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Issue 26

Editorial

Home as a Site of Resistance
by Anna Viola Sborgi and Elizabeth Patton, Issue Editors

Articles

“My Cinema Is Not Diplomatic, It Is Confrontational”: Decolonial Framing of the Home in Two Documentaries by Rosine Mbakam
by Julie Le Hegarat

Marginality, Resilience and Escape: Home in Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen
by Mariana Liz

Porous Privacies: Gender, Migration, and Precarious Homes in Early Twenty-First Century Narrative Films from the French Mediterranean
by Sabine Haenni

Reproducing Home as a Space of Labour: The Great Indian Kitchen and Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hai
by Niyathi R. Krishna and P. Sivakumar

Home as Survival: Seeing Queer Archival Lives
Jennifer Cazenave

Home Movies as Technologies of Belonging and Resistance
by Elizabeth Patton

“Beyond the Kitchen Door”: Racialised Female Domestic Labourer’s Mobility Experiences in Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother
by Francianne dos Santos Velho

Precarity and Resistance: Mediating Home across Contemporary Europe through the Short Hybrid Film
by Anna Viola Sborgi

The Key: Abstraction, Embodiment, and Proper Distance within the Virtual Home
by Conn Holohan

The Importance of a House and the Pandemic Formation of the ATLFilmParty Community
by Jenny Gunn

When Contexts Collapse: How Ubiquitous Video Cameras in the Home During COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdowns Transformed Family Representation
by Lauren S. Berliner



Book Reviews
Edited by Jill Murphy

Filming History from Below: Microhistorical Documentaries, by Efrén Cuevas
Reviewed by Ana Djordjevic

Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema, by William Carroll
Reviewed by David Franklin

ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin, by Steve Choe
Reviewed by Michael Gibson

Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary, by Raya Morag
Reviewed by Dina Iordanova

Film Audiences: Personal Journeys with Film, by Bridgette Wessels et al.
Reviewed by M. Sellers Johnson

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever, by Matt Singer
Reviewed by Dimitris Passas

Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film, by Michael Dear
Reviewed by Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas

Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory, by Peter Delpeut
Reviewed by Muriel Tinel-Temple

Screening the Posthuman, by Missy Molloy Pansy Duncan, and Claire Henry
Reviewed by Karim Townsend


Issue 25

Editorial

Spotlight on Early Career Research in Film Studies
by James Mulvey, Issue Editor

Articles

Illuminationist Cinema: How Islamic Mysticism Inspired Morteza Avini’s Sacred Defence Documentaries of the Iran–Iraq War and His Attempt at Constructing a Film Theory
by Kaveh Abbasian

Reframing Diaspora Cinema: Towards a Theoretical Framework
by Alexander De Man

Freedom Smothered: Gang Rape as Patriarchal Punishment of Emancipated Women in Yugoslav New Film
by Vesi Vuković



Dossier: Screen Advertising

Introduction
by Emily Caston, Dossier Editor

How Long Is a Good Story? Compressed Narratives in British Screen Advertising Since 1955
by Emily Caston

Commercial Break: British Advertising on Screen
by Steven Foxon

Constructions of Race in Advertising Archives: The “Silent” Chinese Minority
by Sally Chan

Interview: Juliette Larthe
by Emily Caston

Interview: Georgia Hudson
by Emily Caston

Interview: Daniel Kleinman
by Emily Caston



Book Reviews
Edited by Jill Murphy

Gotham City Living: The Social Dynamics in the Batman Comics and Media, by Erica McCrystal
Reviewed by Gordon Alley-Young

Filming History from Below: Microhistorical Documentaries, by Efrén Cuevas
Reviewed by Zachariah Anderson

Life-Destroying Diagrams, by Eugenie Brinkema
Reviewed by Augustin

Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition: Genres, Technologies, Identities, edited by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova and Rimgaila Salys
Reviewed by Sofiia Dabizha

The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre, by Cecilia Sayad
Reviewed by Mikki Kressbach

Movie Mavens: US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914–1923, edited by Richard Abel
Reviewed by Gabrielle Stecher

Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture, by Dalila Missero
Reviewed by Francesco Sticchi


Issue 24

Editorial

Fostering Diversity On and Off Screen
by Marsha Berry, Kath Dooley and Margaret McHugh

Articles

“Where Are We Now?” Assessing the Gender Equality and Diversity Journey in Irish Screen Industries (2016–21)
by Susan Liddy

Imagining Diversity: An Irish Case Study of Graduates’ Perceptions of Inequality in Media Work
by Sarah Arnold and Anne O’Brien

Where Is Australia’s GLAAD? A Case for Establishing an Australian LGBTIQA+ Media Institute to Improve Diversity in Screen Media Representation
by Natalie Krikowa

Scotland’s for Me? The (Gendered) Salience of Parental Status and Geographical Location to Experiences of Working in Film and Television
by Susan Berridge

White Noise: Researching the Absence of First Nations Presence in Commercial Australian Television Drama
by Karen Nobes and Susan Kerrigan

Recognising and Addressing Unconscious Bias and Structural Inequalities: A Case Study Within Television Idea Development
by Lucy Brown, Rosamund Davies and Funke Oyebanjo

Approaches to Gender Diversity Behind the Camera in Australian Student Screen Productions
by Kath Dooley, Margaret McHugh, Marsha Berry, Craig Batty, and James Verdon



Interview

“Better Workplaces Are Good for Everyone”: An Interview with Natalie Grant of SMTJ about Motherhood, Working in Television and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Interview conducted by Jack Newsinger and Helen Kennedy



Dossier: Fostering Diversity in the Classroom

Edited by Marsha Berry, Kath Dooley and Margaret McHugh

How (Not) to Clap, Cheer or “Check the Box” on Diversity in the Film Classroom: Some Notes on Teaching Diverse Documentary Media
by Aparna Sharma

Teaching Diversity, Questioning Representation
by Sarah E. S. Sinwell

Re-imagining Multiculturalism and Diversity Through Screenwriting and Filmmaking
by Vincent Giarrusso

“Left to My Own Devices, I Probably Could”: Reflections on Inclusive Pedagogy and Gender Equity During Melbourne’s Pandemic Lockdown
by Victoria Duckett and Liz Baulch




Book Reviews

Edited by Jill Murphy

Landscape and the Moving Image, by Catherine Elwes
Reviewed by Toby Ashworth

Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century, by Dana Stevens
Reviewed by Andrew Corsini

LGBTQ Visibility Media and Sexuality in Ireland, by Páraic Kerrigan
Reviewed by Don Duncan

Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7, by David Martin-Jones
Reviewed by Ben Lamb

Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen: Myths and Allegories in the Digital Age, by Aleks Wansbrough
Reviewed by Markela Panegyres

Netflix Recommends: Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste, by Mattias Frey
Reviewed by Anne Laura Penning

Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse, edited by Sandra Becker, Megen de Bruin-Molé and Sara Polak
Reviewed by Maggie Roberts


Issue 23

Editorial

Screening the Artist: Between Presence/Absence, Immediacy/Mediation
by Saige Walton and Lucio Crispino

Articles

The Image Book: or Penser avec les mains
by Martine Beugnet and Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

Hands in the Machine: Maya Deren and Marie Menken’s Manual Gestures
by Saige Walton

Bill Viola’s Figures of Submersion as Techniques of Transindividual Affect
by Elena del Río

On Fire: Cézanne, Straub and Huillet
by Nikolaj Lübecker

Decolonial Gesture and the Screening of the Botanical Artist in Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (Bo Wang and Pan Lu, 2017)
by Sarah Cooper


Book Reviews

Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures, by Bo Florin, Patrick Vonderau and Yvonne Zimmerman
Reviewed by Stephanie Rains

Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image, by Arnd Schneider
Reviewed by Kathryn Ramey

The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting Confusions, by Dominic Lash
Reviewed by Lewis Brown

Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture, by Joan Ormrod; Fat on Film: Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, by Barbara Plotz
Reviewed by Claire Whitley


Issue 22

Editorial

On the Cultural Circulation of Contemporary European Crime Cinema
by Stefano Baschiera

Articles

DETECting the “Noirification” of European Popular Narratives Across Film, Fiction and Television
by Federico Pagello

Capturing European Crime: European Crime Cinema at European Film Festivals
by Russ Hunter

The Troubles Crime Thriller and the Future of Films about Northern Ireland
by Richard Gallagher

The Distribution and Promotion of Dogman (2016) in the United States
by Damiano Garofalo

Cosmopolitan Crimes: Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria (2015) and the Distribution of European Crime Films
by Markus Schleich


Book Reviews

Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics, by Patricia R. Zimmerman
Reviewed by Dara Waldron

The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973), by Daniel Fairfax
Reviewed by Marco Grosoli

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System, by Neil Archer
Reviewed by Alexander Christensen

Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production, by Kate Fortmueller
Reviewed by Yan Jin

Ride the Frontier: Exploring the Myth of the American West on Screen, by Flavia Brizio-Skov
Reviewed by Andrew Corsini

Not Your Average Zombie: Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks, by Chera Kee
Reviewed by Lea Espinoza Garrido

Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror, by Brad Weismann
Reviewed by Andrew Montiveo

Spaces of Women’s Cinema: Space, Place and Genre in Contemporary Women’s Filmmaking, by Sue Thornham
Reviewed by Donatella Valente

Cinema and Intermediality: The Passion for the In-Between (Second, Enlarged Edition), by Ágnes Pethő
Reviewed by Jill Murphy




Issue 21

Editorial

Mining Memories: New Explorations in Cinema, Memory and the Past
by Gwenda Young

Articles

Re-presenting Histories: Documentary Film and Architectural Ruins in Brutality in Stone
by Frances Guerin

“Non-Sites of Memory”: Poland in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah Outtakes
by Sue Vice and Dominic Williams

Silent (Un)Becoming Song: Poetic Adventures in History, Memory and Identity in Papusza and Song of Granite
by Elzbieta Buslowska

In Search of a Lost Cinema: Cinephilia and Multidirectional Moving Image Memory in Golden Slumbers
by Marie Krämer

Queering Cultural Memory Through Technology: Transitional Spaces in AR and VR
by Maud Ceuterick



Dossier - History of Cinemagoing: Archives and Projects

Introduction
by Pierluigi Ercole, Daniela Treveri-Gennari, and Lies Van de Vijver

Cinema Memories in 3D Modelling and Virtual Reality Storytelling: The Odeon Cinema in Udine
by Eleonora Roaro

Hiding in Plain Sight: A Case Study of a Cinema History Project in Leeds, UK
by Laura Ager

A Digital Archive Is Born: Revisiting the Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain Collection
by Julia McDowell and Annie Nissen

Modern Routines: The Perception of Time and Space in Film Spectators’ Memories of Cinemagoing in 1940s Buenos Aires
by Cecilia Nuria Gil Mariño, Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt, Clara Kriger, Marina Moguillansky, and Sonia Sasiain

Filmgoing or Cinemagoing? The Role of the Film Text within Cinema Memory
by Jamie Terrill




Book Reviews

Reviews Editor’s Note
by Jill Murphy

Cinema Against Doublethink: Ethical Encounters with the Lost Pasts of World History, by David Martin-Jones
Reviewed by Laurence Kent

Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism, by Malcolm Turvey
Reviewed by Gianni Barchiesi

American Eccentric Cinema, by Kim Wilkins
Reviewed by Ed Cameron

Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics, by Patrick ffrench
Reviewed by Josh Heaps

Mexican Transnational Cinema and Literature, edited by Maricruz Castro Ricalde, Mauricio Díaz Calderón and James Ramey
Reviewed by Carolina Rocha

Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary, by Stefanie Van De Peer
Reviewed by Kaya Davies Hayon

International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power, by Sean Carter and Klaus Dodds
Reviewed by Juneko J. Robinson

Women in the International Film Industry: Policy, Practice and Power, edited by Susan Liddy
Reviewed by Kath Dooley

100 Essential Indian Films, by Rohit K. Dasgupta and Sangeeta Datta
Reviewed by Darshana Chakrabarty

A Critical Companion to James Cameron, edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna
Reviewed by Martin Jones



Issue 20

General Editor's Note
by Laura Rascaroli

Editorial

Doing Women’s Film & Television History: Locating Women in Film and Television, Past and Present
by Sarah Arnold and Anne O’Brien

Articles

Archivally Absent? Female Filmmakers in the IFI Irish Film Archive
by Kasandra O’Connell

Seeking Traces of Women in Early Irish Filmmaking: The O’Mara Sisters and the Archive
by Veronica Johnson

Writing the History of Women’s Programming at Telifís Éireann: A Case Study of Home for Tea
by Morgan Wait

Cinematic Islamic Feminism and the Female War Gaze: Reflections on Waad Al-Kataeb’s For Sama
by Dilyana Mincheva

Queer Representation in Arab and Middle Eastern Films: A Case Study of Women in Caramel (2007), Circumstance (2011), and In Between (2016)
by Maria Abdel Karim

