Catherine Grant
Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
- Reposted by Catherine GrantOur 3rd Collection of experimental videographic practice is now live. 12 fragments (from nine creators). Read our editorial and view them all here fragments.video
- Barbara Zecchi’s latest brilliant videographic thinkpiece, just published in 16:9 as part of Ariel Avissar and Colleen Laird’s collective series in response to the New York Times’ list of 100 best films of the 21st century. vimeo.com/1141239458?f... 16-9.dk/2025/11/the-...
- Found Footage Magazine launches its new - now fully open access - issue! foundfootagemagazine.com/online-issue...
- Issue 64.5 of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (published open access online) is now available! More here: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/oa-is...
- Via Jason Mittell: “Check out ADAPTIVE FORMS, Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley's fabulous new open-access book on contemporary science-fiction - complete with video essays on ARRIVAL, SNOWPIERCER, BLACK PANTHER, UNDER THE SKIN, etc.!!!” www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
- The Summer 2025 issue of Literature/Film Quarterly is now out: lfq.salisbury.edu#gsc.tab=0
- Reposted by Catherine GrantNew episode up now. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, with guests Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams in conversation with Andy Miller, Una McCormack and Nicky Birch. @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245...
- Check out the brilliant and valuable “Copyright Law and Filmmaking” Special Issue of SCREENWORKS, a marvellous collaborative effort between copyright law expert Bartolomeo Meletti, guest editor, and practice researcher Estrella Sendra, SCREENWORKS associate editor. doi.org/10.37186/swr...
- The thoroughly revised English edition of Jens Eder’s book on characters is now available via open access. You can download it for free here (or purchase a printed copy): www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... .
- Based on an overview of interdisciplinary research on characters in film and other media, the book develops its own approach to understanding how characters are formed and experienced, how they interact with culture and society, and how they can be analysed and interpreted.
- The examples range from Hollywood classics and European independent cinema to experimental, animated, and documentary films.
- Punctum Books has just published the great open access collection Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be, edited by Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen. punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantMy new video essay featured in the first issue of Cinégraphia, the journal of the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network. vimeo.com/1074720429 You can find the journal at the link below openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Cinegraphia/...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantTV Dictionary - entry #118: The Tripods, by David Martin-Jones Another lovely entry from David - and a reminder that, even after an entire year's hiatus, the TV Dictionary is always accepting new additions! vimeo.com/1005534120
- Reposted by Catherine GrantI've been working on this project for a long time and am excited to finally share "The Video Essay About The Show" publicly! It's a multipart video essay about "The Show About The Show," the cult webseries - check it out:
- A new video by Jacob Smith ‘The Holes We Left Behind’, which forms the latest addition to the Audiovisual Approaches and the Archive dossier in MOVIE: a journal of film criticism. vimeo.com/1099652055
- A new translation into English by Andrew Castillo of Víctor Erice’s text about Nicholas Ray. metrograph.com/like-in-a-mi...
- Reposted by Catherine Grant"As the world continues on a downward spiral of violence and authoritarianism, Senses is left with no choice but to remain committed to the emancipatory power of cinema and its rigorous reflection..." Issue 114 of Senses of Cinema is out now: www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantOur latest issue is packed with 12 Feature articles, as well as new interviews, festival reports, book reviews, and more. Wherever and however these inspired texts find you (and in whatever direction they propel you next), we hope you enjoy Issue 114 of Senses of Cinema.
- Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.
- The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...
- Many thanks must go, especially, to all those who proposed and supported my nomination and election.
- And huge thanks to my beloved partner and family without whom I wouldn’t have had the essential love and support that have sustained me in my rather unconventional academic career trajectory (in the last 18 years, at least).
- I cannot wait to begin working alongside the amazing existing @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellows as well as my fellow new FBAs.
- Reposted by Catherine GrantApplications are still open for the Mid-Career Fellowships. The scheme allows UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a major project and share their insights with the wider public. Apply now: buff.ly/VOWVPuC
- Reposted by Catherine GrantThe British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...
