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1 Neglected Films of the 80s |
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| "80s Hollywood: Dominent Tendencies," Robin Wood "Rap/Punk/Hollywood: Beat Street and Out of the Blue," Bryan Bruce "A Matter of Time," Richard Lippe "Unspoken and Unresolved: Tell Me a Riddle," Florence Jacobowitz and Lori Spring "Death Watch: In Camera Power," Maureen Judge "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia," Robin Wood |
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2 Women in Contemporary Hollywood |
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| "Girls on Film: Fantasy, Desire, and Desperation," Susan Morrison "Madness, Pleasure, and Transgression: Looking for Mr. Goodbar," Bryan Bruce "Obsessions in the Melodrama: Amy Jones's Love Letters," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe "Firestarters, or Independence Day," Robin Wood "Fathers, Feminism, and Domination: Marxist Theory on Ideology in Popular Film," Scott Forsyth "Cat and Dog: Lewis Teague's Stephen King Movies," Robin Wood "On Le Jour S…," Anthony Irwin |
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3/4 Reading the Text (Double Issue) |
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| "Editorial," Robin Wood "In Defense of Criticism," Andrew Britton "Notes for a Reading of I Walked With a Zombie," Robin Wood "Femnist Film Theory and Social Reality," Florence Jacobowitz "Cries and Whispers Reconsidered," Varda Burstyn "Gender and Destiny: George Cukor's A Star is Born," Richard Lippe "The Other Dream: The Year of Living Dangerously," Lori Spring "Hitchcock's Spellbound: Text and Counter-Text," Andrew Britton "Inventing Paradox: Celine and Julie Go Boating," Janine Marchessault "Capital at Play: Form in Popular Film," Scott Forsyth "Neglected Films of the '80s Foxes," Bryan Bruce "A Brief Critique of Pop Criticism," Bryan Bruce |
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8 Revaluation |
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| "Editorial," Robin Wood "Leavis, Marxism, and Film Culture," Robin Wood "Pasolini's Medea : The Power of Disruption," Anthony Irwin "One From the Heart: Leaning From Las Vegas," Susan Morrison "Biology and Ideology: The 'Natural' Family in Paris, Texas," Mas'ud Zavarzadeh "Power and the Masquerade: The Devil Is A Woman," Florence Jacobowitz "Blonde Venus: Memory, Legend, and Desire," Peter Baxter "Aching to Speak: Power and Language in Pierre Perrault's La Bête Lumineuse," Geoff Pevere "Drums Along the Mohawk," Robin Wood "Sirk and Bach: Fugal Construction in Written on the Wind," Bruce Fairley "An Interview with Lizzie Borden" Maureen Judge and Lori Spring "Invaders from Mars and the Science Fiction Film in the Age of Reagan" Barry K. Grant "The Terminator: Beyond Classical Hollywood Narrative" Lillian Necakov |
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9 Comedy |
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| "Pee Wee Herman: The Homosexual Subtext," Bryan Bruce "Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys ; or, Give It Back to the Indians," Robin Wood "Reconsidering The Quiet Man," Ken Nolley "The Falls," Paul Della Penna and Jim Shedden "Rosa Von Praunheim in Theory and Practice," Bryan Bruce "Colin Campbell Interview," Kathleen Maitland-Carter "The Studio With the Team Spirit: A Look at Ealing Comedies," Marc Glassman and Judy Wolfe "Cavell and the Fantasy of Criticism: Shakespearean Comedy and Ball of Fire," Leland Poague "Corrupt/Cop Killer / Order of Death" Gloria Berlin and Bryan Bruce |
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12 Teen Films |
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| "Making The Journey with Peter Watkins," Ken Nolley "Identification and Slaughter," Peter Benson "Charlie is a She: Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and the Female Spectacle of Vietnam," Krista Walter "Standard Hollywood Fare: The World War II Combat Film Revisited," Peter Rist "Getting a Fix on the '60s: Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers Revisited," Susan Morrison "The Edge," Bryan Bruce "Your Life is a Film," Janine Marchessault "Rebel Without a Chance: Cycles of Rebellion and Suppression in Canadian Teen Movies," Geoff Pevere "Patti Rocks the Boat: A Conversation with David Burton Morris and Gwen Field," Richard Lippe and Robin Wood |
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13/14 Film Noir (Double Issue) |
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| "Policy and Politics [editor's note]," Robin Wood and Richard Lippe "The Myth of Postmodernism: The Bourgeois Intelligentsia in the Age of Reagan," Andrew Britton "Film Noir: How Hollywood Deals with the Deviant Male," Deborah Thomas "Hawks and Film Noir: The Big Sleep," Michael Walker "The (Ideo)logical Consequences of Gender on Genre," Susan Morrison "At the Margins of Film Noir: Preminger's Angel Face," Richard Lippe "Phantom Lady,Cornell Woolrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic," Tony Williams "The Man's Melodrama: Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street," Florence Jacobowitz "Seeing by Glimpses: Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardenia," Douglas Pye "Rancho Notorious: A Noir Western in Color," Robin Wood "Peckinpah the Radical: The Wild Bunch Reconsidered," Christopher Sharett |
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15 Interpretation |