Fan-ning the Flame: Representations of Lesbian Romance on Cult Television, from Subtext to Main Text
by Aviva Dove-Viebahn

The Curse and the Chora: The Double-Bind of the Choraic Conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful
by Kwasu D. Tembo

Reflexive Practice, the “Turn to Care” and Accounting for Feeling: The Things We Talk About with Our Friends
by Rowan Aust

“I Felt More Difficulty Because of My Class Than I Have Because of My Gender”: Intersectional Analysis of Professional Lives of British Women Documentarians
by Ania Ostrowska

Towards a Latin American Feminist Cinema: The Case of Cine Mujer in Colombia
by Lorena Cervera

Researching Around Our Subjects: Working Towards a Women’s Labour History of Trade Unions in the British Film and Television Industries
by Frances Galt

Video Essay

A Film by Cine Mujer: A Video Essay
by Lorena Cervera


Dossier - Collections and Their Uses

Digital Opportunities for Feminist Film Historiography: Insights from the Reframing Vivien Leigh Project
by Lisa Stead

Researching Janet Dean: Perspectives on Female Collaboration in Television Production
by Christina Lane

“Researching Starsky and Hutch Is Exquisite Torture”: Female Television Audiences and 1980s Letterzines
by Charlotte Stevens

The Pamela Davies Collection: Continuity Supervision in British Widescreen and Colour Cinema
by Steven Roberts

Researching Black Women and Film History
by Agata Frymus


Book Reviews

Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema, by Catherine Wheatley
Reviewed by Glen W. Norton

Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif, edited by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De Rosa
Reviewed by Lawrence Webb

Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States, by Martin L. Johnson
Reviewed by Jack Booth

Fellini’s Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, by Frank Burke
Reviewed by Flavia Brizio-Skov

Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film, by Kaya Davies Hayon
Reviewed by Sheila Petty

Positioning Art Cinema: Film and Cultural Value, by Geoff King
Reviewed by Fátima Chinita

Memory, Place and Autobiography: Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking, by Jill Daniels
Reviewed by Tony Dowmunt



Issue 19

General Editor's Note
by Laura Rascaroli

Editorial

Performing the Intermedial across Brazilian Cinema
by Tamara Courage and Albert Elduque

Articles

Building an Integrated History of Musical Numbers in Brazilian Chanchadas
by Flávia Cesarino Costa

Chanchadas and Intermediality: On the Musical Numbers of Aviso aos Navegantes (Watson Macedo, 1950)
by Flávia Cesarino Costa and John Gibbs

Background Musicians and Their (In)Visibilities
by Suzana Reck Miranda

Documentary Shooting and Samba: Technology and Mediation in Leon Hirszman’s Partido alto
by Albert Elduque

Realistic Intermediality and the Historiography of the Present
by Marcela Amaral

Cinema and Its Intermedial Passages to Reality: The Case of the Árido Movie
by Samuel Paiva

Vincent Moon in(-between) Brazil: An Aural Approach to Intermediality
by Matheus Araújo de Siqueira

Interviews

Samba Beyond the Parade: An Interview with Paulinho da Viola
by Tamara Courage and Albert Elduque

Transforming Brazilian Speech into Popular Song: An Interview with Luiz Tatit
by Tamara Courage and Albert Elduque

Programming Brazilian Music for a Global Film Audience: An Interview with Cristian Pascual
by Tamara Courage and Albert Elduque

Capturing the Soul of the Suburb: An Interview with Lula Buarque de Hollanda
by Tamara Courage and Albert Elduque


Dossier - Music Videos in the British Screen Industries and Screen Heritage: From Innovation to Curation

Introduction
by Emily Caston

Conservation and Curation: Theoretical and Practical Issues in the Making of a National Collection of British Music Videos 1966-2016
by Emily Caston

Music Video and Commercials Production in the UK Screen Industries: An Overlooked Dynamo of Innovation and Success
by Richard Paterson

Dancing & Dreaming: “Fifty Years of British Music Video” in Havana
by Emily Caston and Justin Smith

Interview: Kris P. Taylor
by Emily Caston

Interview: Carrie Sutton
by Emily Caston

Interview: Sophie Muller
by Emily Caston


Book Reviews

The Conscience of Cinema: The Works of Joris Ivens 1912–1989, by Thomas Waugh
Reviewed by Jonathan Kahana

Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film, by Christian Metz
Reviewed by George Crosthwait

Netflix Nostalgia: Screening the Past on Demand, edited by Kathryn Pallister, and The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV: Production Design and the Boomer Era, by Alex Bevan
Reviewed by Martin Fradley

The Limits of Auteurism: Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood, by Nicholas Godfrey
Reviewed by Ryan Sherwood

George Clooney, by Paul McDonald
Reviewed by Gillian Kelly

A Companion to Italian Cinema, edited by Frank Burke
Reviewed by Jeffrey Longacre

The Documentary Art of Filmmaker Michael Rubbo, by D. B. Jones
Reviewed by Gaurav Pai

Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics and Internationalism, 1949-1966, by Jessica Ka Yee Chan
Reviewed by Max Berwald

Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher, by Richard Eldridge
Reviewed by Dominic Lash

Making Sense of Mind-Game Films: Narrative Complexity, Embodiment, and the Senses, by Simin Nina Littschwager
Reviewed by Luis Antunes

History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines, by Eleftheria Thanouli
Reviewed by Marina Durnin

Cinematic Narratives: Transatlantic Perspectives, edited by Morris Beja, Ellen Carol Jones, Cecilia Beecher Martins, José Duarte, and Suzana Ramos
Reviewed by David Klein Martins

The Science of Screenwriting: The Neuroscience Behind Storytelling Strategies, by Paul Gulino and Connie Shears
Reviewed by Levi Dean


Reports

Bad Mothers and Female Agency: The 76th Venice International Film Festival
Report by Lydia Tuan

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2019
Report by Dasa Raimanova



Issue 18

Editorial

Refugee Filmmaking
by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Kaya Davies Hayon, and Lucia Sorbera

Foreword

Debordering Academia: Centring the Displaced and Exiled in Research
by Omid Tofighian


Articles

Telephone Calls in Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare, 2016)
by Emma Wilson

Sonic Sociabilities and Stranger Relations in Arnaud des Pallières’ Adieu (2004)
by Emilija Talijan

Seascapes of Solidarity: Refugee Cinema and the Representation of the Mediterranean
by Stefanie Van De Peer

The Vulnerable Gaze of the Migrant: Eye-Witnessing and Drifting Subjectivity in Documentary Web Series
by Alice Cati

