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Fall 2018: Volume 72, Number 1
FROM THE EDITOR A Deer in the Headlights B. Ruby Rich FEATURES The Handmaid's Tale as Ustopian Allegory: "Stars and Stripes Forever, Baby" Heather Hendershot The Time is Now: Pressure, Guerrilla, and the (Re)Invention of Black British Cinema and History James S. Williams Decolonizing Documentary On-Screen and Off: Sensory Ethnography and the Aesthetics of Accountability Faye Ginsburg INTERVIEWS The Landscape of Futurelessness: An Interview with Brett Story Scott MacDonald COLUMNS The Vulnerable Spectator |"It was the Seventies" Amelie Hastie Screenings...
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Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution: A Conversation with Nadia Yaqub
The terrain of history is perhaps nowhere more fraught than in the Israeli/Palestinian context, a highly charged force field of ethno-religious identities, political ideologies, and conflicting territorial claims. Overlaid with collective memories and symbolic meanings, the landscape has borne witness to war and imperial conquest, shifting regimes and borders, perpetual occupation and injustice, and overlapping yet seemingly irreconcilable narratives of past experience. Take 1948:...
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The Handmaid’s Tale as Ustopian Allegory: “Stars and Stripes Forever, Baby”
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017¬–) resonates strongly as an allegorical, science-fictional response to the Trump administration. The show refuses to accept the “new normal” as normal and acknowledges its audience’s simultaneous feelings of resistance and exhaustion. The program ultimately argues that, while hope alone is not enough to sustain anyone through the Trump years, it is the right place to start. Above all,...
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A Deer in the Headlights
First things first: this issue marks the arrival of Rebecca Prime as Associate Editor of Film Quarterly. Rebecca first published a book review in FQ back in 2006 and also had one in the last issue, with articles in other journals in the interim. Rebecca is a film historian, editor of Cinematic Homecomings: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2014), and author of...
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Wakanda Forever: The Pleasures, The Politics, and The Problems
Racquel Gates and Kristen J. Warner are colleagues and soul twins who enjoy applying their expertise in race and media to popular culture debates. One such conversation arose —inevitably—around the release of Marvel’s Black Panther directed by Ryan Coogler.
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FQ Sundance Edition
"FQ" the Film Quarterly podcast presents SUNDANCE EDITION 2018.
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Plastic Representation
To many men and women of color, as well as many white women, meaningful diversity occurs when the actual presence of different-looking bodies appear on screen. For them, this diversity serves as an indicator of progress as well as an aspirational frame for younger generations who are told that the visual signifiers they can identify with carry a great amount of symbolic weight. As...
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An Introduction
This special dossier for Film Quarterly comprises a selection of essays that share the central idea that the work ahead for scholars in the current moment must be to appreciate what has been an ever-increasing complication of the idea of black film and media over the last ten years. This dossier considers significant trends, film and media objects, and clusters of work related to...
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Virtual Reality in Real Time
Film Quarterly has been interested for some time in establishing a critical approach to works made in Virtual Reality (VR). Homay King had begun conducting interviews with Shari Frilot to that same end. FQ then invited them to make that dialogue public with a conversation on stage at UC Santa Cruz on the implications of the VR platform to be shared with FQ readers....
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