Contents This Amazing Stranger from the Planet Krypton': Industrial Design and the Machine Paradigm in the Fleischer Animated Superman shorts 1941-43
by Marek Wasielewski.


Oh My God, This Film's Really Turning Me On!: Adapting Flash Gordon
by Mark Bould.


Souffles and Sexual Tightropes: An Interview with Mike Hodges
by Mark Bould.


Superheroes for Perverts - Zizek and Bordwell Go to the Funny Papers
by Mark Murphy.


Mina, The Magical Female: Inferential Sexism in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
by Joshua Cozine.


DVD Reviews: Seduced and Abandoned (Terry Hobgood), The Essential Atom Egoyan Box Set (Sherryl Vint).


Book Reviews: Les Diaboliques (Chelsea Wayant), Women & Experimental Filmmaking (Lars Gustaf Andersson), The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s (Michael Coyne), Anita Loos Rediscovered (Stephanie Dickison), The New European Cinema (Mattias Frey), Realer than Reel: Global Directions in Documentary (Annabelle Honess Roe), Popular Cinema in Brazil (Gary M. Kramer), Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Paul N. Reinsch), The Cinema of Scandinavia (Ann-Kristin Wallengren), Odeon Cinemas 2 (Deborah Allison), An Amourous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema 1896-1937 (Brian R. Jacobson), British Film Makers: Derek Jarman (Ryan Prout).


Festival Reports: Torino (Jan Lumholdt), Marrakech (Jan Lumholdt), Tokyo Filmex (Eija Niskanen), Hiroshima (Eija Niskanen)

Contents Greece and Rome on Screen
by Theresa Urbainczyk.


Catch Hannibal at Mr. Ripley's Fight Club If You Can: From Eurodecadent Cinema to American Nationalist Allegory
by Robert von Dassanowsky.


From Ruggles to Rally; or, America, America! The Strange Career of Leo McCarey
by Robin Wood.


Stephen Frears: Master of Hi-Lo Culture
by Deborah Allison.


Camus and Carne Transformed: Bergman's The Silence versus Antonioni's The Passenger
by John Orr.


Czech Dream in a Capitalist Republic: An Interview with Czech Film-Maker Filip Remunda
by Roderick Coover.


DVD Reviews: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Mark Bould), Baadasssss (aka How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass) (Mark Bould), Divan (Pamela S. Evers), Prom Night in Kansas City (Pamela S. Evers), Film ist. [1-12] DVD Edition (James Kreul), Films from a Dark Room (James Kreul).


Book Reviews: Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film (Stephanie Dickison), The Image of Librarians in Cinema, 1917-1999 (Adina L. Riggins), Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Contemporary Film, and Women (Tom Stanek), Cinema 1 & 2 (Sherryl Vint).


Festival Reports: Berlin 2007 (Jan Lumholdt).

Contents Appearing Fabu-lous: From Tender Romance to Horrifying Sex
by Frances Harding.


'Looking at Ourselves in Our Mirror': Agency, Counter-Discourse, and the Nigerian Video Film
by Chukwuma Okoye.


Nnebue: The Anatomy of Power
by Jonathan Haynes.


The Act and Art of Seeing Visual Media in West Africa: TV and Video in Northern C?te d'Ivoire
by Till F?rster.


Creating the Balance: Hallelujah Masculinities in a Ghanaian Video Film
by Wisdom Agorde.


The Hausa Video Film: The Call of the Muezzin
by Hyginus Ekwuazi.


Magical Realism and the 'Power' of Nollywood Home Video Films
by Hope Eghagha.


Currying Favour: Eastern Media Influences and the Hausa Video Film
by Abdalla Uba Adamu.


The Pan-Africanism We Have: Nollywood's Invention of Africa
by John C. McCall.


Women, Religion and Guilt in Hausa Home Video: An Assessment
by Aminu Fagge Mohammad.


'Nollywood': What's in a Name?
by Jonathan Haynes.


The 'Nollywood Rising' Conference
by Brian Larkin.


Nollywood Comes to the Caribbean
by Philip Cartelli.


DVD Reviews: Letters from Iwo Jima (Bryan Nixon), Kicking and Screaming (Liza Palmer), Army of Shadows (Tim Palmer).


Book Reviews: Roman Polanski: The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller (Davide Caputo), The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship (Stephanie Dickison)

Contents Film Scratches: Notes from the Fringe
by Liza Palmer.


Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool
by Deirdre O'Neill and Michael Wayne.


Courting the Critics / Assuring the Audiences: The Modulation of Dirty Harry in a Changing Cultural Climate
by Deborah Allison.


'Every Cannes Needs Its Scandal': Between Art and Exploitation in Contemporary French Film
by Hampus Hagman.


A Modern Gesture: Minnelli and the Crisis of Post-War Patriarchy
by Christopher Sharrett.


Jean-Marc Barr and 'Impossible Love': Love, Sex and Spirituality in the Free Trilogy
by Gary M. Kramer.