Shaming Australia: Cinematic Responses to the “Pacific Solution”
by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

Displacement, Exile and Incarceration Commuted into Cinematic Vision
by Omid Tofighian

Refugees on Film: Assessing the Political Strengths and Weaknesses of the Documentary Style
by P. Stuart Robinson


Dossier One: Challenges of Separation for Refugee Filmmaking

Introduction
by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Lucia Sorbera

The Last Goldfish
by Su Goldfish, Joanna Newman, and Julie Ewington

Refugee Status: Privileged
by Rana Kazkaz

Collaborating with Refugees: Power, Ethics and Reciprocity in Documentary Filmmaking
by Mandy Hughes

Anonymity and Representation: Everyday Practices of Ethical Documentary Filmmaking
by Isobel Blomfield and Caroline Lenette


Dossier Two: Carceral-Border Cinema: The Film from Manus Prison

Introduction
by Omid Tofighian

Film as Folklore
by Behrouz Boochani

Looking for Chauka
by Arash Kamali Sarvestani

A Reflection on Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time
by Janet Galbraith

Cinematic Poetics and Reclaiming History: Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time as Legacy
by Jeremy Elphick

Chauka Calls—A Photo Essay
by Omid Tofighian


Book Reviews

Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic TV: Representations of Masculinity and Femininity at the End of the World, by Eve Bennett
Reviewed by Martin Fradley

Are You Watching Closely?: Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film, by Seth Friedman
Reviewed by Jordan Lavender-Smith

European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film as Thought Experiment, by Thomas Elsaesser
Reviewed by Ekin Erkan

Writing the Comedy Movie, by Marc Blake
Reviewed by Matthew McKeague

Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers, by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
Reviewed by Anthony Kinik

Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin: From Nazism to the Cold War, by Mila Ganeva
Reviewed by Boel Ulfsdotter

New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory, by Dara Waldron
Reviewed by Darrell Varga

A Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object, by Elizabeth Ezra
Reviewed by James Mulvey

Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America, by Alison Griffiths
Reviewed by Gwenda Young



Issue 17

Editorial

Researching Creative Practice: Terminology, Policy, Models
by Ciara Chambers (Issue Editor)

Foreword


The Academy and the Industry
by Rod Stoneman


Articles

But HOW Is It Not Just Practice? Or Do I Not Know Practice as Research?
by Julian McDougall

Future Experiments from the Past: Third Cinema and Artistic Research from Below
by Miguel Errazu and Alejandro Pedregal

Autoethnography and Postmemory: A Methodology for the Use of Film Forms as Research
by Romana Turina

The Essay Film as Methodology for Film Theory and Practice: Disruptions and Expansions for Film Research
by Gonzalo de Lucas and Carolina Sourdis

The Subjective Voice and Hybrid Documentary Filmmaking Strategies: A Case Study
by Jill Daniels

The WHAT IF IT Process: Moving from Story-Telling to Story-Experiencing
by Sandra Gaudenzi

Creative and Emotional Labour: Programming Human Rights Film Festivals as Practice-led Ethnography
by Alexandra Colta

Exploring Speculative Methods: Building Artifacts to Investigate Interspecies Intersubjective Subjectivity
by Alan Hook


Crossing the Boundary: The Theory & Practice Dossier

Introduction
by Davide Abbatescianni and Dan O’Connell (Dossier Editors)

Surface and Light: Thinking through Moving Images
by Melanie Wilmink

The Methodology behind Digital Papers
by Catherine Gough-Brady

Cinematography and Filmmaking Research: Reflections on a Practice-led Doctoral Process
by Alexander Nevill

Fake It ’Til You Make It and Other Mantras to Completing a Practice-led/-based/with PhD
by Laura O’Connor

Encountering the Invisible
by Susanna Helke


Book Reviews

Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry, edited by Craig Batty and Susan Kerrigan
Reviewer: Rod Stoneman

It Stays with You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti, by Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Will
Reviewer: Ryan Shand

Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh, by Alan Strachan
Reviewer: Gwenda Young

The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans: A Captivated Audience?, by Maria Fritsche
Reviewer: Aysehan Jülide Etem

Storyboarding: A Critical History, by Chris Pallant and Steven Price
Reviewer: Hiaw Khim Tan

Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes: On Brazil and Global Cinema, edited by Maite Conde and Stephanie Dennison
Reviewer: Albert Elduque

Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics, edited by Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy
Reviewer: Malgorzata Bugaj

Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice, by Broderick Fox
Reviewer: Patricia Holland

Documentary Case Studies: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest (True) Stories Ever Told, by Jeff Swimmer
Reviewer: Eileen Culloty

Anime: A Critical Introduction, by Rayna Denison
Reviewer: Cristina Massaccesi

Public Service Media in Europe: A Comparative Approach, edited by Karen Arriaza Ibarra, Eva Nowak, and Raymond Kuhn
Reviewer: Maria O’Brien


Festival Reports

Around the World in 14 Films: The Berlin Festival of Festivals
Reporter: Claudia Kotte

Odessa Film Festival 2016: Purple Moving Images
Reporter: Kamil Lipiński



Issue 16

Editorial

Queer Media Temporalities
by Maria Pramaggiore and Páraic Kerrigan (Issue Editors)


Articles


Hiraeth, or Queering Time in Archives Otherwise
by Onyeka Igwe and JD Stokely

Games of Archiving Queerly: Artefact Collection and Defining Queer Romance in ​Gone Home and ​Life is Strange
by Renee Drouin

Delphinium’s Portrait of Queer History: Rethinking Derek Jarman’s Legacy
by Laura Stamm

Histoire(s) de l’art: Curating the Cinema of Vincent Dieutre

by Jules O’Dwyer

Reeling Backward: The Haptics of a Medium and the Queerness of Obsolescence

by Travis L. Wagner

The Life Cycle of Transparent: Envisioning Queer Space, Time and Business Practice
by Justin Wyatt


Book Reviews

Cinema’s Baroque Flesh: Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement by Saige Walton
Reviewer: Michelle Devereaux

The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film by Samantha Colling
Reviewer: Desirée de Jesus

Dennis Hopper, Photographs 1961–1967, edited by Dennis Hopper and Tony Shafrazi
Reviewer: Joanna Elena Batsakis

Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image by Nicolas Pillai
Reviewer: Anthony Ballas

The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century by Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone and Wang Chi
Reviewer: Raluca Iacob

Godard and Sound: Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard by Albertine Fox
Reviewer: Caitríona Walsh

