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Volume 11 Issue 1
Editorial: Wadjda, Saudi Arabian Cinema and Women’s Rights
by Daniel Lindvall
How to Escape from Brazil: Interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and British director Sophie Fiennes
by Rajko Radovic
Effacing the Effaced: Chris Marker’s collectivist period
by Patrick Tolle
Cinema Returns to the Source: Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
by Roger F. Cook
The Rhetorical Force of Conflicting Emotions in Operation Filmmaker: a cognitive approach to documentary performance and emotion
by Elizabeth Marquis
DVD / Blu-ray Reviews: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin, Metropolitan, Island of Lost Souls, Certified Copy, Summer with Monika, Hawks and Sparrows, The Complete Humphrey Jennings, The Gold Rush, The 39 Steps
Book Reviews: When Movies Mattered, Millennial Cinema, Polanski and Perception, Screen Dynamics, De-Westernizing Film Studies, Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism, Jacques Rivette, Queer Pollen, Directory of World Cinema: Germany
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Volume 10 Issue 6
Editorial: Cosmopolis and the end of the 80s
by Daniel Lindvall
Paradise is Here: The aesthetic world of Imad and Swel Noury
by Omar El-Khairy and Omar Kholeif
Graphic: Tears of Gaza
by Chris Hutchinson
Woman Run Amok: Two films by Lars von Trier
by Christopher Sharrett
No Start, No End: Auteurism and the auteur theory
by David Andrews
Nollywood Style: Nigerian movies and ‘shifting perceptions of worth’
by Jeffrey Geiger
Happenstance and Construction: An exploration into the work of artist film-maker Ben Rivers
by James Murray White
DVD / Blu-ray Reviews: Naked, The Lost Coast
Book Reviews: Cinema Italiano, Mika Kaursimäki
Film review: African Chelsea
Around the Circuit: Toronto International Film Festival, Madeira Film Festival 2012, New Horizons
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Volume 10 Issue 4-5
Editorial: Barbara
by Daniel Lindvall
Shooting in Riyadh when Arabia Was Poor: American film crew accepts Arabian hospitality and lunch with Saudi King
by James Morrison
Harry Palmer, Michael Caine & The IPCRESS File: Part 2
by Gary McMahon
Deep, Deep, Down: The social satire of Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik
by John Berra
Erotic, Silent, Dead: The concept of women in the films of Stanley Kubrick
by Sabine Planka
Room to Rent: Sexual Dissidence in the films of Khaled El Hagar
by Omar Kholeif
Rethinking the Female Voice and the Ideology of Sound: On Stanley Kwan’s film Center Stage (Ruan Lingyu, 1992)
by Li Guo
The Heroic Laughter of Modernity: The life, cinema and afterlife of a Bengali matinee idol
by Sayandeb Chowdhury
The Globalized Avatar of the Hindi Cinema Hero: Hrithik Roshan’s ‘double role’ in Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai (2000)
by Jayashree Kamble
Rethinking Russian Ark
by George Sikharulidze
A Conversation with Baldvin Zophoníasson
by Tom Ue
DVD / Blu-ray Reviews: Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Spinnin’, Paths of Glory, Chantal Akerman in the Seventies, Fat Girl (Á ma sœur!), Shogun Assassin, The Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage), Pale Flower, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
Book Reviews: Tashlinesque, John Huston, Halsted Plays Himself, Cinema & Colour, Conversations with Cinematographers, Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image, Directory of World Cinema: Spain, Documentary Film in Post-War Britain, Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles
Film Reviews: The Paperboy, The Skin I Live In
Around the Circuit: Sheffield Doc/Fest, 55th San Francisco International Film Festival
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Volume 10 Issue 3
Editorial: The Dark Knight Rises
by Daniel Lindvall
Margin Call: an Interview with J.C. Chandor
by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Notes on Benjamin, Adorno, Mann, and the Cinema of Michael Haneke
by Carl Freedman
Digital Dimensions in Actorly Performance: the Aesthetic Potential of Performance Capture
by Chris Pallant
Jean Rouch as ‘Emergent Method’: towards new realms of relevance
by Saër Maty Bâ
Interview with Luce Vigo
by Michaël Abecassis
Interview with Jay Duplass, Steve Zissis and Jennifer Lafleur
by Janine Gericke
