Jump Cut. Archives.

We are putting all the back issues of Jump Cut online as fast as we can. We hope new readers will discover these classic essays... It is also our contribution to left, feminist, and gay/lesbian cultural criticism for lovers of cinema throughout the world. We began Jump Cut in 1974 and hope to bring all thirty years of film criticism to you online in about a year.

Right now we have numbers 1-15 online, comprising over 260 essays. It is too much to read all at once but we hope you will dip into this archive over and over to read about favorite films and TV shows and also to see how the field of film criticism has developed over the last quarter century.

And the dipping is good. Very good. You'll definitely recognize a few names among the contributors. Peter Biskind's leaps out right away, for example. Ho Chi Minh's. The years of these issues are the mid-70s and the doubly valuable benefit of looking back via Jump Cut is the journal's penchant for running two or more takes on any given subject, such as Antonioni's The Passenger (Marty Gliserman and Martin Walsh) or the disaster films which were so prevalent at the time (David N Rosen, disagreeing with Fred Kaplan a few issues previous, and Ernest Larsen).

Lesage tells the story of the journal's origins, rich in historical and political atmo, in otrocampo. After (or before!) your dip into those archives, this is a tale to savor from its beginning to the personal note at the end.

Posted by dwhudson at August 14, 2004 2:47 PM