Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter, “Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities,” co-edited with Libertad Gills and Alan O’Leary, Summer 2024
“On Drill Team, and the Musicality of Videographic Criticism,” Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, forthcoming, 2024
“Split Screens: A Discussion with Catherine Grant, Malte Hagener, and Katharina Loew,” in Nicholas Baer and Annie van den Oever eds., Technics: Media Technologies in the Digital Age (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024). https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89795
“‘I Learned an Awful Lot in Little Rock’: Laura Mulvey Reflects on her Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Remix,” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, 11.1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.15503
CINEMATIC ORGANISMS: Memories and Memorialisation. A Videographic essay produced for the ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive’ project at Lancaster University, published December 21, 2023. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/cmda/index.php/cinematic-organisms-memories-and-memorialisation/
“Space Perception / Movement in Water [On Catherine Grant’s Liquid Perception]” by Shira Havron and Ido Harambam, Reviewed by Catherine Grant, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, 10.4a, 2023. https://mediacommons.org/intransition/space-perception-movement-water
“Falling: 3 x Girls in Uniform: The Video Essay as Curatorial Practice,” Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 9, Number 4, 2023, pps. 44–52. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2023.9.4.44
“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
Co-author with Paul Merchant, Letter Across Oceans – To Tiziana Panizza/ Carta a través de los oc´eanos – a Tiziana Panizza, a video essay made for Reimagining the Pacific, published in August 2022. It was first shown on 30 July 2022 at the Centro de Cine y Creación in Santiago de Chile, as part of an ‘Encuentro de Arte y Ecología en Chile.’
“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 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
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. (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
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/.
Co-Author with Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell, The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image (Montreal: caboose/Rutgers University Press, 2nd ed., 2019.
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, forthcoming 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):
‘Videographic Star Studies and the “Late Voice”: Carrie Fisher, John Hurt and Jeanne Moreau’, In Media Res, September 1, 2017. Originally online at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2017/08/15/videographic-star-studies-and-late-voice-carrie-fisher-john-hurt-and-jeanne-moreau. Now online here: http://mediacommons.org/imr/2017/08/15/videographic-star-studies-and-late-voice
‘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
‘Creative Possibilities’, Viewfinder, July 4th, 2017. Online at: http://bufvc.ac.uk/articles/creative-possibilities
‘Looking at To-Be-Looked-at-Ness: Feminist Videographic Criticism’, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, 4.1, 2017. Online at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/2017/03/12/looking-be-looked-ness-feminist-videographic-criticism
‘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 included the video essay Dissolves of Passion, formerly online at the Caboose website: https://www.caboosebooks.net/node/150 ISBN 978-1-927852-04-0. The most recent version of a preprint of this work is online at The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy website, including all the quoted videos: http://videographicessay.org/works/videographic-essay/dissolves-of-passion-1
‘Beyond tautology? Audiovisual Film Criticism’ , Film Criticism, Vol. 40, No.1, 2016. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.13761232.0040.113
“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. Originally online at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2014/12/01/scholarly-striptease-or-unintended-consequences-film-studies-free. Now online at: http://mediacommons.org/imr/comment/5012
‘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)
“Bonus Tracks: The Making of Touching the Film Object and Skipping ROPE (Through Hitchcock’s Joins)”, Frames Cinema Journal, 1(1), 2012. Online at http://framescinemajournal.com/article/bonus-tracks/
“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/.
“Video Essays on Films: A Multiprotagonist Manifesto.” Film Studies For Free. 2009. Online at:
http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2009/07/video-essays-on-films-multiprotagonist.html“Video Essays and Scholarly Remix: Film Scholarship’s Emergent Forms – Audiovisual Film Studies, Pt 2.” Film Studies For Free. 2012. Online at:
http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-essays-and-scholarly-remix-film.html“Knowing that/knowing how? On audiovisual film studies, part 1: practice-led film research.” Film Studies For Free. 2012. Online at: http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2012/03/knowing-thatknowing-how-on-audiovisual.html.
CATHERINE GRANT 