1. SFC website updates 2. Journal 8ii articles 3. Claire Denis/Jean-Luc Nancy (Film-Philosophy) 4. Cahiers du cinema: petition ********************************************** 1. SFC website updates We have updated the front page with a selected list of recent publications by members of the Association (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/home.htm). We have also updated the list of books, and split a growing list into a 1998-2006 archive (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/downloads/books%201998-2006.doc) and a more recent list of books on French cinema published since 2007; this has been updated to include books published until May this year (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/downloads/books%20since%202007.doc). ********************************************** 2. Journal 8ii articles The next issue of Studies in French Cinema will contain articles on L'Emploi du temps, Godard's 1960s films and theories of realism, Renaissance, Paris in Cléo de 5 à 7 and Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Pierre Batcheff, L'Année dernière à Marienbad. Contents and abstracts are now available. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/journal%20v7-8.htm http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/downloads/abstracts%20v7-8.doc ********************************************** 3. Claire Denis/Jean-Luc Nancy (Film-Philosophy) Film-Philosophy: Volume 12, Issue No.1, 2008 http://www.film-philosophy.com Special Issue Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy Edited by Douglas Morrey Introduction (i-vi) Douglas Morrey Articles Icon of Fury: Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day (1-9) Jean-Luc Nancy Open Wounds: Body and Image in Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis (10-30) Douglas Morrey The Practice of Strangeness: L'Intrus - Claire Denis (2004) and Jean-Luc Nancy (2000) (31-48) Martine Beugnet The Community According to Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis (49-62) Anja Streiter Deconstructing Community and Christianity: 'A-religion' in Nancy's Reading of Beau travail (63-78) Laura McMahon Book Reviews Review: Caroline Bainbridge (2007) The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice (79-84) Davina Quinlivan Time, Affect, and the Brain: Deleuze's Cinematic Aesthetics Review: Darren Ambrose and Wahida Khandker (eds.) (2005) Diagrams of Sensation: Deleuze and Aesthetics:Pli, The Warwick Journal of Philosophy (85-96) Robert Sinnerbrink Review: Eyal Peretz (2007) Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses (97-106) Edward Willat Style and Substance in The Matrix Review: Stacy Gillis. Ed. (2005) The Matrix Triology: Cyberpunk Reloaded (107-116) Thorsten Botz-Bornstein Review: Martin Harries (2007) Forgetting Lot's Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship (117-124) R.D. Crano http://www.film-philosophy.com ********************************************** 4. Cahiers du cinema: petition The Cahiers are being sold by le Monde; see attached file. ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org