- New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantThe time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
- Reposted by Catherine GrantPleased to share that my latest article, 'The Black Android, Janelle Monáe and Crossover Stardom: Race and Technology On-screen', is now available to read from Film-Philosophy via open access! www.euppublishing.com/doi/epdf/10....
- Reposted by Catherine GrantOne of the best movie rediscoveries of the last decade was the Iranian film CHESS OF THE WIND (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976). It's currently available for free online with English subtitles mediaspace.msu.edu/media/Chess+...
- Reposted by Catherine Grant🎬Great films back on the big screen at Cinema Rediscovered (Wed 23 - Sun 27 July, Bristol) Thanks to Silk Factory for this amazing new trailer showcasing some of our 80+ screenings and events lineup. Passes & tickets are available with a 20% discount when you book 4+ screenings - link in bio 🎟️
- On the day it will screen in a competitive Audiovisual Essay forum at the Marienbad Film Festival (see the whole brilliant program later in the thread below), I am thrilled to be able to publicly share PAUSAS | PAUSES, a videographic compilation I co-authored with Rachel Randall. vimeo.com/965986620
- We are also delighted & grateful that our video was published this week in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, 12.2, 2025 alongside our creator’s statement and wonderful peer reviews by Tiago de Luca and Nicolas Poppe: intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
- Here are the other videos published in this issue of [in]Transition: intransition.openlibhums.org
- And here are all the videos screening today in the Audiovisual Essay forum at the Marienbad film festival: marienbadfilmfestival.com/program/
- The latest issue of [in]Transition is up with 8 new video essays! intransition.openlibhums.org
- A great long read on the films of British filmmaker and documentarian Peter Watkins by brilliant film blogger Roderick Heath filmfreedonia.com/2025/06/06/p...
- Via Dagmar Brunow, news of the publication of the open access book Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture! The book appears in the Legenda Visual Culture series, edited by Carolin Duttlinger. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantHere's how ✨Magic Lantern✨ works: You give it a list of the films you want to research on Lantern. It generates 10+ search strategies for you and performs the searches for you. It scores the results based on your research preferences, weeds out the duplicates, and give you links to the best!
- Reposted by Catherine GrantDo you use the Media History Digital Library to research? If so, I need your help. I made a free tool that turns weeks of Lantern/MHDL searching into hours of automated discovery ✨ Now I need testers doing literally any kind of deep or broad MHDL research! github.com/nonmodernist/magic-lantern
- Reposted by Catherine GrantThis is an incredible Teaching Tool bsky.app/profile/film...
- SUPERB! The Film Atlas is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is - or aims to be - an interactive global map of the history of film technology. The site has just gone live and it is free to use for all. www.filmatlas.com
- SUPERB! The Film Atlas is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is - or aims to be - an interactive global map of the history of film technology. The site has just gone live and it is free to use for all. www.filmatlas.com
- Many thanks for the news about Film Atlas to Simon Brown, one of the wonderful contributors to this amazing project.
- Reposted by Catherine GrantSo exciting!
