Publications
Books
States of Immersion Across Media Bodies, Techniques, Practices (Co-edited by Philippe Bédard, Carl Therrien and Alanna Thain
"Desire Lines: Experimental Video as Social and Spatial Interventions" by Alanna Thain and Ylenia Olibet
Lo: Tech: Pop: Cult: Screendance Remixed (2024, edited by Priscilla Guy and Alanna Thain)
American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper edited by Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson
Bodies in Suspense: Time and Affect in Cinema by Alanna Thain
The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media by Thomas Lamarre
Muriel Combes’s Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual translated by Thomas Lamarre
David Lapoujade's William James: Pragmatism and Empiricsm translated by Thomas Lamarre
Technology’s Pulse: Essays on Rhythm in German Modernism by Michael Cowan
Journals
Monstrum 7.2 (December 2024) "Special Videographic Issue: Queer/ing Horror—Video Essays at the Intersection of Horror and Queerness" edited by Dayna McLeod
The Polyphony: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities Special Dossier "What's New and Next in Sleep?" (co-edited by Aleksandra Kaminska and Alanna Thain)
Special issue of Intermédialités "Dormir/ Sleeping" (2023, co-edited by Aleksandra Kaminska, Dayna McLeod and Alanna Thain)
Monstrum Journal 5.2 (December 2022) Special issue on "Short Form Horror: History, Pedagogy and Practice" (co-edited by Sonia Lupher and Alanna Thain)
Special issue of Necsus journal "#True" (2017, co-edited by Ilona Hongisto, Toni Pape and Alanna Thain)
Special issue of CiNéMaS 21.1 (2010) "Prises de Rue" (Co-edited by Michael Cowan, Viva Paci and Alanna Thain)
articles
Noémie Solomon, Toni Pape and Alanna Thain. (Reprint, revised) “Welcome to This Situation! Tino Seghal’s Impersonal Ethics” (reprint from 2014, edited) Turba: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation 4.2 (Fall 2025). 1-10.
Ylenia Olibet, Dayna McLeod and Alanna Thain. "Call-In as Curation: The Case of Groupe intervention Video’s Vidéos des Femmes dans le Parc" Special issue of Feminist Media Histories on "Curating Feminist Film Archives" (Winter 2024).
Alanna Thain, “The Senseless Shift”, World Picture 14 (special issue on “Spell”). Summer 2023.
Iris Pint. "Making Trans History through the Otherness Archive and Curating Transmasculine Film" Iris Pint, Feminist Media Histories (2024) 10 (2-3): 307–320.
Alanna Thain. “Reproductive Technics and Time: Ectogestational Labour, Biotechnological Horror, Social Reproduction” The Labors of Fear: Work in Horror Cinema, eds. Jason Middleton and Aviva Briefel. University of Texas at Austin Press/ UBC Press, 2023
Ylenia Olibet and Alanna Thain. “Vidéo de Femmes dans le Parc: Feminist Rhythms and Festival Times under Covid” Co-authored with Ylenia Olibet. Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After, eds. Antoine Damiens and Marikje de Valck. Palgrave McMillan, 2023.
Dronier, Charlotte, and Philippe Bedard. 2022. “Faire corps avec la caméra: Expérimentations esthétiques et phénoménologie alternative du mouvement chorégraphique.” In Un cinéma en mouvement: Portabilité des appareils et formes filmiques, edited by Richard Bégin, Thomas Carrier-Lafleur, and Gilles Mouëllic, 159–182. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal.
Celia Vara. "Gleaning Corporeal Knowledge." Art and Identity Policies Art and Identity Policies, 21, 96–119.
Celia Vara (2021) "Kinesthetic Empathy as Embodied Research," Performance Research, 26:4, 130-136.
Celia Vara (2021) "Somatic Ways of Knowing: Fina Miralles’ earliest practices of sensorial perception," Performance Research, 26:3, 80-87
Bédard, Philippe. 2022. “Trajectoires du montage à l’ère du numérique.” Écrans 1, n° 17 (Fall): 227–250.
Bédard, Philippe. 2022. “Virtual Production and the Transformation of Cameras Mechanical, Virtual, and Actual.” Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17, no. 2 (Summer): 226–243.
Celia Vara, Tripas de Corazón [Heart Guts]. REJOINDER. Issue 7 Spring 2022.
Bédard, Philippe. “Points of Anchorage: Exo-Centric Images and the Perceptual Relativity of Camera Movement.” Cinema & Cie 22, n°38 (2022), 37–53.
"Chair signalétique. Écologies transversales de l’horreur reproductrice dans Évolution de Lucile Hadžihalilović" by Alanna Thain (Cinémas 2021)
"Cinema's Missing Bodies" by Alanna Thain, Dayna McLeod, Laurent Lafontant, Bradford Nordeen, So Mayer and Gary Varro (Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 2021)
"Reflektion: Ordinary Intimacies, Extraordinary Sites: Outdoor Cinema as Leaky Lab" by Alanna Thain (Levande Bilder 2020)
"Cinema Out of the Box: Les réanimations des espaces urbaines ambigüe du cinéma et des médias post-numerique" by Alanna Thain (Écranosphere 2020)
"Anarchival Images: The Labour of Chronic Collage" by Alanna Thain (Intermediality 2019)
"Drawing Light: Gesture and Suspense in the Weave" by Nicole Brabandere and Alanna Thain (NECSUS 2019)
Hilary Bergen and Sandra Huber. "Pornography, Ectoplasm and the Secret Dancer: A Twin Reading of Naomi Uman’s Removed," Screening the Past, Issue 43 (April 2018).
"One Way Out Between Two Worlds: The Dance Moves of Twin Peaks" by Alanna Thain (Senses of Cinema 2016)
"In the Blink of an Eye: Norman McLaren Between Dance and Animation" by Alanna Thain (Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies 2016)
"A Birds’ Eye View of Leviathan" by Alanna Thain (Visual Anthropology Review 2015)
"Welcome to This Situation: Tino Sehgal's Impersonal Ethics" by Toni Pape, Noémie Solomon, and Alanna Thain (Dance Research Journal 2015)
"Sonic Ethnographies: Leviathan and New Materialisms in Documentary" by Selmin Kara and Alanna Thain (Music and Sound in Documentary Film 2014)
"Tendering the Flesh: The ABCs of Dave St-Pierre's ‘Contemporary Utopias'" by VK Preston and Alanna Thain (TDR: The Drama Review 2013)
"Anarchival Cinemas" by Alanna Thain (Inflexions 2010)
"Rabbit Ears: Locomotion in David Lynch’s Inland Empire" by Alanna Thain (David Lynch in Theory 2010)
"Prises de Rue" by Michael Cowan, Viva Paci, and Alanna Thain (érudite 2010)
Bédard, Philippe. “Action Camera.” Encyclopédie raisonnée TECHNÈS. Encyclopedia entry (2022)