Thrilling the Ears: Sound in Hitchcock’s cinema
Blackmail, silent version (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929) Blackmail, sound version Hitchcock’s use of sound in Blackmail and Murder is important in three respects. As historical documents the two films...
View ArticleNew Issue of MOVIE: Lang, Preminger, découpage, PSYCHO and its remake, and...
Frame grab from Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958). See Christian Keathley‘s article on découpage in this film here Film Studies For Free was thrilled that a new issue of MOVIE: A Journal of...
View ArticleLatest issues of KINEMA: von Trier, Czech cinema, Romanian cinema, Woody...
So bad it’s good? Framegrab from The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003). Read Rod Stoneman’s study of cult cinema “Inside The Room and Beyond” Film Studies For Free continues to catch up with (fairly) recently...
View ArticleVertigoed! The film scholarly value of mash-up?
Last updated January 20, 2012 FSFF’s entry for Press Play’s VERTIGOED Contest.Still three more days to submit your own entry! A psychosexually obsessed man wanders the streets of 1950s San Francisco;...
View ArticleGarden of forking paths? Hitchcock’s BLACKMAILs – a real-time comparison
Garden of Forking Paths?A real-time space for comparison of a sequence in the sound and silent versions of Hitchcock’s BLACKMAIL (Video edited by Catherine Grant) Having begun production as a silent...
View ArticleNew Issue of SENSES OF CINEMA
Jean-Louis Comolli in Buenos Aires, 2010, speaking on the subject of the ‘democratization of filmmaking’ in the digital era (in French with Spanish subtitles) Transcript in Spanish here. Google...
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