- We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video
- A great new videographic journal initiative created by Cormac Donnelly with Will DiGravio and Jemma Saunders: FRAGMENTS - @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social fragments.video fragments.video/manifesto/
- Reposted by Catherine GrantWe are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video
- Reposted by Catherine Grant📚 My book, "Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film", explores the #Gothic (1920s-1950s) as an aesthetic of memory and exile. Includes chapters on memory-objects, hands, pianos, and amnesia. Download it for free from #PalgraveMacmillan #OA @uclselcs.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantMy article, ‘A Wounded Cinema: Failed Utopias, Décor Leitmotifs, and the Homo Minnellianus’, is published in MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism. Among other misfits in Vincente Minnelli's films, I write about one of my favourites: Ginny from Some Came Running (1958). warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
- In the latest issue of MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism is my 32 min video study of film continuity & the work of script supervision MAKING FICTION FLOW, co-authored with Melanie Bell, part of a dossier on Audiovisual Approaches and the Archive. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca... vimeo.com/1012108423
- RIP Joe Don Baker (1936-2025). So powerful in Edge of Darkness, among many other incredible performances. My video essay EDGE, featuring one of his wonderful scenes in Troy Kennedy Martin’s nuclear thriller, is online here: vimeo.com/585878623
- Reposted by Catherine GrantEXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors. You can read more about this decision here:
- A great new episode of the Video Essay Podcast featuring a marvellous interview with Katie Bird by Johannes Binotto. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantCut to Sound #1: "A Storm Approaching" A collaborative video, with images and words by @filmstudiesff.bsky.social, Farzaneh Yazdandoost, @nilanjana.bsky.social, @sennahojottonib.bsky.social, Yarden Kum, @willdigravio.bsky.social, Katia Arieli, and Amanda Doxtater: vimeo.com/1077301421
- Reposted by Catherine Grant"Cut to Sound" is a group exercise prompt based on a collaborative videographic experiment, exploring the relationship between sounds, images, and words. See detailed instructions + 3 videos made by 24 participants here: www.arielavissar.work/cut-to-sound Check them out - and make your own!
- Reposted by Catherine GrantThe 2nd episode of "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary": open.spotify.com/episode/4JY8... featuring Alisa's interview with Deirdre Boyle on her new book about Rithy Panh, Cambodia's most important filmmaker. @alisalebow.bsky.social, @suninthebelly.bsky.social
- Reposted by Catherine GrantCalling UK-based film curators! Park Circus is teaming up once again with Cinema Rediscovered to invite you to pitch a 4-5 repertory film season idea curated from their catalogue for 2026. Submit your proposal(s) via the link in bio by Monday 2nd June 2025, midnight BST.
- Reposted by Catherine Grantlectures dating back to 2012 are available for streaming via the website. The talks by Berton and Semerene will go online soon after the in-person events. Made possible through the generous support of the hessische Film- und Medienakademie. More at the link: www.kracauer-lectures.de/de/sommer-20...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantAnnouncing the Kracauer Lectures for the Summer Term 2025 @goetheuni.bsky.social: On April 29 Mireille Berton (Lausanne) will talk about "The Psychiatric Film and the Franz Breundl Enigma" and on May 27 Diego Semerene (Amsterdam) will talk about "Desire for Trans-ness". All previous Kracauer /
- Reposted by Catherine GrantDelighted to see my article '“Reminiscence Therapy”: Musical Nostalgia in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (2015–2019)' published in Émergences! I've so much to say about these complex scores, far beyond the wordcount! But I try scratch the surface here! publications-prairial.fr/emergences/i...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantWe've joined Bluesky! Follow us for research about women's film and television history, especially from the UK and Ireland. More info on our work on our website wfthn.com
- Reposted by Catherine GrantThis hits hard, as 10 years ago we got a @neh-odh.bsky.social grant to launch our Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop. That grant was truly transformative, as we just saw at #scms25 - it's no exaggeration to say that videographic criticism as we know it would not exist without #NEH support!
- My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantWriting a book indebted to Jonathan’s thinking (solidarity to his grad students) is freighted and weighted with memory. “What would Jonathan do,” as Mack Hagood said on Phantom Power recently? Today I encountered Jonathan's humility and humor in advice on “good” writing: superbon.net/2021/04/13/o...
- This week on In Media Res (April 7 - April 10): Respecting the Balance: Thoughts on THE SUBSTANCE: Here is the lineup: mediacommons.org/imr/
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- Reposted by Catherine GrantI am super excited by this news. Our video essay "Cycles of Labour" has won the @baftss.bsky.social award for videographic criticism! My biggest thanks go to my colleagues @veronikahanakova.bsky.social & @jirianger.bsky.social thank you both very much for allowing me to be a part of this project!
