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    Volume 43, No. 2 Special Issue - Space, Place, and Identities Onscreen - October 2019

    Cover for Volume 43, Issue 2
    Cover for Volume 43, Issue 2
    Cover for Volume 43, Issue 2
    Cover for Volume 43, Issue 2

    Space, Place, and Identities Onscreen

    Alex Fitch and Douglas McNaughton, Guest Co-Editors

    Liberation On and Off Screen: Black Panther and Black Liberation Theory

    Anthony Faramelli

    Dark City and The Truman Show: Surveillance and the Destabilization of Identity

    Alex Fitch

    Utopia and the Biopolitics of Race: Channel 4’s Utopia (2013-15)

    Aris Mousoutzanis

    “The Great Game”: Grids and Boxes in Cold War Screen Spaces

    Douglas McNaughton

    “A Cage without Walls”: Law, Biopolitics and Space in Contemporary Palestinian Cinema

    Robert G. White

    Dancing in Liminal Space: Youth, Waithood, and Transformation in the South African Documentary The African Cypher (2012)

    Christine Singer

    Precarious Spaces and Subjects in Transition: Postcommunism and Romanian Moving Image Art

    Mihaela Brebenel



    Editors' Contributions

    “Patton's Flag, and Other Chi-Raq Disasters”

    Walter Metz

    Rally ‘Round the Flag: Patton and the Question of Political Satire

    Doyle Greene

    Film Festival Reviews

    New York Film Festival 57—Scorsese, Baumbach, Norton: A Tryptic

    Martha P. Nochimson

    The Extraordinary Women of the Lido: The 76th Venice International Film Festival

    Gerd Gemünden

    Starpower, Industry-Building and Regional Cinema: IFF Panama 2019

    Jasper Vanhaelemeesch

    Dieter Kosslick Takes a Bow: The 69th 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

    Film and TV Reviews

    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

    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

    Book Reviews

    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

    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