• Roma: Silence, Language, and the Ambiguous Power of Affect

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    FQ's new books editor Carla Marcantonio reflects upon her experience serving as Netflix's official translator for Yalitza Aparicio, the Indigenous Mexican woman who plays the housekeeper in director Alfonso Cuarón's Roma. Marcantonio explores themes that emerged over the course of the film's promotional campaign, ranging from the expected (the film's social impact and depiction of a makeshift matriarchy) to those less discussed, such as...

    June 7, 2019
    Dossier

  • The Vulnerable Spectator–An Act of Will, a Testimony of Love: Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma

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    FQ Columnist Amelie Hastie offers a unique and personal meditation on cinema's affective qualities, particularly the sentiment of love. She traces Cuarón's exploration of cinema's fundamental humanism back to Jean Renoir and continues through the Italian Neo-Realists, particularly Vittorio de Sica. She discusses Cuarón's intellectual formation as a student of cinema, and finds a consistent emphasis on women's experiences throughout his films. Introducing Cuarón's...

    June 7, 2019
    Dossier

  • Moving Hollywood: A Conversation with Daniel Steinhart on Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting

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    Paramount was so nervous about the on-location production of Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1956) that dailies filmed in the South of France were flown first to London for processing at the Technicolor lab and then to Los Angeles. After executives had reviewed the footage, a cable was dispatched back to France: Hitchcock's shallow-focus closeups were playing to the weaknesses, rather than the...

    June 7, 2019
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  • Inspiration, Lost and Found

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    Film Quarterly can hopefully, with your help, contribute to the imperative to provoke, build, and revitalize the field of film and media studies beyond the acceptable and parochial, to push it to aim higher and think more creatively. Surely this is a time that demands not retreat, but the imagination to push forward and unsettle old assumptions. Where are the films and television and...

    June 7, 2019
    Editorials

  • Roma: Repatriation vs. Exploitation

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    Sergio de la Mora reviews Roma's reception in Mexico and reflects upon the film's intimate relationship with the nation's political history. Situating Roma with the broader trend in Latin American cinema for films that explore servant-employer relations, he examines how Roma visualizes the ways in which Indigenous domestic and intimate labor has been historically racialized and gendered in Mexico. He discusses the controversy surrounding...

    June 7, 2019
    Dossier

  • Wakanda Forever: The Pleasures, The Politics, and The Problems

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    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.

    March 9, 2018
    Quorum

  • FQ Sundance Edition

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    "FQ" the Film Quarterly podcast presents SUNDANCE EDITION 2018.

    February 1, 2018
    Editorials

  • Plastic Representation

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    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...

    December 4, 2017
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  • An Introduction

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    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...

    December 4, 2017
    Issues

  • Virtual Reality in Real Time

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    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....

    October 2, 2017
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