About
Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication bringing together scholarship in
the field of cinema and media studies since 1975.
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Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College)
Cinema and Politics: The 76th Berlin Film Festival
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Marc Raymond (Kwangwoon University)
The 2025 DMZ International Documentary Festival and the State of Non-fiction Media Today
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Vernon Shetley (Wellesley College)
Charley Varrick and the Incorporation of America in the 1970s
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Emma Hamilton, Alistair Rolls (University of Newcastle)
Assault on Stagecoach: An Intertextual Analysis
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Randy Laist (University of Bridgeport)
“An Experience of the Impossible”: The Planetary Imagination in Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon
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James Brunton (University of Nebraska)
"Make People Live with It”: Sound, Suture, and Transgender Embodiment in Punch Line
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Michael Anthony Turcios (Northwestern University)
The Concealment of Human Rights Abuse in Videos of the United States Customs and Border Protection
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Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth Colege)
A Promising Re-Start in Troubled Times: The 75th Berlin Film Festival
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Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto)
“Sold Out!” DokLeipzig 2024 Achieves Highest Attendance on Record
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Elizabeth Reich (University of Pittsburgh)
Black Women Documentary Filmmakers Roundtable: Zeinabu irene Davis, Juanita Anderson, and Tracy H. Strain
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Lucian Țion (University of Amsterdam)
Early Hollywood’s Social Awareness Films and Contemporary Cinema: The Locarno International Film Festival, 2024
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Hayley O’Malley (Rice University)
“A Woman with Film Reels for Eyes”: The Many Genres and Speculative Possibilities of Black Women’s Film Criticism
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Damini Kulkarni
All Over the Place, or Everything Everywhere All at Once: The 18th Edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival
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Liz Reich (University of Pittsburgh), Maria Alexandra Arana Blas (University of Pittsburgh), Hayden Bunker (University of Pittsburgh), Chi-Tsung Chang (University of Pittsburgh), Meghan Hipple (University of Pittsburgh), Nicene McNeil (University of Pittsburgh), Senjuti Mukherjee (University of Pittsburgh), Jay Rauch (University of Pittsburgh), Abhisek Roy Barman (University of Pittsburgh), Hebah Uddin (University of Pittsburgh)
Black Women’s Music Videos: Towards a Critical Bibliography of One Black Film Feminism
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Liz Reich (University of Pittsburgh)
Feeling First: An Interview with Filmmaker Aarin Burch
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Ellen Scott (University of California, Los Angeles), Shola Lynch
The Contours of Black Women’s “Historical Imagination”: An Interview with Shola Lynch
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Samantha Sheppard
Love is at the Center: In Praise of Black Feminist Film Criticism
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Kayla Brockington
Claiming Spaces: An Interview with Tracy H. Strain
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Jacqueline Bobo (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Black Women Filmmakers: Professional Journey, Personal Reflection
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Courtney R. Baker (University of California, Riverside), Ellen C. Scott (University of Pittsburgh), Elizabeth Reich (University of Pittsburgh)
Introduction: Black Film Feminisms
Volume 49 • Issue 1 • 2026
"Make People Live with It”: Sound, Suture, and Transgender Embodiment in Punch Line
James Brunton
2025-06-25 Volume 49 • Issue 1 • 2026
“An Experience of the Impossible”: The Planetary Imagination in Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon
Randy Laist
2025-06-25 Volume 49 • Issue 1 • 2026
Charley Varrick and the Incorporation of America in the 1970s
Vernon Shetley
2025-06-25 Volume 49 • Issue 1 • 2026
Assault on Stagecoach: An Intertextual Analysis
Emma Hamilton and Alistair Rolls
2025-06-25 Volume 49 • Issue 1 • 2026
The Concealment of Human Rights Abuse in Videos of the United States Customs and Border Protection
Michael Anthony Turcios
2025-06-25 Volume 49 • Issue 1 • 2026