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Both "shooting" movie scripts and "spec" movie scripts are included in this list. If you're an aspiring screenwriter trying to break into the industry with a spec, it's important to ignore all the little formatting quirks that often come with shooting movie scripts. Sluglines with periods instead of dashes, large chunks of descriptive text, excessive use of camera angles and so on, are all expressions of writers who've made it.

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Best screenplays to read: drama.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
screenplay by Charlie Kaufmann.

Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy erases memories of being with girl. This typically Kaufmanesque story could arguably be called best screenplay he's ever written. Watch out for the long chunks of description, though, as this style isn't recommended in spec movie scripts.

2. Good Will Hunting.
screenplay by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

This best screenplay winner began life as Damon's final assignment for his Harvard playwriting class. Then he turned to Affleck to help turn it into a script. They then set about developing the story into a thriller about a young man targeted by the FBI. It was Rob Reiner who persuaded them to turn it into a drama and focus on the relationship between Will and his psychologist.

Easily the best of Crowe's screenplays to date and the one that broke him into the Hollywood A-list. Earned a Best Screenplay nomination and is a personal favorite of screenwriter Craig Mazin.

Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, this is a skillfully woven tale of suburban angst that retains a very novelistic feel. An excellent case study in how to make voiceover work for and not against your script.

Coppola spent six months writing a series of short stories and "impressions of Tokyo" that went on to become a seventy-page script. As understated as the movie itself, this screenplay is a real lesson in how to construct "small" scenes that move the story forward and keep the reader interested.

Unsure of what direction the script should take, a first draft arose out of ten months of research, interviewing as many people associated with rap group NWA as possible. The result was this blistering account of the group's rise and fall and was only Berloff's second produced feature and Herman's first.

Originally a dark sci-fi thriller set in New York City and titled "The Malcolm Show," Niccol's one-page treatment would go on to become one of the greatest high concepts in movie history. Nominated for the best screenplay Oscar but lost out to the schmaltzy Shakespeare In Love.

Like The Truman Show, this is another screenplay that expertly weaves comedy into its overall drama. Adapted from the novel by Walter Kirn, this is a modern classic and definitely one of the best screenplays to read for aspiring screenwriters. No matter what their genre preference.

This is arguably a better script than the one McCarthy won the best screenplay Oscar for: Spotlight. Beautifully tight and sparse writing about a lonely professor learning to loosen up after discovering a couple of illegal immigrants living in his New York apartment.

Having already won acclaim as a short film of the same title, Chazelle decided to adapt it into a feature and the result is one of the best screenplays to read in recent years. You can really feel Andrew's torment and passion in these pages.

Best screenplays to read: c omedy.

Neustadter and Weber began this screenplay by simply writing down on index cards all of the most painful relationship experiences they'd ever had. Many of them wound up in the final draft and it's this mixing of realism with its avant-garde structure that makes it a great script to read for the aspiring writer.

This best screenplay choice broke new ground by having female characters indulge in moments of "poop humor" in a way not seen before on screen. But beyond the infamous wedding dress scene, there's a heart to this script and a vulnerable protagonist with whom we can all identify.

Written on spec by writing team Lucas and Moore ( Four Christmases, Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past), this script is a near-perfect execution of a very high concept. Along with (500) Days of Summer, this is probably the best screenplay to come out in 2009.

Bookended by Thanksgiving dinner parties and with a novelistic feel, this best screenplay Oscar winner is a perfect blend of comedy with weighty themes about the meaning of life. While Allen himself may remain dissatisfied with the ending, this is one of his best screenplays to read if you're a comedy writer.

Tina Fey turned her hand to feature writing with this adaptation from a book by Rosalind Wiseman. The writing is just as smart, funny and relevant as when the movie first came out over ten years ago.

Some may put a movie like Ferris Bueller's Day Off or The Breakfast Club as their choice for quintessential John Hughes comedy. For us, it's this Steve Martin/John Candy two-hander. Without a doubt, the best screenplay to read if you're writing a comedy road trip movie. Or any comedy for that matter.

Rex Pickett's novel begins with Miles at home and takes a while before he hits the road with Jack. Payne and Taylor, however, get the story moving right off the bat by opening with Miles getting ready for the trip. And the pace doesn't let up in this darkly funny story of middle-aged angst.

Dismissed by some as Charlie Kaufman-lite, this is the best screenplay to read to get your creative juices flowing if you write dark comedy. Imaginative, thought-provoking, high concept and, best of all, extremely funny.

