From the Editor
IN SEARCH OF OPTIMISM
B. Ruby Rich
Features
SERIAL SURVEILLANCE: NARRATIVE, TELEVISION, AND THE END OF THE WORLD
Catherine Zimmer
WOLF WARRIOR 2: IMAGINING THE CHINESE CENTURY
Chris Berry
Interviews
STRUCTURAL LAUGHTER AND CONSTRUCTED INTIMACIES: THE SELF-REFLEXIVITY OF CHERYL DUNYE
Terri Francis
THE HOUSE THAT AGNÈS BUILT
Joan Dupont
Columns
Elsewhere | IN LOVE AND WAR: THE DUPLICITOUS WOMEN OF NEW WAR CINEMA
Bilal Qureshi
On Platforms | THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU . . . OR: MAKING AMERICA ANXIOUS AGAIN
Caetlin Benson-Allott
Screenings | RUN COYOTE RUN: A MEXICAN BORDER COMEDY FOR THE AGE OF TRUMP
Paul Julian Smith
The Vulnerable Spectator | AGAINST NOSTALGIA
Amelie Hastie
Festival Reports
A REPORT ON THE FESTIVAL AND ITS GUESTS: KARLOVY VARY REMEMBERS THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Moritz Pfeifer
FILM FESTIVAL, FALL LAUNCH, 2018: THE TIFF EDITION
B. Ruby Rich
Page Views
The Liberal Sexual Subject: A Conversation with Damon R. Young
Nicholas Baer
Book Reviews
Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance by Christina Baker
Carrie Rickey
Hitler and Film: The Führer’s Hidden Passion by Bill Niven
Thomas Doherty
Double Visions, Double Fictions: The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature by Baryon Tensor Posadas
Caitlin Casiello
Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? by Jane Gaines
Luci Marzola
Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Hillary Weston
Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom, and Female Subjectivity edited by Irene González-López and Michael Smith
Linda Ehrlich
Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Susan Murray
Catherine Clepper