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| "Falling in Love Again: Notes on Film Criticism and Marlene," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe "The Critic's Choice: Things Great and Things Not So Great," Janine Marchessault "Symmetry, Closure, Disruption: The Ambiguity of Blackmail," Robin Wood "'Just What the Hell is Rickman Trying to Say?': Some Remarks on Critical Method and Critical Controversy," Susan Morrison "Modern Diseases: Gay Self-Representation in the Age of AIDS," Bryan Bruce "Class Struggle at the Movies?," Scott Forsyth "The Philosophy of the Pigeonhole: Wisconsin Formalism and the "Classical Style"," Andrew Britton |
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16 Canadian Cinema |
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| "Themes on Canadian Nationalism: In Memoriam," George P. Grant "The Uncertain Trumpet: Defining a (Canadian) Art Cinema in the Sixties," Peter Morris "Rhetorical Remarks Towards the Politics of Otherness," Kass Banning "Dialectice Interpretation: The Case of Cinema Direct and Pierre Perrault," David Clandfield "Mermaids: Singing Off Key?," Marion Harrison "Melancholia and the Banal," Dennis Bellemare "Atom Egoyan: An Interview," Ron Burnett "Scanning Egoyan," Cameron Bailey "Reproduction and Repetition of History: David Rimmer's Found Footage," Catherine Russell "Towards a Canadian (Inter)national Cinema," Robin Wood "Dead Ringers: The Joke's on Us," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe "Who is the American Cousin? Canadian Cinema, Cultural Freedom, and Sandy Wilson's American Cousin," Joanne Yamagouchi "Underground," Bryan Bruce "Grierson and Canadian Nationalism," Scott Forsyth |
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17 Re:Positioning |
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| "The Politics of Difference, or: How to Create a Socialist-Feminist Culture in One Capitalist Country Without Really Trying," Andrew Britton Letters: Scott Perna, Janine Marchessault, Gregg Rickman, Susan Morrison, Peter Hrcourt, Robin Wood "Towards a Canadian (Inter)national Cinema, Part 2: Loyalties and Life Classes," Robin Wood "Montgomery Clift: A Critical Disturbance," Richard Lippe "Imagining Mr. Average," John McCullough "Moonshine: Love and Enchantment in Annie Hall and Manhattan," Ed Gallafent "Sunrise: A Reappraisal," Robin Wood |
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19/20 Critical Issues (Double Issue) |
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| "Critical Realism: Subversive Commercial Art," Florence Jacobowitz " Consuming Culture: The Development of a Theoretical Orthodoxy," Andrew Britton "Right Wing Chic: Adam Parfrey and R. Kern Fingered!!," Bryan Bruce "Holy Men in the Wilderness: The Mission and Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons," Deborah Root "The Last Temptation of Christ: A Fragmented Oedipal Trajectory," Tony Williams "The Celluloid Contradiction: Am Other Look at Parting Glances," John Champagne "Fugitive Details: Readings of Image and Content in Two Films by Max Ophuls, Madam de … and Lola Montes," Susan Lord "Cracks in the King's Armour Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, and The Shining," Viveca Gertton "Pedagogy in the Perverse Text," Viveca Gretton "Theory vs Experience: Alice Miller and the Status of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory," Robin Wood |
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21/22 Rethinking Authorship (Double Issue) |
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| "Creativity and Evaluation: Two Film Noirs of the 50s," Robin Wood "Authorship and Cukor: A Reappraisal," Richard Lippe "What Does a Man Know About Mother Love?: Blonde Venus," Florence Jacobowitz "Authorship Revisited," Robin Wood "Film Authorship: The Premature Burial," V. F. Perkins "Terence Davies Interview," Tony Williams "You Could Look it Up: Notes Towards a Reading of Baseball, History, and Ideology in the Dominant Cinema," Viveca Gretton "Genre and Authorship: Two Films of Arthur Penn," Peter C. Knowles "Laugher, Redemption, Subversion in Eight Films by Leo McCarey," Margaret Smith "Fuck Sal's Pizza: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing as Product of the Hip Hop Movement," James A. Hurst |
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24/25 Feminist Film Theory / Criticism (Double Issue) |
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| "Feminist Culture and the New Order [editor's note]," Janine Marchessault and Susan Morrison "Letter From an Editor [editor's note]," Florence jacobowitz "Kindler, Gentler CineACTION? [editor's note]," Scott Forsyth "Documentary: Theory, Practice and … Watching the Gulf War [editor's note]," Kass Banning and Scott Forsyth "The (Female) Subject of Masochism: Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned…," Susan Morrison "Madonna Wannabe," Sarah Evans "Bad Magic: Germaine Dulac's La Souriante Madam Beaudet ," Susan Lord "Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema: From Introspection to Retrospection," Janine Marchessault "Dog and Woman, Together at Last: Animals in the Films of Neil Shipman," Kay Armatage "Boys, Girls, and Switch: On the Policing of Sex and Gender," Ki Namaste "Twin Peaks Mountains or Molehills?," Christine Ramsey "In Light of Difference: In Visible Colours Film/Video Festival and Symposium," Monika Gagnon "The Subaltern Body: A Study in Ethics, Alterity, and Subject Construction," Helen Lee "Dorothy's Arzner's Dance Girl, Dance: Regendering the Male Gaze," Samuel L. Chell "Criticism or Complicity?: The Question of the Treatment of Rape and the Rape Victim in Jonathan Kaplan's The Accused," Mallorie Cook "All About Eve, Margo, Karen …," Robert K. Lightning "Women in Film: Teaching Across Disciplines," Marilyn Burgess |
