Last updated June 9, 2022 Well, it's been a while... Something or other must have happened in the meantime... ? Film Studies For Free is nonetheless very happy to be back, still fighting the good fight for high-quality, openly-accessible, film and moving image studies resources.  With no further ado, FSFF is thrilled to bring its readers and audio-viewers a brilliant new video essay (embedded above) entitled “Climate Fictions, Dystopias, and Human Futures” by Julia Leyda and Kathleen Loock. Thanks so much to them for sharing with us their wonderful study of the evolution of clima ..read more

FALLING: 3 x Girls in Uniform A comparative videographic study by Catherine Grant showcasing the repetitions and variations across two sets of corresponding sequences from the three direct film adaptations of Christa Winsloe's MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM (aka RITTER NÉRESTAN and GESTERN UND HEUTE, 1930-32). Video first published at MEDIÁTICO in December 2019, alongside a great text on the Mexican adaptation by Roberto Carlos Ortiz. Better late than never, so they say. But it is especially late for this to be the very first, as well as the very last, blog entry of 2019 at Film Studies For Free... W ..read more

1. FATED TO BE MATED: An Architectural Promenade from Catherine Grant on Vimeo. As discussed in "Screen studies as device?: Working through the video essay" and at Filmanalytical Sawing Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in half. A queer experiment in cinephilic re-spatialisation Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays from Film Studies For Free! Let's celebrate with a new video essay (above) and nine sets of treats (below) representing some of FSFF's favourite online film and moving image studies items from 2018. 2. MEDIÁTICO - Special Dossier on Alfonso Cuarón's Roma (2018) by nine world ..read more

THINK FREEDOM by Catherine Grant A video tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), and the constantly surprising cinematic performance of her 1968 song 'Think' in The Blues Brothers (US 1980). The video takes the form of an audiovisual infographic on John Landis's dynamic filming of the song scene, starring Franklin as the irrepressible Mrs. Murphy. (P.S. If you think I'm mapping any of the shots incorrectly, just let me know. This is a great exercise to do with students, but it can be tricker than it looks...) Film Studies For Free is ten years old today! Ye ..read more

LESSON on Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata by Catherine Grant, one of a number of videos made to commemorate this year's centenary of the Swedish director's birth. Don't forget FSFF's earlier entry on Ingmar Bergman studies.  Greetings -- it's been a while! Here's a speedy, northern-hemisphere, Spring round up from Film Studies For Free. See below for some especially choice and unmissable items!! More will be added to the below in the coming days. Remember to follow @filmstudiesff on Twitter and on Facebook for your daily stream of great openly accessible items! 1. Jump Cut Check out t ..read more

Last updated January 17, 2018 Temperatūra ne pagal Celsijų / Off Gauge Temperature (Almantas Grikevičius, 1973) Recommended by Herb Shellenberger. Click on CC in the frame above to switch on English subtitles. Online at the Lithuanian documentary films website, run by Meno Avilys: http://sinemateka.lt Note: If the above video won't play because of privacy settings, please click this link to reload the page in a non-region-limited/no-country redirect version (https://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/ncr/2018/01/links-to-free-online-streaming.html) Film Studies For Free brings you an entry ..read more

Last updated January 2, 2018 NE ME QUITTE PAS - a new video assemblage focusing on Brief Encounter and Carol by Catherine Grant To commemorate the somewhat sad and strange outgoing year -- and very much to welcome in 2018 --- Film Studies For Free has selected, below, twelve of its favourite online film studies items encountered (or re-encountered) in 2017 for your delectation and delight - in no particular order of category. Some of these involved poignant encounters, associated with terribly untimely passings of pathbreaking scholars (see no. 1). Some are amazing new resources from (a ..read more

Last updated December 31, 2017 Chuck Kleinhans giving the keynote at the Radical Film Network NYC: A Global Gathering on May 3rd, 2017 (screenshot from video embedded below) Yesterday, the terribly sad news reached Film Studies For Free that radical film and media scholar Chuck Kleinhans had died. Along with his wonderful partner in life and work Julia Lesage, Chuck has been a monumentally good friend to this blog over the years, mostly in his capacity as co-founding co-editor of the brilliant journal JUMP CUT, and as a phenomenal advocate for open access and "small gauge" scholarly and act ..read more

The SENSES of an ENDING from Catherine Grant The above video treats the ending of Lucrecia Martel's La niña santa / The Holy Girl (2004), using insights about the film from Deborah Martin's book The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel (Manchester University Press, 2016) and Sophie Mayer's chapter 'Gutta cavat lapidem: The sonorous politics of Lucrecia Martel's swimming pools', in The Cinema of The Swimming Pool, eds. Christopher Brown and Pam Hirsch (Peter Lang, 2014). For Study Purposes Only - No Significant Spoilers. The video is dedicated to pioneering queer and feminist film curator and criti ..read more

Dan Schneider Video Interview with Peter Bondanella and Frank Burke, recorded on October 4, 2016 #78- On Federico Fellini from Dan Schneider  'The most exciting aspect of Bondanella’s work is, in fact, his inextinguishable faith in the power of reason and systematization which reminds us in a nostalgic way of methods and choices inspired by respect and harmony.’ Federico Fellini  Sad news has reached Film Studies For Free of the death of Italian cinema and culture scholar Peter Bondanella on May 28th. Bondanella was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Film Studies ..read more