: Exorcising the Devil: Russian Cinema and Horror.

Issue 3:  January 2004

• Vladimir Padunov: Stars Above Almaty: Kazakh Cinema Between 1998 and 2003 .

• Bauyrzhan Nogerbek: Demythologizing and Reconstructing National Space in the Kazakh "New Wave" .

Issue 1:  July 2003

• Nancy Condee and Vladimir Padunov: Subtropical Cinema: Kinotavr, Collective Heroes and Small Screens: The Fourteenth Annual Open Russian Film Festival (3-17 June 2003).

• Vladimir Padunov: Moscow's Silver Anniversary: XXV Moscow International Film Festival (20-29 June 2003).

On Avatar & Boss-zilla: a new issue of FlowTV

Sandra Bullock as Margaret Tate in The Proposal (Anne Fletcher, 2009). See '“Attack of Boss-zilla!” – Female Conflict and Generational Discord…' by Hannah Hamad

Film Studies For Free brings you glad tidings of the new issue of ever wonderful online journal Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. In this latest offering there are some great film related items: Charles R. Acland on Avatar and the media language of revolutionary change; and Hannah Hamad on the film and media popularity of female characters as terrorizing figures. Links to all articles are given below:

• Amanda Ann Klein ,"Window Dressing: Spectactular Costuming in MTV's The City" (An examination of how costume trumps narrative in MTV's The City)
  

• Zoe Druick, "A Married Couple: Reality TV's Progenitor Turns 40"  (A re-examination of A Married Couple in light of the current proliferation of reality-based TV)
  

• James Bennett, "The BBC Presenter Pay Scandal: The Political Economy of Television Fame"  (A look at the recent pay scandal surrounding BBC?s Jonathan Ross ? and what it tells us about the economics of fame today)
  

• Hannah Hamad, "'Attack of Boss-zilla!' ? Female Conflict and Generational Discord in Postfeminism?s New Monstrous Feminine" (An examination of film and TV series? treatment of postfeminist identities, especially the popularity of women as terrorizing forces, or '-zillas.')
  

• Nina B. Huntemann, "Irreconcilable Differences: Gender and Labor in the Video Game Workplace"  (A look at the labor politics of the game industry )
  

• Charles R. Acland, "Avatar as Technological Tentpole" (Is James Cameron's Avatar a "game-changer," or business as usual?)
  

• Vanessa Au, "Twitter Revolution" (A consideration of the Iranian elections and the potentially revolutionary aspects of social media)

Glasgow's Finest: work by Caughie, Geraghty, and great e-theses, too

Image from The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972), a film studied in Philip Drake's PhD thesis on Hollywood performance

It's been a busy month here at Film Studies For Free, but let's end it on a high note. Today's little film and media studies links list is of salient items from Enlighten, the e-prints archive at the University of Glasgow, an institution of which FSFF's author is personally very fond, given its wonderful department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies.

This research repository houses some true Open-Access treasures by very important authorities in these disciplines, such as a recent item on film authorship by John Caughie, editor (and author of much) of Theories of Authorship, and four articles by Christine Geraghty, one of the most significant figures in British cinema and television studies. There are also some further excellent items by great, younger scholars, like Philip Drake (now a lecturer in the Film, Media, and Journalism Department at the University of Stirling).

• Stuart Duncan Brown, The subversion of sympathy in British social realism: uses of laughter in the cinematic representation of the British working-class. MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008
  

• John Caughie, 'Authors and auteurs: the uses of theory', In: Donald, J. and Renov, M. (eds.) Handbook of Film Studies. Sage, 2007

• Philip J. Drake, Stardom after the star system: economics of performance in contemporary Hollywod cinema. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002

• Robert J. Edmonstone, Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008

• B. Franks, 'Constructing "The Wicker Man"', Chapter 3. In Murray, J. and Stevenson, L. and Harper, S. and Franks, B. (Eds) Constructing "The Wicker Man": Film and Cultural Studies perspectives, pp. 63-78: Glasgow: University of Glasgow, Crichton Publications, 2005
  

• Christine Geraghty, Classic television: a matter of time. In: The Making and Remaking of Classic Television, 19 Mar 2009, University of Warwick.
  

