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    Volume 44, No. 1 2020

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    Cover for Volume 44, Issue 1
    Cover for Volume 44, Issue 1
    Cover for Volume 44, Issue 1

    How to Live Together with Her (2013): Posthuman Forms of Roland Barthes’ Idiorrhythmy

    Max Bergmann

    Truth Unreconciled: Counter-Dreaming in Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls

    Caitlyn P. Doyle

    Encounters with the Forbidden: Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi and Jana Aranya

    Suranjan Ganguly

    Sons of God: Postwar Gender and Spirituality in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life

    Christopher Michael Elias

    Kogonada's Urban Neorealism

    Travis Warren Cooper

    Postfeminism, Ambivalence and the Mother in Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011)

    Sarah Smyth

    “If It’s Love, It Must Work Out:” Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela and Modes of Hauntology

    Edward Guetti

    Multiplying Mise-en-Scène: Found Sounds of The Night of the Hunter in Lewis Klahr’s Daylight Moon and Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma

    Amy Skjerseth

    When the Woman Laughs: Genres of Female Laughter in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

    Navid Sinaki

    Tracing a Lineage: Alain Resnais’s Painting Films and the Animated Aesthetic

    Thomas Jackson

    White Material: The Postcolonial Unconscious and the Violence of Intimacy

    Marcus Dominick

    On Cinematic Ekphrasis: Aleksandr Sokurov’s Otets i syn Redux

    Diane Nemec Ignashev



    Editors' Contributions

    A Face in the Crowd in the Trump era

    Brian Neve

    Uncontained Pomposity, or Masculinity in The West Wing

    Stephen Groening

    Democratizing the Screen: ‘Cinematizing’ and ‘Musicalizing’ Social Justice, Politics and the Vote

    Sheri Chinen Biesen

    Don’t Believe the Hype (or, How to Frame a Progressive): Local Media Coverage and the Minnesota Fifth Congressional Primary

    Doyle Greene

    Dangerous Audiovisual Aesthetics: Reading The Lincoln Project and Music Video's Turn

    Carol Vernallis and Jonathan Leal

    Welcome to Minneapolis (or, Then Came the Last Days of May)

    Doyle Greene

    Pandemic Television

    Diane Negra

    Just 93 Days, and the Sacrifice, Courage, and Hope that filled those Days

    Allen H. Redmon

    Soundscapes of an Outbreak

    Mikki Kressbach

    "Imagine" There's a COVID-19 Pandemic

    Doyle Greene

    Disease, Disaster Noir, and Cinematic Panic

    Sheri Chinen Biesen

    Fox News, Media Aesthetics, and the Coronavirus Pandemic

    Carol Vernallis

    Film Festival Reviews

    A Festival without Festivities: The 71st Berlin Film Festival

    Gerd Gemünden

    The Third Song on the Record: The 60th Annecy International Animation Film Festival

    PM Cicchetti

    Screening Films for Full Houses: The 2020 True/False Festival Finds an Enthusiastic Audience

    Brad Prager

    Brave New Beginnings: The 70th Berlin Film Festival

    Gerd Gemünden

    A Necessary Gesture: A review of the Ammondo Tiger Short Film Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020

    Arron Santry

    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

    The Apparent Puzzle of Tom Townsend and Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan

    Jesse Foster-Stout

    “What If They Are Just Actors Playing Roles?” Family Romance, LLC and the Limits of Imagination

    Miyabi Goto

    Shell Shocked: On The Laundromat’s Welcome Abrasiveness

    Ryan Sherwood

    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

    Book Reviews

    Racquel J. Gates, Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2018)

    Alfred L. Martin, Jr.

    Michel Chion, Words on Screen, ed. and trans. Claudia Gorbman (Columbia University Press, 2017)

    Kay Clopton

    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