FROM THE EDITOR

THE SCREENING LIFE, ONCE REMOVED
B. Ruby Rich

FEATURES

REPRESENTATION, RECOGNITION, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A RADICALLY TRANSFORMED FUTURE: THE ASIAN AMERICANS SERIES
Jun Okada

HISTORY BEFORE AND BEHIND THE CAMERA: AN INTERVIEW WITH RENEE TAJIMA-PEÑA
Denise Khor

PAN(DEM)IC! AT THE DISCO: SEX (AND) EDUCATION IN COVID-19-ERA TELEVISION
So Mayer

NO FATHER-AND-SON REUNION: CHINESE SCI-FI IN THE WANDERING EARTH AND NOVA
Chris Berry

DOCUMENTARY FILM, GENDER, AND ACTIVISM IN CHINA: A CONVERSATION WITH AI XIAOMING
Jinyan Zeng
Translated by Chris Berry

SPECIAL FOCUS: POWERS OF THE FALSE

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: DOCUMENTING CONSPIRACY AND CONNING IN THE AGE OF MISINFORMATION
Marc Francis

CONSPIRACY, PARANOIA, #METOO, AND THE REPARATIVE WORK OF SEAN YOUNG’S CATWOMAN
Dolores McElroy

UNDER FYRE: DEBT CULTURE IN THE STREAMING ERA
Nilo Couret

LOVING THE LIE: ELIZABETH HOLMES, THOMAS EDISON, AND ALEX GIBNEY
S. Topiary Landberg

SMOKE AND MIRRORS: THE BIO-CON DOCUMENTARY IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
Marc Francis

COLUMNS

On Platforms | IN PRAISE OF ESCAPISM
Caetlin Benson-Allott

Cineando | THE MASTER’S HOUSE: LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA’S NEW CLASS-WARFARE GENRE
Manuel Betancourt

Elsewhere | THE LAST CIRCUS
Bilal Qureshi

FESTIVAL REPORTS

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT: FILM FESTIVALS, PANDEMIC, AFTERMATH
Rasha Salti

PAGE VIEWS

SPORTING BLACKNESS: A CONVERSATION WITH SAMANTHA SHEPPARD
Bruno Guaraná

BOOK REVIEWS

Women in the Western edited by Sue Matheson
Carrie Rickey

Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility by Erin Y. Huang
Li Zeng

Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film by Donna Kornhaber
Olga Blackledge

The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor by Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky
Madeleine Collier

Lucrecia Martel by Gerd Gemünden
Jeffrey Middents

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