One thing many aspiring comedy screenwriters fail to do is add set pieces to their spec screenplays. From Ted picking Mary up for prom, to getting arrested for cruising, this is the best screenplay to learn how to elevate a simple situation into a big comedic set piece.

Heavily influenced by Woody Allen, this screenplay grew out of a simple conversation between Ephron and the movie's director, Rob Reiner: can a man and woman ever remain just platonic friends? The result was this best screenplay Oscar nominee and a classic of the rom-com genre.

Best screenplays to read: action/adventure.

Reading this script feels like you're watching Peter Greengrass' choppy, frenetic direction. It's all right there on the page and studying this script will really show you how to give action scenes a sense of urgency.

Christopher Nolan helped bring a much darker edge to the Batman franchise with Batman Begins, and this collaboration with his brother is an even better screenplay. Absorb all you can from this exceptional piece of work.

De Souza reportedly wrote the script to this seminal action movie as if the antagonist, Gruber, were the protagonist. He said, "If he had not planned the robbery and put it together, Bruce Willis would have just gone to the party and reconciled or not with his wife. You should sometimes think about looking at your movie through the point of view of the villain who is really driving the narrative." Wise words indeed.

Griffin took the story and script from the 1960 version and, with the help of Steven Soderbergh's direction, created one the coolest heist movies of all time. Definitely one of the best movie scripts to read and study if you're an action writer.

Screenwriters Walsh, Boyens and Jackson approached writing the screenplay by making significant edits to the novel and zeroing in on much more on Frodo's story with the ring. Absolute required reading for any aspiring fantasy/adventure writers.

There are so many writing lessons to be learned from reading this best screenplay Oscar-nominated script. The way all the characters' emotions are chosen for optimal conflict. The way Riley isn't interested in stereotypically feminine pursuits but is a hockey enthusiast. The way the theme of emotions connecting people together is thread through her journey, etc. Yet another Pixar classic.

The big takeaway from reading this screenplay is the value of research. Berg met the families of the deceased and had the story's protagonist, Luttrell, move in with him while writing the script. Oh, and he also embedded with Navy Seals for a month in Iraq. Now that's dedication to the craft.

Johnson has said of writing the script he wanted it to be character based rather than focus on the mechanics of time-travel. He drew inspiration from movies such as The Terminator, 12 Monkeys, and Witness. One of the best screenplays to read if you love mixing sci-fi with ironic humor and time-travel.

The Wachowski brothers pitched the script to Warner Bros. who were initially skeptical of its philosophical musings and tricky SFX for the time. The brothers then decided to bring on board underground comic book artists Steve Skroce and Geof Darrow to storyboard the entire film, shot-by-shot. Warners were impressed and the rest, as they say, is history.

Having kicked the idea around for several years, Reese and Wernick originally wrote the story as a TV spec. It was director Ruben Fleischer who helped develop it into a feature by adding in a specific destination to the characters' road trip in the form of the amusement park.

Best screenplays to read: thriller.

Beattie originally had the idea for the movie aged seventeen while riding in the back of a cab in his native Sydney. He then worked up a two-page treatment called The Last Domino, which he turned into a screenplay. Later he was lucky enough to be put in touch with Darabont and then Mann who both contributed revisions.

Monahan's reworking of the original Asian gangster movie Infernal Affairs as a fight between Boston's police department and the Irish American crime scene is very impressive. In fact, it earned him a Best Screenplay (Adapted) award from not only the WGA but also the Academy Awards.

The first draft of this much-lauded horror/comedy satire was written Peele in two months. He then went on to write a staggering 200 more drafts before finalizing the one that went on to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 2017.

Yet another best screenplay nominee based on a novel. Much like the adaptation of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, this screenplay also moves the action from the UK to the US. Wilson also expertly plays with the reader's perceptions of the protagonist, Rachel, and is one of the best screenplays to read in recent times.

Gilroy had the initial idea for Nightcrawler way back in 1988. He spent years developing the screenplay, making Lou a traditional "good guy" protagonist and the story a murder mystery. In order to break with the stereotype, though, he finally hit upon the idea of creating an "anti-hero success story" and the result is this exceptional (slugline free) screenplay.

This Coen brothers' adaptation from the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy is notable for its refusal to rely on dialogue to move the story forward. Reading the script you can see why Josh Brolin was initially nervous. "I mean it was a fear, for sure, because dialogue, that's what you kind of rest upon as an actor, you know?" Won the best screenplay (adapted) category at the 80th Academy Awards.

