Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication bringing together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies since 1975.

    Volume 42, No. 1 Current Issue – March 2018

    Cover for Volume 42, Issue 1
    Cover for Volume 42, Issue 1
    Cover for Volume 42, Issue 1
    Cover for Volume 42, Issue 1

    “Too Marvelous for Words”: Bogart and Bacall’s Dark Passage Through Myth to the Enlightenment of Modernized Melodrama

    Carol Donelan

    Fate, Character, and Cyclical Thinking: Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines

    Jan Maximilian Robitzsch

    Coincidence and Counterfactuality: The Multiple Plot Structure of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

    Terence Patrick Murphy and Kelly S. Walsh

    A Fallen Star Over Mulholland Drive: Representation of the Actress

    Will Scheibel

    Displaced Persons and Documentary Illusions: Fred Zinnemann’s The Search

    Thomas F. Connolly

    Ephemeral (Mis-)Encounter, or Male Melancholia for the Mother in Jinho Hur’s Christmas in August (1998) and One Fine Spring Day (2001)

    Kyoung-Lae Kang

    From Old Boys to Quiet Dreams: Mapping Korean Art Cinema Today

    Marc Raymond

    After the Farm Crisis: The Critique of Neoliberal Society in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

    Stacy Denton

    The Heterotopias of Todd Haynes: Creating Space for Same Sex Desire in Carol

    Victoria L. Smith

    Russian Leviathan: Power, Landscape, Memory

    Julia Vassilieva



    Editors' Contributions

    "Club Sandwich"

    Walter Metz

    Who's on First? (or, Anyone for Seconds?)

    Doyle Greene

    The Sounds of Silence: Todd Haynes' Film Adaptation of Brian Selznick's Wonderstruck

    Walter Metz

    Narrative Capital: A Mother’s Revenge, Lifetime, and the Culture Industry

    Doyle Greene

    Will the Real Omarosa Please Stand Up? CBS and the Spectacle of Trumpism

    Doyle Greene

    Woke Hollywood, All Hype the Black Panther

    Joe Tompkins

    "So Shines a Good Deed in a Weary World": Intertextuality in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One

    Walter Metz

    The Good Old Days: Will and Grace and Roseanne rebooted for Trumpism

    Doyle Greene

    Film Festival Reviews

    Where to, Berlinale? The 68th Berlin Film Festival

    Gerd Gemünden

    The New York Film Festival 55: Agnes Varda's Toes and Other Cinematic Delights

    Martha P. Nochimson

    The Need for Empathy at 2017 Cannes

    Karin Luisa Badt

    Conference Reports

    Media Journeys 2018: Animation in Transnational Contexts

    Amanda Kennell

    Art House Convergence

    Alicia Kozma

    Film and TV Reviews

    Shoplifters: The Tale of an Anarchic Family

    Songtao Zhang

    Andy Muchietti's IT: Coming-of-Age and Horror Cinema

    Ethan Towns

    “Your Treachery Has Been Discovered” [A Review of Legion, Season Two]

    Allen H. Redmon

    The Memeification of Jean-Luc Godard

    Andrew Baek

    "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste"

    Cameron Hepola

    Moral Choices and Social Mobility in Lady Bird and The Graduation

    Sam Smucker

    Who is "Jagat?"

    Nurzali Ismail

    Violence and Care in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    Abigail G. H. Manzella

    The More Things Change: Andy Cohen's Then and Now

    Doyle Greene

    Book Reviews

    Paul Schroeder Rodríguez, Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History, (University of California Press, 2016)

    Juan Poblete

    Eric Renstschler, The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present (Columbia University Press, 2015)

    Kevin Hagopian

    Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction (Rutgers University Press, 2016)

    Michael Petitti

    Dan Hassler-Forest, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism

    Matt Yockey