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Volume 41, No. 2: New Romanian Cinema Current Issue – October 2017

Style, Affect, and Subjectivity: An Introduction to “Readings of The Romanian New Wave”

Alina Haliliuc and Jesse Schlotterbeck

The Delinquency of the Script: Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective (2009)

Jennifer Stob

The Specter of Communism: A Communist Structure of Feeling within Romanian New Wave Cinema

Chris Robé

Film, History, and Memory in the Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu

Marie-Louise Paulesc

A New Wave of Romanian Documentary?

Chris Cagle

In the Name of “The Ambiguity of the Real”: Romanian Cinematic Realism after the 2000s

Andrei Gorzo

Youth, Nomadism, and Claustrophobia in the Argentinian and Romanian New Waves: Stuff and Dough and Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes

Raluca Iacob

The Use and Non-Use of Music in the New Romanian Wave

Anca Caramelea

Film Festival Reviews

The Need for Empathy at 2017 Cannes

Karin Luisa Badt

Between Resistance and Affirmation: The 2017 Berlin Film Festival

Gerd Gemünden

Conference Reports

Console-ing Passions (International Conference on Television, Audio, New Media, and Feminism)

Eleanor Patterson

Film and TV Reviews

Sleeping Beauty on a Spaceship

Khara Lukancic

At Home, He’s a Tourist: The Odyssey of Anthony Bourdain

Doyle Greene

Eels as Ideologies: A Cure for Wellness

Kay Vandette

Hard Work Is Its Own Reward: Forged in Fire

Doyle Greene

House of Cards as Shakespearean Tragedy

Zac Hestand

Let’s Fight Ghost: The Afterlife Leading the Living

Michelle Bedolla

The Great Wall: Matt Damon, Zhang Yimou, Edward Zwick, and... Dragons?

Mac Sullivan

Strange Bedfellows: Comedy Central, Trumpism, and the Paid Programming Bloc

Doyle Greene

A Room Not of Her Own: Explorations of Personal Space in Her Story

Ryan Freels

Blair Witch: An Exercise in Home Invasion Terror

Zac Hestand

Book Reviews

Suzanne Gauch, Maghrebs in Motion: North African Cinema in Nine Movements (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Michael Anthony Turcios

Elizabeth Ellcessor, Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation (New York University Press, 2016)

Ekin Pinar

Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient, Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2015)

Kyoung-Lae Kang

Jonathan Goldberg, Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility (Duke University Press, 2016)

Matthew J.M. Grant

Daniel Herbert, Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store (University of California Press, 2014)

Kristopher Purzycki

Allyson Nadia Field, Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015)

Philana Payton

Bernie Cook, Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina (University of Texas Press, 2015)

Phoebe Bronstein

Miranda J. Banks, The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild (Rutgers University Press, 2015)

Leah Aldridge