Editorial Spotlight on Early Career Research in Film Studies by James Mulvey, Issue Editor https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.00 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 https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.01 Reframing Diaspora Cinema: Towards a Theoretical Framework by Alexander De Man https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.02 Freedom Smothered: Gang Rape as Patriarchal Punishment of Emancipated Women in Yugoslav New Film by Vesi Vuković https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.03 Dossier: Screen Advertising Introduction by Emily Caston, Dossier Editor https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.04 How Long Is a Good Story? Compressed Narratives in British Screen Advertising Since 1955 by Emily Caston https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.05 Commercial Break: British Advertising on Screen by Steven Foxon https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.06 Constructions of Race in Advertising Archives: The “Silent” Chinese Minority by Sally Chan https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.07 Interview: Juliette Larthe by Emily Caston https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.08 Interview: Georgia Hudson by Emily Caston https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.09 Interview: Daniel Kleinman by Emily Caston https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.10 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 https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.11 Filming History from Below: Microhistorical Documentaries, by Efrén Cuevas Reviewed by Zachariah Anderson https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.12 Life-Destroying Diagrams, by Eugenie Brinkema Reviewed by Augustin https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.13 Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition: Genres, Technologies, Identities, edited by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova and Rimgaila Salys Reviewed by Sofiia Dabizha https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.14 The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre, by Cecilia Sayad Reviewed by Mikki Kressbach https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.15 Movie Mavens: US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914–1923, edited by Richard Abel Reviewed by Gabrielle Stecher https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.16 Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture, by Dalila Missero Reviewed by Francesco Sticchi https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.17 Tweet