Issue 44
Abigail Child’s This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film
Tina Wasserman discusses a treasure trove of illuminating ideas found in this collection of essays by experimental filmmaker and writer Abigail Child
The Remote Control as Political Weapon: Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image by Laura Mulvey
In the preface to her most recent book, Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image, Laura Mulvey describes and comments on a shift
In Search of Anxious Time: Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts by David Martin-Jones
CLEMENTINE KRUCZYNSKI [Kate Winslet]: You’re not a stalker or anything, right? JOEL BARISH [Jim Carrey]: I’m not a stalker. You’re the one that talked to
American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now edited by Phillip Lopate
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather
“Africa is a Revolutionary Country”: Sally Shafto’s Zanzibar: The Zanzibar Films and the Dandies of May 1968
Keith Reader reviews Sally Shafto’s stimulating and indispensable book on one of the most overlooked radical filmmaking collectives
In Search of a (Reluctant) Feminist: Women in Polish Cinema by Ewa Mazierska and Elzbieta Ostrowska
With the defiance expected in the greatest of social causes, Polish female filmmakers have insisted for years that they do not make women’s cinema. Their
The Grocer Who Dreams: Postcards from the Cinema by Serge Daney
In Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre says a grocer who dreams is offensive to the buyer, because such a grocer is not wholly a grocer.
Simple Acts of Annihilation: La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven
What is an Italian giallo film? Mikel J. Koven’s latest book La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film attempts to illuminate this