My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood by Claude Jarman Jr.
Reviewer: Gwenda Young


Festival Reports

Real and Unreal Things: Virtual Reality at the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival
Reporter: Kath Dooley

Same Vision, New Visibility: Il Cinema Ritrovato 2018
Reporter: Andrea Gelardi

A Film Festival Thinking Itself: The 66th San Sebastian International Film Festival
Reporter: Pablo La Parra-Pérez



Issue 15

Editorial

I-Docs as Intervention: The Poetics and Politics of Polyphony
Judith Aston and Stefano Odorico (Issue Editors)

Speculations

Thirty Speculations Towards a Polyphonic Model for New Media Documentary

by Patricia R. Zimmermann

Articles

Exercising Radical Democracy: The Crisis of Representation and Interactive Documentary as an Agent of Change

by Amir Husak

Beyond “Toolness”: Korsakow Documentary as a Methodology for Plurivocal Interventions in Complexity
by Anna Wiehl

Rediscovering “Wonder” through I-Docs: Reflections on “Immersive” Viewing in the Context of Contemporary Digital/Visual Practices

by Paolo Favero

The Poetics and Politics of Polyphony: Towards a Research Method for Interactive Documentary

by Judith Aston and Stefano Odorico

Interviews

Polyphony in Practice: An Interview with Sharon Daniel
by Sharon Daniel, Judith Aston, and Stefano Odorico

Enacting Polyphony: An Interview with Florian Thalhofer
by Florian Thalhofer, Judith Aston, and Stefano Odorico

Case Studies

The Shore Line as Polyphony in Practice: A Case Study
by Elizabeth Miller

Experimental Polyphony: On the Media Ecological Research of Intermediate Bodies
by Daniel Fetzner and Martin Dornberg


Book Reviews

Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy by Mathew Abbott
Reviewer: Kelly Houck

Authoring Hal Ashby: The Myth of the New Hollywood Auteur by Aaron Hunter
Reviewer: Nicholas Godfrey

Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman by Mari Ruti
Reviewer: Alice Guilluy

When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film by William Paul
Reviewer: Tober Corrigan


Festival Reports

Far East Film Festival 20
Reporters: Boel Ulfsdotter and Mats Björkin

“Looking Out”: The 2018 Association for Art History’s Annual Conference
Reporter: Gillian McIver


Issue 14

Editorial

For a Cosmopolitan Cinema
James Mulvey, Laura Rascaroli, and Humberto Saldanha (Issue Editors)

Articles

Encounters with Cultural Difference: Cosmopolitanism and Exoticism in Tanna (Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, 2015) and Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015)
by Daniela Berghahn

Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; Or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema?

by Felicia Chan

“Now I Fight for Belonging”: A Cosmopolitan Refugee Meets Regional Australia in Constance on the Edge
by Sukhmani Khorana

Global Film at Global Airlines

by Dina Iordanova

Cosmopolitan Spaces of International Film Festivals: Cannes Film Festival and the French Riviera

by Dorota Ostrowska

Film Festivals as Cosmopolitan Assemblages: A Case Study in Diasporic Cocreation
by Monia Acciari

The Films of Ciro Guerra and the Making of Cosmopolitan Spaces in Colombian Cinema
by Maria Luna and Philippe Meers

Imperial and Critical Cosmopolitans: Screening the Multicultural City on Sherlock and Elementary
by Anne Kustritz

Dossier

Teaching European Cinema—The European University Film Award (EUFA) Project
by Skadi Loist


Book Reviews

Making Time in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon: Art History and Empire, by Maria Pramaggiore
Reviewer: Gillian McIver

From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present by Ewa Mazierska
Reviewer: Nick Hodgin

Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media, edited by Pepita Hesselberth and Maria Poulaki
Reviewer: Virginia McLaurin


Festival Reports

Film Policies in Transition: Globalization, Digitization, Protectionism
King’s College London, 2 June 2017

Reporter: Gertjan Willems

Document Human Rights Film Festival 2017
Reporter: Alexandra-Maria Colta



Issue 13

Editorial

Screening Race: Constructions and Reconstructions in Twenty-first Century Media
by Loretta Goff and Caroline V. Schroeter (Issue Editors)

Articles

Riot and Revenge: Symmetry and the Cronulla Riot in Abe Forsythe’s Down Under
by Kenta McGrath

“Racism’s part of my culture”: Nation, Race and Humour in Irish Jam (2006) and The Guard (2011)

by Loretta Goff

Representing Ethnicity in Cinema during Turkey’s Kurdish Initiative: A Critical Analysis of My Marlon and Brando (Karabey, 2008), The Storm (Öz, 2008) and Future Lasts Forever (Alper, 2011)
by Zeynep Koçer and Mustafa Orhan Göztepe

The Fight for Self-representation: Ainu Imaginary, Ethnicity and Assimilation

by Marcos P. Centeno Martín

Multicultural Glasgow: Imagining Scotland as a Space of Cultural Intersection in Scots-Asian Films of the 2000s

by Emily Torricelli

Depicting the Racist Past in a “Postracial” Age: The White, Male Protagonist in Hell on Wheels and The Knick
by Michael L. Wayne

How to Get Away with Colour: Colour-Blindness and the Myth of a Postracial America in American Television Series
by Emiel Martens and Débora Póvoa

Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation: Classical Hollywood Cinema or Independent Rebellion?
by Caroline V. Schroeter


Book Reviews

The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas, by Elena del Río, and Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky, by Tarja Laine
Reviewer: Jenny Gunn

Lars von Trier’s Women, edited by Rex Butler and David Denny
Reviewer: Silvia Angeli

Screenwriting Is Rewriting: The Art and Craft of Professional Revision, by Jack Epps, Jr.
Reviewer: Göksu Akkan

Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function, edited by Chris Pallant
Reviewer: Yuanyuan Chen


Festival Reports

Consuming Heritage
University of Leeds, 30 September 2016

Reporter: Daniel Clarke

Sheffield Doc/Fest
9–14 June 2017

Reporter: James Mulvey

Retrospective 2017: Future Imperfect. Science · Fiction · Film
67th Berlin International Film Festival

Reporter: Dominic Topp


Issue 12

Editorial

The New Old: Archaisms and Anachronisms across Media
Editorial
by Stefano Baschiera and Elena Caoduro (Issue Editors)

Articles

Media Hysteresis: Persistence Through Change
by Philippe Theophanidis and Ghislain Thibault

Performing History/ies with Obsolete Media: The Example of a South African Photo-Film

by Marietta Kesting

Analogue Video in the Age of Retrospectacle: Aesthetics, Technology, Subculture
by Jonathan Rozenkrantz

