Issue 12 of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media is now online:
"The New Old: Archaisms and Anachronisms across Media"
Contents
The New Old: Archaisms and Anachronisms across Media. Editorial
by Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast, and Elena Caoduro, University of Bedfordshire
01 Media Hysteresis: Persistence Through Change
by Philippe Theophanidis, York University, and Ghislain Thibault, Université de Montréal
02 Performing History/ies with Obsolete Media: The Example of a South African Photo-Film
by Marietta Kesting, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
03 Analogue Video in the Age of Retrospectacle: Aesthetics, Technology, Subculture
by Jonathan Rozenkrantz, Stockholm University
04 The Wonder Years: Nostalgia, Memory and Pastness in Television Credits
by Kathleen Williams, University of Tasmania
05 Retro Quality and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary European Television
by Louis Bayman, University of Southampton
Book Reviews
Editor: Loretta Goff, University College Cork
Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope, by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
Reviewer: Logan Davis, National University
Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game, by Todd McGowan
Reviewer: James Driscoll, DePaul University
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media, by Adam Lowenstein
Reviewer: Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era, edited by Murray Leeder
Reviewer: Anton Karl Kozlovic, Flinders University and Deakin University
Cinematic Terror: A Global History of Terrorism on Film, by Tony Shaw
Reviewer: Elena Caoduro, University of Bedfordshire
Reports
Editor: Caroline Schroeter, University College Cork
Screening Rights Film Festival
Birmingham, UK, 15–18 September 2016
Reporters: Will Amott, University of Birmingham, and Pablo Alvarez, University of Birmingham
Live Cinema Conference
King’s College London, 27 May 2016
Reporters: Sarah Atkinson, King’s College London, and Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton
Scalarama
UK, 1–30 September 2016
Reporter: Maria A. Velez-Serna, University of Stirling
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
International, open access, peer reviewed