Books and Edited Collections
Co-Author with Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell, The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy, a collection of writings about and examples of videographic criticism, edited by Christian Keathley, Jason Mittell, and Catherine Grant. As an open access, multimodal site of scholarship, this 2019 site will evolve over time, expanding the collection of examples and revising writing as relevant. (Earlier versions of some of these writings were published in 2016 and 2019 by caboose books in the volume The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image). Online at: http://videographicessay.org
Co-Author with Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell, The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image (Montreal: caboose/Rutgers University Press, 2nd ed., 2019, Details: https://www.caboosebooks.net/the-videographic-essay)
Co-Editor with Jaap Kooijman, ‘New Ways of Seeing (and Hearing): The Audiovisual Essay and Television, ‘Audiovisual Essay’ Section on Television in NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Spring 2019: https://necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/spring-2019_emotions/
Co-Editor with Tracy Cox-Stanton, ‘Beast Fables: Animals in Cinema’, A special issue of The Cine-Files: A Scholarly Journal of Film Studies, 14, Spring 2019: http://www.thecine-files.com
Co-Editor with Diarmaid Kelliher, ‘Special Collection: Pride Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation’, Open Library of Humanities, March 2019 – present, https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/special/pride-revisited-cinema-activism-and-re-activation/
Editor (or Co-editor) of the following issues of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies – a Cinema Journal/MediaCommons Collaboration, ISSN 2469-4312: 4.4. December 2017; 3.4. December 2016; 3.1. March 2016; 2.3. May 2015; 1.3. September 2014 on The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory; and 1.1 March 2014.
Director/producer/lead editor of The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory in Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, a rolling companion publication website with thirty + essays and curated videos, 2014-present. Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/
Editor (or Co-editor) of SEQUENCE One: Planet Melancholia (2012- present), SEQUENCE Two: We Need to Talk about the Maternal Melodrama (2013-present), SEQUENCE Three: Re/De-Composition: Sampling, Mashups, Remix, Glitch (2015-present); SEQUENCE Four: Analogue-Digital (2016-present); SEQUENCE Five: About Silence (2016-present). All peer-reviewed rolling journal issues accessible online here: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence/. (ISSN 2052-3033)
Editor of Special Issue: “Film and Moving Image Studies Re-Born Digital?” Frames Cinema Journal, 1.1 (University of St. Andrews, Film Studies), 2012. ISSN 2053-8812. Online at http://framescinemajournal.com/?issue=issue1
Co- Editor with Annette Kuhn, Screening World Cinema: A Screen Reader, London and New York, Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 9780415384292.
Screen ‘Special Issue on Latin American Cinemas’, Vol. 38, No. 4, 1997, (co- edited with Jackie Stacey). ISSN 0036-9543.
Other selected Screen Studies Publications
“From Here, There, and Elsewhere: In-Between Memories [on Once Upon a Screen 2],” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, 9.3, 2022. Online at: http://mediacommons.org/intransition/once-upon-screen-vol-2-part-1-introduction-co-guest-editors
“Irresistible instrumentalism: Materially thinking through music-making in the story worlds of silent films,” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Spring 2022_#Rumors. Online at: https://necsus-ejms.org/irresistible-instrumentalism-materially-thinking-through-music-making-in-the-story-worlds-of-silent-films/
With Deborah Martin, Rites of The Passage [on Lucrecia Martel’s 2021 IFFR/Eye Filmmuseum installation The Passage], 2021 – forthcoming online
‘Birbirine Karışan Tutkular: Videografik Derlemede Kurgu Yoluyla Malzemeyle Düşünmek’ (Translated into Turkish by İpek Gürkan). sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 11 (2) 2020
With Deborah Martin, ‘Water Turtles/Tortugas Aquáticas [on two films by Lucrecia Martel]’, 16:9, 2019. http://www.16-9.dk/2019/09/water-turtles/
‘El embrujo de La mujer sin cabeza‘ [‘The Haunting of The Headless Woman’ – Video and text in Spanish with English Translation], Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales, 2, Julio 2019: – Español: https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/revista-2-1/; English: https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/en/journal-2-1/.
