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

Volume 44, No. 1 January 2020

How to Live Together with Her (2013): Posthuman Forms of Roland Barthes’ Idiorrhythmy

Max Bergmann

Truth Unreconciled: Counter-Dreaming in Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls

Caitlyn P. Doyle

Encounters with the Forbidden: Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi and Jana Aranya

Suranjan Ganguly

Sons of God: Postwar Gender and Spirituality in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life

Christopher Michael Elias

Kogonada's Urban Neorealism

Travis Warren Cooper

Editors' Contributions

Backhanded Compliment: International Women’s Day and Daily Blast Live

Doyle Greene

“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

Brave New Beginnings: The 70th Berlin Film Festival

Gerd Gemünden

A Necessary Gesture: A review of the Ammondo Tiger Short Film Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020

Arron Santry

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

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

The Apparent Puzzle of Tom Townsend and Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan

Jesse Foster-Stout

“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

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