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  • Winter 2020: Volume 74, Number 2

    by Film Quarterly

    Dossier on the New Brazilian Cinema: Aesthetics and Emergencies from Lula to Dilma to Bolsonarismo Dawn Hudson's Documentaries and Civil Rights History Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You Latin American's Women's Pictures Page Views: the Ethics of Appropriation

    December 10, 2020
    Issues
  • The New Aesthetics of Discovery and Emergency in the New Brazilian Cinema

    by Film Quarterly

    B Ruby Rich and João Luiz Vieira survey recent trends in contemporary Brazilian cinema.

    December 10, 2020
    Dossier
  • Zoom Out: The Melancholic Screens of 2020

    by Film Quarterly

    Over the first months of the pandemic, the internet filled with streaming playlists, Zoom masterpieces, and classic revivals. The litany of canceled or virtual film festivals had become the new normal, with everything from SXSW to Cannes to Telluride called off or moved entirely online, and then evolving into hybrids or customized drive-ins.

    December 10, 2020
    Editorials
  • Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: A Conversation with Jaimie Baron

    by Film Quarterly

    Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná interviews Jaimie Baron about her new book, Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era.

    December 10, 2020
    Page Views
  • Fall 2020: Volume 74, Number 1

    by Film Quarterly

    Asian Americans, the Series Interview: Renee Tajima-Peña Special Focus: Fraud and Documentary Trigonometry and Sex Education Virtual Doc Market Transitions The Wandering Earth and Nova Zeng Jinyan with Ai Xiaoming Page Views: Sporting Blackness

    September 24, 2020
    Issues
  • From the Archives: Albert Johnson

    by Film Quarterly

    Black film scholar, critic, and curator, Albert Johnson is hardly a household name--but he should be. In 1965, at the height of the civil rights era, Johnson offered this dissection of the representation of African-Americans in Hollywood cinema of the time.

    July 17, 2020
    From the Archives
  • Thinking about Watchmen: A Roundtable

    by Film Quarterly

    Michael Boyce Gillespie leads a roundtable with scholars Jonathan W. Gray, Rebecca A. Wanzo, and Kristen Warner to discuss issues of medium, genre, fandom, and African American history in the highly regarded HBO series Watchmen. Characterizing the HBO series as a disobedient adaptation that modifies, extends, and redirects the world making of its source material, the famed twelve-issue comic-book series of the same name,...

    June 26, 2020
    The Conversation
  • From the Archives: The Time is Now

    by Film Quarterly

    In February 1968, at the West Indian Students’ Centre in London, James Baldwin delivered a now-famous lecture on black experience and identity in Britain and America. Boldly rejecting simplistic notions of race and color by elucidating the history of racial mixing in the United States and the colonies, he also led a discussion with civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory on the role...

    June 22, 2020
    From the Archives
  • Webinar: Asian American Film @ 50 (Part 2)

    by Film Quarterly

    On June 5th, Brian Hu and FQ editor B. Ruby Rich moderated a virtual roundtable on Asian American filmmaking in New York during the 1980s and 1990s. With FQ special dossier contributors Roddy Bogawa, Shu Lea Cheang, Daryl Chin, Vince Schleitwiler, and Rea Tajiri.

    June 8, 2020
    Videos
  • Webinar: Asian American Film @ 50

    by Film Quarterly

    On May 22, Brian Hu and FQ’s editor B. Ruby Rich moderated a virtual conversation celebrating fifty years of Asian American film. With FQ special dossier contributors Lan Duong, Viola Lasmana, Josslyn Luckett, Melissa Phruksachart, and Oliver Wang.

    May 27, 2020
    Videos

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December 22, 2020

Liberation, Love, and Time Travel

Christina N. Baker on the rare phenomenon of Black characters finding love on screen.

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December 16, 2020

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Jaimie Baron

Film Quarterly’s new webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media studies publications continued on December 14th,...

