Yes I noticed that – it’s much appreciated! I’ve been looking through that list and found a lot of interesting stuff.

http://thedancingimage.blogspot.com/2008/12/dancing-image-in-2008.html

As much as possible I’m hoping it’ll be more specific than just movies and literature and point specifically to the way that literature and other art forms discuss the movies.. As opposed to the more commonplace point of discussion which goes the other way around, focusing on movie adaptations of books.

I like the idea of one form discussing another within it – I suppose the true opposite to my thing would be as much the way that books, writing and the notion of “literature” figure within films themselves, going back to e.g. intertitles.. In the poetry world they have a term, ekphrasis, for poems that describe paintings. I gather this word can be used more broadly too – for any art form discussing a different art form..

I’m also interested in questions and ideas on the nature of cinema and am hoping in some small way to open this out beyond the realm of film studies, at least for myself anyway..

The “..”s are actually an intentional grammatical choice! Meant, I guess, to suggest that an idea isn’t fully finished.. Full stops are too definitive and serious! In that way it can be a bit like a semi-colon too, and allows me to find a different writing style to the kind I’m used to.

And also to give a sense of something like a pause for thought, but not quite as extreme as the “…” we’re used to. I dunno. I just did it at the start and have got kind of used to it as a style! So that I find it hard to imagine the things I’ve written this way with regular full-stops instead.. Makes it feel like my own distinct style or something.. Best not to think about these kind of things tho! Now I’m feeling self-conscious about it (!) and am not sure how I’m going to end this sentence…

As I side note, and I’m not sure if it’s a slip-up of the program you’re using but I see a lot of double periods (i.e. “..” instead of “.”, sometimes with a space). Gets a little distracting occasionally (not to call the kettle black here; I’ve put up some atrociously spelled posts before which others have pointed out to my chagrin.)

Keep up the good work.

Oh, and you’ve been added to the blogroll!