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From the Editor
TRANSITIONS
Rebecca Prime
Feature
ORLANDO, DESIRE LINES: IN SEARCH OF A T4T DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE
Eliot Dunn
Special Focus
OUSMANE SEMBENE’S XALA AT FIFTY
Edited and Introduced by James S. Williams
SEMBENE, VIEYRA, AND THE MAKING OF XALA
Akin Adesokan
SEMBENE BEHIND AND BEYOND THE IRON CURTAIN
Elena Razlogova
EVERYTHING BEGINS IN THE MIDDLE: XALA AND FUTURITY
Vlad Dima
Interviews
A PATH INTO FILMMAKING, THE CAYUGA LANGUAGE, AND FANCY DANCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ERICA TREMBLAY
Lisa Parks
“WE HAVE SO MANY STORIES AND NOT MUCH TIME”: AN INTERVIEW WITH IRYNA TSILYK
Masha Shpolberg
Columns
A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE OF EXPATS: SUBVERTING WOMEN’S PRESTIGE TELEVISION FROM WITHIN
Laurie Ouellette
CIVIL WAR’S UNSENTIMENTAL IMAGINATION
Ramzi Fawaz
Festival Report
BREAKING BOUNDARIES: CANNES 2024
B. Ruby Rich
Page Views
MOVIES UNDER THE INFLUENCE: A CONVERSATION WITH JOCELYN SZCZEPANIAK-GILLECE
Bruno Guaraná
An excerpt from Movies under the Influence is available here (courtesy University of Minnesota Press):
https://filmquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Szczepaniak-Gillece_Movies_Introduction.pdf
From: Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Movies under the Influence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2024.
Book Reviews
SIBLEY LABANDEIRA
Esfir Shub: Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking by Ilana Shub Sharp
ANDY KELLEHER STUHL
Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology, by Eric Dienstfrey
DANA ALSTON
Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem, by Justin Wyatt
DEVIN GLENN
The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere, by Courtney Brannon Donoghue
SWAPNA GOPINATH
Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema, by Swapnil Rai
TANNON RECKLING
We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production, by Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr
Cover Image: N’Goné (Dyella Touré) on her wedding day in Xala (Ousmane Sembene, 1974)