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December 10, 2020

Winter 2020: Volume 74, Number 2

Dossier on the New Brazilian Cinema: Aesthetics and Emergencies from Lula to Dilma to Bolsonarismo Dawn Hudson's Documentaries and Civil...

by Film Quarterly
December 10, 2020

The New Aesthetics of Discovery and Emergency in the New Brazilian Cinema

B Ruby Rich and João Luiz Vieira survey recent trends in contemporary Brazilian cinema.

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Winter 2020: Volume 74, Number 2

Published by Film Quarterly

Dossier on the New Brazilian Cinema: Aesthetics and Emergencies from Lula to Dilma to Bolsonarismo Dawn Hudson's Documentaries and Civil Rights History Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You Latin American's Women's Pictures Page...

December 10, 2020
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Fall 2020: Volume 74, Number 1

Published by Film Quarterly

Asian Americans, the Series Interview: Renee Tajima-Peña Special Focus: Fraud and Documentary Trigonometry and Sex Education Virtual Doc Market Transitions The Wandering Earth and Nova Zeng Jinyan with Ai Xiaoming ...

September 24, 2020
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Summer 2020: Volume 73, Number 4

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Isaac Julien's Lessons on the Hour Reinventing the Archive: Susana de Sousa Dias Watchmen: The Conversation El Mar La Mar, Coco, 1917 Patricio Guzman's Autobiographical Turn Golden Age of Parisian Cinemas

June 26, 2020
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Spring 2020: Volume 73, Number 3

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Special Dossier: Asian American Film at Fifty Joanna Hogg's Spatial Emotions Interview: Marina Razbezhkina Mar del Plata Film Festival Romance in End of the Century Indigeneity in Latin America Films Reading Musicals, Reviving Lino Brocka

February 27, 2020
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Winter 2019: Volume 73, Number 2

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Julia Reichert's Brilliant Career Marceline Loriden-Ivens: A Posthumous Interview Decoding Russian Doll Festivals: FESPACO at Fifty, Bologna, Toronto Series: Decolonizing Cinema & New Arab Women's Films Columns: Mexico in the '80s, Rural Race Genres...

December 9, 2019
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Fall 2019: Volume 73, Number 1

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Dirty Data: The Cleaners Monos in Colombia Miserabilism in Ray & Liz Can You Ever Forgive Me? Ecology in Game of Thrones Interview: Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera on The Infiltrators Festivals: Cannes, Malaga

September 10, 2019
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Summer 2019: Volume 72, Number 4

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Roma, Roma, Roma Claire Denis at her Most Tender Julie Dash's Televisual Legacy Malinche Reinvented Free Solo, Transit, Never Look Away Festivals: Berlinale and Sundance Reading Mira Nair

June 7, 2019
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Spring 2019: Volume 72, Number 3

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Manifesto! Eleven Calls to Action Interview: Maria Augusta Ramos Pawlikowski's Cold War Getting Real Conference China's Festival Culture Radical Catalan Cinema The House of Flowers Seventies Feminism Revisited Recasting M.I.A.'s Image

February 27, 2019
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Winter 2018: Volume 72, Number 2

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The Surveillance Apocalypse Reclaiming Liu Na'ou The Wolf Warrior 2 Phenomenon Interviews: Agnes Varda and Cheryl Dunye Raazi: Women at War Horror Renaissance Run Coyote Run History Lessons from the Seventies Festivals: Karlovy Vary and Toronto

December 7, 2018
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Fall 2018: Volume 72, Number 1

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Handmaid's Political Terror Documentary & Accountability Pressure and Guerrilla: British Black Film Legacies RIP Nelson Pereira Dos Santos Interview: Brett Story Palestinian Revolutionary Cinema Festivals: Orphans, Cinéma du réel

September 14, 2018
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Film Quarterly offers serious film lovers in-depth articles, reviews, and interviews that examine all aspects of film history, film theory, and the impact of film, video, and television on culture and society.