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Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication bringing together scholarship in

the field of cinema and media studies since 1975.

Landon Palmer (University of Alabama)

MTV Video Stardom as Media Power: Madonna’s (Moving) Image Control
David Sterritt (N/A)

A Regional Festival with a Global Reach
Peter Gardner (N/A), Barbara Foley (Rutgers University-Newark)

Between the Fasces and the Cross: Politics and History in Federico Fellini's "La Strada"
Marc Raymond (Kwangwoon University)

Beyond the Auteur: South Korea's Domestic Independents as National Cinema
Doyle Greene (Independent scholar)

"Blinded by the Light" and Rock Tradition
Sheri Chinen Biesen (Rowan University)

Blues, Smoke and Shadows: Jazz in 'Musical' Noir Films
Jihoon Kim (Chung-ang University)

Data Visualizations, Vlogs, Drone Imagery: Expanded Documentary Forms in the COVID-19 Emergency
Daniel Gómez Steinhart (University of Oregon)

New Forms: The Currents Program at the 2020 New Film Festival
Kathy Vanhout (University of Antwerp)

Offstage absorption: on John Cassavetes' "Opening Night" (1977)
Henry Rownd (N/A)

PANNING (and SCANNING) "SKIDOO" (1968): Watching TV on Otto Preminger's Widescreen
Sheri Chinen Biesen (Rowan University)

Sounds of Romance: Musicalizing Cinematic Passion
Ayesha Ahmed (N/A)

The Smile in "Son of Saul": A Test of Différance
Joy McEntee (University of Adelaide)

Vigilantism and the Law in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
Eli Boonin-Vail (University of Pittsburgh)

Visible Stripes: Reenacting Trauma in Hollywood's Carceral Aesthetics
Daniel Gómez Steinhart (University of Oregon)

New Forms: The Currents Program at the 2020 New Film Festival
David Sterritt (N/A)

A Regional Festival with a Global Reach
Sheri Chinen Biesen (Rowan University)

Sounds of Romance: Musicalizing Cinematic Passion
Doyle Greene (Independent scholar)

"Blinded by the Light" and Rock Tradition
Sheri Chinen Biesen (Rowan University)

Blues, Smoke and Shadows: Jazz in 'Musical' Noir Films
Emily Chivers Yochim (Allegheny College)

Alice Leppert, "TV Family Values: Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms" (Rutgers University Press, 2019)
Shannon McRae (State University of New York at Fredonia)

J. R. Jordan, Robert Wise—The Motion Pictures (Bear Manor Media, 2020)
Devapriya Sanyal (N/A)

M.K. Raghavendra, "Locating World Cinema: Interpretations of Film as Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic India, 2020)
Serkan Şavk (Izmir University of Economics)

Gönül Dönmez-Colin, "Women in the Cinemas of Iran and Turkey: As Images and as Image-Makers" (Routledge, 2020)
Jihoon Kim (Chung-ang University)

Data Visualizations, Vlogs, Drone Imagery: Expanded Documentary Forms in the COVID-19 Emergency
Ayesha Ahmed (N/A)

The Smile in "Son of Saul": A Test of Différance
Peter Gardner (N/A), Barbara Foley (Rutgers University-Newark)

Between the Fasces and the Cross: Politics and History in Federico Fellini's "La Strada"
Kathy Vanhout (University of Antwerp)

Offstage absorption: on John Cassavetes' "Opening Night" (1977)
Henry Rownd (N/A)

PANNING (and SCANNING) "SKIDOO" (1968): Watching TV on Otto Preminger's Widescreen
Marc Raymond (Kwangwoon University)

Beyond the Auteur: South Korea's Domestic Independents as National Cinema
Joy McEntee (University of Adelaide)

Vigilantism and the Law in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
Eli Boonin-Vail (University of Pittsburgh)

Visible Stripes: Reenacting Trauma in Hollywood's Carceral Aesthetics