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28 Canadas: Cinema and Criticism |
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| "Women in French-Quebec Cinema: The Space of Socio-Sexual (in)difference," Chantal Nadeau "Sitting in the Dark," William D. MacGillivray "Symptoms of Canada: National Identity and the Theft of National Enjoyment," Kieran Keohane "On the Brink," Geoff Pevere "What the Story Is: An Interview with Srinivas Krishna," Cameron Bailey "The Melodramatic Imagination in Quebec in Canadian Women's Feature Films," Brenda Longfellow "Montréal Confidential: Notes on an Imagined City," Will Straw "Women and Political Documentary in Quebec: An Interview with Sophie Bissonette," Barbara Evans and Scott Forsyth "Cinderella Does Montréal," Olivia Riochet "Bordwell Considered: Cognitivism, Colonialism, and Canadian Cinematic Culture," Jose Arroyo |
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29 Revaluation: Hollywood |
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| "For Marlene," Florence Jacobowitz "Not Just a Bandit: Michael Cimino's The Sicilian," Brad Stevens "The Rapture: A Woman's Film of the 90s," Florence Jacobowitz "'Everything Means Something, Cynthia':Alan Rudolph's Mortal Thoughts," Tom Orman "'Well … That's a Start': Or, What Hollywood Can Do With a Deeply Serious Comedy," Cosimo Urbano "Spike Lee's Homophobia," Robert K. Lightning "Oliver Stone: Less Than Meets the Eye," Tony Williams "While the City Sleeps," Michael Walker "Talk '39: Re-reading George Cukor's The Women," Viveca Gretton "The Collapse of Fantasy: Masculinity in the Westerns of Anthony Mann," Douglas Pye "'I'm Not the Sort of Person Men Marry': Monsters, Queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca," Rohna J. Berenstein "Rebecca Reclaimed: For Daphne du Maurier," Robin Wood "Constructing Culture: Media Education in the 1990s," Susan Morrison |
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30 Framing the Family |
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| "Battle Stations: War, Memory, and the Family," Deborah Root "Asians in Hollywood," Kristen Emiko McAllister "Myth and Melodrama: Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life," Peter C. Knowles "Repression, or How to Make Good Home Movies," Marnie Parrell "Ray's Mahanagar: Arati Chooses Integrity Over Security," Fran Wong "Doubling Narratives: Dereliction and Desire in Julie Zando's Let's Play Prisoners," Jessica Bradley "The Body Beautiful," Brenda Longfellow "Pearl, Hilda, Thelma, and Louise: The 'Woman's Film' Revisited," Susan Morrison "Explorations, Prosthetics, and a Sacrifice: Phantasies of the Maternal Body in the Alien Trilogy," Carol Moore and Geoff Miles "Mirror, Mirror on the wall: Parent and Psycho as One in the 90s," Gillian Helfield "Keeping the Black Phallus Erect: Gender ad the Construction of Black masculinity in Boys 'N' the Hood," Rinaldo Walcott Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1992 |
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31 Narrative and Film |
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| "Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Double Narrative," Robin Wood "Robert Kramer: Along Route One/USA," Ruth Perlmuter "Homework Times Three," Robin Wood "The Necessity of Telling a Story: An Interview with Jamie Humbeto Hermosillo," Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, and Robin Wood. "Why We Should (Still) Take Hitchcock Seriously," Robin Wood "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! : Subverting the Glazed Gaze of American Melodrama and Film Theory," Martha J. Nandorfy "Melodramatic Narrative: Orphans of the Storm and The Searchers " Michael Walker "Male Narrative/Female Narration: Elaine May's Mikey and Nickey," Brad Stevens "The Cat with Green Wings: Feminine Resistance and Narrativity in Radha Bharadwaj's Closet Land," Viveca Gretton |
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34 Modernism |
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| "On Modernism [editor's note]," Florence Jacobowitz and Susan Morrison and Richard Lippe "For Andrew Britton: A Personal Tribute," Robin Wood "For Andrew Britton, 1951 - 1994," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe "Rethinking History Through Narrative Art," Florence Jacobowitz "Driven to Distraction: Going to the Movies with Walter and Siegfried," Paul Kelley and Susan Lord "Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography: An Interview with Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, and Stuart Samuels," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe "Politics of Modernity in Latin America: Memory, Nostalgia, and Desire in Baroco," Zuzana M. Pick "Postmodern Times: Popular American Cinema and the Critical Climate," Brad Stevens "Persona Revisited," Robin Wood "Suffering Into Ideology: Bergman's Sasom I en Spegel [Through a Glass Darkly] ," Tony French |
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38 Murder in America |
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| "Assassinating an Image: The Strange Life of Kennedy's Death," Haidee Wasson "Livin' and Dyin' in Zapruderville: A Code of Representation, Reality and its Exhaustion," Tom Mullin "The Technology of Homicide: Constructions of Evidence and Truth in American Murder Films," Ken Morrison "Carnivalising the Taboo: The Mondo Film and the Opened Body," Mikita Brottman "Serial Killers, True Crime, and Economic Performance Anxiety," Annalee Newitz "Mystery Rider: The Cultural Construction of a Serial Killer," Philip Simpson "The Seen of the Crime: Violence, Anxiety, and the Domestic in Police Reality Programming," Edward R. O'Neill "The 1990s Hollywood Fatal Femme: (Dis)Figuring Feminism, Family, Irony, Violence," Julianne Pidduck |
