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(Written by Chris Cagle) It’s been my belief for some time that there needs to be a blog, and ultimately many blogs, devoted to academic film and media studies. There is no shortage of websites devoted to film, television, popular culture, or new media. And a few of them are written by scholars, teachers, mediamakers or other educated critics: see the blogroll for  some of these. But to my eyes, few of them are fully devoted to  discussing and promoting the discipline as a discipline. This is where Category D steps in.

(Written by Anne Helen Petersen) "Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style" is an attempt to  reconcile my current research, a fascination with stars, and the  impulse to alter the landscape of academic publishing.

Chris Fujiwara is the Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. His latest book, Jerry Lewis, published by the University of Illinois Press, has been called “essential reading” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker) and “excellent” (Dave Kehr, The New York Times). Jonathan Rosenbaum (Cineaste)  calls it “the first extended critical treatment of Lewis in English  that Lewis deserves — including a thoughtful, sympathetic, and lucid  (yet in no way sycophantic) thirty-two page interview that is  conceivably the best one anyone has ever had with him.” According to  Edward Crouse (Cinema Scope), “Fujiwara’s frame is a  glassbottomed boat where one views how J[erry] L[ewis]’s shifting  identities and elongated gags mutated screen comedy.”

Chrismarker.org is an randomly-compiled, taxonomically naive and  hopefully useful archive of ruminations, bibliographic &  filmographic notations, untimely meditations, mnemonic minutiae and  other glosses on the cinematic, written, photographic and multimedia  work of world-citizen & time-traveler Chris Marker – the “mercurial  international man of semiotic mystery.”* (Or, as the endnotes to Abschied vom Kino puts  it, Chris Marker is: “Autor, Aktivist, Filmemacher, Fotograf,  Internaut, Kritiker, Medienkünstler, Poet, Publizist / Author, activist,  filmmaker, photographer, Internaut, critic, media artist, poet,  journalist.” We might add: friend to animals).

Cinephile is a peer-reviewed journal edited by graduate  students in the Film Studies program at the University of British  Columbia. The journal aims to provide a forum to discuss aspects of film  theory, history, and criticism, and is intended to provide a platform  to share research papers, book reviews, and reports that engage with  debates appropriate to film, media, and cultural studies. As a  peer-reviewed journal, Cinephile endeavors to promote the Film  Studies portion of the program as an inclusive but discriminating  environment which is dedicated to publishing work of the highest  scholarly quality and appeal.

Dave Kehr is an American film critic. A critic at the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Tribune for many years, he writes a weekly column for The New York Times on DVD releases, in addition to contributing occasional pieces on individual films or filmmakers.

David Bordwell is an American film theorist and film historian. Since  receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1974, he has written  more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film (1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988), Making Meaning(1989), and On the History of Film Style (1997). He and Kristin Thompson maintain the blog “Observations on Film Art” for their recent ruminations on cinema.

For almost 50 years, Film Comment magazine has featured  in-depth reviews and critical analysis of mainstream, art-house and  avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. Winner of the 2007 Utne  Independent Press Award for Best Arts Coverage: “Film Comment  regularly publishes some of the best film writers in the world, and they  probe and parse cinema in ways that deepen our experience of it.”

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“The subversion of the male gaze in I Now Pronounce You Chuck  exposes the major pillars of post-feminism.”

A pluralist, pro bono, and purely positive  web-archive of examples of, links to, and comment on, online, Open  Access, film and moving image studies resources of note. FSFF is  lovingly tended (in a personal capacity) by Catherine Grant, of Film  Studies at the University of Sussex. She always wanted to be a Borgesian  librarian when she grew up.

I am Fred Camper, an artist who makes digital prints of multiple  photographs, and who lives in Chicago. For many years before starting to  complete these works, at the beginning of 2005, I was, and still am,  also a free-lance writer and lecturer on art, photography, and film.  When I was younger I was a filmmaker. This site has a large number of my  film articles on-line, several articles on art, and links to a few of  my art reviews that artists or galleries have placed on their sites, a  list of my favorite filmmakers, and many other things. Coming in the  future: a few more film articles, many more art articles, photography  reviews, and other stuff.

One of those foo-foo film sites.