DVD Reviews: Yi Yi (James Udden), Cinema 16: European Short Films (Gary M. Kramer), Clean, Shaven (Anton Bitel), Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales (Michelle Scatton-Tessier), R.W. Paul: The Collected Films, 1895-1908 (Stephen Boomer), Echoes of Forgotten Places: Urban Exploration, Industrial Archeology, and the Aesthetics of Decay (Tom Stanek), Army in the Shadows (Harry Joll).


Book Reviews: Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema (Mattias Frey), Dudley Murphy: Hollywood Wild Card (Ethan de Seife).


Festival Reports: Cannes 2007 (Jan Lumholdt).

Contents Editorial: Andre Bazin at 90
by Jeffrey Crouse.


Because We Need Him Now: Re-Enchanting Film Studies Through Bazin
by Jeffrey Crouse.


What is Criticism?
by Charles Warren.


Godard and Bazin
by Diane Stevenson.


Cinema as an Art of Potential Metaphors: The Rehabilitation of Metaphor in Andre Bazin's Realist Film Theory
by Mats Rohdin.


Bazin as Cavellian Realist
by William Rothman.


The View Across the Courtyard: Bazin and the Evolution of Depth Style
by Tom Paulus.


Andre Bazin & the Preservation of Loss
by Karla Oeler.


The Best Years of Our Lives: Planes of Innocence and Experience
by Richard Armstrong.


Festival Reports: Toronto 2007 (Barry Keith Grant), Z?rich 2007: interview with festival director Karl Spoerri (Davide Caputo).

Contents Editorial
by Daniel Lindvall.


Control and British Cinema
by John Orr.


Gillo Pontecorvo: Partisan Film-Maker
by Tom Behan.


Spiralling into Interiority: Ben Bolt's Adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
by Amy Lai.


A Wave Over Boundaries: New Austrian Film
by Robert von Dassanowsky.


Lone Star: American Indie Icon John Sayles at the 48th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
by Dimitra Kessenides.


Off-kilter
by Kira Takeshita.


Film Happenings
by Liza Palmer.


DVD Reviews: The Burmese Harp (Hugh Noell).


Book Reviews: Peter Tscherkassky (Daniel Herbert).


Film Reviews: The Brink (Daniel O'Brien), La Morte Rouge (Carmen Siu).


Festival Reports: Z?rich (Davide Caputo), Telluride (Gary M. Kramer), Iris Prize Festival (Ryan Prout), Motovun (Steven Yates), San Sebasti?n (Jan Lumholdt)

Contents Editorial
by Daniel Lindvall.


Science Fiction in the Brazilian Cinema: A Brief Overview
by Alfredo Luiz Suppia.


New Zealand Film and Questions of Genre
by Barry Keith Grant.


Digesting Steven Spielberg
by Murray Pomerance.


A Personal Study of Film Studies, inspired by Film International's Frank Capra Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Criticism
by Kira Takeshita.


Weaving a Dark Parody: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower
by Huang Yiju.


The Lovely Smallness of Doctor Who
by Ken Chen.


Film Happenings
by Liza Palmer.


DVD Reviews: Index 020, Index 023 (Lars Gustaf Andersson), La Haine (Philip Cartelli), Flag Wars (Chelsea Wayant).


Book Reviews: Cinema Before Cinema: The Origins of Scientific Cinematography (Carmen Siu), Filmosophy (David Sterritt).


Film Reviews: 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Anton Biel), No Country for Old Men (Jonathan Murray), Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Ruth Starkman).


Festival Reports: Compass International Festival of Resistance (Nadia Arancio and Luke Moffat), London 2007 (Harry Joll), Thessaloniki 2007 (Dimitra Kessenides), Cucalorus 2007 (James Kreul), Turin 2007 (Jan Lumholdt), Montpellier 2007 (Larry Portis).

Contents Making Movies in Europe

Working Title Films: From Mid-Atlantic to the Heart of Europe

by Tobias Hochscherf and James Leggott

Better Late than Never? The Role of Policy in the Turkish Cinematic Revival

by Melis Behlil

Once Upon a Time in Italy: Transnational Features of Genre Production, 1960s-1970s

by Stefano Baschiera and Francesco Di Chiara

Practice Makes Perfect? The Production of the Swedish Sex Film in the 1970s

by Mariah Larsson

Made in Flanders (Redux): Film Production, Government Funding and Television Participation in Flanders, Belgium

by Leen Engelen and Roel Vande Winkel

City of Light, City of Shadows: The Difficult Take-off of a Spanish Film Studio

by Alejandro Pardo

A Film-friendly Town? Assessing a Decade at a Small Swedish Production Centre


by Olof Hedling

Contents Carl Freedman on Gangsterism and Capitalism

Part 1: The Supplement of Coppola: Primitive Accumulation and the Godfather Trilogy


by Carl Freedman

Part 2: Hobbes After Marx, Scorsese After Coppola: on GoodFellas

by Carl Freedman

DVD Reviews: L'Argent, Man with a Movie Camera, White Mane, The Red Balloon, Silent Light, Princess

