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Volume 43, No. 2 Special Issue - Space, Place, and Identities Onscreen - October 2019

Space, Place, and Identities Onscreen

Alex Fitch and Douglas McNaughton, Guest Co-Editors

Liberation On and Off Screen: Black Panther and Black Liberation Theory

Anthony Faramelli

Dark City and The Truman Show: Surveillance and the Destabilization of Identity

Alex Fitch

Utopia and the Biopolitics of Race: Channel 4’s Utopia (2013-15)

Aris Mousoutzanis

“The Great Game”: Grids and Boxes in Cold War Screen Spaces

Douglas McNaughton

“A Cage without Walls”: Law, Biopolitics and Space in Contemporary Palestinian Cinema

Robert G. White

Dancing in Liminal Space: Youth, Waithood, and Transformation in the South African Documentary The African Cypher (2012)

Christine Singer

Precarious Spaces and Subjects in Transition: Postcommunism and Romanian Moving Image Art

Mihaela Brebenel

Editors' Contributions

“Patton's Flag, and Other Chi-Raq Disasters”

Walter Metz

Rally ‘Round the Flag: Patton and the Question of Political Satire

Doyle Greene

Film Festival Reviews

New York Film Festival 57—Scorsese, Baumbach, Norton: A Tryptic

Martha P. Nochimson

The Extraordinary Women of the Lido: The 76th Venice International Film Festival

Gerd Gemünden

Starpower, Industry-Building and Regional Cinema: IFF Panama 2019

Jasper Vanhaelemeesch

Dieter Kosslick Takes a Bow: The 69th Berlin Film Festival

Gerd Gemünden

Conference Reports

"The Uses of Cinema:" SSAAANZ 2018 Conference Review

Chris Comerford

Media Journeys 2018: Animation in Transnational Contexts

Amanda Kennell

Film and TV Reviews

“What If They Are Just Actors Playing Roles?” Family Romance, LLC and the Limits of Imagination

Miyabi Goto

Shell Shocked: On The Laundromat’s Welcome Abrasiveness

Ryan Sherwood

Defending Irony in the Face of the Inevitable: Jim Jarmusch and Friends

Jay Michael Hanes and Eleanor Weisman

Bird Box and Apathetic Blindness

Serdar Küçük

History and Myth in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers

James Curnow

Flags à la Noir: Reframing Patriotism in the Post-War Films of Fred Zinnemann

Sheri Chinen Biesen

Dennis Hopper’s Pop Art Misery: Revisiting the Image of the American Flag for Easy Rider's Fiftieth Anniversary

Joanna Elena Batsakis

Bohemian Normativity: Bohemian Rhapsody and the New Heteronormal

Mark McCleerey

Return to the Self: Agnès Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7

Arijana Zeric

Cobra Kai: Franchise Generationality in the Contemporary Reboot

Anthony P. McIntyre

Roma: Another word for Amor

J. Henry ("Jim") Harrison

Complicity in Darren Aronofsky's mother! (2017)

Molly Bandonis

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould at 25

Ethan Towns

Book Reviews

Jennifer Malkowski, Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary (Duke University Press, 2017)

Nadia de Vries

Jennifer Fay, Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Phillip D. Duncan

Lisa Bode, Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2017)

Shaopeng Chen

Pooja Rangan, Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke University Press, 2017)

Kevin Wynter

Jans B. Wager, Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir (University of Texas Press, 2017)

Annie Berke

Blair Davis, Movie Comics: Page to Screen, Screen to Page (Rutgers University Press, 2017)

Phillip Lamarr Cunningham