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 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

Postfeminism, Ambivalence and the Mother in Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011)

Sarah Smyth

“If It’s Love, It Must Work Out:” Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela and Modes of Hauntology

Edward Guetti

Multiplying Mise-en-Scène: Found Sounds of The Night of the Hunter in Lewis Klahr’s Daylight Moon and Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma

Amy Skjerseth

When the Woman Laughs: Genres of Female Laughter in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Navid Sinaki

Tracing a Lineage: Alain Resnais’s Painting Films and the Animated Aesthetic

Thomas Jackson

White Material: The Postcolonial Unconscious and the Violence of Intimacy

Marcus Dominick

On Cinematic Ekphrasis: Aleksandr Sokurov’s Otets i syn Redux

Diane Nemec Ignashev

Editors' Contributions

A Face in the Crowd in the Trump era

Brian Neve

Uncontained Pomposity, or Masculinity in The West Wing

Stephen Groening

Democratizing the Screen: ‘Cinematizing’ and ‘Musicalizing’ Social Justice, Politics and the Vote

Sheri Chinen Biesen

Don’t Believe the Hype (or, How to Frame a Progressive): Local Media Coverage and the Minnesota Fifth Congressional Primary

Doyle Greene

Dangerous Audiovisual Aesthetics: Reading The Lincoln Project and Music Video's Turn

Carol Vernallis and Jonathan Leal

Welcome to Minneapolis (or, Then Came the Last Days of May)

Doyle Greene

Pandemic Television

Diane Negra

Just 93 Days, and the Sacrifice, Courage, and Hope that filled those Days

Allen H. Redmon

Soundscapes of an Outbreak

Mikki Kressbach

"Imagine" There's a COVID-19 Pandemic

Doyle Greene

Disease, Disaster Noir, and Cinematic Panic

Sheri Chinen Biesen

Fox News, Media Aesthetics, and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Carol Vernallis

Film Festival Reviews

A Festival without Festivities: The 71st Berlin Film Festival

Gerd Gemünden

The Third Song on the Record: The 60th Annecy International Animation Film Festival

PM Cicchetti

Screening Films for Full Houses: The 2020 True/False Festival Finds an Enthusiastic Audience

Brad Prager

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

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

Racquel J. Gates, Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2018)

Alfred L. Martin, Jr.

Michel Chion, Words on Screen, ed. and trans. Claudia Gorbman (Columbia University Press, 2017)

Kay Clopton

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