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PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with D. Andy Rice

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Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media studies publications continued this Fall with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná and D. Andy Rice about his new book Political Camerawork: Documentary and the Lasting Impact of Reenacting Historical Trauma (Indiana University Press, 2023).  Building on his background as a nonfiction film director, producer, cinematographer, and editor, Rice investigates the emotional toll of historical reenactments and the challenges posed to documentary.  Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime.

Beyond Memory: An Introduction

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The year 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the coup that toppled the socialist government of Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition on September 11, 1973, unleashing a civic-military dictatorship that ruled Chile with terror for seventeen years. Five decades later, the consequences of the coup and the dictatorship are still in evidence, especially considering the ongoing constitutional process set in motion by the popular revolts of the so-called estallido social (“social uprising”) of October 2019.

Political Camerawork A Conversation with D. Andy Rice

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The trailer for Meghan O’Hara and Mike Attie’s In Country (2014) opens with archival footage of the Vietnam War accompanied by a voice-over whose source is quickly revealed to be that of a man dressed in fatigues. The contrast between the grainy look of the archival footage and the crisp audio of the interview signals a dual temporality that is central to the film’s subject matter: an annual reenactment of the Vietnam War in the Oregon woods.

Revisiting the Decade: A World, and Cinema, in Upheaval

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This marks my fortieth and final editorial as I step down from my post as editor in chief of this wonderful journal. Ten years ago, I accepted the helm of Film Quarterly with the intention of transforming it into a journal that I wanted to read, a journal that could offer the field of film and media studies an “alternative commons” instead of the usually siloed areas of identities, nationalities, sexualities, racializations, studies, and specializations that fracture it.

Webinar: Hollywood on Strike!

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On August 4, 2023, Film Quarterly hosted a webinar examining the historic double strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA). FQ Editor in Chief Rebecca Prime moderates a discussion of the issues at stake and the impact for film, media, and industry culture. With writer and Pose co-creator Steven Canals, scholar Kate Fortmueller (Georgia State University), screenwriter and former WGA president Howard Rodman, and screenwriter and filmmaker James Schamus.

The Transformers: How Chan Is Missing Led to Better Luck Tomorrow Led to Everything Everywhere All at Once

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During the past forty years in Asian American cinema there have been three premieres that took my breath away: Chan Is Missing in 1982. Better Luck Tomorrow in 2002. Everything Everywhere All at Once in 2022. Twenty years apart, all signaled that the earth had shifted on its axis and the creative landscape of Asian America was on a collision course with the old, retrograde images of the past.

Everything Everywhere All at Once and the Intimate Public of Asian American Cinema

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“Feels nice, doesn’t it? If nothing matters, then all the pain and guilt you feel for making nothing of your life goes away, sucked into a bagel.” With this absurd revelation, the transmigratory being Jobu Tapaki, née Joy Wang (Stephanie Hsu), invites her mother from this universe, Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), to join her quest for self-annihilation, taking the infinite worlds that make up the multiverse of Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert [“the Daniels”], 2022) along with them.