A Conversation with Roland Emmerich
by Tom Ue
DVD / Blu-ray Reviews: The Makioka Sisters, Menschen am Sonntag, 4 x Sacha Guitry
Book Reviews: Indie: An American Film Culture, World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives, 100 Documentary Films
Around the Circuit: 11th Tribeca Film Festival
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Volume 10 Issue 2
Editorial: CinemAfrica 2012
by Daniel Lindvall
Cinema’s Civil War Sesquicentennial: Top twelve histories filmed with lightning
by Ed Rampell and Luis Reyes
Harry Palmer, Michael Caine & The Ipcress File: Part 1
by Gary McMahon
Love, Sacrifice and Redemption: A triadic tale of women in Dreyer’s Day of Wrath (1943), Fellini’s La Strada (1954) and von Trier’s Breaking the Waves (1996)
by Angela Tumini
Ray: The Last Phase
by Binayak Roy
The Production Dynamics of Western Films Connected with ‘The Soviet/Russian Topic’
by Alexander Fedorov
Between Past and Future: Looking For Buenos Aires in Hugo Santiago’s Invasion (Invasíon, 1969)
Hugo Santiago interviewed by Michael Guillén
An interview with Jean-Marc Barr
by Gary M. Kramer
Not Out Yet: Amit Sen on the Challenge of Tagore-Themed Comedy
Amit Sen interviewed by Alison Frank
DVD Reviews: The Kremlin Letter, The Music Room, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Theo Angelopoulos Collection Volume 1
Book Reviews: Arnheim for Film and Media Studies, Directory of World Cinema: Russia, Nicholas Ray x 2, Amélie
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Volume 10 Issue 1
Editorial: The Romanian New Wave
by Daniel Lindvall
The New Romanian Cinema Between the Tragic and the Ironic
by Christina Stojanova and Dana Duma
Surfing on the Romanian New Wave
by Marian Tutui
Continuity, Change and Renewal in Romanian Auteur Films: from Reconstruction (1969) to If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (2010)
by Dominique Nasta
Radu Muntean’s Tales of Love and Fate
by Ioana Uricaru
An interview with Florin Şerban
by Gary M. Kramer
DVD Reviews: Police, Adjective, Strigoi, The Truth About Climate Change
Book Reviews: Sergei Eisenstein, Hollywood and the Cultural Elite
Film Reviews: Melancholia, Asphalt Tango, Philanthropy, 12:08 East of Bucharest, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Around the Circuit: New York Film Festival, Arsenals: Riga International Film Festival
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Volume 9 Issue 6
Editorial: Late Hollywood Silent Film Melodrama
by Jeffrey Crouse (Guest editor)
‘Cocoon of Fire’: awakening to love in Murnau’s Sunrise
by George Toles
Three Versions of Stella Dallas
by Diane Stevenson
Gods and Nobodies: the extra, the October Jubilee, and Josef von Sternberg’s The Last Command
by Jonah Corne
Introduction to the William Rothman Interview: (‘Why not realize your world?’)
by Jeffrey Crouse
‘Why Not Realize Your World?’ Philosopher/film scholar William Rothman
interviewed by Jeffrey Crouse
Interview with Jen and Sylvia Soska
by Sid Menon
DVD Reviews: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Metropolis, Modern Times, Dead Hooker in a Trunk
Book Reviews: New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema, 2 x Derek Jarman, Contemporary World Cinema, Josef von Sternberg
Around the Circuit: Toronto International Film Festival
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Volume 9 Issue 5
Editorial: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
by Daniel Lindvall
Evicting The Tenant
by Stanka Radovic
Let’s Get Fiscal: Hollywood romance and the mechanism of the self in modernity
by Garry Leonard
Pop Star, Director, Actor: an interview with Michael Sarne
by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Children of Men and Demonlover: Corporate psyches, media bodies and the possibility of Tomorrow
by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
Cinematic Cyborgs, Abject Bodies: post-human hybridity in T2 and Robocop
by Fran Pheasant-Kelly
When Movie Reviews Mattered: a conversation with Dave Kehr
by Michael Guillén
DVD Reviews: 8 x Kenji Mizoguchi, Nema-ye Nazdi/Close-Up
Book Reviews: Voices in the Dark, Dismantling the Dream Factory, Extra-Ordinary Men, Ingmar Bergman, The New-Brutality Film
Film Reviews: Mas Man Peter Minshall, Trinidad Carnival Artist (The Final Cut), Hanna
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Volume 9 Issue 4
