The peer-reviewed, open-access online journal of the British Association of Film Television and Screen Studies

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Evening folks! Issue 6.2 is out. Read about Presley's "Comeback" (1968), memory & embodiment in "Do you remember the year" (2020), or female representation and the act of leaving in Turkish cinema. Book reviews on "Folk Horror on Film" and "Epic/Everyday" openscreensjournal.com/issue…
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CFP Alert! Teaching Video Games in the Humanities: New Media, New Pedagogies. Accepting research articles and videoessays. Submit your abstracts by the 14th of January.
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We are delighted to announce that VOL 6 of Open Screens is published today! @baftss @baftsspg openscreensjournal.com/issue…
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Open Screens journal has had a quiet summer: be assured - our next issue is expected by Christmas!!
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I'm looking to commission a review of the below work. If anyone working in Sound and/or music is interested in reviewing Steven Shaviro's new book for @OpenScreens please get in touch via alice.pember@warwick.ac.uk by the end of next week! Post-grads and ECRs most welcome.
What a busy week! Today, Steven @shaviro's highly anticipated The Rhythm Image makes its online debut: print copies out on the 15th December. We are so excited we might burst.... bloomsbury.com/uk/rhythm-ima…
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Please get in touch with a bio to alice.pember@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to review any of the following new #BFIFilmClassics....To Russia With Love, The Godfather Part II, Picnic at Hanging Rock for @OpenScreens Spring Issue. PhDs, post-docs & early career scholars welcome!
Happy UK publication day to four new #BFIFilmClassics! Which ones will you be adding to your TBR list?
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Come and join us on November 5th @FilmStudiesQMUL for a day discussing Kelly Reichardt and philosophy. Registration is free and includes lunch, thanks to the generous support of @baftss !! @DQuinlivanB @BoltonsMotors eventbrite.com/e/philosophic…
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The first feature film version of THE WIZARD OF OZ silenced and obscured the African American actor who played the Cowardly Lion. This great video essay by @lizgreenesound (published in @OpenScreens) re-familiarizes us with that movie to take it to task: bit.ly/3S8mQV7
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I'm in the buisness of a review for the below book for @OpenScreens next year. Any TV studies PhDs, postgrads, ECR or established scholars interested in reviewing this work, please get in contact by the end of this month alice.pember@warwick.ac.uk. @TVResearchEHU @baftsspg
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Looking to commission a review of the re-release of In the Mood for Love for @OpenScreens. Are you an expert on Wong Kar-Wai? Hong Kong cinema? Mood and affect? Then get in touch (via my QM email or DM) by the end of September with some information about you! PhDs & ECRS welcome!
In the Mood for Love (2000) - Released November 2022
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Would love a review of this for @OpenScreens !
Crank It Up! the brilliant volume looking at Jason Statham is now out in paperback (for £20). I'm in it, along with lots of other marvellous people like @ReneeMiddlemost manchesteruniversitypress.co…
.@CathyLomax reviews the @Criterion release of Claudia Weil's 'Girlfriends' (1978) in the latest issue of Open Screens. 📀Full review: openscreensjournal.com/artic…
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Geetha Ramanathan reviews 'The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life' (@iupress) by L.H. Stallings in the latest issue of Open Screens. 📗Full review: openscreensjournal.com/artic…
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Thanks for featuring our latest issue, @CriterionDaily!
John Waters @OpenScreens + @reverse_shot, Mike Davis and THE EXILES @AtPost45, @FilmForumNYC’s 60s @FilmComment, @brofromanother on the sci-fi of the summer of 82 … and @OutskirtsMag launches! Did You See This? criterion.com/current/posts/…
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.@lizgreenesound looks at Spencer Bell's representation as a Black actor in silent films in the audiovisual essay, 'Spencer Bell, Nobody Knows My Name'. 📽️View the full video: openscreensjournal.com/artic…
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Neil Archer reviews 'The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall' (@KentuckyPress) by Eve Golden in the latest issue of Open Screens. 📙Full review: openscreensjournal.com/artic…
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.@alpember reviews 'Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden's Wanda" (@punctum_books) by Anna Backman Rogers in the latest issue of Open Screens. 📕Read the full review: openscreensjournal.com/artic…
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In 'Why bad things happen to bad people: investigating evil in the Italian giallo', @louisbayman (@FilmUoS) looks at giallo's rejection of moral improvement as an indulgence in enjoyment. 🔪Full article here: openscreensjournal.com/artic…
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.@AndrewMoor1 reviews 'Anton Walbrook: A Life of Masks and Mirrors' (@PeterLangOxford) by James Downs in the latest issue of Open Screens. 🎞️Full review here: openscreensjournal.com/artic…
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