Issue Archive
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Film Comedy: The Sequel
- Humour – A Synthesis of Philosophical, Psychological, and Evolutionary Approaches. Part 1: Classical Theories of Humour
- Humour – A Synthesis of Philosophical, Psychological, and Evolutionary Approaches. Part 2: The Cognitive Aspects of Humour
- On Love, Family, Class, Sex, and Conflict: Notes on Maurice Jamal’s comedy film Dirty Laundry, starring Rockmond Dunbar
When life pushes us to our limits, do we maintain or surpass those limits?
- Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009, Matt Clattenburg)
- Documentary Reality and Comedy
From Moore to Mahr
- Humour – A Synthesis of Philosophical, Psychological, and Evolutionary Approaches. Part 1: Classical Theories of Humour
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Spielberg Times 2
- Oblivion: Trouble with Cinematic Memory
- Political Paranoia as Prophecy: Tom Cruise as the besieged hero in Minority Report and Oblivion
- Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a film investigation into ancient paintings
- After Dogme 95: the British experience
- Gebo and the Shadow (O Gebo e a Sombra)
- Oblivion: Trouble with Cinematic Memory
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Westerns Redux (starring Barbara Stanwyck)
- From Saviors to Angels of Death: Apocalyptic Westerns
- Steers, Queers and Pioneers: Barbara Stanwyck’s 1950s Westerns, Part 1: Anthony Mann’s The Furies
- Steers, Queers and Pioneers: Barbara Stanwyck’s 1950s Westerns: Part 2: Post-The Furies
- Love, Friendship, Death, Grief, and Absurdity: Silent Souls, directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko
Traditions, old and new, reveal and obscure human impulses
- Revisiting Stella Dallas from a cognitive theory of film perspective
- From Saviors to Angels of Death: Apocalyptic Westerns
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Westerns: Old and Older
- Year of the Gun: 1950 and the Rebirth of the Western
- Tim Holt and the B Western
- The Final Showdown: 7 Men From Now (1956)
- The Great Silence: Guns, Morality and Death
- Heroism in Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate
If all stories are about conflict, of what value are knowledge, love, and peace?
- Year of the Gun: 1950 and the Rebirth of the Western
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Women, Cinema, History
- Cinematic Representations of Anna Walentynowicz: Documentary, Fiction, Feminism, and the Polish Solidarity Movement
- Representations of Women and Veiling with the Advent of Cinema in the Middle East
- Perseus vs. Medusa = Defensive Masquerade
- On African-American Women in Film, in Eve’s Bayou, For Colored Girls, The Help, and Love & Basketball
How many films assume and respect the independence, intelligence and integrity of African-Americans?
- The Girl Rebel, the Glamorous Woman: Ava DuVernay’s film of a woman’s independence, love, loss, and memory, I Will Follow
Everyone makes mistakes, but few are capable of greatness
- Cinematic Representations of Anna Walentynowicz: Documentary, Fiction, Feminism, and the Polish Solidarity Movement
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Scenarios USA: Cinema & Education
- Scenarios USA: A Snapshot
- An Insider’s View of Scenarios USA
An Interview with Rob York
- Islam Unknown: Interviews with Muslim Intellectuals on Film
Interpreting History, Spirituality, and Conflict
- The Marxist and The Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico By Larry Ceplair
- Unacceptable Truth and Useful Lies: Monsieur Lazhar, a French language film about childhood, death, grief, and mentoring
Is lying ever a moral option?
- Scenarios USA: A Snapshot
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Alexander Sokurov: Early Masterworks
- Sokurov: An Eye on His Early Masterworks
Cinema Guild Release
- Three Films by Sokurov and Their Literary Progenitors
Cinema Guild Box Set
- RIP: Vadim Yusov, Tarkovsky and the Cinematographer
- Perspective on a Festival: the 19th Bradford International Film Festival, 2013
- A “window” on the early silent film work of Allan Dwan
The 27th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato
- Sokurov: An Eye on His Early Masterworks
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Book Review Issue
- The Place of the Screenplay in Academia
Review of two recent books on the screenplay
- Darryl vs. Spyros: Twentieth Century-Fox: The Zanuck-Skouras Years
- Issues in Post-War American Cinema: Lesbianism, National Identity, Genre and Gender
Double Book Review, Robert J Corber and Christine Gledhill
- Celluloid Vampires Book Review: No Fang Left Unturned
A Book By Stacey Abbott
- Monsters, Mad Scientists and Cultural Contexts of Horror
Book Review of Grixti and Tudor
- On Virtue, Friendship, and Political Participation in the film The Long Walk Home and in the book Contemporary Black American Cinema
Film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek
- Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985
A Book Review
- An Interview with Jill C. Nelson: Author of Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985
- Comrades, Comes the Revolution: David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago and Warren Beatty’s Reds
“Men love wars. Always have.”
- Shotgun Stories, Taking Shelter, Mud: Jeff Nichols’s Trilogy on the Transition of Fathers and Sons in the Postmodern Era
- The Place of the Screenplay in Academia
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Fantasia 2012
- Fantasia 2012: The Best of the International Selection
- David Bordwell Interview
Bordwell at Fantasia 2012
- The Tall Man as Sociological Horror
- White: Melody of the Curse
The Horrors of K-Pop
- Book Review of Tom Mes’ Re-Agitator: A Decade of Writing on Takashi Miike
Author's Second book on Japan's Highly Idiosyncratic Director
- Fantasia 2012: The Best of the International Selection
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Crime-Action Issue
- Blockbuster Ideology: Steven Seagal and the Legacy of Action Cinema – Part 1
- Blockbuster Ideology: Steven Seagal and the Legacy of Action Cinema – Part 2
- The Art Of Dying: Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
- I Knew You Before I Ever Saw You: In a Lonely Place (1950), Part 1
- Hollywood Can Be a ‘Lonely Place’: In a Lonely Place (1950) Part 2
- Blockbuster Ideology: Steven Seagal and the Legacy of Action Cinema – Part 1