With Jaap Kooijman, ‘New Ways of Seeing (and Hearing): The Audiovisual Essay and Television, ‘Audiovisual Essay’ Section on Television in NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Spring 2019: https://necsus-ejms.org/new-ways-of-seeing-and-hearing-the-audiovisual-essay-and-television/
With Janet McCabe, ‘Flow/Cut, Body/Matter, Law Fear’, in ‘Bodies at the border: transnational co-produced TV drama and its gender politics in the pilots of Bron/Broen and adaptations, The Bridge and The Tunnel‘, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Spring 2019: https://necsus-ejms.org/bodies-at-the-border-transnational-co-produced-tv-drama-and-its-gender-politics-in-the-pilots-of-bron-broen-and-adaptations-the-bridge-and-the-tunnel/
‘Beast Fables: A Videographic Study of Cinematic Deer and Transhuman Children’, The Cine-Files: A Scholarly Journal of Film Studies, 14, Spring 2019: http://www.thecine-files.com/cgrant/
‘Ecce Homo‘ – A video assemblage bringing the endings of Zero Dark Thirty and The Hour of the Furnaces, pt. 1, together. Published alongside considerations of the video by Robert Burgoyne, Anna Gjelsvik and Nadège Lourme, Grensesnitt, September, 2018: https://grensesnitt.org/ecco-homo/
‘Screen Memories: A Video Essay on Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries’, CINERGIE: Il Cinema e le altre Arti, 13, 2018: https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/7914
Catherine Grant and Amber Jacobs, ‘Persona Non Grata Sonata’, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, Issue, 1 (Spring 2018):
maifeminism.com/persona-non-grata-sonata/
‘Star Studies in Transition: Notes on Experimental Videographic Approaches to Film Performance’, Cinema Journal, Volume 56, Issue 4, 2017. Open Access PDF: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/in_focus_archive/InFocus_56-4.pdf
‘The audiovisual essay as performative research’, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Autumn 2016. Online at: http://www.necsus-ejms.org/the-audiovisual-essay-as-performative-research/
‘Dissolves of Passion: Materially Thinking through Editing in Videographic Compilation’ in The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image, Eds. Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell (Montreal: Caboose Books, 2016): 37-53. This work includes the video essay Dissolves of Passion, online at the Caboose website: https://www.caboosebooks.net/node/150 ISBN 978-1-927852-04-0.
‘Beyond tautology? Audiovisual Film Criticism’ , Film Criticism, Vol. 40, No.1, 2016. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.13761232.0040.113
“Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms by Patricia White” [Review Essay], Film Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Fall 2015), pp. 99-101
“Film studies in the groove? Rhythmising perception in Carnal Locomotive” , NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Spring 2015. http://www.necsus-ejms.org/film-studies-in-the-groove-rhythmising-perception-in-carnal-locomotive/. PDF: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/aup/necsus/2015/00000004/00000001/art00007. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2015.1.GRAN
“Interplay: (Re)Finding and (Re)Framing Cinematic Experience, Film Space, and the Child’s World,” [Video and text] LOLA, 6, 2015. Online at: http://www.lolajournal.com/6/interplay.html
“TURNING UP THE VOLUME? The Emergent Focus on Film Sound, Music and Listening in Audiovisual Essays” The Cine-Files: A Scholarly Journal of Cinema Studies (Spring 2015) 8. Special issue on Film Sound. http://www.thecine-files.com/turning-up-the-volume/
Solo editor of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies – a Cinema Journal/MediaCommons Collaboration, 2.3. May 2015. Online at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/theme-week/2014/35/journal-videographic-film-moving-image-studies-13-2014
“Práctica, alcance y valor de los estudios videográficos sobre cine” Transit: cine y otros desvíos, April 30, 2015. http://cinentransit.com/practica-alcance-y-valor-de-los-estudios-videograficos-sobre-cine/
‘Las bodas de Laurel Dallas. O el melodrama materno de una espectadora feminista desconocida’, Transit. Cine y otros desvíos, January, 2015. Online at: http://cinentransit.com/las-bodas-de-laurel-dallas/. Translation into Spanish of the peer-reviewed video and article: Grant, C., ‘The Marriages of Laurel Dallas. Or, The Maternal Melodrama of the Unknown Feminist Film Spectator’, Mediascape: UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Fall 2014. [Video and text]. ISSN 1558478X Online at: http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/Fall2014_MarriagesMelodrama.html
‘The Marriages of Laurel Dallas. Or, The Maternal Melodrama of the Unknown Feminist Film Spectator’, Mediascape: UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Fall 2014. [Video and text]. ISSN 1558478X Online at: http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/Fall2014_MarriagesMelodrama.html
‘The Remix That Knew Too Much? On Rebecca, Retrospectatorship and the Making of Rites of Passage’, The Cine-Files: A Scholarly Journal of Cinema Studies, Fall 2014. [Video and text]. ISSN 2156-9096. Online at: http://www.thecine-files.com/grant/
‘The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea? Videographic Film Studies Practice as Material Thinking’, ANIKI: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, 1.1, 2014, Online at: http://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/59/html
with Christian Keathley, ‘The Use of an Illusion: Childhood cinephilia, object relations, and videographic film studies’, Photogénie, 0, June 2014. Co-authored introduction/individually authored text and video. Originally online at: http://www.photogenie.be/photogenie_blog/article/use-illusion. Now moved to : https://cinea.be/the-use-an-illusion-childhood-cinephilia-object-relations-and-videographic-film-studies/.
