FROM THE EDITOR
She Can Do It
B. Ruby Rich
FEATURES
From Lampedusa to the California Desert: Gianfranco Rosi’s Scenes of Living and Dying
Emma Wilson
Bong’s Song
Claudia Gorbman
Toward a Cinema of Slow Violence
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
The Hundred-Year-Old Question: Can American Cinema Be Saved?
James Schamus
INTERVIEWS
Black-ish: Kenya Barris on Representing Blackness in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Christine Acham
Abstraction Through Representation: Interview with Kevin Jerome Everson
Megan Ratner
COLUMNS
The Vulnerable Spectator | The Jingle Jangle of History
Amelie Hastie
Screenings | Behaving Badly: Television’s Women in Prison
Paul Julian Smith
Elsewhere | The Quiet Radicalism of Columbus
Bilal Qureshi
FESTIVAL REPORTS
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival: Blending Tradition with Modernity
Sally Berger
PAGE VIEWS
“Shocking the Past into Attention,” A Conversation on Archiveology with Catherine Russell
Nicholas Baer
BOOK REVIEWS
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano
Carrie Rickey
Female Trouble: A Queer Film Classic by Chris Holmlund
Elisa Padilla
Slow Writing: Thom Andersen on Cinema, edited by Mark Webber
Aaron Cutler
Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary by Pooja Rangan
Almudena Escobar Lopez
Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s by Elena Gorfinkel
>Marc Francis
Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture by Rob King
Peter Labuza
Header Image: Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea, Gianfranco Rosi, 2016). Photo courtesy of Kino Lorber
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