Issues

Summer 2015: Volume 68, Number 4

From the Editor
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: What’s at Stake
B. Ruby Rich

Features
Black Media Matters: Remembering The Bombing Of Osage Avenue
Karen Beckman

China Unraveled: Violence, Sin, and Art in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch Of Sin
Jiwei Xiao

Mickey Horror: Escape From Tomorrow and the Gothic Attack On Disney
Aviva Briefel

Attention Duras
William Caroline

Maximum Emotions, Minimum Words: Interview With Eugène Green
Megan Ratner

Columns
Screenings: Crónica De Castas (Chronicle Of Castes) and Sangre Bárbara (Barbarous Blood)
Paul Julian Smith

The Vulnerable Spectator: On The Contagion of Vulnerability
Amelie Hastie

Festival Reports
Marking Time: The Long Form Documentary at Idfa 2014
Deirdre Boyle

Sundance 2015, The Crystal Ball
B. Ruby Rich

In Memoriam
Remembering Resnais: An Encounter on the First Anniversary (Approximately) of His Death
Paul Thomas

Page Views
Bernie Cook Reflects on Katrina Media at the Ten-Year Mark in Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina
Regina Longo

Book Reviews
Dana Polan
Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics by Julie A. Turnock

Carrie Rickey
Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter by Richard Barrios

Tanya Goldman
Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military by Alice Lovejoy

Greg Youmans
L.A. Plays Itself / Boys in the Sand (Queer Film Classics series) by Cindy Patton

Vito Adriaensens
Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood by Kaveh Askari

Masha Shpolberg
Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance by Lea Jacobs