Global Queer Cinema is a collaborative research project engaged in  investigating queer film cultures from a global perspective and  analysing world cinema from a queer point of view. In addition to  scholarly inquiry into the spaces and forms of queer world cinema, its  activities include programming innovative queer cinema, holding  workshops, and bringing scholars together with film festival  programmers, filmmakers and activists from around the world for public  discussions of queer visual culture. The GQC website focuses on new  writing on global forms of queer cinema and will form an open access  archive for project-generated material, and for queer film and moving  image studies resources. We publish shortform and some longer pieces on  international queer cinema, using scholarly models from queer theory and  film studies but not limited to traditional academic writing and  publishing models. We are interested in the worldly shapes and spaces of  queer cinema, its styles, its institutions and its archives.

Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism,  and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He arrived  at USC in Fall 2009 after spending the past decade as the Director of  the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez  Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of twelve books  on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Cultureand From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. His newest books include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. He is currently co-authoring a book on“spreadable media” with Sam Ford and Joshua Green. He has written for Technology Review, Computer Games, Salon, and The Huffington Post.

James Lewis Hoberman, also known as J. Hoberman, is an American film critic. He started at The Village Voice in the 1970s, became a full-time staffer in 1983, and was the senior film critic from 1988 to 2012.

Jim Emerson, the founding editor-in-chief of RogerEbert.com, is a  Seattle-based writer and film critic whose love of movies has led to  experience in nearly every part of the film world, from writing (and  re-writing and re-writing), through “development hell” and production,  to exhibition, marketing (including promotion and advertising), writing  features and criticism for many publications (in print and on the  Internet), and academic study. He was the editor of the late Microsoft  Cinemania, a multimedia movie encyclopedia on CD-ROM and the web, and  has been the editorial director of other encyclopedic film-related web  sites such as Reel.com and the now-defunct start-up, FilmPix.com.

Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head  film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008. Apart from  Notes (comments on books, films, paintings, music, etc.), which are  posted periodically, along with reprints of texts of mine that may not  otherwise be readily available, this web site includes Featured Texts  which are, most often, long reviews which appeared in the Chicago Reader between 1987 and early 2008 -– and a list of recent publications and upcoming events, updated with some regularity.

This is the personal website for video essayist / film critic Lindsay Ellis. Ellis started out making video content in 2008 after finishing her BA, however in 2014 she started her current channel which focuses on long form video essays. Her essays feature a sharp sense of humor and critical ability. Some of her notable essays center on the history of Walt Disney productions and the genre conventions of social video sites.

Ellis received her BA in Film Studies from New York University in 2007 and MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2011. She is also a New York Times bestselling genre fiction author.

Museum of the Moving Image: Moving Image Source – Articles, calendar, dialogues, research guide.

Reverse Shot is a quarterly, independently published film journal.

Welcome to RogerEbert.com, the online home of Roger Ebert, the  best-known and most widely read film critic in the world. Our goal for  the initial phase of developing this site is to collect, assemble, and  integrate virtually everything Ebert has written since he began working  as the movie critic of the Chicago Sun-Times back in 1967 – the  year of Arthur Penn’s revolutionary “Bonnie and Clyde,” John Boorman’s  “Point Blank” and Howard Hawks’ “El Dorado,” and the arrival in America  of Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona” and Luis Buñuel’s “Belle de Jour.”

Farran Smith Nehme’s film blog from NYU. “She’s brainy, she’s funny, she  knows old movies better than lots of so-called pros, and she writes  like a Noel Coward heroine turned substitute teacher.”
–Tom Carson, GQ Magazine

Senses of Cinema is an online journal devoted to the serious  and eclectic discussion of cinema. We believe cinema is an art that can  take many forms, from the industrially-produced blockbuster to the  hand-crafted experimental work; we also aim to encourage awareness of  the histories of such diverse forms. As an Australian-based journal, we  have a special commitment to the regular, wide-ranging analysis and  critique of Australian cinema, past and present. Senses of Cinema is primarily concerned with ideas about particular films or bodies of  work, but also with the regimes (ideological, economic and so forth)  under which films are produced and viewed, and with the more abstract  theoretical and philosophical issues raised by film study. As well, we  believe that a cinephilic understanding of the moving image provides the  necessary basis for a radical critique of other media and of the global  “image culture”.

“There is no one in the blogosphere more able to make me look at a movie with fresh eyes.” — The Self Styled Siren

The House Next Door is the official blog of Slant Magazine, and is home to all things film, music, television, theater, politics, and more.

The Seventh Art is an independently produced video magazine  about cinema featuring profiles on interesting aspects of the film  industry, video essays and in-depth interviews with filmmakers. Issues  are released monthly and the production is based out of Toronto, Canada.