Some great (recent) reading, listening, and viewing links with which to begin the week - from (a far too chilled out for its own good) Film Studies For Free:

• Paul Bowman, 'The Fantasy Corpus of Martial Arts' (essay draft), Cultural Studies, June 25, 2009
• Vicki Callahan, 'Interview with Joan Myers on her research regarding Virginia Rappe and Fatty Arbuckle', Feminism 3.0, July 2, 2009 podcast and slideshow
• Dublin2009, 'From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith', [Opening post from new blogspot] From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith: Explorations in British Film, July 2, 2009
• Ed Howard's superb idea for a new blog, The Film Blog Calendar, July 1, 2009 (great listings of notable blog events)
• Dan Jardine, 'My Year in Film Studies Part 1', Cinemania, June 29, 2009
• Jason Mittell, 'Previously On: Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory', Just TV, July 3, 2009
• Meaghan Morris, 'Banality in Cultural Studies', Cultural Studies, June 8, 2009
• Anne Helen Petersen, 'Everything Old is New, Everything New is Old [on the history and study of celebrity gossip]', Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style - proto-scholastic musings on star studies 2.0, June 9, 2009
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'GERTRUD as Nonnarrative: The Desire for the Image', JonathanRosenbaum.com, July 5, 2009
• Matt Zoller Seitz, 'Do the Right Thing Is About More Than Just Race', The L Magazine, July 4, 2009 Video essay (also see HERE)