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

Volume 41, No. 1 Current Issue – March 2017

“Blinking and Thinking: The Embodied Perceptions of Presence and Remembrance in Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void”

Jeeshan Gazi

Looking Back: Versions of the Post-Apocalypse in Contemporary North-American Cinema

Ana Moya and Gemma López

“I don’t know who I am most of the time”: Constructed Identity in Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There

Kim Wilkins

Koyaanisqatsi and the Posthuman Aesthetics of a Mechanical Stare

Gary Matthew Varner

Beyoncé’s Overwhelming Opus; or, the Past and Future of Music Video

Carol Vernallis

New Cinema, New Critique: French Film Criticism at the Crossroads, 1960

Codruţa Morari

I Saw, Therefore I Know? Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man and the Epistemological Potential of the Photographic Image.

Sabrina Negri

A Mood of Dissonance: Unpinning Ambiguity in Gus Van Sant’s Elephant

Max Bowens

Fassbinder's Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) in a Genealogy of the Arbeiterfilme

Christina Gerhardt

Towards an (Aesth)etiquette of Torture: Polite Form in Zero Dark Thirty and Standard Operating Procedure

Amanda Greer

At the Margins of the Bromance: A Queer Reading of The Hangover Part III and Its Promotional Materials

Chloe Benson

Film Festival Reviews

The Need for Empathy at 2017 Cannes

Karin Luisa Badt

Between Resistance and Affirmation: The 2017 Berlin Film Festival

Gerd Gemünden

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