Film Quarterly has published substantial, peer-reviewed writing on cinema and media for nearly sixty years, earning a reputation as one of the most authoritative academic film journals in the United States, as well as an important English-language voice of cinema studies abroad.
Contents:
From the Editor: What Is at Stake: Gender, Race, Media, or How to Brexit Hollywood B. Ruby Rich(5)
Dossier: Chantal Akerman: The Unveiling, an Introduction Ivone Margulies And B. Ruby Rich(11)
Chantal Akerman Interview, Chicago: 1976/2016 B. Ruby Rich(16)
A Neon Sign, A Soup Tureen: The Jeanne Dielman Universe Laura Mulvey(25)
Chantal Akerman, Between the Mother and the World Mateus Araujo Translated by Mark Cohen(32)
Walking, Talking, Singing, Exploding . . . and Silence: Chantal Akerman’s Soundtracks Barbara McBane(39)
The Long Take, Mastery Cyril Béghin Translated by Mark Cohen(48)
Identity Slips: The Autobiographical Register In The Work Of Chantal Akerman Alisa Lebow(54)
Elemental Akerman: Inside And Outside No Home Movie Ivone Margulies(61)
Two Rooms, Monologues, Imaginaries, As Seen Through Their Texts Chantal Akerman Translated By Mark Cohen Edited, With Added Prefaces, By Ivone Margulies(70)
Chantal Akerman, A Postmortem Bibliography: October 2015–September 2016 Regina Longo(79)
Features: A Thousand Suns: Traversing The Archive And Transforming Documentary In Mati Diop’s Mille Soleils James S. Williams(85)
Columns: Screenings: Letter From Mexico: Transgender Documentary Paul Julian Smith(96)
The Vulnerable Spectator: “I Know That Dog”: Witnessing Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan Amelie Hastie(100)
Festival Reports: Why “goEAST” When They Are All Coming West? Aga Skrodzka(107)
PageViews: The Art of Film Blackness: A Conversation with Michael Boyce Gillespie on Film Blackness and the Idea of Black Film Regina Longo(112)
Book Reviews: Carrie Rickey Stealing The Show: African American Performers And Audiences in 1930s Hollywood by Miriam J. Petty(118)
Judith Mayne Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures, Edited by Laura Mulvey and Anna Backman Rogers Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema by Sophie Mayer(120)
Kirsten Moana Thompson Color And Empathy: Essays on Two Aspects of Film by Christine N. Brinckmann(123)
Aaron Cutler Be Sand, Not Oil: The Life And Work Of Amos Vogel, Edited by Paul Cronin(125)
Gerd Gemünden Latin American Cinema by Stephen M. Hart(126)
Hillary Weston David Lynch: The Man from Another Place by Dennis Lim(128)
Axel Andersson The Art Of Mechanical Reproduction: Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital by Tamara Trodd Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places by Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann(130)