Editorial: Larry Portis, 1943-2011
by Daniel Lindvall
‘Based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut’
by Gary McMahon
The Barcelona School and the New Spanish Cinema
by Christiane Passevant
Origins of the New Spanish Cinema: interview with Basilio Martin Patino
presented by Christiane Passevant
The Recovered Memory of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution: an interview with Jaime Camino
presented by Christiane Passevant
Beyond the Barcelona School: an interview with Vicente Aranda
presented by Christiane Passevant
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and the Cognitive US-Mexico Border
by Jaime Isbell (Winner of the 2010 Frank Capra Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Criticism)
Fourth Iris Prize Festival report and interview with Magnus Mork, director of Samaritan
by Ryan Prout
Todd Verow and James Derek Dwyer
interviewed by Gary M. Kramer
DVD Reviews: Now & Later, Make Way for Tomorrow
Book Reviews: Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon, Disability on Film
Film Reviews: Bi, Don’t Be Afraid, Dogtooth, Elmina
Around the Circuit: Cannes 2011
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Volume 9 Issue 3
Editorial: CinemAfrica
by Daniel Lindvall
I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! Insane Cinema
by Gary McMahon
Beware of the Wolves! The Turkish versus the European Reception of Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (2006)
by Kevin Smets, Dilek Kaya Mutlu and Roel Vande Winkel
‘He Loved What He Did So Much!’ An Interview with Evans (Evans) Frankenheimer
by Murray Pomerance, with an introduction by R. Barton Palmer
‘The English Master of Movie Melodrama’: Hitchcock, Horror and the Woman’s Film
by Mark Jancovich
Interview: Positioning Cinephilia: Taking a Stance with Jonathan Rosenbaum
by Michael Guillén
DVD Reviews: Hausu/House, Revanche
Book Reviews: A Hitchcock Museum, Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era
Film Review: Blue Valentine
Around the Circuit: Tribeca Film Festival
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Volume 9 Issue 2
Hollywood and the Norden (More details here.)
Editorial: Hollywood and the Norden
by Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kääpä (Guest editors)
Adapting National Identity: Ethical Borders Made Suspect in the Hollywood Version of Susanne Bier’s Brothers
by Meryl Shriver-Rice
After The Celebration: Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love
by Arne Lunde
Hunting High and Low: Notes on Nazi Zombies, Francophiles and National Cinema(s)
by Jo Sondre Moseng and Håvard Andreas Vibeto
Hollywood Sin, Scandinavian Virtue: The 1967 Revolt of I Am Curious and The Graduate
by Søren Birkvad
Born American? Renny Harlin and Global Hollywood
by Pietari Kääpä
DVD Reviews: Dillinger is Dead, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Mala Noche, The Life of Jesus
Book Reviews: Contemporary African American Cinema, Film Architecture, Ang Lee, The Simpsons
Around the Circuit: Berlin International Film Festival
Volume 9 Issue 1
Carl Freedman on Gangsterism and Capitalism (More details here.)
Part 1: The Supplement of Coppola: Primitive Accumulation and the Godfather Trilogy
by Carl Freedman
Part 2: Hobbes After Marx, Scorsese After Coppola: on GoodFellas
by Carl Freedman
DVD Reviews: L’Argent, Man with a Movie Camera, White Mane, The Red Balloon, Silent Light, Princess
Book Reviews: Vincente Minnelli, Orson Welles, Casablanca, Roman Polanski, The Cinema of the Balkans
Around the Circuit: The New York Film Festival
Volume 8 Issue 6
Making Movies in Europe
Working Title Films: From Mid-Atlantic to the Heart of Europe
by Tobias Hochscherf and James Leggott
Better Late than Never? The Role of Policy in the Turkish Cinematic Revival
by Melis Behlil
Once Upon a Time in Italy: Transnational Features of Genre Production, 1960s-1970s
by Stefano Baschiera and Francesco Di Chiara
Practice Makes Perfect? The Production of the Swedish Sex Film in the 1970s
by Mariah Larsson
Made in Flanders (Redux): Film Production, Government Funding and Television Participation in Flanders, Belgium
by Leen Engelen and Roel Vande Winkel
City of Light, City of Shadows: The Difficult Take-off of a Spanish Film Studio
by Alejandro Pardo
A Film-friendly Town? Assessing a Decade at a Small Swedish Production Centre
by Olof Hedling