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- Adam Lowenstein and Max Bledstein on “Horror Film and Otherness” (Columbia University Press, 2022)
- Aline MacMahon: Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting
- Editor’s Picks
- Featured Book Reviews
- Frame Shifters and the Tinder of Television
- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Documentary Distribution After the Streaming Wars
- “Monsters All, Are We Not?”: An Interview with Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel
- On Laughter and Survival: A Conversation between Barbara Jane Brickman and Katrin Horn on ‘Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture’
- Take Time: The 71st Melbourne International Film Festival
- Special Issues
- “Cinematic Mountains” Special Issue 21.1 (Spring 2023)
- “Queer/Trans Media Now” Special Issue 21.2 (Summer 2023)
- “Renewing the Cine-genre: Pasts and Futures” Special Issue 20.1 (Winter 2022)
- “Kathryn Bigelow: A Visionary Director” Special Issue 19.3 (Fall 2021)
- “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: A Critical Exploration of ‘Joker’” Special Issue 19.1 (Spring 2021)
- “Radical Romantic Comedy” Special Issue 18.1 (Spring 2020)
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- Close-ups
- Beauty and Fantasy: An Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn – Part 1
- Becoming the Canvas: An Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn – Part 2
- Beyond Identification: Daniel Morgan & Kyle Stevens Discuss Point of View and Camera Movement
- The Bind of Exceptional Women: Alicia Kozma in Conversation on the Cinema of Stephanie Rothman
- Casting Closets, Casting Spells: an Interview with Alfred L. Martin, Jr. & Andrew J. Owens
- Cinema at the End of Empire: A Discussion on Late-Colonial Filmmaking and the Algerian War
- “His favorite & his best film”: a conversation between Hamilton Carroll & Diane Negra on ‘Shadow of a Doubt’
- Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century
- On Laughter and Survival: A Conversation between Barbara Jane Brickman and Katrin Horn on ‘Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture’
- The Politics of Casting and Media Fandom: A Conversation between Kristen Warner and James Rendell
- Porno Dialectics: An Interview with Heather Berg by Jennifer Moorman
- On ‘The Process Genre’: An Interview with Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky
- Quare Intimacies: Maria Flood & Victor Evans on ‘Moonlight’
- Something Wilder: Noah Isenberg and Isabelle Freda in conversation on ‘Billy Wilder on Assignment’
- Strategic Advocacy at the GLAAD Media Awards: An Interview with Rich Ferraro
- Short Takes
- Chasing Down Melancholia: Some Reflections on Writing about the Treatment of Empire in ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ (1979)
- Cinema and Subversion: Exploring the Ontologically Subversive Potential of Psychedelic Cinema
- Failures of Redescription in ‘The Rules of the Game’
- “Fatal Attraction” Reboot Reviewed: Giving a Woman a Backstory as a Mentally Ill Murderer Does Not a Feminist Tale Make
- Flipping Over ‘High Fidelity’
- Frame Shifters and the Tinder of Television
- In tribute to scholar and professor Thomas Elsaesser (1943-2019)
- Lars von Trier: Beyond Depression
- Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling
- Netflix, HBO Nordic, and “Glocalized” TV Series: The View from Sweden
- “The Pandemic Special”: ‘South Park’’s Response to Covid
- A Pitch of Polemics: Stanley Cavell and the Sound(s) of Scholarship
- The Politics and Pedagogy of East Asian Cinema at an American University
- The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973)
- Stanley Kubrick and #MeToo
- “Unknown, Unknown, Delaware, Unknown”: The Mind-Games of “Severance”
- UNTOUCHABLE: a video essay
- When popular media and political cultures collide: British notions of public service, post-military identity and institutional corruption in ‘Bodyguard’ (BBC 2018)
- Roundtables
- Master Classes
- Festival Reports
- Podcasts
- Adam Lowenstein and Max Bledstein on “Horror Film and Otherness” (Columbia University Press, 2022)
- Carl Sweeney interviews Stacey Abbott, author of BFI Classics book on Kathryn Bigelow’s NEAR DARK
- Diana W. Anselmo and Maggie Hennefeld on “A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood”