Guzikowski based the script on his own short story, which in turn was inspired by The Tell-Tale Heart in which a father gets revenge on the man who kills his kid in a hit and run by sticking him down a well. The best screenplay we've read from an upcoming thriller writer in a while.

Many of the tropes have been copied almost to the point of cliche by a generation of later writers. But this script was groundbreaking for its time and is impossible to ignore if you want to learn how to become a screenwriter.

When asked about whether he was surprised about the success of Training Day, Ayer replied "No. That was a shocker. I wrote that script on spec out of frustration. I was trying to make sales writing mediocre movie scripts, I guess, trying to anticipate what the studios would buy, and I wrote that for myself. I was tired of second-guessing the system and I just wanted to say something." Great advice for any aspiring screenwriter.

McQuarrie and director Bryan Singer both worked on the initial concept of five guys meeting in a police line-up. It came from an idea that occurred to Singer from Captain Renault's line in Casablanca: "Round up the usual suspects." McQuarrie then worked up this masterfully complex story from one of his own previously unproduced movie scripts.

Best screenplays to read: horror.

screenplay by Walter Hill, Dan O'Bannon, and David Giler.

Famed for its minimal, vertical writing style, O'Bannan would say of his original draft, "I didn't steal Alien from anybody. I stole it from everybody." Classic 1950s sci-fi films such as Forbidden Planet, Thing From Another World and Planet Of The Vampires. They're all in here.

The Babadook is another script based on a short film-Kent's 2005 movie, Monster. Perhaps that's why, in contrast to Jordan Peele's 200 drafts of Get Out, Kent had nailed the script in just five drafts. A fantastic exploration of the darkness within ourselves, and one of the best horror movie scripts for any aspiring writer to read.

The screenplay only credits Gunn and Tolkin as rewriters of this George A. Romero script. In fact, Scott Frank ( Out Of Sight, Minority Report) was also brought in to add some oomph to the action sequences. A worthy remake of the 1978 original and one of Stephen King's favorite movies.

The origins of this spec screenplay are just as creepy as the film. As Reddick recounts, he was given the idea by a real-life story of a woman whose life was saved by her mom who warned her not to take a flight that wound up crashing. Reddick then wrote the script as an X-Files spec but was advised by a friend to reshape it into a feature.

Aster originally conceived of the script as a drama about a family tragedy drama, inspired by the grisly real-life incident from 2005 in which John Hutcherson accidentally decapitated his childhood friend, Frankie Brohm. However, as the script developed, the second half gradually morphed into the full-blown horror we have now-although Aster is still careful not to call it a horror film outright.

The same core team behind the Saw movies-writer, Leigh Whannell, and director, James Wan-had a point to prove with this script. Read this first and best of the Insidious franchise for a masterclass in how create a horror through tension over gore.

Fresh off her success with Juno, Cody originally intended to write a straight, slasher horror movie. But she notes, "the humor just kept sneaking in." If you're writing a horror movie with heavy doses of comedy involved, this is one of the best scripts to read.

Seltzer was commissioned by the producer, Harvey Bernhard, to write a movie about the Antichrist after Bernhard was given the idea by a friend, Bob Munger. It took Seltzer exactly one year to write the screenplay and it would go on to be one of the most iconic horror movies of all time.

This script was born purely out of budgetary restrictions as writers Whannell and Wan deliberately wanted to write a horror film as cheaply as possible. One that they could finance themselves. Inspired by low-budget movies such as Pi and The Blair Witch Project, they decided on the concept of two actors, one room, and one dead body. Easily one of the best screenplays to read for horror writers.

Already a working screenwriter, Shyamalan's big breakthrough came with this best screenplay nominee that pulls the wool over the reader's eyes until the very end. This is still one of the finest horror movie scripts ever written.

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starring Franklin as the irrepressible Mrs. Murphy.

(P.S. If you think I'm mapping any of the shots incorrectly, just let me know.

This is a great exercise to do with students, but it can be tricker than it looks...)

Film Studies For Free is ten years old today! Yes! It was exactly one whole decade ago that it went public online for the first time, just a few weeks before the 2008 financial crash took off... What a truly excellent time to have become the international purveyor of links to high-quality FREE stuff for film and screen media studies!

The re-distributive, Open Access-championing, project that FSFF embraced had been conceived (of) a mere couple of weeks before, early one morning, in one of those rather dramatic lightbulb moments: "Wouldn't it be excellent if there could be a blog that directed film scholars to good, openly accessible resources for them online?" And thus it came to pass.