with Christian Keathley, ‘El uso de una ilusión: Cinefilia infantil, relaciones de objeto y estudios videográficos sobre cine’, Transit. Cine y otros desvíos, September 9, 2014. (translation into Spanish of ‘The Use of an Illusion: Childhood cinephilia, object relations, and videographic film studies’, Photogénie, 0, June 2014). Online at: http://cinentransit.com/cinefilia-infantil-relaciones-de-objeto-y-estudios-videograficos-sobre-cine/.
‘Editorial Introduction’, ‘Bergman Senses’ and ‘Resources’ page, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies – a Cinema Journal/MediaCommons Collaboration, 1.1. 2014 (Co-edited Inaugural issue of the first peer-reviewed journal of audiovisual film studies). Online at:http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/theme-week/2014/10/intransition-videographic-film-moving-image-studies
“The Audiovisual Essay: My Favorite Things”, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies – a Cinema Journal/MediaCommons Collaboration, 1.3. September 2014 on The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory. Online at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2014/08/26/audiovisual-essay-my-favorite-things
Director/producer/lead editor of The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory in Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, a companion website with thirty + essays and curated videos. Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/
‘How long is a piece of string? On the Practice, Scope and Value of Videographic Film Studies and Criticism’, The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, September, 2014. Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/audiovisualessay/frankfurt-papers/catherine-grant/
“Editorial Introduction,” “Bergman Senses” and “Resources” page, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies – a Cinema Journal/MediaCommons Collaboration, 1.1. 2014 (Co-edited Inaugural issue of the first peer-reviewed journal of audiovisual film studies). Online at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/theme-week/2014/10/intransition-videographic-film-moving-image-studies
Director/coeditor of Testament of Cocteau: ORPHÉE on Film and in Opera, 40 minute scholarly video (featuring the work of Ed Hughes and James S. Williams), published at REFRAME Conversations, September 2014. Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/conversations/archive2014/testament-of-cocteau-orphee-on-film-and-in-opera/
“Mechanised Flights: Memories of HEIDI by Catherine Grant,” Curated by Chiara Grizzaffi, “On Video Tributes,” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies – a Cinema Journal/MediaCommons Collaboration, 1.2. June 2014. Online at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2014/06/23/video-tributes
“Intersection [on Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love],” Curated by Girish Shambu, ‘Intersection’, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies – a Cinema Journal/MediaCommons Collaboration, 1.2. June 2014. Online at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2014/06/20/intersection-catherine-grant-chiara-grizzaffi-denise-liege-2014
“Scholarly Striptease. Or, The Unintended Consequences of Film Studies For Free, In Media Res (Open Source Academia Theme Week), December 1, 2014. Online at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2014/12/01/scholarlystripteaseorunintendedcon sequencesfilmstudiesfree
‘Notes on Mirror Visions in Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey, 1966)’, LA FURIA UMANA, 17, 2013 (online) [Video and text] and LA FURIA UMANA, Paper #3, 2013. ISSN 2255-2812. Online at: http://www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php/29-issues/numero-17/31-catherine-grant-notes-on-mirror-visions-on-modesty-blaise
‘Déjà viewing’, Filmidée, 7, March 2013. Online at: https://www.filmidee.it/2013/05/deja-viewing/
“Déjà viewing?: videographic experiments in intertextual film studies,” Mediascape : UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Winter 2013. Now online at: https://web.archive.org/web/20130105070842/http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/Winter2013_DejaViewing.html and http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/41656/ (Originally online at: http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/Winter2013_DejaViewing.html)
“Film and Moving Image Studies: Re-Born Digital? Some Participant Observations,” [Video and text], , Frames Cinema Journal, 1 (1), 2012. Online at http://framescinemajournal.com/article/re-born-digital/.
‘La función de “los autores”: la adaptación cinematográfica transnacional de El lugar sin límites’, Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXVIII, Núm, 199, Abril-Junio 2002, pp. 253-268.
‘www.auteur.com?’, Screen Vol. 41, No. 1, 2000, pp. 101-108.
Link to fragment from: ‘Camera Solidaria’, Screen Vol. 38, No. 4, 1997, pp. 311-328
CATHERINE GRANT 