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39 Contemporary World Cinemas |
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| "Doin' Diaspora," Warren Crichlow "Planet Africa: Three Shorts," Robert K. Lightning "Cuban Films and the Crisis of Socialism: 'Possible Endings'," Scott Forsyth "House of Pain," Laura U. Marks "After the Celebration: Soul Survivor and the Discourse of Heritage," Rinaldo Walcott "Crack Vision, Ritual Charm, and Hybrid Culture in John L'Ecuyer's Curtis's Charm," David McIntosh "The Films of Bela Tarr," David Thomas Lynch "Le Cérémonie: 'The Last Marxist Film' by Claude Chabrol," Florence Jacobowitz "La Haine, Fallen Angels, and Some Thoughts on Scorsese's Children," Susan Morrison "Wim Wender's Lisbon Story," Jesse Zigelstein "In Defence of Jean Seberg," Richard Lippe "Frisk and Doom Generation," Robin Wood "About Desolation Angels, or, Pack Your Bags, We're Going on an Ego Trip," Mickey Burns "Unstrung Families/Unstrung Heroes: A Meditation on Life, Death, Family, and Andie MacDowell's Nail Polish," Cory Silverberg |
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41 Style |
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| "The Little Space In Between: Preliminary Notes on Before Sunrise," Robin Wood "Style as Attitude: Two Films by Martin Scorsese," Richard Lippe "Rewriting Realism: Bergman and Rossellini in Europe 1949 - 1955," Florence Jacobowitz "Style and Narrative in Bertolucci's The Conformist," Michael Walker "Maintaining the Dual Perspective: Orson Welles and Chimes at Midnight," Peter E. S. Babiak "New Parents and Old: The Horrifying Lyricism of Dancing on Graves " Diane Sippl "Larry Cohen's Bone: Comic Strip as Radical Style," Tony Williams "Book Review: Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film," Susan Morrison |
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42 Chinese Films |
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| "The Films of Ning Ying: China Unfolding in Miniature," Jerry White "Oppositional Politics of Chinese Everyday Practices," Monica Hulsbus "Music and Femininity in Zhang Yimou's Family Melodrama," Yanmei Wei "Allegory and Ambiguity in Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad," Shelly Kraicer "Centre-Stage: Reconstructing the Biopic," Julian Stringer "From Hong Kong to Hollywood: John Woo and His Discontents," Tony Williams "East - West Politics," Patrick Tan "Asian American Filmmakers: The Next Generation? Identity, Mimicry, and Transtextuality in Mina Shum's Double Happiness and Quentin Lee and Justin Lin's Shopping for Fangs," Edward R. O'Neill Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1996 |
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43 Films of the 90s |
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| Photo essays on Arthur Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer "The Spectres Emerge in Daylight," Robin Wood "Todd Haynes's Safe: Illness as Metaphor in the 90s," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe "What's Love Got to Do With It? The Resilience of the Woman's Film," Robert K. Lightning "Lost Highway: Unveiling Cinema's Yellow Brick Road," Reni Celeste Photo essay on four Taiwan films "The Virtues of Theft: André T&$233;chiné's Thieves," Diane Sippl "The Magical World of the Ultimate Matriarch," Elen A. Bovkis "Videodrome and the Revenge of Repression," Marty Roth. "Against Convention: Form and Narrative in Paul Ledue's Frida," Peter C. Knowles "Plotting the Revolution: Identity and Territory in Memories of Underdevelopment," Amy Beer |
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44 Performance |
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45 Canadian Cinema; Festivals |
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| "Faces Changing Colour Changing Canon," Peter Harcourt "Highway 61 Revisited," Chris Byford "To Act is to Be: Identity in Recent Quebec Cinema," Jerry White "Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood," Robin Wood "Lesbian Desires: Bound and Invested," Jean Noble Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1997 "Nil By Mouth and Gummo," Susan Morrison "Exile Shanghai," Florence Jacobowitz "Revolutionary Love and Post-Communist Murder: Amor Vertical and A Friend of the Deceased," Scott Forsyth "Gay Movies, West and East: In and Out and Happy Together," Richard Lippe "Wolves Cry Under the Moon," Robin Wood "Visible Cities, Invisible Freedoms: Uncut, City of Dark and Exile in Sarajevo" Marcy Goldberg "A Report on Screens: New Sites for Crosscultural Media" Diane Sippl |
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50 Hitchcock & Cukor (Special 50th Issue) |
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| "The Spatial World of Hitchcock's Films: The Point-Of-View Shot, The Camera, and 'Instrarealism'," Susan Smith "Travels With My Aunt: Romanticism and Aging," Richard Lippe "The Use of Glass in Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail," Stephen Brophy "George Cukor's 'Take' on the Literacy Narrative: Hollywood Style," Scott F. Stoddart "A Domestic Trilogy," Robert K. Lightning "'Your Father's Method of Relaxation': Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt," Tony French "Kim Novak: Vertigo, Performance, and Image," Richard Lippe "Vertigo: Authorship as Transformation," Tony Williams "Notes on the Long Take in George Cukor's A Life of Her Own," Edward R. O'Neill "Manufacturing Horror in Hitchcock's Psycho," Steven Schneider "Illusion and Deception in Cukor's Justine," Randall Clark "Looking at The Birds and Marnie Through the Rear Window," Robin Wood "Seeing and Believing: Sid Bernstein's German Atrocities Film and the Question of Hitchcock's Participation," Florence Jacobowitz |