- “Monsters All, Are We Not?”: An Interview with Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel
- Quare Intimacies: Maria Flood & Victor Evans on MOONLIGHT
- Ryan Engley and Todd McGowan on “Theorizing the Bottle Episode”
- Book Reviews
- Action: Let’s Climb! History of Mountaineering and Climbing Film
- Aline MacMahon: Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting
- Lars von Trier: Beyond Depression
- Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling
- Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship
- The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973)
- Home
- Close-ups
- - Beauty and Fantasy: An Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn – Part 1
- - Becoming the Canvas: An Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn – Part 2
- - Beyond Identification: Daniel Morgan & Kyle Stevens Discuss Point of View and Camera Movement
- - The Bind of Exceptional Women: Alicia Kozma in Conversation on the Cinema of Stephanie Rothman
- - Casting Closets, Casting Spells: an Interview with Alfred L. Martin, Jr. & Andrew J. Owens
- - Cinema at the End of Empire: A Discussion on Late-Colonial Filmmaking and the Algerian War
- - “His favorite & his best film”: a conversation between Hamilton Carroll & Diane Negra on ‘Shadow of a Doubt’
- - Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century
- - On Laughter and Survival: A Conversation between Barbara Jane Brickman and Katrin Horn on ‘Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture’
- - The Politics of Casting and Media Fandom: A Conversation between Kristen Warner and James Rendell
- - Porno Dialectics: An Interview with Heather Berg by Jennifer Moorman
- - On ‘The Process Genre’: An Interview with Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky
- - Quare Intimacies: Maria Flood & Victor Evans on ‘Moonlight’
- - Something Wilder: Noah Isenberg and Isabelle Freda in conversation on ‘Billy Wilder on Assignment’
- - Strategic Advocacy at the GLAAD Media Awards: An Interview with Rich Ferraro
- Short Takes
- - Chasing Down Melancholia: Some Reflections on Writing about the Treatment of Empire in ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ (1979)
- - Cinema and Subversion: Exploring the Ontologically Subversive Potential of Psychedelic Cinema
- - Failures of Redescription in ‘The Rules of the Game’
- - “Fatal Attraction” Reboot Reviewed: Giving a Woman a Backstory as a Mentally Ill Murderer Does Not a Feminist Tale Make
- - Flipping Over ‘High Fidelity’
- - Frame Shifters and the Tinder of Television
- - In tribute to scholar and professor Thomas Elsaesser (1943-2019)
- - Lars von Trier: Beyond Depression
- - Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling
- - Netflix, HBO Nordic, and “Glocalized” TV Series: The View from Sweden
- - “The Pandemic Special”: ‘South Park’’s Response to Covid
- - A Pitch of Polemics: Stanley Cavell and the Sound(s) of Scholarship
- - The Politics and Pedagogy of East Asian Cinema at an American University
- - The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973)
- - Stanley Kubrick and #MeToo
- - “Unknown, Unknown, Delaware, Unknown”: The Mind-Games of “Severance”
- - UNTOUCHABLE: a video essay
- - When popular media and political cultures collide: British notions of public service, post-military identity and institutional corruption in ‘Bodyguard’ (BBC 2018)
- Roundtables
- Master Classes
- Festival Reports
- Podcasts
- - Adam Lowenstein and Max Bledstein on “Horror Film and Otherness” (Columbia University Press, 2022)
- - Carl Sweeney interviews Stacey Abbott, author of BFI Classics book on Kathryn Bigelow's NEAR DARK
- - Diana W. Anselmo and Maggie Hennefeld on “A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood”
- - “Monsters All, Are We Not?”: An Interview with Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel
- - Quare Intimacies: Maria Flood & Victor Evans on MOONLIGHT
- - Ryan Engley and Todd McGowan on “Theorizing the Bottle Episode”
- Book Reviews
- - Action: Let’s Climb! History of Mountaineering and Climbing Film
- - Aline MacMahon: Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting
- - Lars von Trier: Beyond Depression
- - Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling
- - Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship
- - The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973)