FROM THE EDITOR
Film [sic]
B. Ruby Rich

SPECIAL DOSSIER ON THE ACT OF KILLING
Introduction
B. Ruby Rich

The Act Of Killing and The Dilemmas Of History
Brad Simpson

Referred Pain: The Act Of Killing and the Production of a Crime Scene
Janet Walker

We Love Impunity: The Case of The Act Of Killing
Nick Fraser

Irony, Cruelty, Evil (and A Wink) in The Act Of Killing
Bill Nichols

Born Free? Repetition and Fantasy in The Act Of Killing
Homay King

“It’s All About Finding The Right Excuse” in Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act Of Killing
Warren Crichlow

Tracing Frictions in The Act Of Killing
Intan Paramaditha

The Fever Dream Of Documentary: A Conversation with Joshua Oppenheimer
Irene Lusztig

COLUMNS
Screenings
Letter from Mexico City
Paul Julian Smith

The Vulnerable Spectator
Vagaries of Memory and Verities of Form
Amelie Haste

FEATURES
How Do We Look? An Interview with Fatimah Tobing Rony
Pooja Rangan

FESTIVALS AND CONFERENCES
Morelia Film Festival: Focus On The Personal Reimagines a Fraught Social Contract
Paulina Suárez-Hesketh

Ominous Faultlines in a World Gone Wrong: Courmayeur Noir in Festival
Randy Malamud

Age Appropriate? Sundance’s Women Filmmakers Come Next
Patricia White

Sundance at Thirty
B. Ruby Rich

BOOK REVIEWS
Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins by Noah Isenberg
David Sterritt

An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema by James Chandler
Ricky D’Ambrose

The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema by Nick Davis Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire by Amy Villarejo
Manuel Betancourt

Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film by Jennifer Lynn Peterson
Neta Alexander

Fosse by Sam Wasson
Ed Sikov

The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization by James Tweetie
Raymond Watkins

American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn by Scott MacDonald
Kevin Sherman

Spike Lee’s America by David Sterritt
Zeba Blay