The Wonder Years: Nostalgia, Memory and Pastness in Television Credits

by Kathleen Williams

Retro Quality and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary European Television

by Louis Bayman


Book Reviews

Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope, by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
Reviewer: Logan Davis

Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game, by Todd McGowan
Reviewer: James Driscoll

Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media, by Adam Lowenstein
Reviewer: Zsolt Gyenge

Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era, edited by Murray Leeder
Reviewer: Anton Karl Kozlovic

Cinematic Terror: A Global History of Terrorism on Film, by Tony Shaw
Reviewer: Elena Caoduro


Festival Reports

Screening Rights Film Festival Birmingham, UK, 15–18 September 2016
Reporters: Will Amott and Pablo Alvarez

Live Cinema Conference King’s College London, 27 May 2016
Reporters: Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy

Scalarama UK, 1–30 September 2016
Reporter: Maria A. Velez-Serna



Issue 11

Editorial

Cinema Heritage in Europe
by Pierluigi Ercole; Daniela Treveri Gennari; Silvia Dibeltulo; and Lies Van de Vijver (Issue Editors)

Articles

New Cinema History and the Comparative Mode: Reflections on Comparing Historical Cinema Cultures
by Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers

Cinemagoing as Spatially Contextualised Cultural and Social Practice

by Elisa Ravazzoli

Cinema Parisien 3D: 3D Visualisation as a Tool for the History of Cinemagoing
by Julia Noordegraaf, Loes Opgenhaffen and Norbert Bakker

Ethnography as a Tool of Cinema History: Cinemagoing in Light of the Experience of a Local Film Market

by Jean-Marc Leveratto and Fabrice Montebello

Narrative Modes of Cinemagoing Memories

by Susanne Haake

Visualising Data in Digital Cinema Studies: More than Just Going through the Motions?
by Deb Verhoeven


Book Reviews

The Magic World of Orson Welles, by James Naremore (2015)
Reviewer: Shannon Scott

The History of British Literature on Film, 1895–2015, by Greg M. Colón Semenza and Bob Hasenfratz (2015)
Reviewer: Kevin M. Flanagan

Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series, by James Chapman (2015)
Reviewer: Lucinda Pope

The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón, by Deborah Shaw (2013)
Reviewer: Elliot Hardman

Laurent Cantet, by Martin O’Shaughnessy (2015)
Reviewer: Ally Lee


Festival Reports

45th International Film Festival Rotterdam
27 January–7 February 2016

Reporter: Emre Çağlayan

12th Irish Screen Studies Seminar
Dublin City University, 11 May 2016

Reporter: Loretta Goff


Issue 10

Editorial

Women and Media in the Twenty-First Century
by Abigail Keating and Jill Murphy (Issue Editors)

Articles

The Gendered Politics of Sex Work in Hong Kong Cinema: Herman Yau and Elsa Chan (Yeeshan)’s Whispers and Moans and True Women for Sale
by Gina Marchetti

Girlhood, Postfeminism and Contemporary Female Art-House Authorship: The “Nameless Trilogies” of Sofia Coppola and Mia Hansen-Løve

by Fiona Handyside

Femininity, Ageing and Performativity in the Work of Amy Heckerling
by Frances Smith

Motherhood in Crisis in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy

by Fiona Clancy

Female Stardom in Contemporary Romanian New Wave Cinema: Unglamour?

by Andrea Virginás

“Nice White Ladies Don’t Go Around Barefoot”: Racing the White Subjects of The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)
by Marie-Alix Thouaille

Pocahontas No More: Indigenous Women Standing Up for Each Other in Twenty-First Century Cinema
by Sophie Mayer

The Feminist Cinema of Joanna Hogg: Melodrama, Female Space, and the Subversion of Phallogocentric Metanarrative
by Ciara Barrett

African Women of the Screen at the Digital Turn
by Beti Ellerson


Book Reviews

The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come, by Francesco Casetti (2015)
Reviewer: Niall Flynn

Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology, edited by Michael Temple and Karen Smolens (2014)
Reviewer: Laura Busetta

Film & Making Other History: Counterhegemonic Narratives for a Cinema of the Subaltern, by Alejandro Pedregal (2015)
Reviewer: David Brancaleone

Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era, by Natália Pinazza (2014)
Reviewer: Jamie Steele

TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television, by Maeve Connolly (2014)
Reviewer: Erica Levin


Festival Reports

John Di Stefano: Bandiera Nera
Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, 23 January–21 February 2015

Reporter: Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough


Issue 9

Editorial

Deviate!
by Jill Murphy and Nicholas O'Riordan (Issue Editors)

Articles

The Taming of the Bronies: Animals, Autism and Fandom as Therapeutic Performance
by Maria Pramaggiore

Continuing the Deviating Tradition of Hungarian Experimental Film Art: András Jeles’s Joseph and His BrothersScenes from a Peasant Bible

by Gábor Gelencsér

Inf(l)ection of the Medium: Sándor Kardos’s Films in Between Eye and Hand

by Mónika Dánél

Europe of “Others”: Deviations, Mobility, and the Construction of Identities in Carmine Amoroso’s Cover Boy

by Abigail Keating

Disembodied Perspective: Third-Person Images in GoPro Videos

by Philippe Bédard

“Gas Her”: Deviant Paradigms of Identification in Interactive Spectatorship
by Marina Hassapopoulou


Book Reviews

Men’s Cinema: Masculinity and Mise en Scène in Hollywood, by Stella Bruzzi (2013)
Reviewer: Ian Murphy

China’s iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Matthew Johnson et al. (2014)
Reviewer: Leung Wing-Fai

Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action, by Ira Jaffe (2014)
Reviewer: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Beyond the Screen: Emerging Cinema and Engaging Audiences, by Sarah Atkinson (2014)
Reviewer: Jonathan Wroot


Festival Reports

Political Cinema in the 21st Century: The Radical Film Network Inaugural Conference
Birmingham City University, 7–8 February 2015

Reporter: Kelly Zarins

BAFTA 2015: Film Craft Sessions
BAFTA London
, 7 February 2015

Reporters: Jake Martin Graves and Conan Coatsworth

51st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
Antalya, Turkey, 10–18 October 2014

Reporter: Murat Akser



Issue 8

Editorial

Animation at the Cutting Edge
by Yuanyuan Chen and Laura Rascaroli (Issue Editors)


