Fall 2024: Volume 78, Number 1
Film Quarterly Fall 2024: Volume 78, Number 1
Author: Film Quarterly
Interactive Cinema: A Conversation with Marina Hassapopoulou
Interactive Cinema is not only a valiant effort to expand the history and theory of cinema through the inclusion of its interactive dimensions, but also a plea for further attunement between scholarship and practices of (new) media preservation and remediation. More than documenting the existence of these diverse texts, Hassapopoulou offers in her analysis a reconsideration of film theory that disrupts its traditional ocularcentrism, and a recentering of a multisensorial viewser vacillating between different modes of interactivity, showing, after all, that “cinema has always been interactive” (15).
PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Jie Li
Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media publications continued this winter with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) and Jie Li (Harvard University) about her new book Cinematic Guerillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China (Columbia University Press, 2023). This media history of the exhibition and reception of propaganda films during the first decades of the People’s Republic of China considers the ideology and practice of the “cinematic guerillas” who resisted Mao’s messages. Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime.
Cinematic Guerrillas: A Conversation with Jie Li
Long before provisionally becoming the most important film market in the world, much of China’s territory lacked the infrastructure necessary to develop a sustainable film-exhibition network. Despite the lack of electricity in rural areas in the mid–twentieth century, the newly established socialist state spared no effort in bringing cinema to even the most remote of its villages.
The Brand of Peele
This essay reconsiders Jordan Peele by parsing his hitherto overlooked extratextual authorship. Occasioned by the recent release of Peele’s third feature, Nope (2022), this article begins by considering Peele’s most stable authorial hallmark: deceptive ontologies involving body snatching, doppelgangers, and alien camouflage.
Almodóvar Looks Back
The celebrated Spanish director reflects upon four decades of filmmaking, his influences, and his creative process.
Winter 2023: Volume 77, Number 2
Contemporary British Horror, The Asian American Prestige Film, Jordan Peele’s Brand, Strange Way of Life,
Interview: Pedro Almodóvar, Celebrating Ruby at the Helm, Columns: Asian American Comedy, Gerwig’s Girlhood Trilogy, Dead Ringers, Festivals: Telluride, Page Views: Cinematic Guerrillas
Does Camp Matter (or Even Exist) in the 21st Century?
Sean Griffin on how and where camp appreciation exists today.
The War on Instagram
Linnéa Hussein on the young women reporting as citizen journalists from Gaza.
Webinar: Film Collectives and the New Negress Film Society
On November 16th, Film Quarterly hosted a webinar on the New Negress Film Society (NNFS), the groundbreaking film collective and subject of a feature article by Samantha Sheppard in the Fall issue of Film Quarterly. Panelists Stefani Saintonge (current NNFS member) and Chanelle Aponte Pearson (former NNFS member) discuss the collective’s genesis and evolution with scholar and writer Samantha Sheppard (Cornell University). Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime.