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On July 18th, Film Quarterly Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) joined Marina Hassapopoulou (New York University) for a conversation about her new book Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). In this exciting new work of digital media scholarship, Hassapopoulou expands the history and theory of cinema through the inclusion of its interactive dimensions. This webinar, moderated by outgoing Film Quarterly editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime, is now available on FQ's YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/93s6zqmVY9M, and is embedded below. Guaraná's print interview with Hassapopoulou appears in FQ's Summer 2024 issue (Volume 77, Number 4). It is available online at www.filmquarterly.org together with a link to the introduction of Interactive Cinema, courtesy of the University of Minnesota Press.

Page Views Live: Interactive Cinema – A Conversation with Bruno Guaraná and Marina Hassapopoulou moderated by Rebecca Prime

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On July 18th, Film Quarterly Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) joined Marina Hassapopoulou (New York University) for a conversation about her new book Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). In this exciting new work of digital media scholarship, Hassapopoulou expands the history and theory of cinema through the inclusion of its interactive dimensions. This webinar, moderated by outgoing Film Quarterly editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime, is now available on FQ’s YouTube Channel (https://youtu.be/93s6zqmVY9M), and is embedded below. Guaraná’s print interview with Hassapopoulou appears in FQ’s Summer 2024 issue (Volume 77, Number 4). It is available online at http://www.filmquarterly.org together with a link to the introduction of Interactive Cinema, courtesy of the University of Minnesota Press.

Dis-Orienting Media: The Creative Vision of Arab American Cultural Production

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On June 12th, 2024, this webinar explored the cultural histories, formal innovations, and political interventions of Arab media in the US. FQ columnist and contributing editor Ramzi Fawaz (University of Wisconsin) moderated the discussion with Maytha Alhassen (co-executive producer, Ramy), Thomas S. Dolan (ACLS Fellow, Emory University), and William Youmans (George Washington University). Introduced by FQ editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime.

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Kartik Nair

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Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media publications continued this spring with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) and Kartik Nair (Temple University) about his new book Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror (University of California Press, 2024). Taking the materiality of the filmic image as a starting point for investigating gaps in the historical record, Nair brings a welcome spotlight to Indian cinema’s forgotten horror wave of the 1970s and 1980s. Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime.

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Jie Li

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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.

Webinar: Film Collectives and the New Negress Film Society

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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.

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.

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.

An image showing the webinar participants, Oliver Fuke, Bruno Guarana, B. Ruby Rich and Laura Mulvey

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Laura Mulvey and Oliver Fuke

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Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media studies publications continued July 11 with Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná in conversation with Laura Mulvey, and Oliver Fuke about the new edited volume The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Scripts, Working Documents, Interpretation, ed. Oliver Fuke (Bloomsbury, 2023). The event was moderated by FQ editor and volume contributor B. Ruby Rich.

Webinar | Black Infinite: New Directions in Black Film and Media

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On June 1, 2023, Film Quarterly hosted a webinar analyzing the vitality of film and media as objects of black study. Given the historical momentum surrounding the study of black film and media today and FQ’s special dossier (Spring 2023), dossier editor Michael Boyce Gillespie and FQ editor B. Ruby Rich moderate a conversation that compels deeper inquiry into the stakes of this research. With dossier contributors Racquel Gates, Walton Muyumba, Julie Beth Napolin, and Yasmina Price, and respondent Samantha Sheppard.