Special Issue: Early Europe
Screening Early Europe: Premodern Projections by Louise D’ArcensThe Long Path Back: Medievalism and Film by Adrian MartinTransparent Walls: Stained Glass and Cinematic Medievalism by Stephanie TriggSuspended Animation: Myth, Memory and History in Beowulf by Anke Bernau“We are the Monsters Now”: The Genre Medievalism of Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf by Sylvia Kershaw and Laurie OrmondFrom Mythic History to Cinematic Poetry: Terrence Malick’s The New World Viewed by Robert SinnerbrinkMusic for Myth and Fantasy in Two Arthurian Films by Helen DellMedieval Reimaginings: Female Knights in Children’s Television by Narelle CampbellIraq, the Prequel(s): Historicising Military Occupation and Withdrawal in Kingdom of Heaven and 300 by Louise D’ArcensReel Medici Mobsters? The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance Reassessed by Christina Loong“A Continuous Return”: Tristan and Isolde, Wagner, Hollywood and Bill Viola by Laura GintersThree Thrusts at Excalibur by Raúl RuizContributors by Editor
First Release
Fishing from the Same Stream: The New Iranian Cinema, Close-Up and the “Film-on-film” Genre by Adrian DanksPlaying Empire: Settler Masculinities, Adventure, and Merian C. Cooper’s The Four Feathers (US 1929) by Peter LimbrickStrike Me Lucky: Social Difference and Consumer Culture in Roy Rene’s Only Film by Lesley Speed
Australian Film Culture
Some Early History of the Australian Film Institute: A Memoir of the 1970s by Ina Bertrand‘The Circulation of Ideas’: An Interview with Tom O’Regan by Deane WilliamsShifts and Interventions: Cultural Materialism and Australian Film History by Deane Williams
Reviews
Raymond Longford’s The Sentimental Bloke: The Restored Version by Ina BertrandHollywood in the Neighbourhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing by Ina BertrandLoving and Hating Hollywood: Reframing Global and Local Cinemas by Nathalie BrillonWort und Fleisch: Kino zwischen Text und Körper/ Word and Flesh: Cinema between Text and the Body by Adam BroinowskiFrom Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema by Rachael CameronScreening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television by Ryan CookVocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media by Maura EdmondHong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978-2000) by Victor FanThe Encyclopedia of British Film (Third Edition) by Mike FlemingA Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day by Freda FreibergKey Readings in Media Today: Mass Communication in Contexts by Gin Chee TongPicturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema by Frances GuerinDark Places: The Haunted House in Film by Alexandra Heller-NicholasBeyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema by Roger HillmanThe Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture by Jan-Christopher HorakAlbert Maysles by Irene JarvosMovie Greats: A Critical Study of Classic Cinema by D.B. JonesScreenwriting: History, Theory and Practice by Harry KirchnerOut of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiraostami, and Zhang Yimou; Essays and Interviews by Roger MacyTurkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging by Harriet MargolisJane Campion by Harriet MargolisHollywood’s Cold War by Craig MartinScorsese by Ebert by Josh NelsonCrisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema by Violeta PolitoffFilm World: Interviews with Cinema’s Leading Directors by Thomas RedwoodScreen Media: Analysing Film and Television by Christopher RoweFilm Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit by Kirsten StevensCreative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader by Jay Daniel ThomasJohnnie To Kei-fung’s PTU by Mike WalshVincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment by Mike WalshThe Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity by Mike WalshNeo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger by Tony WilliamsSeeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony by Janice Yu