From the Editor

An Expansive View
Rebecca Prime

Features

The Right to Sit Still
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

Alice Rohrwacher’s Cinema of Poetry
Emma Wilson

Faith in Fakes: BeReal and the Posttruth Backlash
Kris Fallon

A Restored Perspective: Edward Yang’s A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong
Ruochen Bo

Columns

Imagination Unbound | “You’re my people”: Accounting for the “Us” in The Last of Us 
Ramzi Fawaz

TV on Demand | May December and the Remediation of Tabloid Culture 
Laurie Ouellette

On Platforms | Dream Scenario and Postcinematic Celebrity
Caetlin Benson-Allott

Festival Reports

Inflection Points: Sundance at a Distance, Berlin Up Close 
B. Ruby Rich

Decentering the Narrative: The 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam
Violeta Kovacsics

Page Views

Interactive Cinema: A Conversation with Marina Hassapopoulou 
Bruno Guaraná

Book Reviews

Transatlantic Cinephilia: Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965, by Rielle Navitski 
Irene Rozsa

Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches, edited by Ifdal Elsaket, Daniel Biltereyst, and Philippe Meers
Giovanni Vimercati

Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy, by David Escudero
Leonardo Cabrini

Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture, by John Powers
Andrew Utterson

The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan, by David Humphrey 
Evelyn Shih

Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation, by Brooke Belisle
Da Ye Kim

Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the U.S.–Mexico Underground, by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Diana Flores Ruíz

Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form, by Rizvana Bradley
Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield