Past Issues
Issue 11. 2023-24
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Articles
Pinning down Hou Hsiao-Hsien鈥檚 red balloon
Adam O鈥橞rien
Realism and Oppenheimer: Notes on some Brechtian theses
Nigel Morris
Student Essays
The spaces of genre and power in Audition and Midsommar
Milo Farragher-Hanks
Michael Walker: 1942 - 2022
A Tribute to Michael Walker
The editorial board
Michael Walker bibliography
Compiled by Leighton Grist
Facsimile of 鈥楳elodrama and the American Cinema鈥� (1982)
Michael Walker
Audiovisual essays
Creative Geography, Creative Connections: Candyman
John Gibbs (author's statement)
The V. F. Perkins Dossier
Perkins, Gombrich and Criteria
Douglas Pye
Audiovisual Approaches and the Archive
Light Hands
Lily Ford (author's statement)
Interviews
Richard Dyer on interpretation, aesthetics and textual analysis; a dialogue with James MacDowell
Richard Dyer & James MacDowell
A videographic piece inspired by one strand of this dialogue is available
Book Reviews
Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray, All the President's Men
Dominic Lash
Ebooks
The Pop Song in Film
Ian Garwood
A series of audiovisual essays to accompany The Pop Song in Film can be found
This issue coordinated by Ed Gallafent and John Gibbs, and designed by Natalie Tang.
Issue 10. 2022-23
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Articles
The Lumet Touch
Gary Bettinson
Loneliness in the films of Aki Kaurism盲ki
Jaakko Sepp盲l盲
The uses of perplexity: A conversation with Robert B. Ray on the art of film, music and pedagogy
Trevor Mowchun
Student Essays
Approaching the Unapproachable: The Cinema of Mass Shootings & the Limits of Classical Form
Leo Kim
Audiovisual essays
Dance, Camera, Dance: Directorial Choreography in the Live Anthology Drama
Peter Labuza (author's statement)
The V. F. Perkins Dossier
Introduction
Andrew Klevan
The Phantom Thread of Victor Perkins
Adrian Martin
The World of Film and World Particles in the Criticism of Victor Perkins
George Toles
Integrating Criticism into the Philosophy of Art: V. F. Perkins, Dead Poets Society, and 'Value Interaction'
Andrew Klevan
V.F. Perkins and Television
James Walters
Why did Film Studies ignore Perkins?
Robert B. Ray
Upstairs, Downstairs: Victor Perkins and Nicholas Ray's Domesticity
Murray Pomerance
Dossier: The Politics of Close Analysis, and its Object
Introduction
Lucy Fife Donaldson and Lisa Purse
Eileen Rositzka, 1988-2021
Lisa Purse and Lucy Fife Donaldson
The spirits of African cinema: redemptive aesthetics in Mati Diop's Atlantics
Rosalind Galt
Tracing the threads of influence: George Hoyningen-Huene and Les Girls (1957)
Lucy Fife Donaldson (author's statement)
No compromise: Jan N臎mec's rough diamond
Anne Rutherford
Roundtable - Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism and the past, present, and future of film criticism
Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs, Lisa Purse, Doug Pye, Girish Shambu
This issue edited by Lucy Fife Donaldson and Lisa Purse, and designed by Adam Powell with Kate Stolyarova.
Issue 9. 2020-21
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Articles
Close to you: Notorious Proximity in Cinema
Murray Pomerance
'A fair curve from a noble plan': Certain Women
Dominic Lash
El Sur (The South), or the Memory of Cinema
George Kouvaros
Two Rode Together
Deborah Thomas
Nonprofessional Acting in El Perro
Miguel Gaggiotti
A Plea for Intention: Stanley Cavell and Ordinary Aesthetic Philosophy
Kyle Barrowman
'Why Does It Look Like This?' A Visual Primer of Early CinemaScope Composition
Marshall Deutelbaum
Closing Choices in Hostiles: Stepping onto a Moving Train
David G. Hughes
Student essays
Introduction
Kathrina Glitre
Ozu's frames: Form and narrative in Late Spring
Joshua J. Taylor
Audiovisual essays
Desegregating the Two Shot: The Use of the Frame in The Defiant Ones
Henry Rownd (author's statement)
Music and Point of View in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By Patrick Keating (author's statement)
The Sacred and the Profane: Visualising Patriarchal Capitalism in There Will Be Blood
By Ryan Bedsaul (author's statement)
This issue coordinated by Alex Clayton and Kathrina Glitre, and designed by Elizabeth Johnston.
Issue 8. June, 2019
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Articles
Moments Apart
James Walters
Inarticulate lives: a reading of the opening to Terence Davies鈥� The Long Day Closes
Benedict Morrison
Fold upon fold: figurative logics and critical priorities in Nicole Brenez鈥檚 work on Abel Ferarra
Dominic Lash
Manhattan Melodrama (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
Michael Walker
Badness: an issue in the aesthetics of film
V. F. Perkins (edited by Andrew Klevan)
Interviews
Introduction
John Gibbs
Ian Cameron
(24 July 1996)
V. F. Perkins
(22 May 1997)
Charles Barr
(19 June 1997)
Alan Lovell
(13 April 1999)
Audiovisual essays
'Say, have you seen the Carioca?鈥� An experiment in non鈥恖inear, non鈥恏ierarchical approaches to film history
By John Gibbs (author's statement here.)
Three Video Essays on Lighting and Time
By Patrick Keating (author's statement here.)
This issue coordinated by Andrew Klevan and Douglas Pye, and designed by Martha Macri.
Issue 7. May, 2017
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Opening Choices
Edward Gallafent & John Gibbs
Nathaniel Deyo
Pete Falconer
Anthony Coman
Christa Van Raalte
Catherine Constable
Lola Breaux
Articles
George Toles
Michael Walker
V. F. Perkins, 1936-2016: A Tribute
Editorial board
Charles Barr
V. F. Perkins
V. F. Perkins
Audiovisual Essays
The Phantom Carriage: A Revaluation, Parts 1 & 2 (Read authors' statement .)
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye
Motifs of Movement and Modernity (read author's statement here.)
Patrick Keating
Opening Choices: Notorious (read the authors' statement here.)
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye
This issue edited by Edward Gallafent and John Gibbs. Designed by Katy O鈥橦are.
Issue 6. December, 2015
Use No Hooks: Maurice Pialat / Manny Farber
Adrian Martin
Only in Dreams: The Big Sleep and Hollywood Fantasy
Nathaniel Deyo
D茅j脿 Vu: Textures of Time
Steen Ledet Christiansen
Moments of Texture
Introduction
Lucy Fife Donaldson
Adam O'Brien
Surfaces, Textures and the Long Take in Death Line
Ian Banks
Reading Space in Cracker
Lucy Fife Donaldson
James Zborowski
The Best Years of Our Lives: A Dossier
James MacDowell
Nicolas Pillai
Sarah Thomas
Steve Neale
Edward Gallafent
Book Reviews
A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard (Tom Conley, T. Jefferson Kline, eds)
Douglas Morrey
顿茅肠辞耻辫补驳别 (Timothy Barnard)
Douglas Pye
This issue edited and designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson and James MacDowell.
Issue 5. December, 2014.
Andrew Klevan
Josh Cluderay
Katerina Virvidaki
Julian Hanich
Jim Hillier: 1941 – 2014 - A Tribute
Editorial Board
Jim Hillier
Jim Hillier
This issue edited by Alex Clayton and Kathrina Glitre. Design by Lucy Fife Donaldson and Kathrina Glitre.
Issue 4. June, 2013.
Adam O'Brien
George Toles
Murray Pomerance
Ian Garwood
Donna Kornhaber
Charles Barr
Pete Falconer
Andrew Sarris: A Tribute
Andrew Sarris
A Robin Wood Archive (2)
Robin Wood
Robin Wood
Robin Wood
Robin Wood
A Matter of Life and Death
Robin Wood
Issue edited by Andrew Klevan and Victor Perkins. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs, and James MacDowell.
Issue 3. January, 2012.
Stella Bruzzi
V. F. Perkins
Edward Gallafent
Mark Rappaport
Adrian Martin
Peter William Evans
Deborah Thomas
Peter Benson
Christian Keathley
Alex Clayton
John Gibbs
Issue edited by Douglas Pye and Michael Walker. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs and James MacDowell.
Issue 2. May, 2011.
Michael Walker
Douglas Pye & Iris Luppa
Michael Walker
Edward Gallafent
Mark Rappaport
Robin Wood
Robin Wood
Robin Wood
Robin Wood
Signs and Motifs
Robin Wood
Robin Wood
Robin Wood
Issue edited by Douglas Pye and Michael Walker. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs and James MacDowell.
Issue 1. August, 2010.
V. F. Perkins
Ian Cameron, reprinted from Movie 2
Lucy Fife Donaldson
John Gibbs
Kate Leadbetter
James MacDowell
Douglas Pye
Deborah Thomas
George Toles
James Zborowski
Michael Walker
Issue edited by Edward Gallafent and John Gibbs. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs and James MacDowell.