• Christine Geraghty, Paris, Hollywood and Kay Kendall. In: Moseley., R. (ed.) Fashioning Film Stars : Dress, Culture, Identity. London: BFI, 2005, pp. 121-133.
  

• Christine Geraghty, The study of the soap opera. In: Wasko, J. (ed.) Companion to Television. Blackwell companions in cultural studies . Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp. 308-323
  

• Christine Geraghty, Continuous serial - a definition. In: Dyer, R. (ed.) Coronation Street. Television monographs (British Film Institute), 13 . London: BFI, 1981, pp. 9-26.
  

• Sarah Neely, Adapting to change in contemporary Irish and Scottish culture: fiction to film. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003
  

• L. Smith, 'Making history: post-historical commemorations of the past in British television', Groundings 1, 2007

• Lisa E. Williamson, Contentious Comedy: Negotiating Issues of Form, Content, and Representation in American Sitcoms of the Post-Network Era, PhD Thesis, The University of Glasgow Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies 2008
  

John Ellis: Film and TV Studies Resources Online

Image from A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946)

In yet another daring raid on a university research repository - this time, one based at Royal Holloway, University of London, home to a wonderful department of Media Arts - Film Studies For Free discovered three openly accessible articles by John Ellis, author of Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video (1992), TV producer, and one of the most influential academics in the history of media theory and British cinema studies.

• John Ellis, Watching Death at Work: An Analysis of 'A Matter of Life and Death'. In: Powell, Pressburger and Others. British Film Institute, London 1978, pp. 79-104
• John Ellis, Documentary and truth on television: The crisis of 1999. In: New challenges for documentary. University of Manchester, Manchester, 2005
• John Ellis, The past as television: are television programmes more than nostalgic ephemera. In: Fare storia con la televisione. Vita e Pensiero, Milan, 2006, pp. 167-172
  

FSFF then extended its search for other online research items by Ellis and found the following:

• John Ellis, 'Free Cinema', in J Ellis (ed.), 1951-1976: BFI Productions, London: BFI, 1977
• John Ellis, 'Study Aid to 'The Holy Family Album' (a half hour programme written by Angela Carter and broadcast on UK's Channel 4 on 3 December 1991 as part of the 'Without Walls' arts strand commissioned by Waldemar Janusczcak)

FSFF also wanted to share a related, and truly excellent article by a different esteemed author, which makes much good use of Ellis's work:

• John Kraniauskas, 'Elasticity of Demand: Reflections on The Wire', Radical Philosophy Issue 154, 2009

Star Trek Studies Online

Film Studies For Free (its mission: to explore strange new academic worlds, to seek out Open Access film and media studies scholarship) brings you its Enterprising link list of freely-accessible, online Star Trek studies. Live long and prosper ('strike up the theme tune, Scotty...'). Last updated May 26, 2009

• Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard, 'The Conversations: Star Trek', The House Next Door Online, May 1, 2009
  
• Daniel Bernardi, 'Star Trek in the 1960s. Liberal-Humanism and the Production of Race', Science Fiction Studies #72 = Volume 24, Part 2 = July 1997
  