What a blast it has been.

Brought to you from a somewhat remote log cabin in a tiny internationalist enclave of pre-Brexit Britain (pictured for the first time online, below), its mission was equally inspired by the extremely lively and considerably less corporate atmosphere, at the time, of the cinephile Web 2.0, post-the establishment of YouTube in 2005 - a fascinating period now both scrutinised and immortalised by fellow participant-observer in that era and since (and blogger and cinephile extraordinaire) Girish Shambu in his wonderful 2016 book The New Cinephilia.

With no pomp or circumstance and-in the manner of an uncertain TV pilot episode-with very little sense of the form it would go on to take, on August 24, 2008, FSFF posted an inaugural entry on three 'very worthwhile items on the Director's Cut' (about which its scholar-author had recently been writing for a subsequently published book chapter).

The blog very soon found its processual feet in the form of producing mostly long, handily bullet-pointed lists of curated links to (mostly English-language) 'online, Open Access, film and audiovisual media studies resources of note.'

Oh, and FSFF embraced a hilarious third-person sense of humour and directed it at a virtual second-person audience... What writing larks it has had! Dear Reader, it has been a total pleasure.

Please permit FSFF the indulgence of one final reflection on this anniversary. The experience of fun, energy and experimentalism in producing FSFF over the last decade has had some unimaginable and unintended consequences - unimaginable and unintended ten years ago, anyhow. They have been wonderful, too.

For one, little had this blog's author thought that carrying out the research for this website would entail a shift away from her own, rather conventional, film and media scholar- modus operandi to a world of experimental, film and social media publishing proper (with the [in]Transition and REFRAME platforms, among others) as well as to that of audiovisual production. But FSFF's runaway enthusiasm for the emergent digital forms of film studies it was discovering online and linking to, such as the video essay, brought about just such a dramatic change in its author's conception of what academic work in the Humanities might be (and ought to be), these days, which is one reason why despite everything (including the ongoing downfall of Western democracies) FSFF still

the interwebs....

If you want to read more about FSFF's thoughts on the above turns, there's a 2012 article by its author, a research dissertation about this blog based on interviews with her, a very recent and excellent interview reflecting on all the above, carried out by the fabulous film scholar Sérgio Dias Branco for the online journal Aniki, and tons more thoughts in publications listed here.

This brings us back to OA business as usual: today's anniversary entry consists of the usual lists of links, below - this time to commemoratively-focused ones connected, of course, to FSFF's first decade of existence. But, FSFF also offers you, as is its wont, one video above and one below: two modest (film studies-oriented) tributes to the cinematic magic (in The Blues Bothers and ) of Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, who sadly passed away on August 16, 2018.

Keep coming back, Readers (well over 5 million of you, and still counting..). Thank you!
And thank you very much, Open Access authors and publishers! Without you, FSFF really wouldn't exist... Would it?

Please follow @filmstudiesff on Twitter and the Film Studies For Free page on Facebook, where quality links are shared daily.

(and everything else) in every single way possible for each of the last great ten years.

On a choice song in Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, USA 2016)

TEN ANNIVERSARY LINKS LISTS:

1. TEN (SETS OF) INSPIRATIONAL FILM AND SCREEN STUDIES BLOGGERS

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, of course!

Kevin B. Lee, more influential in relation to everything FSFF (and its author) does in the realm of online film and media studies than he could possibly imagine.... A true original!

Girish Shambu, without whom none of FSFF's last ten years would have been possible, or even noticed...

Henry Jenkins, still setting the standard for critical media studies online. Immense!

Alexandra Juhasz, (of Media Praxis) a genuine innovator and all round fabulous scholar-maker-activist

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Matt Zoller Seitz, film (and TV) critic-authors of the film websites I enjoy reading the most. Also, the most generous.

Chuck Tryon (The Chutry Experiment), took participant-observation in online digital media studies to a whole new level.

Pam Cook, Katherine Groo (Half/Films), Chris Cagle (Category D), three of the smartest people in the film scholarly universe online.

Nick Rombes, Shane Denson, Jason Mittell - thanks for all the manifold brilliant ideas!

And for their wondrous film criticism blogging: Farran Smith Nehme / Marilyn Ferdinand / Roderick Heath (the backbone of the Film Preservation Blogathon in which FSFF participated in its earlier years). And last but not least Peter Nellhaus, especially for his dedication to (and huge knowledge about and love for) cinema beyond that which exists in the English language.

