Film Quarterly

01/08/2024

An interesting shipment of vintage Film Quarterly issues has arrived at FQ HQ! 10 issues published from 1973 to 1975. Looking forward to strolling through these archives...

26/07/2024

New FQ Webinar on Interactive Cinema posted!

On July 18th, Film Quarterly Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) joined Marina Hassapopoulou (New York University) for a conversation about her new book Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024).

In this exciting new work of digital media scholarship, Hassapopoulou expands the history and theory of cinema through the inclusion of its interactive dimensions. This webinar, moderated by outgoing Film Quarterly editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime, is now available on FQ’s YouTube Channel (https://youtu.be/93s6zqmVY9M).

Guaraná’s print interview with Hassapopoulou appears in FQ’s Summer 2024 issue (Volume 77, Number 4). It is available online at www.filmquarterly.org together with a link to the introduction of Interactive Cinema, courtesy of the University of Minnesota Press.

View the Webinar: https://filmquarterly.org/2024/07/26/interactive-cinema-webinar-a-conversation-with-bruno-guarana-and-marina-hassapopoulou/

On July 18th, Film Quarterly Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) joined Marina Hassapopoulou (New York University) for a conversation about her new book Interactive Cinema: The Ambi…

19/07/2024

Thanks to everyone who joined FQ's webinar yesterday with Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) and Marina Hassapopoulou (New York University) about her new book Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024).

A recording of this webinar will be posted on FQ's YouTube Channel.

Our June 12th event, Dis-Orienting Media: The Creative Vision of Arab American Cultural Production, with FQ columnist and contributing editor Ramzi Fawaz (University of Wisconsin), scholar, writer, and journalist Maytha Alhassen (co-executive producer, Ramy), scholar and performer Thomas S. Dolan (ACLS Fellow, Emory University), and scholar, media maker, and archivist William Youmans (George Washington University), is available to view in full online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz3shhYe4ms

17/07/2024

Tomorrow (Thursday) July 18th 12 noon ET: Do not miss FQ's webinar on Marina Hassapopoulou's book, Interactive Cinema (University of Minnesota Press), with the author in conversation with FQ Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná, introduced by outgoing FQ editor Rebecca Prime!

More info + registration details below

Join Film Quarterly for "Page Views Live," its original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media studies publications. The series continues this summer with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) and Marina Hassapopoulou (New York University) a...

16/07/2024

FQ joins University of California Press in celebrating new book titles in film studies!

Yiman Wang's To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World, is now free to read in full via open access.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, ...

09/07/2024

Browse FQ's new submissions system and check out the writers' guidelines by following the link, below!

FQ welcomes both established scholars and fresh voices to submit via its Scholastica portal.

The journal's longstanding mission is to bring timely critical approaches to criticism and analyses of visual culture.

Every submission should try to answer the questions “Why this?” and “Why now?"

Film Quarterly is one of the most authoritative English-language academic film and cinema studies journals in the US and abroad.

25/06/2024

“A gender-bending film (streaming on Hulu) that wields whiteface to interrogate the appropriation of Black culture into affluent, gendered white spaces, the film, upon initial release, was critically reviled.”

The Wayans brothers’ subversive comedy is smarter than you remember.

24/06/2024

A brief history of recorded sound and film, and a look at the processes and technology involved in digital sound restoration at the BFI National Archive.

21/06/2024

💔One of the greats. RIP

Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor who became a countercultural icon with such films as “The Dirty Dozen,” “MASH,” “Klute” and “Don’t Look Now,” has died. He was 88. https://bit.ly/4cvROQE

21/06/2024

Aimée, who has died aged 92, combined sensuousness and vulnerability in celebrated films by Jacques Demy, Federico Fellini and in the Palme d'Or winner A Man and a Woman.

20/06/2024

"[Marina Hassapopoulou's] guiding impulse is to disrupt binary understandings of interactive cinema as either utopian or dystopian, liberating or controlling, pedagogical or manipulative, democratizing or tyrannical."

