FILM QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.66
Josslyn Luckett
{"title":"He Insists! From Apprentice Editor to Elder Statesman of the Black Documentary Tradition","authors":"Josslyn Luckett","doi":"10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.66","url":null,"abstract":"FQ contributing editor Josslyn Luckett speaks with Sam Pollard about his long career, which spans collaborations as an editor with Spike Lee to producing and directing his own documentaries, histories of black independent media, and his most recent film Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67062546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.81
Rebecca Wanzo
{"title":"The Other Replacement Theory","authors":"Rebecca Wanzo","doi":"10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.81","url":null,"abstract":"With the success of M3GAN (Gerard Johnstone, 2023) and unfolding conversations about Artificial Intelligence (AI) informing the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, FQ columnist Rebecca Wanzo explores the question of labor in the AI film. Noting the limited repertoire of AI representations in television and film, Wanzo asks why so few AI stories go beyond familiar narratives to instead explore the complexities of constructing a laboring future in a world with AI. Drawing upon examples ranging from Metropolis (1927) to Wall-E (2008), Wanzo finds reason for both optimism and pessimism about AI and workers’ lives.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67062971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.90
B. Rich
{"title":"Cannes 2023","authors":"B. Rich","doi":"10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.77.1.90","url":null,"abstract":"Film Quarterly editor and veteran critic B. Ruby Rich reports from the 2023 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. She notes that the gap between outside perception and insider experience of the Festival was profound, as bad weather and ticketing woes meant that the advice most often shared was the bromide “If you’re not feeling humiliated, you’re not at Cannes.” Nonetheless, Rich reports on a satisfying array of films, both from known auteurs including Todd Haynes, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Kleber Mendonça Filho and new discoveries such as the Georgian film Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry from director Elene Naveriani and the animated Robot Dreams by Pablo Berger.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67063071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.113
Sam McCracken
{"title":"Review: A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes, by Kyle Parry","authors":"Sam McCracken","doi":"10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67060554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.35
Jason G. Coe
{"title":"Everything Everywhere All at Once and the Intimate Public of Asian American Cinema","authors":"Jason G. Coe","doi":"10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.35","url":null,"abstract":"The multiple Academy Award winning sci-fi absurdist multiverse film Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels, 2021) uses transpacific film genre conventions to represent the possible life variations of its Asian American immigrant family protagonists. An exception to the seeming incommensurability of commercial feature filmmaking and the anti-capitalist and anti-racist traditions of Asian American cinema, the film highlights how the conventions of transpacific genre films condition the intimate public of Asian American audiences. To be legible as an Asian American, the film shows, is to be attuned to the conventions of its dominant, often hegemonic and repressive, representations. By illustrating how genre conventions condition the sense of belonging amongst its Asian American protagonists, the film offers new ways of imagining and relating with Asian America Cinema.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67061508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.63
Bilal Qureshi
{"title":"Queer Cinema’s Practicing Muslims and Practicing Homosexuals","authors":"Bilal Qureshi","doi":"10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.63","url":null,"abstract":"Bilal Qureshi returns to the pages of Film Quarterly to examine the unexpected success on the festival circuit and beyond of Joyland (Saim Sadiq, 2022), from Pakistan, and Le bleu du caftan (The Blue Caftan, Maryam Touzani, 2022), from Morocco. Both films are singular, unusual stories of success from underrepresented film cultures, prompting Qureshi to inquire whether they represent a queer breakthrough for Pakistani or Moroccan filmmaking. Elegant, lush, and romantic, each an impeccably made window into middle-class Pakistani and Moroccan family life and unspoken queer desire, Joyland and The Blue Caftan open up exciting conversations about the future of queer cinema and, perhaps even more importantly, about Muslim cinema.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67061742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.109
Tanner Benson
{"title":"Review: Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang, by Nicholas de Villiers","authors":"Tanner Benson","doi":"10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67060368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FILM QUARTERLYPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.38
Racquel J. Gates
{"title":"Baby Mine","authors":"Racquel J. Gates","doi":"10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.38","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, Racquel Gates revisits the 1941 Disney classic Dumbo via a speculative reading of the black reverberations that run throughout the animated film. Situating her analysis in the act of viewing the film with her sons during the 2020 George Floyd protests, Gates uses her personal experience to reframe the film with a new emphasis on Dumbo’s black resonance, specifically highlighting some of the film’s undertheorized historical and performative elements. While taking into account Dumbo’s uncomfortable incorporation of minstrelsy and Disney’s larger problems of racial representation, Gates pushes for a complex reading of the film that situates blackness at the core of its affective connection.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67060947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}