Book Reviews: Vincente Minnelli, Orson Welles, Casablanca, Roman Polanski, The Cinema of the Balkans

Around the Circuit: The New York Film Festival

Contents Editorial: Hollywood and the Norden

by Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kaapa (Guest editors)

Adapting National Identity: Ethical Borders Made Suspect in the Hollywood Version of Susanne Bier's Brothers

by Meryl Shriver-Rice

After The Celebration: Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love

by Arne Lunde

Hunting High and Low: Notes on Nazi Zombies, Francophiles and National Cinema(s)

by Jo Sondre Moseng and Havard Andreas Vibeto

Hollywood Sin, Scandinavian Virtue: The 1967 Revolt of I Am Curious and The Graduate


by Sψren Birkvad

Born American? Renny Harlin and Global Hollywood

by Pietari Kaapa

DVD Reviews: Dillinger is Dead, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Mala Noche, The Life of Jesus

Book Reviews: Contemporary African American Cinema, Film Architecture, Ang Lee, The Simpsons

Around the Circuit: Berlin International Film Festival

Contents I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! Insane cinema

'Psychiatry quit defining madness after widespread experiments exposed shocking errors in diagnosis. Sanity is indexed to reality but reality is cultural and transient, of no fixed abode. 'Well adjusted' to what: 1930s Berlin or 1960s San Francisco? Elwood P. Dowd: "I wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it."'

Gary McMahon on the history of 'madness', its uses and definitions, in Hollywood cinema and beyond.

Beware of the wolves! The Turkish versus the European reception of Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (2006)

'Serdar Akar's action film Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak/Valley of the Wolves: Iraq was released in Turkey in January 2006. Riding the waves of Turkish nationalism and capitalizing on widespread frustrations over Turkey's geopolitical situation, the film became one of the most-watched local films ever. Soon afterwards, the film was released in European theatres. Although targeted at viewers of Turkish origin, the film caught the attention of others too. This marked the beginning of a polemic reception and a wide public and political denouncement of the film's anti-American and anti-Semitic character.'

A reception study by Kevin Smets, Dilek Kaya Mutlu and Roel Vande Winkel.

'He loved what he did so much!' An Interview with Evans (Evans) Frankenheimer

'Arguably post-war Hollywood's most politically engaged and astute writer/director, John Frankenheimer (1930-2002) was also an incredible visual stylist, a man who learned the craft of image-making both from his early years as a photographer and from intense and demanding work he did in quality live TV drama during the 1950s, where he managed writing, rehearsals, storyboarding and - as the shows unfolded - the instant editing made possible by multiple camera set-ups. This was a period (like the celebrated years D.W. Griffith spent at Biograph) that provided Frankenheimer with the kind of concentrated hands-on training with the medium that few have been lucky enough to experience...'

Murray Pomerance interviews the director's widow, Evans Frankenheimer, about her husband's long career and his relationship to, among others, Bobby Kennedy, Frank Sinatra and Toshiro Mifune. With an introduction by R. Barton Palmer.

'The English master of movie melodrama': Hitchcock, horror and the woman's film

'As the following will therefore demonstrate, not only was Hitchcock identified as a horror director during the 1940s, but as the central horror director of the period. Furthermore, his films clearly demonstrated the connection between films that have since been presented as separate and distinct from one another through the use of generic terms that were invented in later periods: films identified as examples of film noir or the paranoid woman's film. As a result, while many of Hitchcock's films feature the persecuted male of many supposedly noir thrillers, and often operated as the template for such films, many of his films also featured the female investigator of the paranoid woman's film...'

Mark Jancovich takes issue with the opinion that Psycho was Hitch's first horror movie.

Contents Volume 9 Issue 4


Editorial: Larry Portis, 1943-2011
by Daniel Lindvall


'Based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut'
by Gary McMahon


The Barcelona School and the New Spanish Cinema
by Christiane Passevant


Origins of the New Spanish Cinema: interview with Basilio Martin Patino
presented by Christiane Passevant


The Recovered Memory of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution: an interview with Jaime Camino
presented by Christiane Passevant


Beyond the Barcelona School: an interview with Vicente Aranda
presented by Christiane Passevant


The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and the Cognitive US-Mexico Border
by Jaime Isbell (Winner of the 2010 Frank Capra Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Criticism)


Fourth Iris Prize Festival report and interview with Magnus Mork, director of Samaritan
by Ryan Prout


Todd Verow and James Derek Dwyer
interviewed by Gary M. Kramer


DVD Reviews: Now & Later, Make Way for Tomorrow


Book Reviews: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon, Disability on Film


Film Reviews: Bi, Don't Be Afraid, Dogtooth, Elmina


Around the Circuit: Cannes 2011