Articles

Chairy Tales: Object and Materiality in Animation
by Paul Wells

To Infinity and Back Again: Hand-drawn Aesthetic and Affection for the Past in Pixar's Pioneering Animation
by Helen Haswell

When Imaginary Cartoon Worlds Get the "Documentary Look": Understanding Mockumentary Through Its Animated Variant
by Cristina Formenti

Tango for a Dream: Narrative Liminality and Musical Sensuality in Richard Linklater's Waking Life
by Danijela Kulezic-Wilson

Rolling Amnesia and the Omnivorous Now: Jeff Scher's You Won't Remember This Trilogy (20072011)
by Lilly Husbands


Book Reviews

Animated Documentary, by Annabelle Honess Roe (2013)
Reviewer: Susan Danta


Festival Reports

Chris Marker: A Grin Without a Cat
Whitechapel Gallery, London, 16 April–22June 2014

Reporter: Laura Busetta

The 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Karlovy Vary, 4–12 July 2014

Reporter: Natascha Drubek

Rendering (the) Visible II: Figure
Georgia State University, 6–8 February 2014

Reporters: Laurel Ahnert and Justin Horton



Issue 7

Editorial

Corporeal Cinema
by Ian Murphy and Gwenda Young (Issue Editors)

Articles

Corporeality and Embodiment in the Female Boxing Film
by Katharina Lindner

Art as a Guaranty of Sanity: The Skin I Live In
by Tarja Laine

Dark Fragments: Contrasting Corporealities in Pasolini's La ricotta
by Jill Murphy

Reconsidering the Body Genre: Rape-Revenge and Postfeminist Softcore as Biocultural Phenomena
by David Andrews

The Work of an Invisible Body: The Contribution of Foley Artists to On-Screen Effort
by Lucy Fife Donaldson

Beyond the Human Body: Claire Denis's Ecologies
by Laura McMahon


Book Reviews

Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship, by Jonathan Auerbach (2011)
Reviewer: Christina Parker-Flynn

Authorship and the Films of David Lynch: Aesthetic Receptions in Contemporary Hollywood, by Antony Todd (2012)
Reviewer: Deborah Mellamphy

Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema, by Cecilia Sayad (2013)
Reviewer: Laura Busetta


Festival Reports

33rd International Istanbul Film Festival
Istanbul, Turkey, 5–20 April 2014

Reporter: Özge Özdüzen Ateşman

The 2014 Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF)
Atlanta, GA, U.S.A, 26 March–4 April 2014

Reporter: Erin Lee Mock

Imagining the Past: Ken Russell, Biography and the Art of Making History
Cinema RITS, Brussels, BE, 19–20 March 2014

Reporter: Kevin M. Flanagan


Issue 6

Editorial

Reframing Cinema Histories
by Pierluigi Ercole and Gwenda Young (Issue Editors)

Articles

"A Taste in Pictures": The Second Birth of Cinema in Cork
by Denis Condon

Understanding Dutch Film Culture: A Comparative Approach
by Judith Thissen

"The Greatest Film of the Fascist Era": The Distribution of Camicia nera in Britain
by Pierluigi Ercole

Exploring Racial Politics, Personal History and Critical Reception: Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949)
by Gwenda Young

An Advertiser's Dream: The Construction of the "Consumptionist" Cinematic Persona of Mercedes Gleitze
by Ciara Chambers

The Politics of Independence: The China Syndrome (1979), Hollywood Liberals and Antinuclear Campaigning
by Peter Krämer

What is the Value of a Technological History of Cinema?
by Lee Grieveson


Book Reviews

A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove, by John Spong (2012)
Reviewer: Matthew Carter

Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video, by Akira Mizuta Lippit (2012)
Reviewer: Niall Flynn

Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema, by Debbie Ging (2013)
Reviewer: Barry Monahan


Festival Reports

World Cinema On-Demand: Film Distribution and Education in the Streaming Media Era
Queen's University Belfast, 1516 June 2012; 26 June 2013; 19 September 2013
Reporter: Alexandra Kapka

Revisiting Star Studies
Culture Lab, Newcastle University, 1214 June 2013
Reporter: Jennifer O'Meara

A Star is Born: Cinematic Reflections on Stardom and the "Stardom Film"
King's College London, 13 September 2013
Reporter: Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg



Issue 5

Editorial

Cinema in the Interstices
by Abigail Keating, Deborah Mellamphy and Jill Murphy (Issue Editors)

Articles

Interstices and Impurities in the Cinema: Art and Science
by Angela Dalle Vacche

Between Frames: Japanese Cinema at the Digital Turn
by Laura Lee

Montage in the Portrait Film: Where Does the Hidden Time Lie?
by Patrick Tarrant

Picturing a Golden Age: September and Australian Rules
by Pauline Marsh

Memories of a Buried Past, Indications of a Disregarded Present: Interstices Between Past and Present in Henri-François Imbert’s No pasarán, album souvenir
by Veronika Schweigl

Ma, Mu and the Interstice: Meditative Form in the Cinema of Jim Jarmusch
by Roy Daly

The Tales of New Orleans after Katrina: The Interstices of Fact and Fiction in Treme
by Delphine Letort

"Cinema Alone", Multiple "Cinemas"
by Raymond Bellour


Book Reviews

Stop the Clocks! Time and Narrative in Cinema, by Helen Powell (2012)
Reviewer: Deborah Mellamphy

Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema, by Austin Fisher (2011)
Reviewer: Mike Phillips

Mad Men: Dream Come True TV, edited by Gary R. Edgerton (2011)
Reviewer: Aidan Power


Festival Reports

Jonas Mekas
Serpentine Gallery, London, 5 December 201227 January 2013
Reporter: Laura Busetta

Dis-placing the East/West Binary: Aesthetic and Cultural Crossover in Film and Visual Culture
Cardiff University, 2 November 2012
Reporter: Hiu M. Chan

ECREA 2012, 4th European Communication Conference, Film Studies Section
Istanbul, 2527 October 2012
Reporter: Gertjan Willems



Issue 4

Editorial

Open Theme
by Stefano Odorico and Aidan Power (Issue Editors)

Articles

Who’s Got the “Reel” Power? The Problem of Female Antagonisms in Blaxploitation Cinema
by Melissa DeAnn Seifert

Egyptian Film Censorship: Safeguarding Society, Upholding Taboos
by Dina Mansour

“I Get Sort of Carried Away, Being So Normal and Everything”: The Oscillating Sexuality of Clare Quilty and Humbert Humbert in the works of Nabokov, Kubrick and Lyne
by Emerson Storm Fillman Richards

