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

Volume 43, No. 1 Current Issue - March 2019

Repressing the Male Gaze? Sidney J. Furie’s The Leather Boys and the Growing Pains of Post-War British Masculinity

Peter E. R. Jordan

Dermatology as Screenology: The Films of Lynne Ramsay

Raymond De Luca

“Our Common Community”: Third Way Cultural Work in Pleasantville and October Sky

Daniel Dufournaud

The Gentrification of John Waters

Nathan Koob

Freddie versus Maya: A Textual Analysis of Two Narrative Structurations of (Post)colonial ‘Brown’ Subjectivity as read through Lacanian Film Theory

Robert K. Beshara

Editors' Contributions

When Slayer Met the Bangles: Détournement and Bill McClintock’s Mashups

Doyle Greene

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

Dieter Kosslick Takes a Bow: The 69th Berlin Film Festival

Gerd Gemünden

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

Bohemian Normativity: Bohemian Rhapsody and the New Heteronormal

Mark McCleerey

Return to the Self: Agnès Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7

Arijana Zeric

Cobra Kai: Franchise Generationality in the Contemporary Reboot

Anthony P. McIntyre

Roma: Another word for Amor

J. Henry ("Jim") Harrison

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

Book Reviews

Pooja Rangan, Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke University Press, 2017)

Kevin Wynter

Jans B. Wager, Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir (University of Texas Press, 2017)

Annie Berke

Blair Davis, Movie Comics: Page to Screen, Screen to Page (Rutgers University Press, 2017)

Phillip Lamarr Cunningham