2. TEN FAVOURITE OPEN ACCESS FILM AND SCREEN STUDIES E-BOOKS

Charles R. Acland and Eric Hoyt, The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities (Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2016)

Erika Balsom, Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013)

Trine Bjørkmann Berry, Videoblogging Before YouTube (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2018)

David Bordwell, Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Library, 2004) [and all DB's other OA books listed here)

Shane Denson and Julia Leyda (eds), Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film ( Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2016)

Paul Grainge (ed), Memory and Popular Film (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003)

Andrew Horton (ed), Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)

Mikhail Iampolski, The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)

Belén Vidal, Figuring the Past: Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012)

Siegfried Zielinski, Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History (Amsterdam University Press, 1999)

3. TEN FAVOURITE OPEN ACCESS PHD THESES

Tiago Baptista, Lessons in looking : the digital audiovisual essay, PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2016

Melis Belil, Home away from home: global directors of new Hollywood, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2007

Felicia Chan, In Search of a Comparative Poetics: Cultural Translatability in Transnational Chinese Cinemas, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007

Catherine Fowler, The films of Chantal Akerman: a cinema of displacements, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995

Malte Hagener, Avant-garde culture and media strategies: the networks and discourses of the European film avant-garde, 1919-39, PhD Thesis, UvA, 2005

Frances Hubbard, Screendance: corporeal ties between dance, film, and audience. PhD thesis, University of Sussex, 2014

Andrew Klevan, Disclosure of the everyday : the undramatic achievements in narrative film, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996

Michael Z. Newman, Characterization in American Independent Cinema, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005

Julianne Pidduck, Intimate places and flights of fancy : gender, space, and movement in contemporary costume drama. PhD thesis, Concordia University, 1997

Tim J. Smith, 'An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing', PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005

4. TEN FAVOURITE SETS OF OPEN ACCESS RESEARCH AND TEACHING RESOURCES

Lantern, the search platform for the collections of the Media History Digital Library, an open access initiative led by David Pierce and Eric Hoyt.

MediaCommons, a Digital Scholarly Network

Oapen Books - not a publisher but a library, where you can find vast quantities of film and screen studies research in book form.

EDIT media (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media). Thank you, Jennifer Proctor, and colleagues

Critical Commons (For Fair and Critical Participation in Media Culture). Thank you, Steve Anderson!

Audiovisualcy and the Audiovisual Essay website

Vectors Journal and Kairos Journal

Kracauer Lectures in Film and Media Theory (Thank you, Vinzenz Hediger)

Timeline of Historical Film Colors (Thank you, Barbara Fluekiger)

Society for Cinema and Media Studies and Cinema Journal Open Access ventures: In Focus, Aca-Media Podcast, Archival News, Afterthoughts and Postscripts, and Teaching Media

5. TEN FAVOURITE SOCIAL MEDIA GURUS FOR FILM / SCREEN CRITICISM AND MORE

The legendary David Hudson, now at Criterion | Daily (Previously of GreenCineDaily, The Daily | MUBI, and the Daily | Fandor)

Adrian Martin, @adrianmartin25

Open Access in Media Studies, @OAmediascholar

Matt Zoller Seitz, @mattzollerseitz

The Notebook at MUBI @NotebookMUBI

Society for Cinema and Media Studies, @SCMSstudies

David Verdeure, @Filmscalpel

Cristina Álvarez López, @laughmotel

Useful new kid on the block: @scmspedagogy

6. TEN FAVOURITE SETS OF VIDEO AND AUDIO RESOURCES

The VF Perkins interviews (scroll down on the page): 12 constituent parts of a truly fascinating interview with legendary film scholar V.F. Perkins which took place at the Kino 8 1/2 in Saarbrücken, Germany, and was filmed by Media Art and Design Studiengang. In the interview, Perkins engagingly discusses his approach to film studies and, in particular, talks about the trajectory of his foundational 1972 book Film as Film, and about his research on Jean Renoir's1939 film Le Régle du jeu about which he had written a 2012 book for the BFI Film Classics series (excerpt here)

Haunted memory - the cinema of Víctor Erice, a video essay by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, 'exploring the joy and regret of nostalgia with one of the cinema's great, spare poets of sense-memory.' (also see their Thinking Machine video essay work for Filmkrant)

Transformers the Premake, by Kevin B. Lee

50 Years On, a video essay about cinephilia and history by Christian Keathley

Fembot in a Red Dress, by Allison de Fren

A Homeless Ghost: The Moving Camera and its Analogies by Patrick Keating

A.I. Artificial Intelligence - A Visual Study, by Benjamin Sampson

Collection of video essays (some in Spanish) built up by Transit - Cine y otros desvíos

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Fieldnotes Project

Podcasts extraordinaires: The Cinephiliacs (Peter Labuza); The Cinematologists (Neil Fox and Dario Llinares); You Must Remember This (Karina Longworth); and relative newcomer, Eavesdropping at the Movies (José Arroyo and Michael Glass).

