{"title":"Charley Varrick and the Incorporation of America in the 1970s","authors":"Vernon Shetley","doi":"10.3998/fc.7934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.7934","url":null,"abstract":"Don Siegel’s Charley Varrick (1973) encodes a troubled perception of transformations in American economic life into a tightly organized heist narrative. The title character uses his crop-dusting business as cover for bank robberies. As a crop duster, Charley bills himself as “The Last of the Independents,” a moniker which suggests the imperiled nature of the mythos of freedom and self-determination that had long defined the American character. As a bank robber, Charley limits himself to small-time jobs in rural backwaters. But after their latest job, Charley and his accomplice discover that they have taken a huge stash of Mafia money. The film implies that the American economic system has become so fully integrated, and so thoroughly corrupt, that no place is outside the malign influence of the incorporation and centralization of both legal and criminal enterprise.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147907505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A United Korea (Or, the Great Divide): Crash Landing on You","authors":"Doyle Greene","doi":"10.3998/fc.5175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.5175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139223308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nostalgia, Remembrance and Crises in an Evolving Streaming Media Industry","authors":"Sheri Chinen Biesen","doi":"10.3998/fc.5174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.5174","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"193 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139218424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Flying Spirit of Movement within These Solid Objects: Marie Menken’s Home Movies","authors":"Adam Charles Hart","doi":"10.3998/fc.4731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.4731","url":null,"abstract":"Marie Menken (1909-1970) was one of the most influential and beloved filmmakers of the American avant-garde, a liberatory inspiration for several subsequent generations of artists. Her films were characterized by wildly kinetic handheld camerawork, which have largely been understood through the lens of those she inspired. This essay analyzes Menken’s films in terms more specific to her, focusing on her broadly inclusive, often structuring celebration of motion in all its forms.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"2003 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135814099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Camera Movement in VR: Spatial Mediation, User Positioning, and a Virtual Dinner Party","authors":"Ariel Rogers","doi":"10.3998/fc.4739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.4739","url":null,"abstract":"This essay investigates how virtual-reality \"films\" adapt cinematic approaches to camera movement. Focusing on the 360-degree video Dinner Party, it examines how such works distinguish user-initiated from work-initiated movements and thereby transform users' relationship to representation. In Dinner Party, it argues, these possibilities contribute to an exploration of racial difference.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"1 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Watch and the Sparkler: Time and Movement in <i>Long Day’s Journey into Night</i> (2018)","authors":"Patrick Keating","doi":"10.3998/fc.4733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.4733","url":null,"abstract":"The accompanying audiovisual essay is a close analysis of Bi Gan's 2018 movie Long Day's Journey into Night. Inspired by the movie, the video divides into two parts. The first half outlines Long Day's split structure; the second analyzes the spectacular moving shot that concludes the movie.","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"50 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Camera Movement and the Necessity of Criticism","authors":"Daniel Morgan, Jordan Schonig","doi":"10.3998/fc.4730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.4730","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"2002 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135813118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Festival Aesthetics Amidst Festival Politics The 2023 Busan International Film Festival","authors":"Marc Raymond","doi":"10.3998/fc.5122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.5122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"2004 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135813392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Camera Is a Printer: Manufactured Horizon as Expanded Consciousness in Adam Beckett’s <i>Dear Janice</i>","authors":"Ryan Pierson","doi":"10.3998/fc.4738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.4738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135869895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex and Technics: Sexual and Spatial Orientations in <i>Ma vraie vie à Rouen</i>","authors":"Scott Richmond","doi":"10.3998/fc.4732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.4732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42834,"journal":{"name":"FILM CRITICISM","volume":"2007 22","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135813926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}