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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 Rights History Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You Latin American's Women's Pictures Page Views: the Ethics of Appropriation
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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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Zoom Out: The Melancholic Screens of 2020
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.
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Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: A Conversation with Jaimie Baron
Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná interviews Jaimie Baron about her new book, Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era.
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Fall 2020: Volume 74, Number 1
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
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From the Archives: Albert Johnson
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.
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Thinking about Watchmen: A Roundtable
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,...
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From the Archives: The Time is Now
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...
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Webinar: Asian American Film @ 50 (Part 2)
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.
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Webinar: Asian American Film @ 50
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.