Towards an Embodied Poetics of Cinema: The Metaphoric Construction of Abstract Meaning in Film
by Maarten Coëgnarts and Peter Kravanja

Film-Thinking and Narrative Indeterminacy
by Jimmy Billingham

Image Versus Imagination: Memory’s Theatre of Cruelty in Chris Marker’s La Jetée
by Martina Witt-Jauch

Anima Animus: Jennifer Jason Leigh’s Bisexual Method in Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Ian Murphy


Book Reviews

Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, by Warren Buckland (2012)
Reviewer: Kevin McDonald

Recording Reality, Desiring the Real, by Elizabeth Cowie (2011)
Reviewer: Amy Parziale

The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture, by Patricia Pisters (2012)
Reviewer: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein


Festival Reports

Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image. Curated by Ed Krčma and Matt Packer
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 26 July–4 November 2012
Reporter: Jill Murphy

The Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference 2012
Boston, USA, 21–25 March 2012
Reporters: Anthony Coman and Missy Molloy


Issue 3

Editorial

Sound, Voice, Music
by Danijela Kulezic-Wilson, Christopher Morris and Jessica Shine (Issue Editors)

Articles

The Same Old Songs in Reagan-Era Teen Film
by Michael D. Dwyer

Performing Gender in the Studio and Postmodern Musical
by Michael Charlton

When is the Now in the Here and There? Trans-diegetic Music in Hal Ashby’s Coming Home
by Aaron Hunter

Beneath Sci-fi Sound: Primer, Science Fiction Sound Design, and American Independent Cinema
by Nessa Johnston

Cultural Innovation and Narrative Synergy in R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet
by Ioana Literat

Emotion Capture: Vocal Performances by Children in the Computer-animated Film
by Christopher Holliday


Book Reviews

Media and Memory, by Joanne Garde-Hansen (2011)
Reviewer: Elena Caoduro

Film Festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen, by Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong (2011)
Reviewer: Fiona Lee

Music Video and the Politics of Representation, by Diane Railton and Paul Watson (2011)
Reviewer: Antonio Sanna

Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview, by Graeme Harper, Ruth Doughty and Jochen Eisentraut (eds.) (2009)
Reviewer: Penny Spirou

Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores, by Peter Franklin (2011)
Reviewer: K. A. Wisniewski

Siren City: Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir, by Robert Miklitsch (2011)
Reviewer: James A. Wren


Festival Reports

Dysfunctionalities. Annual Conference of the German Society for Media Science (GfM)
Postdam, Germany, 5-8 October 2011
Reporter: Patricia Prieto Blanco

The Impact of Technological Innovations on the Historiography and Theory of Cinema
Montreal, Canada, 1-6 November 2011
Reporter: Daniel Fitzpatrick

The End Of…? An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Study of Motion Pictures
University of Kent, Canterbury, 21-22 January 2012
Reporter: James MacDowell


Issue 2

Editorial

Space and Time in Film
by Marian Hurley, Deborah Mellamphy and Jill Moriarty (Issue Editors)


Articles

Scrutinising the Rainbow: Fantastic Space in The Wizard of Oz
by Alexander Sergeant

Bullet-Time in Simulation City: Revisiting Baudrillard and The Matrix by way of the "Real 1999"
by Randy Laist

Personal Time in Alternative and Time Travel Narrative: The Cases of Groundhog Day, Twelve Monkeys and 2001: A Space Odyssey
by Elisa Pezzotta

Revisiting the Past as a Means of Validation: Bridging the Myth of the Resistance and the Satire of the Economic Miracle in Two Comedies "Italian Style"
by Giacomo Boitani

From History to Haecceity: Spatial Reframings of the Past in Post-heritage Cinema
by Elise Wortel

Making Nothing Happen: The Transition from Reactive Nihilism to Affirmation in Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers (2005)
by Anna Backman Rogers


Book Reviews

Funny Frames: The Filmic Concepts of Michael Haneke, by Oliver C. Speck (2010)
by Reviewer: Jeremiah Ambrose

Celluloid Saviours: Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film, by Emily Caston (2010)
by Reviewer: Mithuraaj Dhusiya

Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film, by Tamar Jeffers McDonald (2010)
by Reviewer: Rebecca Kambuta

What Cinema Is! Bazin’s Quest and its Charge, by Dudley Andrew (2010)
by Reviewer: Kevin McDonald

Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd: A Post-Jungian Perspective, by Helena Bassil-Morozow (2010)
by Reviewer: Deborah Mellamphy

Animating Space: From Mickey To WALL-E, by J.P. Telotte (2010)
by Reviewer: Mihaela Mihailova


Festival Reports

16th Kolkata Film Festival
Kolkata, India, 10-17 November 2010

by Reporter: Saayan Chattopadhyay

The ISEA 2011 Istanbul International Symposium on Electronic Art
Sabaci Center, Istanbul, 14-21 September 2011

by Reporter: Jodi Nelson


Issue 1

Editorial

Back to the Future: The European Film Studies Agenda Today
by Laura Rascaroli

European Cinema: Transnational, Transcultural, Transmedial
Issue Editors' Note
by Abigail Keating, Jill Murphy and Aidan Power


Articles

Transnationality and Transitionality: Sandra Kogut's The Hungarian Passport (2001)
by Natália Pinazza

Paris, Borders and the Concept of Europe in Paris, je t'aime and Code Unknown
by Vivien Silvey

Lindsay Anderson: Britishness and National Cinemas
by Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard

The Fictive Archive: Kurdish Filmmaking in Turkey
by Özgür Çiçek

Ideas of Sex: Discourses on Sexuality in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter and Cesare Canevari's The Gestapo's Last Orgy
by Nick Impey

Cinema/History: Philippe Garrel, Bernardo Bertolucci and May 1968
by Michael Leonard

Face to Face with the Muslim "Other": European Cinematic Responses to Al-Qaeda
by Elena Caoduro


Book Reviews

Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema, by Yosefa Loshitzky (2010)
Reviewer: Aidan Power

Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representations of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema, by Russel J.A. Kilbourn (2010)
Reviewer: Colm Ryan


Conference Reports

The “Biographical Narrative in Film and Television” Postgraduate Seminar Series
University of Southampton, May and June 2010
Reporter: Victoria Kearley

The Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference 2011: Media Citizenship
New Orleans, USA, March 10-13, 2011

Reporter: Deborah Mellamphy


Festival Reports

The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival
Schull, County Cork, 26-29
May 2011

Reporter: Barry Monahan


Film 4 Frightfest, 2010
London, 26-30 August 2010

Reporter: Deborah Mellamphy