Unlocked from FQ's summer issue: Bruno Guaraná in conversation with Hassapopoulou on her new book Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation. Read it now:

https://filmquarterly.org/2024/05/28/interactive-cinema-a-conversation-with-marina-hassapopoulou/

12/06/2024

ICYMI: Dis-Orienting Media: The Creative Vision of Arab American Cultural Production, our latest FQ webinar, will take place TODAY at 1pm. It's not too late to sign up for the link, just click here: https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1H_w4dY2R5KGd6ZKSr4dEQ?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3LcE4lkNlief3DVrATYxSenF17KLvc-Xznm6uwlDGfS0KDRckNzMZJI5Y_aem_AdmtwGSNMd69jaC6sG43EAQ8lo6z-uAbWQtWwVtQgi39CASK1trGo1VnCEpPyiATjdISVezyctqFkNcS4Spx_HWm #/registration

10/06/2024

“Unlike the countless film and televisual zombie stories I’ve devoured over the years, The Last of Us transformed me from a terrified, but avid, witness of mankind’s cataclysmic unraveling to a determined agent, giving me the visceral feeling of taking action (at least virtually) under unbearable conditions”

Read Ramzi Fawaz on the video game sensation in Film Quarterly’s Summer issue — article
unlocked in full! https://filmquarterly.org/2024/05/28/youre-my-people-accounting-for-the-us-in-the-last-of-us/

06/06/2024

New Yorkers, MoMA is showing Isaac Julien's Lessons of the Hour through the end of the summer. Check it out and then read Kass Banning and Warren Crichlow's article, now un-paywalled on FQ: https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/73/4/11/110619/A-Grand-Panorama-Isaac-Julien-Frederick-Douglass

04/06/2024

Unlocked from the new summer issue of Film Quarterly is Emma Wilson's career-spanning feature on Alice Rohrwacher. Read it now🧐

https://filmquarterly.org/2024/05/28/alice-rohrwachers-cinema-of-poetry/

03/06/2024

On June 12th, 1pm EST, join Film Quarterly for a webinar exploring the cultural histories, formal innovations, and political interventions of Arab media in the US.

RSVP at this link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1H_w4dY2R5KGd6ZKSr4dEQ #/registration

31/05/2024

FQ contributing editor James Williams has just published a new BFI film classics book, on Ousmane Sembène's XALA.

James is guest editing a special focus on XALA that will appear in the Fall issue of FQ

Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and…

29/05/2024

Film Quarterly's Summer issue is now out! With features on Alice Rohrwacher, Edward Yang, MovieTok, BeReal, and more!

The Right to Sit Still, Rohrwacher’s Cinema of Poetry, BeReal and the Posttruth Backlash, Edward Yang’s Restored Perspective, Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, Page Views: Int…

28/05/2024

From FQ's Fall 2022 issue, read Debashree Mukherjee on A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING, the debut feature by Payal Kapadia, whose ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT just won the Grand Prix at Cannes

https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/76/1/11/192966/A-Night-of-Knowing-NothingCinema-Love-and

28/05/2024

One of FQ's favorite Cannes competition titles🫶

In her Grand Prix-winning second feature, Indian director Payal Kapadia presents a graceful drama about three nurses navigating life in Mumbai.

27/05/2024

Always essential reading

Introduction the editors May 2024 Editorial Welcome, dear readers, to Issue 109 of the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. True to our spirit, the contributions herein are wide-ranging, sharp and timely, starting with a 16-text dossier (guest-edit...

27/05/2024

"Ernie Gehr dislikes labels. Whether it's being called a “structuralist,” a “filmmaker,” or even an “artist,” he would simply prefer to avoid all of that. “It’s too precious,” he tells me with characteristic humility on the eve of his historic six-part retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in March."

Check out this great MUBI interview with the veteran experimentalist...

The great tinkerer of the avant-garde talks about over fifty years of indulging his “hobby.”

20/05/2024

An interview with Godard collaborator Fabrice Aragno on finishing the auteur’s final film, which just premiered at Cannes

The cinematic legend died the way he lived – in a blaze of inscrutable, impossible film-making. We meet the team who helped shoot the final scene of his swansong just before his death by assisted su***de

17/05/2024

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: More than 40 years in the making, Francis Ford Coppola's epic is as personal and egoless as you could ever hope to expect from an $120 million self-portrait that doubles as a fable about the fall of Ancient Rome.

Read our review: https://trib.al/PkoK7Tx

17/05/2024

American filmmaker Lois Weber was a pioneer, emerging as one of the only female directors while experimenting with filming techniques and bold themes.

15/05/2024

“What do we, as feminists, need right now—from cinema, from archives, from our communities? How can filmmaking, film festivals, and social movements of the past inspire or befuddle us today? And what is at stake in selecting and presenting archival works by women to create new forms of community...