• Daniel Bernardi, Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future (Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998 -Limited Preview via Google Books)
• Francesca Coppa, 'Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish vidding', Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol 1 (2008)
• Anne Cranny-Francis, 'Different Identities, Different Voices: Possibilities and Pleasures in Some of Jean Lorrah's Star Trek Novels', Science Fiction Studies, #72 = Volume 24, Part 2 = July 1997
• Marie A Dean , Star Trek and Sacred Ground (review)', Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Vol. 1, Spring 2002
• Scott K. Duchesn, 'Play vs. Presence in Star Trek ', Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2007
• H. Bruce Franklin, 'Star Trek in the Vietnam Era', Science Fiction Studies #62 = Volume 21, Part 1 = March 1994
• Valerie Fulton, 'An Other Frontier: Voyaging West with Mark Twain and Star Trek's Imperial Subject', Postmodern Culture, Volume 4, Number 3 (May, 1994)
• Lincoln Geraghty, 'Telling Tales of the Future: Science Fiction and Star Trek's Exemplary Narratives', Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 3.2, Spring 2003
• Lincoln Geraghty, '‘Help When Times Are Hard’: Bereavement and Star Trek Fan Letters', Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 5, 2004
• Lincoln Geraghty, Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe (London: IB Tauris, 2007 - Limited preview via Google Books)
• Lincoln Geraghty and Rebecca Janicker, '"Now That's What I Call a Close Encounter!": The Role of the Alien in Science Fiction Film, 1977 - 2001', Scope: An On-line Journal of Film Studies, November 2004
• Jonathan Gray, 'Mommy, Is That a Boy Text or a Girl Text?', Flow TV, May 18, 2007
• Lee E. Heller, 'The Persistence of Difference: Postfeminism, Popular Discourse, and Heterosexuality in Star Trek ', Science Fiction Studies #72 = Volume 24, Part 2 = July 1997
• Veronica Hollinger, 'Contemporary Trends in Science Fiction Criticism, 1980-1999', Science Fiction Studies, #78 = Volume 26, Part 2 = July 1999
• David Hudson, 'Star Trek' links, The Daily @ IFC.com, May 7, 2009
  
• Henry Jenkins, 'Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching', (first published in Critical Studies in Mass Communication, June 1988)
• Henry Jenkins, 'Of Trek and TiVo', Technology Review, January 2002
• Henry Jenkins, 'Five Ways to Start a Conversation About the New Star Trek Film, Confessions of an Aca-Fan, May 12, 2009
  
• Michael Jindra, 'Star Trek fandom as a religious phenomenon', Sociology of Religion, Spring 1994
• Daniel Kälberer, 'Reference Literature to Star Trek', Film Bibliography, 2008
• Tama Leaver, '"Your appeal to my humanity is pointless": The Borg and Radical Performativity in Star Trek', Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, 9 , May/August 2002,
• John Kenneth Muir, 'Star Trek: the motion picture (1979)', JKF's Reflections, April 29, 2009
• Janet Murray and Henry Jenkins, 'Before the Holodeck: Transferring Star Trek into Digital Media' (first published in Greg Smith (ed.), On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology (New York: New York University Press, 1998)
• Arika Okrent, 'There's No Klingon Word for Hello', Slate, May 7, 2009
  
• Juli J. Parrish, Inventing a Universe: reading and Writing Internet Fan Fiction (e-thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2007)
• Hannah Pok, "To boldly go where no man has gone before": Star Trek as a reflection of American imperialism', Hannah's Deep Field Space: Science Fiction Essays, 1999
• Hannah Pok, 'Negotiating Outcast States: Liminal Identities and Difference in Star Trek', Hannah's Deep Field Space: Science Fiction Essays, 1999
• Sean Redmond, 'The Science Fiction of Whiteness', Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, October 2006
• Steve Roby, The Complete Starfleet Library: Analysis and Criticism, November 2008
• Bernd Schneider, 'Star Trek Clichés', Ex Astris Scientia
  
• Science Fiction Studies Special Issue on Star Trek, #72 = Volume 24, Part 2 = July 1997
• Jason Sperb, 'On Trek', Jamais Vu, May 4 2009
• Justine Walden, 'The Political Aesthetic: Nation and Narrativity on the "Starship Enterprise', Cinemaspace, UC Berkeley, 1994
  
• Wikiquote on Star Trek
  
• J. Emmett Winn, 'Highly Offensive Ferengi: Racial Issues and Star Trek's Multicultural Deep Space Nine in Film', Kinema, Spring 2003
• Matt Zoller Seitz, 'Vulcan: The Soul of Spock - A Video Essay', The L Magazine, May 6, 2009

And watch great quality, full-length, original series' Star Trek episodes at the CBS website for free HERE.