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Jan Whitaker and Barton Byg: Normalizing house flipping
E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar At a time when so many people are priced out of the housing market, both as renters and buyers, it’s an unpleasant surprise to see an article in the recent Home Magazine called “The Basics of Flipping Homes.” Its headline is ironic, given that the flippers have taken what was once a home, made some upgrades, not so that they can have a home, but so they can make a nice...
Towards A Minor Cinema
The Philosophy of The Present
In the Nick of Time: On Cli-Fi and Ecocinema Film and Moving Image Studies
Well, it's been a while... Something or other must have happened in the meantime... ūü§Ē 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.
Open Access Film E-books List
Welcome to Film Studies For Free A pluralist, pro bono, and purely positive web-archive of examples of, links to, and comment on, online, Open Access, film and audiovisual media studies resources of note. Founded in 2008, FSFF is lovingly tended (in a personal capacity) by Catherine Grant, Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She always wanted to be a Borgesian librarian when she grew up.
On CINEMATIC DIRECT ADDRESS - Part One: Mapping the Field
CINEMATIC DIRECT ADDRESS Part One: Mapping the Field - Video by Catherine Grant This entry has been superseded by the following, later FSFF entry so why don't you head over there straightaway?
More Victor Perkins Video Interviews Online from Saarbruecken
Film Studies For Free very excitedly learnt of the posting of five more fascinating and hugely insightful extracts from the marvellous recorded interview with legendary film scholar V.F. Perkins which took place at the Kino 8 1/2 in Saarbrücken, Germany, and was filmed by Media Art and Design Studiengang . They are available online here . If you missed the earlier seven interview extracts you can find them in one handy place (and, let's say it: FSFF is one very handy place!) here .
On "England" and "Englishness" in British Cinema and Television
Updated July 27, 2010 Film Studies For Free was recently very inspired by Nick James's wonderful overview of the career of Brazilian Alberto Cavalcanti for next month's Sight and Sound magazine. As a huge fan of Cavalcanti's work, and in particular of his (and Ealing 's) Went the Day Well?
More V.F. Perkins Online
Image from You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937) Film Studies For Free is extremely fond of the work of V. F. Perkins, world-renowned author of Film as Film (London: Penguin Books, 1972 - see an recent interesting review HERE). FSFF has previously drawn attention to two pieces of Perkins' hugely influential work which are freely available online: 'Same Tune Again! Repetition and Framing in Letter from an Unknown Woman' (originally published in CineAction! no.
V.F. Perkins Online
A tiny little post to indicate the websites where two indispensable articles about film (and film studies) by Victor Perkins, world-renowned author of Film as Film (London: Penguin Books, 1972), can be found: '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) and accessible HERE. 'Moments of Choice' [on film directing] (originally published in The Movie, ch.
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