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54 Screwball Comedy |
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| "The Same, But Different: The Awful Truth about Marriage, Remarriage, and Screwball Comedy," Kathrina Giltre "Screwball and the Masquerade: The Lady Eve and Two-Faced Woman," Robin Wood Available on Video "Luis Bunuel: A Tribute," "Handy-Dandy: Bunuel's Susana," Tony French "Beautiful People," Robin Wood "Eden and Beyond," Jason Wilcox Toronto Film Festival Reviews 2000 "Interview with Fridrik Thor Fridriksson," Robin Wood "Diversity or Dumb Reality: Speculations on Canadian Film and on Sea of Blood by Richard Fung," Peter Harcourt "Above and Beneath: Francois Ozon's Sous le sable," Richard Lippe "Amos Gitai's Kippur," Florence Jacobowitz "Asian Fusion: Some Notes on the Hybridization of the 'Heroic Warrior' Genre," Susan Morrison "Platform," Shelly Kriacer "Juan Carlos Tabio, Cuban Cinema, and The Waiting List," Scott Forsyth |
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55 Star Image Icon |
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| "Hawke Ascending," Robin Wood "Frank and Fearless: The Eve Arnold - Joan Crawford Sessions," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe "Playing Fathers and Monsters: The Classical Appeal of Anthony Hopkins," Rachael Johnson "High Class Whore: Hedy Lamarr's Star Image in Hollywood," Jan Christopher Horak "I Wonder What Becomes of Me? A Note on the Marx Brothers," Tony French "Jim Carrey: The King of Embarrassment," Tarja Laine "The Man in the Pink Shirt: Hugh Grant and the Dilemma of British Masculinity," Gael Sweeny "Joan Fontaine's Heiress: Star in Transition," Robert K. Lightning |
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56 Shifting Narratives |
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| "'So Where Are You?': Memento, Memory, and the Sincerity of Self-Deception, " Dion Tubrett "Flowers of Shanghai," Robin Wood "DVD: The Shift to Film's New Modernity," Graeme Harper "Narration and Focalization in Wings of Desire," Warren Buckland "Narrative and Spectacle in Gladiator," Richard Rushton "They Kill for Love: Defining the Erotic Thriller as a Film Genre," Doug Keesey "The Lake Effects: A 'Slowly Turning Narrative'," Trish Suchy CineACTION! Index issues 1 through 55 |
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57 Canadian Film |
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| "Canadian Cinema in the Age of Globalization," David L. Pike "STET" [on Philip Hoffman's What These Ashes Wanted], Mike Cartmell "Toward the Quebec Auteur: From Perault to Arcand," Georege Melnyk "The Party's Over: Rollercoaster, " Robin Wood. "'In the Sun It All Looks Nice': A Note on Paul Almond's Isabel," Tony French "Persistence of Vision: The Wonderful World of John Paizs," Robert L. Cagle "The New Face of British Heritage," Deborah Tudor "Distance: Hirokazu Kore-eda," Susan Morrison "The Intimate Screen: Dogme and Beyond," Diane Sippl "Book Review: Cinema's Recounting of the Ordinary" [on Andrew Kleven's Disclosure of the Everyday], Jeffrey Crouse |
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58 World Cinema Since 1990 |
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| "Party Time, or Can't Hardly Wait for that American Pie: Hollywood High School Movies of the 90s," Robin Wood "Time and Point of View in Contemporary Cinema," Temenuga Trifonova "Are You With Me? Unemployed Negativity in Mike Leigh's Naked," Garry Watson "The Import / Export Business: The Road to Abbas Kirostami's Taste of Cherry," Devin Orgeron "The Most Dangerous Game: Failed Male Friendship in Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes," David Greven "Floating Desire, Floating Souls: Modern Cultural Landscape in Tsai Ming-Liang's Taipei Trilogy," I-Fen Wu "Chop Suey: Photographs to Remember You By," Richard Lippe "Beautiful People: In Praise of the Liberal State," Robert Lightning |
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59 Max Ophuls Centenary |
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| "Circles of Delight and Despair: The Cinema of max Ophuls," Peter Harcourt "Plunging Off the Deep End into the Reckless Moment," Robin Wood "Falling Women and Fallible Narrators," Douglas Pye "Werther (Max Ophuls, 1938)," Michael Walker "Yoshiwara: Max Ophuls in the Empire of Passion," Alexander Jacoby "Captivated by Garbo: Max Ophuls's Roman Interlude with The Duchess of Langeais," Lutz Bacher "'Do I Disgust You?': Or, Tirez pas sur La Pianiste," Robin Wood "Icons and Subversion in the Westerns of Clint Eastwood," Peter E. S. Babiak "Book Review: Fred and Ginger: A Vision of Emersonian Hollywood?" [review of Astaire and Rogers by Edward Gallafent], Jeffrey Crouse |
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60 East Asian Cinemas |
