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Fall 2018: Volume 72, Number 1

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FROM THE EDITOR
A Deer in the Headlights
B. Ruby Rich
FEATURES
The Handmaid’s Tale as Ustopian Allegory: “Stars and Stripes Forever, Baby”
Heather Hendershot

The Time is Now: Pressure, Guerrilla, and the (Re)Invention of Black British Cinema and History
James S. Williams

Decolonizing Documentary On-Screen and Off: Sensory Ethnography and the Aesthetics of Accountability
Faye Ginsburg

INTERVIEWS
The Landscape of Futurelessness: An Interview with Brett Story
Scott MacDonald

COLUMNS
The Vulnerable Spectator |”It was the Seventies”
Amelie Hastie

Screenings | Letter from Peru: Teen Telenovela, Popular Comedy, Auteur Cinema
Paul Julian Smith

Elsewhere | A Tale of Two Arabias
Bilal Qureshi

FESTIVAL REPORTS
Emotional Images, Immersive Realities: The Fortieth Cinéma du Réel
Clarence Tsui

Love: The Eleventh Annual Orphan Film Symposium
Liz Czach

A Deer in the Headlights

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First things first: this issue marks the arrival of Rebecca Prime as Associate Editor of Film Quarterly. Rebecca first published a book review in FQ back in 2006 and also had one in the last issue, with articles in other journals in the interim. Rebecca is a film historian, editor of Cinematic Homecomings: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2014), and author of Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2014).

Lucrecia Martel in Conversation with B Ruby Rich

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Lucrecia Martel – In conversation – April 22, 2018.  This page contains documentation of excerpts from Lucrecia Martel’s appearance at the BAMPFA Pacific Film Archive, in conversation with FQ’s B. Ruby Rich. Video recorded and edited for Film Quarterly by Juan Carlos Davíla and Rana Jarbou. Thanks to Kathryn McKay and Marcus Hu. Support from the Ford Foundation JustFilms initiative.      

She Can Do It

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Editor in Chief, B. Ruby Rich, weighs in on the latest in film and media culture. She recaps the recent “Dimensions in Black” event that FQ hosted at Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City to launch our December 2017 issue; reviews the content of the current issue; pays tribute to notable voices in the field that have passed on; and hints at things to come in FQ’s 60th anniversary year.

Dimensions in Black

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“Dimensions in Black: Perspectives on Black Film and Media.”  The live launch of FQ 71.2 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on December 5, 2017. This event featured the dossier authors and editor in conversation with each other and the audience.

2017 in Review

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Happy new year, everyone!
“FQ” the Film Quarterly podcast presents REFLECTIONS ON FILM IN 2017. Bilal Qureshi, columnist of “Elsewhere,” and B. Ruby Rich, Editor, Film Quarterly, wrap up the year by discussing some highlights. It is a step outside of listmania– have a listen and share!

The Seen and The Unseen

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The idea that a struggle can be waged via cinema is an appealing one today, as so many other battlefields seem already lost. For me, there is always hope lurking in film and television and, increasingly, online media. Political obstacles may seem insurmountable, but as I am fond of declaring: nobody has to elect a film. You can buy your ticket or download the new season or share the latest upload or streaming evidence and—at press time, at least—no one can stop you.

Under Duress

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Editor B. Ruby Rich weighs in on the latest issue of FQ, new revivals in a time of duress, trends in distribution, FQ’s approach to watching, writing, thinking about cinema and media in a time of ongoing political repression, and more.