7. TEN FAVOURITE RECENT LINKS

Filmscalpel's brilliant new video-essay collection: Director Dossiers

New audiovisual essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin: The Gauntlet - Place and Space in a Scene from Notorious.

Film History as Media Archaeology: an interview with Thomas Elsaesser and Vladimir Lukin

Hegemonic Cinematography Exercise by Professor Ruth Goldman, SUNY Buffalo State, for EDIT Media

Hollywood in Color [podcast] 'looks at the history of film through the lens of the underappreciated minority actresses who came up through the ranks.' Thanks to Liz Greene for the link.

Film critic and scholar extraordinaire Adrian Martin is the latest guest (no. 41) on Bill Ackerman's podcast series SUPPORTING CHARACTERS! Bill's questions (more or less the same that he asks each person featured) tend to focus on autobiography, early years, career matters, and so on. Many films are also mentioned along the way.

Is there a blog in this class? 2018 - the annual roundup by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson of lists of suggestions of posts at Observations on Film Art that might be useful in classes, either as assignments or recommendations.

Top notch film scholar Caetlin Benson-Allott on the recent Oscar developments.

Latest issue of the online journal APPARATUS on the influence of women on Eastern European film form, their significance, their skills, and their expertise, through their work as editors and beyond.

The Center for the Humanities Blog on Crucial Circulations: VHS and Queer AIDS Archives by Jaime Shearn Coan (link via Alexandra Juhasz)

8. TEN FAVOURITE SETS OF OPEN ACCESS FILM AND SCREEN MEDIA JOURNALS

Primarily non-English language ones: Aniki, Cinergie, Revista L'Atalante,

Pioneering Aussie ones: Screening the Past and Senses of Cinema

Beloved and brilliant labours of love: Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media (thank you Julia Lesage, Chuck Kleinhans and John Hess!), The Cine-Files: Scholarly Journal of Cinema Studies, Offscreen Journal, Rouge, Lola, World Picture Journal

Innovative ones: Peephole, Vectors Journal, Kairos Journal, Screenworks, Audiovisual Thinking: Journal of Academic Videos, Transformative Works and Cultures

Intersectional feminist ones: Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal, Cléo: A Journal of Film and Feminism, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture

NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies

MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism

Film Criticism

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media

[in]Transition; Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies

9. TEN (SETS OF) OPEN ACCESS HEROES IN SCREEN STUDIES

Daniel Frampton and David Sorfa (the legends behind Film-Philosophy in its different incarnations)

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jason Mittell and Avi Santo, and all those behind MediaCommons

Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards, for the amazing Open Library of Humanities, a platform now graced by a new film and television studies journal called Open Screens!

Will Brooker and Chris Becker, for the brilliant open access developments directly connected to Cinema Journal (including: In Focus, Aca-Media Podcast, Archival News, Afterthoughts and Postscripts, and Teaching Media)

Adrian Martin, for the personal example of his prolific sharing of his work online and for editing and producing numerous open access publishing ventures (including Screening the Past, , and [with Girish Shambu]). Check out his phenomenal personal website, supported by the open access legend that is Bill Mousoulis.

Thomas Elsaesser, for the personal example of his prolific sharing of his work online and for editing and supporting numerous open access publishing ventures. Check out his phenomenal personal website. Thanks to him, also, for helping to pioneer the audiovisual essay form.

Jeroen Sondervan, for all his work at Amsterdam University Press, and beyond, supporting open-access books and journals. Check out his latest great contribution, the Open Access Media Scholar website.