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| "A Tale of Two Emperors: Mimicry and Mimesis in Two 'New Year's' Films from China and Hong Kong," Carlos Rojos "Hollywood and the Chinese Other," Tan Ye "To Live and Dye in China: The Personal and Political in Zhang Yimou's Judou," Vincent Brook "Interview with Jia Zhangke," Shelly Kraicer "Three Japanese Actresses of the 1950s: Modernity, Femininity, and The Performance of Everyday Life," Catherine Russell "Looking for Nostalgia: Memory and National Identity in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's A Time to Live, A Time to Die," I-Fen Wu "The Halfway House of Memory: An Interview with Hirokazu Kore-eda," Gabriel Paletz "South Korean Film Genres and Art-House Anti-Poetics: Erasure and Negation in The Power of Kangwan Province," David Scott Diffient |
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61 New Canadian Cinema |
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| "Wotcha Lookin' at, Anyway? An Examination of Point-of -View in Denys Arcand's Stardom," Peter Harcourt "Quebec's Next Generation: From Lauzon to Turpin," George Melnyk "Blood in the Maple Syrup: Canon, Popular Culture, and the Canuxploitation of Julian Roffman," Aaron Taylor "Charting the Course of the Pacific New Wave," Diane Burgess "Interview with R. Bruce Elder," Aysegul Koc "Beyond the Homeland: A Comparative Introduction to Latino Film in Canada and the US," Elena Feder "Seeing and Being Seen in Media Culture: Shelley Niro's Honey Moccasin," Darrell Varga "Border Crossings: Representations of North American Culture in Bruce McDonald's Highway 61," Rochelle Simmons Toronto Film Festival Reviews 2002 "The Consequences of Seduction: Adolph," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe "The Intended," Robin Wood "Unknown Pleasures,", Shelly Kraicer "Making and Remaking Class in Ken Loach's Recent Films," Scott Forsyth "Fruit Chan's 'Excremental Vision': Public Toilet," Susan Morrison International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg "When Fiction Turns Real: Suspending Disbelief," Diane Sippl "Book Review: Alan King, Filmmaker," Janice Kaye |
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62 Close Readings |
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| "Unanswered Questions: Vision and Experience in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line," Jacob Leigh "The Purpose of Plot and the Place of Joan Bennett in Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window," Andrew Kleven "The Age of Innocence: Martin Scorsese, 1993," Deborah Thomas "Love Hurts: Redemption within the Bowels of Seil contre tous and the Cinema of Aggression," Dion Tubrett "In Search of the Code inconnu," Robin Wood "Apocalypse Then: Lessons of Darkness Revisited," Adam Bingham "Vive le Cinema: A Reading of What Time is it There?," Aysegul Koc "… Simply Because You're Near Me: Love, Chungking Expresss and In the Mood for Love," Blair Miller "Music and Modernity in A Brighter Summer Day," Saul Austerlitz |
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63 Minneli and Ozu Centenary |
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| "Being a Clown: Curious Coupling in The Pirate," Douglas Pye "The Cobweb," Stella Bruzzi "Home from the Hill: Vincente Minnelli, 1959," Michael Walker "Love and the City: An Analysis of Vincente Minnelli's The Clock," Stuart Hands "The far Side of Paradise; The Style and Substance of Yolanda and the Thief," Alexander Jacoby "The Spaces In-Between: The Cinema of Yasujiro Ozu " Adam Bingham "Notes Toward a Reading of Tokyo Twilight [Tokyo boshoku]," Robin Wood Toronto Film Festival Reviews 2003 "Los Angeles Plays Itself," Richard Lippe "Notes on the Toronto Film Festival," Robin Wood "Amos Gitai's Alila," Florence Jacobowitz "Drifters: Smoking and Moping on the Mainland," Susan Morrison "Tabio's So Far Away," Scott Forsyth "The Brown Bunny," Dion Tubrett |
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65 Sex, Terror, Madness, Canada |
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| "In the Web of David Cronenberg: Spider and the New Auteurism," Reni Celeste "Thoroughly Modern Maddin," David Pike "Canadian Social Documentary in the Age of Michael Moore: The Corporation and The Fix," Seth Feldman "Gay Guerrilla Filmmaking and Terrorist Chic: Toronto Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce Discusses His Latest Art/Porn Feature, The Raspberry Reich," Matthew Hays "Caress, The Decay: Queer Desire in he Nature of Nicholas ," Andrew Lesk "The Local and the Global Revisited: Un 32 Aôut sur terre," Darrell Varga "You Watch To Much TV, Kid: Causalities of Cultural Colonialism," Robert L. Cagle "Tedium and Torture: Fight Club, Globalization, and Professionals in Crisis," John McCullough "Allegorical Figurations and the Political Didactic in Bulworth," Reagan Ross Toronto International Film Festival 2004 |
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66 Questions of Value |
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| "A.I. or The Agony of Steven Spielberg," William Beard "Metropolis: Restoration, Reëvaluation," Susan Smith "Pleasures of The Big Sleep," Nathan Holmes "The Centre Cannot Hold: Betrayals in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz," Justin E. A. Busch "This is Not a Game: Alan J. Pakula's Rollover," Jack Hughes "'But It's Good': Finding Value in Twentynine Palms," Jason Wilcox "From Within: Music in the Style of Jean Renoir," Alex Clayton |
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67 Film on Film |
