Christmas
ARTICLES
Did Neorealism start in church? Catholicism, cinema and the case of Mario Soldati’s Chi è Dio?
By Daniela Treveri Gennari and Marco Vanelli
Brooklyn: gendered Irish migration to the United States
By Carolina Rocha
Problems with Kubrick: reframing Stanley Kubrick through archival research
By James Fenwick
Hanukkah
Special Issues
“Steven Spielberg” Special Issue 7.1 (Winter 2009)
ARTICLES
Revising the Film Canon: Jonathan Rosenbaum’s Movie Mutations and Essential Cinema
By Christopher Long
Figuring the global: on Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York
By Joel Evans
Seeing Lucy’s perspective: returning to Cavell, Wittgenstein and The Awful Truth
By Catherine Constable
Looks that kill: Double Indemnity (1944) reimagined in postmodern neo-noir and television
By Michael Lipiner and Yael Maurer
Creativity and commerce: Michael Klinger and new film history
By Andrew Spicer
Foundation myths: DreamWorks SKG, The Prince of Egypt (1998) and the historical epic film
By James Russell
Fauda: the Israeli occupation on a prime time television drama; or, the melodrama of the enemy
By Yael Munk
The Jewish Cronenberg: a cinema of therapeutic disintegration
By Adam Lowenstein
A pitch of polemics: Stanley Cavell and the sound(s) of scholarship (Open Access!)
By Kyle Barrowman
Something Wilder: Noah Isenberg and Isabelle Freda in conversation on ‘Billy Wilder on Assignment’ (Open Access!)
Interviewed by Isabelle Freda
REVIEWS
Anti-Heimat cinema: the Jewish invention of the German landscape
Review by Kajsa Philippa Niehusen
by Ofer Ashkenazi, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2020, 314 pp., $80.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780472132010
Dziga Vertov: life and work (volume 1: 1896–1921)
Review by Maria Belodubrovskaya
by John MacKay, Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2018, 470 pp., $129.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9781618117342
Chantal Akerman
Review by Joseph Mai
by Marion Schmid, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2010, 208 pp., £45 (hardcover), ISBN 9780719077166
Mike Nichols: sex, language, and the reinvention of psychological realism
Review by Amelie Hastie
by Kyle Stevens, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2015, 263 pp., £19.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780199375813
Kwanzaa
ARTICLES
‘Flat-out’ formalism: Strong Island as trans-of-color critique
By Tory Jeffay
What is not real can be felt into being: affective threat in Jordan Peele’s Get Out
By Emma Train
This scholarship is important: experiences in newspaper historical research of African-American voices on radio
By Bala Baptiste
Romantic female friendships as resistance: subversive web series in the United States and India
By Molly Bandonis and Namrata Rele Sathe
‘It’s all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson’s film career
By Hannah Durkin
Water color: radical color aesthetics in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust
By Diana Pozo
A Cult Film by Proxy: Space Is the Place and the Sun Ra Mythos
By Jamie Sexton
