FROM THE EDITOR
The Seen and The Unseen
B. Ruby Rich
FEATURES
Exile, Within and Without: New Work In Two Modes From Rithy Panh
Deirdre Boyle
Emergency Cinema and the Dignified
Image: Cell Phone Activism and Filmmaking in Syria
Chad Elias
Off the Record: Reenactment and Intimacy in Casting JonBenet
Marc Francis and Linnéa Hussein
Rabbit In and Out of the Moon:
A Retrospective of Emiko Omori
Ling Zhang
SPECIAL FOCUS ON VR
Virtual Reality in Real Time: A Conversation
Shari Frilot and Homay King
COLUMNS
Elsewhere: The Original Brexit:
Rediscovering The Jewel in the Crown
Bilal Qureshi
The Vulnerable Spectator: The Ministry of Information:
Parsing the Facts of Fiction
Amelie Hastie
Screenings: Of Stars and Solitude:
Two Mexican Documentaries
Paul Julian Smith
FESTIVAL REPORTS
Orphans 2017/ Orphelins de Paris
Brian Meacham
Polarities and Pyrotechnics: True/False Festival 2017
Lauren Du Graf
FULL FRAME 2017: Twentieth Anniversary Retrospective
Bernie Cook
BLU-RAY/DVD REVIEWS
John Waters: Multiple Maniacs Relaunch
Chris Holmlund
PAGE VIEWS
BOOK REVIEWS
Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds by Leo Braudy
Carrie Rickey
Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary by Jennifer Malkowski
Kelsey Cummings
The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century by Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone, and Wang Chi
Rahul Mukherjee
Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist by Kevin Brianton
Jim Hemphill
The Boys in the Band: Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics
edited by Matt Bell
Manuel Betancourt
Words on Screen by Michel Chion
Pooja Rangan
Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture by Simone Natale
Matthew Solomon
Politicking and Emergent Media: US Presidential Elections of the 1890s
by Charles Musser
Joseph Coppola
Header Image: The End of School (Abounaddara, 2016)