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| "Remembering Memories of Underdevelopment," Scott Forsyth "Zero de Conduite: Radical Cinema," Florence Jacobowitz "The Life and Death of Deathwatch and Dying at Grace," Florence Jacobowitz "In a Glass Cage," Bruce LaBruce "Party Girl: Ray and Hollywood," Richard Lippe "Jia Zhang-ke's The World," Susan Morrison "Notorious," Lori Spring "Right Again: A Loving Tribute to Stan, Ollie, and Leo," Robin Wood "Cinematic Meaning in the Work of David Lynch: Revisiting Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive," Michael Vass "Looking a Lola, Looking at Cinema" Jason Wilcox "Film, Dreams, and Stolen Pocketwatches," Dr. Ira Nayman "In Memoriam" [photo tribute to Marlon Brando] "Ceylan and Company: Autobiographical Trajectories of Cinema," Diane Sippl "Ônibus 174 [Bus 174]: Intention in the System of Representation," Hans W. Staats "Centenary," [photo tributes to Otto Preminger and Greta Garbo] "Seeing Elephant," Dion Tubrett |
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68 Natural Born Killers |
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"Articulating the Violence Debate: True Lies, Natural Born Killers, and the Terms of 'Cultural Contamination', " Kimberly A. Owczarsk |
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69 Films From Around The Globe |
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| "Images of the Rural: The Cinema of Quebec," Peter Harcourt "Anxieties of Fundamentalism and the Dynamics of Modernist Resistance: Youssef Chahine's Al Maseer [The Destiny]," Malek Khouri "On William D. MacGillivray," Robin Wood "The Days of Frozen Dreams: An Interview with Wang Xizoshuai," Alive Shih "The Brig: The Paradox of Resistance and Recuperation," Nicola Galombik and Michael Zryd "Sexual Dependency: The Split Image of Globalisation," Michael Sofair Reviews "Bruce McDonald on the West Coast: The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess," George Melnyk "C.R.A.Z.Y.," George Melnyk "Reading, Regarding, and Waiting: Three New Documentaries from Nova Scotia," Darrelll Varga "Some Directions in World Cinema: AFI Fest 2005, 54th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, 7th Scandinavian Film Festival L.A." Diane Sippl "Two Films by Amnon Buchbinder: Some Questions About the Future of Canadian Cinema," Robin Wood |
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70 Protest and Revolution |
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"The Documentary Films of Citizen Activist Michael Moore: A Man on a Mission, or, How Far a Reinvigorated Populism Ca Take Us," Garry Watson
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71 Sexuality in the Cinema |
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"The The Silent, Black Centre in the Early Films of Clair Denis," Katharine Asals |
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72 The State of the Art: Film and Film Criticism Today |
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"The New Film Studies and the Decline of Critique," Richard Rushton "The Horror, Piglet, The Horror: Found Footage, Mashups, The Avant-Garde, and the Strange Case of Apocalypse Pooh," Scott Mackenzie "Towards a Theory of Virtual Pornography," Kevin Wynter "Saving the Image: Scale and Duration in Contemporary Art Cinema," Erika Balsom "Singing Outside the Frame: The Female Voice in Gigi," Susan Smith "The Risk of Ambiguity: Reconsidering Zavattini's Film Ethics," Nicholas Balaisis "Interview: Joan Chen," Alice Shih "Notes on a Radical Tradition: Subversive Ideological Applications in the Hammer Horror Films," Brian Wilson "Interview: Charles Mudede," Allan MacInnis "Once Upon a Time in America: Sergio Leone and the Construction of Myth," Peter Babiak Index of CineAction Issues 56 to 71 |
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| 73-4 New Media | ||
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Mini-Cinema:
A Digital Diary for iPod
by Catherine Russell
New Media Resistance: Machinima and the Avant-Garde by Elijah Horwatt The Reality of Dreams: A presentation of L'Ange et la femme (1977) by Peter Harcourt The Imagined City: Toward a Theory of Urbanity in Canadian Cinema by George Melnyk Im just a simple filmmaker: An Interview With Michel Brault by Aysegul Koc From Big Snow to Big Sadness: The Repatriation of Canadian Cultural dentity in the Films of Guy Maddin by John Semley Being at Home with Roy Dupuis and Pascale Bussires or, Star-Gazing In and Out of Quebec by Peter Dickinson Michael Haneke: Beyond Compromise by Robin Wood Voice and Body : Ahead of the Curve and Scouts Are Cancelled by Darrell Varga TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL And Along Come Tourists; The Counterfeiters by Florence Jacobowitz Les Bons Films: A Girl Cut in Two and Angel by Richard Lippe Random Thoughts On and Around the Toronto Film Festival by Robin Wood My Kid Could Paint That by Susan Morrison |
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| 75 The Art House Fim / Jean-Luc Godard / Federico Fellini / Tsai Ming-Liang | ||
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The Bones of Reagan by Darrell Varga |
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| 76 International Cinema | ||
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The Skull Beneath the Skin:
Patrice Chereau and Son Frère
by Robin Wood |
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| 77 Documentary & Superheroes | ||
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Documentary |
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| 78 Global Cinema & Canadian Films and TV | ||
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Global Cinema |
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| 79 Collaboration & French New Wave: 50 Years | ||
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French New Wave: 50 Years by Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe |
