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

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

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