Dear all (with apologies for cross-posting),

I am happy to present, below, the latest seasonal roundup of newly published open access scholarly items at the REFRAME digital platform, hosted by the School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex.

Below you will find details of new website Life Writing Projects; a new SEQUENCE article on ‘We Need to Talk about Maternal Melodrama’; videoed talks by top international scholars and media practitioners; and lots of new film and media studies research and commentary at a number of our many existing websites: including Reframing Activism, Mediático, Reframing Psychoanalysis and The Audiovisual Essay. Thanks so much to all the colleagues (at Sussex and far beyond) who contribute to REFRAME in order to bring all this material into the public domain.

Best wishes

Dr Tanya Kant
Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies (Digital Media) 
School of Media, Film and Music
University of Sussex

All the below material is available at the following linked webpage:
http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/blog/2017/09/17/autumn-2017-reframe-round-up/

REFRAME‘s latest round up of open access publications and research website and project launches is given below.

1. New website: LIFE WRITING PROJECTS
2. New SEQUENCE Two article on maternal melodrama: Professor Mandy Merck on Todd Haynes' CAROL
3. New videos in TALKS@MFM - Our continuing series of video recordings of research seminars and masterclasses;
4. New entries at Reframing Activism, Mediático, Reframing Psychoanalysis and The Audiovisual Essay updates
5. NEWS! REFRAME has a new Managing Editor: Tanya Kant


1. NEW website: LIFE WRITING PROJECTS

    LIFE WRITING PROJECTS (LWP) is a new collaboration between The Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research (CLHLWR) and REFRAME, following on from their successful collaboration on the NEW PATHWAYS psychogeography project.

    LWP is about "creative representations of lived experience that set their own rules rather than following the conventions of genres such as memoir or biography. The projects selected for publication here all involve writing, but they may also explore the relationship between writing and photography, visual arts, film or video. Our contributors, who include new and established writers [like Annie Ernaux], artists and poets, embrace the concept of life-writing as a project. They work here within a set of self-imposed constraints, in order, as Michael Sheringham puts it, ‘to allow something unforeseen to happen’." Visit the site here: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/lifewritingprojects/


2. The latest article published at the second issue of SEQUENCE: Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music: We Need to Talk about the Maternal Melodrama

    We are very happy to announce that the third contribution to Issue Two of SEQUENCE Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music We Need to Talk about Maternal Melodrama has been published. It is by Mandy Merck, Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, one of the world’s leading scholars in melodrama studies and author of numerous important works on feminist and queer approaches to the cinema and representations of national identity in US film:

    Mandy Merck, ‘NEGATIVE OEDIPUS: Carol as Lesbian Romance and Maternal Melodrama’, SEQUENCE: Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music, 2.3, 2017. ISSN 2052-3033 (Online). Online at:  http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence2/archive/sequence-2-3/]




3. TALKS@MFM - REFRAME continues with its series of video and audio recordings of research presentations and masterclasses held at the School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex, and related venues.

    "Machine Listening & Listening Machines - Critical & Philosophical" [MFM Sussex Humanities Lab Workshop and Discussion], April 27-28, 2017 [Video Recording]
    "Machine Listening & Listening Machines - Archival & Technical" [MFM Sussex Humanities Lab Workshop and Discussion], April 27-28, 2017 [Video Recording]
    "Robot Opera" [MFM Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre event] , June 15, 2017 [Video Recording]
    "Otherwise Engaged – social media from vanity metrics to critical analytics" by Prof. Richard Roger [MFM Sussex Humanities Lab and part of the AHRC-funded Automation Anxiety network] , June 8, 2017 [Video Recording]
    "Developing Documentary: My Son the Jihadi (2015)" [Media Practice Postgraduate Talk] by PETER BEARD, 2017 [Video Recording]
    "Can Pranks, Mischief and Creativity Change the course of History?" by Mike Bononno [Centre for Material Digital Culture Talk], May 26, 2017 [Video Recording]
    "We’re All In This Together: Reflections on the Post-Punk Artist-Group" [MFM Research Seminar] by PROF GAVIN BUTT, March 15, 2017 [Video Recording]
    "Collecting music, collecting life stories: The Cypriot Fiddler project" [MFM Research Seminar (joint event with the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research)], by DR. NICOLETTA DEMETRIOU, February 8, 2017 [Video Recording]
    "Stockhausen Festival Performance and Talks" [MFM Research Seminar] by VARIOUS, January 30, 2017 [Video Recording]
    "Television Death" [MFM Research Seminar] by DR. HELEN WHEATLEY, November 17, 2016 [Video Recording]


4. New entries at Reframing Activism, Mediático, Reframing Psychoanalysis, The Audiovisual Essay and Global Queer Cinema 

AT REFRAMING ACTIVISM:

    FAKE! and TRUE BELIEVER – two new activist videos by Tom Kalin
    Paying for the Revolution in Monopoly Money by Julian Gottlieb
    The Productivity of Protest by Laura Portwood-Stacer


AT MEDIÁTICO:

    A Video Essay: Birdman or Fantasy Hopscotch, Not Played Very Often by Jeffrey Middents
    LOS HEREDEROS (The Heirs, Jorge Hernández Aldana, Mexico-Norway, 2015) by Olivia Consentino
    Ingobernable: All Past Roads Lead to the Future by Pablo Zavala
    Documenting Extraction in LA HIJA DE LA LAGUNA (Ernesto Cabellos, 2015) by Carolyn Fornoff
    Representing Latin American Indigeneity Online by Phoebe Cashman
    Interview with filmmaker Ludovic Bonleux/ Entrevista con documentalista Ludovic Bonleux by Niamh Thornton
    “I like what you dislike / I like what you fear”*: On Vedettes, Night Life, Beauty, and Aging in Bellas de noche / Beauties of the Night (María José Cuevas, 2016) by Laura Gutierrez
    Julio García Espinosa & ‘imperfect cinema’ by Catherine Grant
    Class and Gender in Muylaert’s A que horas ela volta? and Mãe só há uma by Natália Pinazza
    “The Case for Slow Cinema: Natalia Almada’s Todo lo demás” by Carolyn Fornoff
    Video Essays on Latin American Cinema at a Special Issue of [IN]TRANSITION by Catherine Grant


AT REFRAMING PSYCHOANALYSIS

    BION IN FILM THEORY and SEA CAVE CINEMA: a book and a film about the retreat in cinema by Carla Ambrosio-García
    SEX AND NOTHING: BRIDGES FROM PSYCHOANALYSIS TO PHILOSOPHY, edited by Alejandro Cerda-Rueda, Review by Will Greenshields
    New Films and Books By Agnieszka Piotrowska, with Ben Tyrer and others


AT THE AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY

    Recordings of Masterclasses at CineCity: The Brighton Film Festival 2016 {[Coming soon!]


5.  NEWS! REFRAME has a new Managing Editor!

    As REFRAME's founding editor Catherine Grant has departed from the University of Sussex to take up a new job elsewhere, managing editorship of the network platform has now passed to Dr. Tanya Kant, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Sussex. Kant has been an integral part of the REFRAME editorial and design team since 2013 (the network was founded in 2012). She will work with two deputy editors Professor Sue Thornham and Dr. Katherine Farrimond, as well as with the editorial and advisory boards to take this experimental open-access digital platform forward.







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