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| 80 Genre & Global Cinema | ||
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GENRE Shocked and Awed? Hostel and the Spectacle of Self-Mutilation by Gregory A. Burris Genre Matters: Film Criticism and the Social Relevance of Genres by Juan A. Tarancón Who's Bleeding Whom? Analyzing the Cultural Flows of Blaxploitation Cinema, Then and Now By John Semley Telling the (Wrong) Story: The Disintegration of Transcultural Communication and Narrative in The Fall by E. Charlotte Stevens Where Do We Go From Here? Confronting Contingency with Gerry by Lee Knuttila TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL White Material A Film by Claire Denis by Florence Jacobowitz European Melodramas The Refuge and I Am Love by RICHARD LIPPE What Does a Woman Want? Io sono lamore/I Am Love and Cairo Time by Susan Morrison A TRIBUTE Jennifer Jones and Jean Simmons by RICHARD LIPPE GLOBAL CINEMA City Spaces and National Identity by Katrina Sark The Language of Emotion in Godard's Films by Anuja Madan Neither Hand, Nor Foot, Nor Kidney: Biopower, Body Parts and Human Flows in Stephen Frear's Dirty Pretty Things by Larissa Lai |
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| 81 War Films & Female Directors | ||
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WAR FILMS FEMALE DIRECTORS |
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| 82/83 SCIENCE FICTION & CANADIAN FILMS AND TV | ||
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James Whale’s Frankensteins Going Na’vi Méliès and Early Cinema Postmodern Anxieties Pop Star is the Medium is the Message TIFF 2010 Television Discourse and Governmentality Black Christmas What’s So Funny About Class Struggle? CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2010 |
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| 84 ROBIN WOOD: IN CELEBRATION | ||
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THE ORIGINAL ROBIN WOOD Beyond the Male Gaze Normality is Threatened by
the Monster The Literary Critic, the Nineteenth
Century Novel and The Wire Remembering ARTHUR PENN CLAUDE CHABROL Kim Novak: FIVE FILMS Encountering The Thing From
Another World Antonioni Orgy Obituary |
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| 85 SLOW FILM, CROWD PLEASERS | ||
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SLOW FILM Slow Fuse:
The Cinematic Strategies of Tsai Ming-Liang The Invisible Catastrophe:
Lingering Movement and Duration in Werckmeister Harmonies Passing Time:
SOPHIA COPPOLA’S SOMEWHERE CROWD PLEASERS Unlikely Heroines? ‘Women of a certain age’ and romantic comedy Gran Torino:
Clint Eastwood as Fallen Saviour The American Personality Documentary:
Fetishization,Nostalgia and the Working Class Impalement:
Race and Gender in Bryan Singer’s X-Men A Brief History of Taiwan’s Film Industry A Report from the 2011 Berlinale:
Governing Relationships |
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| 86 NEW CINEMA, CANADIAN FILMS, FILM FESTIVALS | ||
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From Recoil to Ruination “I leave to several futures (not to all) Engendering Genre Rape, the Unspeakable War Crime The Trotsky Digitality and Détournement The Exorcist FESTIVALS Toronto International Film Festival A Celebration of a Simple Life Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Lars Von Trier and Melancholia CINEMA CITY International Film Festival RIGA International Film Festival REYKJAVIK International Film Festival CONFRONTING DIFFERENCE |
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| 87 CLOSE READINGS | ||
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Editorial by Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe Lumière, Astruc, Bazin: Raymond Depardon's Profils paysans by Jerry White The Clock by Jacob Potempski The Imagery of Surveillance: In a Lonely Place by Tony Williams Marriage In a Lonely Place by Robert Alpert Nobody’s Vision: JIM JARMUSCH’S DEAD MAN by George Porcari To Experience Song of Ceylon by Daniella Gitlin Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life by M.G. Moscato Rogue Vehicles:
David Cronenberg's Fast Company and the Tax Shelter Period Emotional Fault Lines in Café de Flore by Alsegul Koc
ROBIN WOOD DOSSIER Personal and Political Views: How Robin Wood Taught Us How to Live by Alexander Jacoby Sweeter Still: Sweet Movie Revisited by Adam Balivet Magic in the Attempt: Before Sunset and a Legacy of Criticism by Adam Bingham Love Me Three Times:
Time and Narrative in Letter from an Unknown Woman The Formal Dualism of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing by Robert Lighting |
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| 88 BEYOND THE NARRATIVE | ||
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Editorial Love in the Time of Calvary:
Romance and Family Values in Crucifixion Films The Return of the Realist Spy Film by Luis M. Garcia-Mainar Hiding From Significance:
Documented Disinterestedness in Winnebago Man Lefties and Hippies and Yuppies, Oh My!
David Cronenberg’s Scanners revisited Sex, Science and the “Female Monstrous”:
Wood Contra Cronenberg, Revisited Ideology in Christopher Nolan’s Inception by Andrew Winchur Wajdi Mouawad in Cinema: ORIGINS, WARS AND FATE by May Telmissany Light in Dark Spaces:
A Review of Allan Sekula and Noel Burch’s The Thinking Queer’s Pornographer:
Bruce LaBruce, Art/Porn and the Politics of Co-optation Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria
by Alison Frank |
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