The (fellow) co-editors, project managers, and peer reviewers at [in]Transition, who work so very hard helping to promote the audiovisual essay as a scholarly form, including Chiara Grizzaffi, Christian Keathley, Drew Morton, Jason Mittell and Christine Becker

Rick Prelinger, for his contributions to audio-visual and other archiving at the Prelinger Archive and the Internet Archive

Charlotte Crofts, for her tireless work in publishing audiovisual forms of screen studies, including developing the brilliant Screenworks platform (see FSFF's earlier act of worship)

10. TEN FAVORITE ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS WITH DESERVED OPEN-ACCESS CREDENTIALS

And don't forget Oapen Books - not a publisher but a library, where you can find vast quantities of film and screen studies research in book form.

Post-scriptum: TEN TINY TESTIMONIALS ON FSFF REACHING THE GRAND OLD DIGITAL AGE OF TEN [blushing]

[W]ith thanks for such invaluable work and hearty congratulations on the anniversary.

I remember when I first discovered [ Film Studies For Free]-- I think I just came across it via a film-related google search, but it was a revelation. It was as if someone had given me a gift... The site was relatively new, but already, one could get deliriously, delightfully lost in it for hours.

Here's my memory [...]. [ Film Studies For Free] was one of my first resources when I was getting into film, especially as I started university (a Filmmaking degree) and realized that I wasn't going to have Film History as a subject. I was also really struggling with trying to be fluent in reading and writing in English. The complex language of some of the studies pushed me into studying more, finding new words, new thoughts and it also gave me the education that I was lacking at uni. I've always been thankful for the access provided and I'll always have the memories of going through link after link, reading about films that I hadn't seen yet, going back, watching more and more, and then reading. Can't say it made me want to write those kind of studies (I wish I had that kind of mentality and verbosity). But it surely made me write more about film and eventually, down the line, jump in and start writing in this language. Thank you for everything, Catherine, and to the people who make these studies available.

One of the best things about having good scholar-friends is when they say to you, 'Have you read x?', 'Do you know about y?', because they know you will be interested. With Film Studies For Free [Catherine] Grant became everyone's favorite scholar-friend, and the site became the platform for extraordinary generosity - which, it must be noted, is more than matched her intelligence and imagination."

Felicitaciones por este excelente trabajo, una fuente de recursos increíble para conocer el universo del ensayo audiovisual, por muchos años más!!
Patricio Sanz, Buenos Aires-based PhD student and 'Cantautor, VJ y pugilista aficionado'. @patoriuss

What an absolutely invaluable and generous resource [ Film Studies For Free] has been for a decade. (A thousand thanks!) This morning I dug up my very first exchanges with [its author]--going back to the time when she founded FSFF--and (gulp) I found an email in which I urged her to join Facebook and friend me lol...which she kindly did. FSFF 4EVER!

The generosity of the endeavour of [ Film Studies For Free] in terms of the amount of scholarship it archives in topical and trending lists - and the invaluable resource it offers to film educators/researchers are what I

most about it and what I love most about [ its author].

[ Film Studies For Free] is my go-to resource for all things cinema studies. It's the best place online to find out what's happening in the world of academic film criticism.

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Representology is a forum where academic researchers and media industry professionals can come together to pool expertise and experience. We seek to create a better understanding of the current barriers to media participation as well as examine and promote the most effective ways to overcome such barriers. We hope the journal will influence policy and practice in the media industry through a rigorous, evidence-based approach.

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Project focusing on early cinema's female pioneers. Includes articles and links to resources on silent-era producers, directors, co-directors, scenario writers and editors, camera operators, title writers, editors, costume designers, exhibitors, theatre managers.

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Welcome to the Women Film Pioneers Project, a scholarly resource exploring women's global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

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Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall'Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries.

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The Prelinger Archives is collection of ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films, many of which are freely available to download for creative reuse under the Creative Commons license.

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View thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives! Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film...

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The Kinomatics Project collects, explores, analyses and represents data about the creative industries. It examines the spatial and temporal dimensions of international film flow.

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In their paper The film festival sector and its networked structures of gender inequality Martha Emilie Ehrich, Katharina Burgdorf, Zhenya Samoilova and Skadi Loist investigate the extent to which the film festival sector is structured by gender bias. For this purpose, they conceptualize the festival sector as a one-mode network, consisting of film festivals [...]

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Digital humanities project that analyses gender representation in dialogue from over 2,000 Hollywood films.

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Film Dialogue

from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age

Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.

But it's all rhetoric and no data, which gets us nowhere in terms of having an informed discussion. How many movies are actually about men? What changes by genre, era, or box-office revenue? What circumstances generate more diversity?

We didn't set out trying to prove anything, but rather compile real data. We framed it as a census rather than a study. So we Googled our way to 8,000 screenplays and matched each character's lines to an actor. From there, we compiled the number of words spoken by male and female characters across roughly 2,000 films, arguably the largest undertaking of script analysis, ever.

