Issue Archive
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Acting for the Big Screen
- The Progress (and Problem) of an American Girl: Jennifer Lopez in Selena, Out of Sight, The Cell, Maid in Manhattan, and El Cantante
- Shirley Knight and the Performance of Gendered Race in Dutchman
- A Portrait of an Artist as a Handsome, Smart, Tough Black Dude: Laurence Fishburne in School Daze, Bad Company, Othello, The Matrix, Armored and other films
It is the wholeness of African-American men that is most feared
- Marlon Brando as Thinker and Actor in Julius Caesar, The Young Lions, One-Eyed Jacks, Last Tango in Paris, and A Dry White Season
- When the Final Girl is Not a Girl: Reconsidering the Gender Binary in the Slasher Film
- The Progress (and Problem) of an American Girl: Jennifer Lopez in Selena, Out of Sight, The Cell, Maid in Manhattan, and El Cantante
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The Vancouver Papers
- Mediating Collaborations: Arla Saare, the CBUT Film Unit, and the Emergence of the West Coast School
- A Rite of Spring: Notes on Allan King’s The Pemberton Valley
- Jack Darcus: The Offscreen Interview
- Sexcula Rises
Reviewing Vancouver's Lost Horror Porn
- Traces of Canuxploitation: Zale Dalen Talks about Skip Tracer
- Contextualizing Questions of Identity and Space in Mina Shum’s Double Happiness
- Reflexive Hybrid Realism in Da Vinci’s Inquest: Surveillance Culture and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
- Reflexive Hybrid Realism in Da Vinci’s Inquest, Part II: “Pretend You Didn’t See Me”
- No Fun City
Melissa James and Kate Kroll Reveal Vancouver's Choke-hold on Local Arts Culture
- The Late Vancouver Films of Larry Kent: The Hamster Cage and Exley
- Mediating Collaborations: Arla Saare, the CBUT Film Unit, and the Emergence of the West Coast School
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From Action to Crime
- Action Aesthetics: Realism and Martial Arts Cinema, Part 1
Theoretical Considerations
- Action Aesthetics: Realism and Martial Arts Cinema, Part 2
Martial Suture – The Films of Steven Seagal
- A Character Study of Alienation and Loneliness: Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961)
- The Amorality of Business: Killing Them Softly and Inside Job
Can anything that does not have the pursuit of good at its root be truly ethical?
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Everything Is Politics
- Action Aesthetics: Realism and Martial Arts Cinema, Part 1
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Focus on Iran Past and Present
- Pictura Poesis: The interplay of poetry, image and ethnography in Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black
- Human Sonata; a short glimpse into life and times of Dariush Mehrjui
- Dariush Mehrjui: A Partial Annotated Filmography
- The Crime That Has To Be Tried On The Street
The Films of Masoud Kimiai
- Certified Copy, or “Mirroring Life, Mirroring Art”
- Interview with Fatemeh Motamed Aria on her acting in Nabat
- Pictura Poesis: The interplay of poetry, image and ethnography in Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black
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Gender and Horror Part 2
- ‘Mad Women’ in Robert Altman’s 3 Women and Images
- Horrifying Whiteness: Slasher Conduct, Masculinity, and the Cultural Politics of Halloween
- Twisting Conventions: A Feminist Indigenous Perspective on the Horror Genre
- This Essay Was Not Built On an Ancient Indian Burial Ground
Horror Aesthetics within Indigenous cinema as pushback against colonial violence
- This Video Essay Was Not Built on an Ancient Burial Ground
- When Women Kill: Recent North American Horror Films
- ‘Mad Women’ in Robert Altman’s 3 Women and Images
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Issues of Gender in the Horror Genre, Part 1
- Pictures of Anxiety
Girlhood and the Modern American Horror Film
- Bad Seeds
Rhoda, Patty and Me, an Artist's Page
- Horror Grrrls
Feminist Horror Filmmakers and Agency
- Feminist Spaces in Horrific Places
Teaching Gender and Horror Cinema*
- Film, Fear and the Female
An Empirical Study of the Female Horror Fan
- Race, Sexuality, and Procreation in H.P. Lovecraft Film Adaptations
Fish People in the Family Tree
- Nunsploitation: The Forgotten Cycle
- Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser
"Demons to some, angels to others"
- Control of the Knife: Transgressing Gender Stereotypes in Bustillo and Maury’s Inside
- Fille Finale: The Final Girl in New French Extremity
- The Final Girl Down Under
Ozploitation Variations on American Horror Archetypes
- Pictures of Anxiety
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Coverage of Fantasia 2013
- Thanatomorphose and Halley: Sex, Death, and the Emptiness of Being
Decaying at Fantasia 2013
- A Lesson of the Evil at Fantasia 2013
Takashi Miike takes us back to school
- An Interview with Andrzej Zulawski and Daniel Bird
Fantasia 2013
- An Interview with Bobcat Goldthwait: From Clowns to Bigfoots
- Narcisa Hirsh and Argentine Experimental Film
An Interview with Narcisa Hirsh
- Thanatomorphose and Halley: Sex, Death, and the Emptiness of Being
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Television Special
- TV Horror: Covering the Televisual Horror Landscape
- TV Vampires: From Barnabas Collins to Bill Compton
- Contextual Analysis of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Robert Enrico vs. Rod Serling
- Revolution & Sex: The Evolution of TV
- Robert Towne’s Television Years
From The Lloyd Bridges Show to The Outer Limits
- TV Horror: Covering the Televisual Horror Landscape
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Memory, Cinema and Time
- Personal/Memory Time: Past and Present Merging on the Screen (Wild Strawberries, Spider, Solaris, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- The Disappearance (1977, Stuart Cooper): Melancholy and Murder
A Canadian Nugget From the 1970s from Twilight Time
- Out of Time: The Costumes of Bad Timing (1980)
- Chronos Pulls the Strings: Roaming thoughts On Koji Yamamura’s Muybridge’s Strings (2011)
- “Japan Speaks Out!” at the 27th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato at Bologna, Italy, 29 June–6 July, 2013
- Personal/Memory Time: Past and Present Merging on the Screen (Wild Strawberries, Spider, Solaris, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
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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
