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

“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

Supergirl vs. Overgirl

Doyle Greene

"Club Sandwich"

Walter Metz

Woke Hollywood, All Hype the Black Panther

Joe Tompkins

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

"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

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

Allen H. Redmon

The Memeification of Jean-Luc Godard

Andrew Baek

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