Film Quarterly Fall 2024: Volume 78, Number 1| Film Quarterly
Film Quarterly Fall 2024: Volume 78, Number 1| Film Quarterly
On July 18th, Film Quarterly Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) joined Marina Hassapopoulou (New York University) for a conversation about her new book Interactive Cinema: The Ambi…| Film Quarterly
On June 12th, 2024, this webinar explored the cultural histories, formal innovations, and political interventions of Arab media in the US. FQ columnist and contributing editor Ramzi Fawaz (Universi…| Film Quarterly
Interactive Cinema is not only a valiant effort to expand the history and theory of cinema through the inclusion of its interactive dimensions, but also a plea for further attunement between scholarship and practices of (new) media preservation and remediation. More than documenting the existence of these diverse texts, Hassapopoulou offers in her analysis a reconsideration of film theory that disrupts its traditional ocularcentrism, and a recentering of a multisensorial viewser vacillating b...| Film Quarterly
In The Last of Us Part II, the second installment in the hit video game series, players are made to reckon with the moral consequences of its protagonist Joel’s disastrous actions in the previous game. For his inaugural column, Ramzi Fawaz argues that the sequel “is one of contemporary popular culture’s most explicit statements of what political theorist Hannah Arendt calls ‘representative thinking.’” The video game as a medium makes representative thinking an embodied experience,...| Film Quarterly
Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera (La Chimera, 2023), the director’s fourth feature, opens with a young woman’s face, her glow, her blondeness. Part of the screen is dark, the frame transversally bisected. The shot is a shard of light, a memory retrieved from the recesses of the mind. The image is miraculous, real, yet vanishing with the thin ethereality of a flashback. The film’s first words are in English, as Arthur (Josh O’Connor), a lover, speaks in hushed tones: “So it’s you....| Film Quarterly
The Right to Sit Still, Rohrwacher’s Cinema of Poetry, BeReal and the Posttruth Backlash, Edward Yang’s Restored Perspective, Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, Page Views: Int…| Film Quarterly