Let's begin by examining dialogue, by gender, for just Disney films.

*Domestic gross over $45M, inflation-adjusted. Using IMDB box office, 2,500 have hit this threshold.

Screenplay Dialogue, Broken-down by Gender

2,000 Screenplays: Dialogue Broken-down by Gender

Only High-Grossing Films: Ranked in the Top 2,500 by US Box Office*

In January 2016, researchers reported that men speak more often than women in Disney's princess films. We validated this claim and doubled the sample size to 30 Disney films, including Pixar. The results: 22 of 30 Disney films have a male majority of dialogue. Even films with female leads, such as Mulan, the dialogue swings male. Mushu, her protector dragon, has 50% more words of dialogue than Mulan herself.

This dataset isn't perfect. As with Mulan, a plot can center around a character, even though the dialogue doesn't reflect it. And all of our data is based on screenplays, not a perfect transcription of a film.

Methodology

For each screenplay, we mapped characters with at least 100 words of dialogue to a person's IMDB page (which identifies people as an actor or actress). We did this because minor characters are poorly labeled on IMDB pages. This has unintended consequences: Schindler's List, for example, has women with lines, just not over this threshold. Which means a more accurate result would be 99.5% male dialogue instead of our result of 100%. There are other problems with this approach as well: films change quite a bit from script to screen. Directors cut lines. They cut characters. They add characters. They change character names. They cast a different gender for a character. We believe the results are still directionally accurate, but individual films will definitely have errors.

Each screenplay has at least 90% of its lines categorized by gender. If you notice a missing character from the analysis, their lines may be in the remaining 10%. If a character was cut from the film but is present in the screenplay, we inferred his or her gender based on the script's pronouns.

Across thousands of films in our dataset, it was hard to find a subset that didn't over-index male. Even romantic comedies have dialogue that is, on average, 58% male. For example, Pretty Woman and 10 Things I Hate About You both have lead women (i.e., characters with the most amount of dialogue). But the overall dialogue for both films is 52% male, due to the number of male supporting characters.

How many screenplays have women as lead characters?

In 22% of our films, actresses had the most amount of dialogue (i.e., they were the lead). Women are more likely to be in the second place for most amount of dialogue, which occurs in 34% of films. The most abysmal stat is when women occupy at least 2 of the top 3 roles in a film, which occurs in 18% of our films. That same scenario for men occurs in about 82% of films.

Aging out of Hollywood: Men vs. Women

For each film, we also determined the age of each cast member at the time of its release. This allowed us to quantify whether there is a bias toward younger women in Hollywood (or conversely, whether men enjoy a longer career).

Percent of Dialogue by Actors' Age

Among 2,000 Screenplays, all genres, all years

The amount of dialogue, by age-range, is completely opposite for women versus men. Dialogue available to women who are over 40 years old decrease substantially. For men, it's the exact opposite: there are more roles available to older actors.

Here's another look at the same data, but for every age:

Why we made this

This project was born out of the less-than-stellar response to our analysis of films that fail the Bechdel Test. Commenters were quick to point out that the Bechdel Test is flawed and there are justifiable reasons for films to fail (e.g., they are historic). By measuring dialogue, we have much more objective view of gender in film.

Many of readers are drawing conclusions that were anecdotally obvious to women in the film industry. But nobody wanted to do the grunt work of gathering the data. We spent weeks just matching scripts to IMDB pages. It's still not perfect, but we're now in a much better place than "you know...women are never love-interests when they're older than 40. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

All of our sources are available in this Google Doc and as much data as we can share (without getting sued) is available here on Github. Here's an FAQ that addresses concerns about the methodology and data. Or if you don't know how to code, here's an easy way to comb through every film, genre, and year.

All Films' Dialogue, by Cast Member and Gender

Why we made this

This project was born out of the less-than-stellar response to our analysis of films that fail the Bechdel Test. Commenters were quick to point out that the Bechdel Test is flawed and there are justifiable reasons for films to fail (i.e., they are historic). By measuring dialogue, we have much more objective measure of gender inclusivity.

Many of the findings are anecdotally obvious to women in the film industry. But nobody wanted to do the grunt work of gathering the data. We spent weeks just matching scripts to IMDB pages. It's still not perfect, but we're now in a much better place than "you know...women are never love-interests when they're older than 40. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

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The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever

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Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.