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

Volume 42, No. 2 Current Issue – Film and Merchandise - November 2018

Mediated Merchandise, Merchandisable Media: An Introduction

Elizabeth Affuso and Avi Santo

“Fresh from the West”: Marxism, Commodity Fetishism and Naficy’s Chronotopes of Life in Exile in Granaky-Quaye’s Beento

Temitope Abisoye Noah

From AIDS-era Queer Icon to Sanitized Nostalgic Property: The Cultural Histories of Bettie Page Merchandise Circulation

Finley Freibert

Merchandising Gen X: The Singles Soundtrack Album (1992/2017)

Laurel Westrup

“Does it Come with a Spear?” Commodity Activism, Plastic Representation, and Transmedia Story Strategies in Disney’s Star Wars: Forces of Destiny

Megen de Bruin-Molé

Hogwarts House Merchandise, Liminal Play, and Fan Identities

Victoria L. Godwin

Between Textuality and Materiality: Fandom and the Mediation of Action Figures

Philipp Dominik Keidl

Reluctant Retailing: Amazon Prime Video and the Non-Merchandising of Kids' Television

Derek Johnson

Editors' Contributions

The Gift That Keeps on Giving: on the Classical Holiday Studio System

Doyle Greene

A Hallmark of the Classical Holiday Cinema, or Meeting Two Christmas Queens

Walter Metz

Film Festival Reviews

New York Film Festival 2018: Only Create!

Martha Nochimson

New Experiments in Cinema: The 71st Locarno Film Festival

Martin Kudláč

Where to, Berlinale? The 68th 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

Art House Convergence

Alicia Kozma

Film and TV Reviews

Complicity in Darren Aronofsky's mother! (2017)

Molly Bandonis

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould at 25

Ethan Towns

"It's Past Times I'm Talkin' About Here, Ye Know?:" Under the Clock and the Nostalgic Irish Documentary

Diane Negra

The Many Forms of Islamophobia

Damini Kulkarni

Shoplifters: The Tale of an Anarchic Family

Songtao Zhang

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

Ethan Towns

Book Reviews

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, The Mythopoetics of Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity (Columbia University Press, 2017)

Andrea Schmidt

Alexander Zahlten, The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies (Duke University Press, 2017)

Amanda Landa

Jon Kraszewski, Reality TV (Routledge, 2017)

Molly A. Schneider