- Reposted by Catherine GrantHappy BIRTHDAY to PUNCTUM! WE'RE 14 & still TWEEN-ing it! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since. Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber! punctumbooks.com/support/
- 1/3 The annual awards for practice for the @baftss.bsky.social have just been posted (www.baftss.org/winners-prac...) and the most deserved winners of the Videographic Criticism prize are @veronikahanakova.bsky.social, Martin Tremčinský & @jirianger.bsky.social! 👏👏👏
- 2/3 Veronika Hanáková, Martin Tremčinský and Jiří Anger won the award for their truly original, insightful and amazingly well made work Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives (published in NECSUS in December 2023: necsus-ejms.org/cycles-of-la...).
- 3/3 I am especially thrilled for @veronikahanakova.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social who have been consistently making the best #videoessay work in digital media, gaming and film studies for the last years. 👏👏👏💕
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- Reposted by Catherine GrantTimed w my BFI Film Classic, WANDA (May 1st) @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social I've curated a season devoted to Barbara Loden's work, imagination, & legacies: "WANDA & Beyond: The World of Barbara Loden," runs June 1st-28th in London at BFI Southbank. 20+ films, symposium, some rarities. More soon!
- A new award graduate students who are working with video essays organised by the SCMS Digital Humanities and Videographic Criticism special interest group (SIG). Please share this info with students you know and submit if you qualify (deadline this year will be June 1st).
- Reposted by Catherine Grant#SCMS25 has just started! Kicking off with a great roundtable co-chaired by @nwbaer.bsky.social, expanding on themes from his #OpenAccess book,Technics www.aup.nl/en/book/9789.... You can also check it out at the AUP table (Exhibit Hall) from tomorrow! See you there for a chat!
- Join us this Thursday at the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference for a roundtable on technics and media with Yijun Sun, Tom Gunning, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, @profmamamama.bsky.social, and @sconce.bsky.social! Thanks to @scmsmst.bsky.social for sponsoring. #SCMS25
- Reposted by Catherine GrantInterested in the strategies series runners use that underpinned the global success of German series such as Dark, Charité & Deutschland 83? “Entertaining German Culture” is free to download in full at www.berghahnbooks.com/title/EhrigE... #SCMS25 @chewschaper.bsky.social @herrehrig.bsky.social
- It's important to advance research & scholarship. In addition to our #OpenAccess titles, we're now offering another FREE #ChapterSampler, bringing key title extracts together in a curated #GermanCinema collection. Download today & enjoy: buff.ly/3EQL6ZW #academicsky #FilmStudies
- The Ways of Doing collective has just released a 4th videographic exercise in its Feminist Citational Practices series: The Conceptual Epigraph: waysofdoing.com/feminist-cit.... #videoessay
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- Reposted by Catherine GrantEditors @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @stefansolomon.bsky.social on “the ongoing (after)life of Incomplete.” Many congrats to Alix, Stefan and their esteemed group of contributors for winning 🌟Best Edited Collection🌟 at the #SCMS2025 Book Awards!! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...
- Reposted by Catherine GrantAs #scms25 approaches (first of the post-twitter era!), feel free to follow this conference feed in Bluesky to track the discourse:
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- Reposted by Catherine GrantTrying to get above the noise to share that our entire special issue on Queer World Cinema is currently open access! brill.com/view/journal...
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- BREAKING: @scmsqtc.bsky.social zine just dropped!!! Check out the latest & hottest in queer & trans cinema & media scholarship; #SCMS2025 panels & the annual QTC🍹 Check your 📧 for the full zine, made by our talented grad re Eduardo Pelligra!
- Reposted by Catherine GrantSome context here from my years of work on the Open Library of Humanities. Open Journals Collective is the opportunity we need to spread no-APC OA widely. Cancel Transformative Agreements (which aren't working). Use that money to fund this package of hundreds of OA journals. eve.gd/2025/04/02/o...
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- Reposted by Catherine GrantOne of our conference organisers @naswells.bsky.social spoke with BBC's Tech Life programme about the importance of archiving digital culture. Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.
- Reposted by Catherine GrantFriends heading to SCMS Chicago, please come to our Friday morning panel "Videographic Approaches to Indian Cinema" organized by Neepa Majumdar, and with Anupama Prabhala, and Pavitra Sundar. Here's a little sneak peek on what I am presenting
