FILM QUARTERLYPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.97
Maggie Roberts
{"title":"Review: How Do We Look? Resisting Visual Biopolitics, by Fatimah Tobing Rony","authors":"Maggie Roberts","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.97","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67058966","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.104
Babak Tabarraee
{"title":"Review: Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit, by Kaveh Askari","authors":"Babak Tabarraee","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67059045","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.78
R. Wanzo
{"title":"Taylor Sheridan Is Sorry but His Characters Are Not","authors":"R. Wanzo","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.78","url":null,"abstract":"FQ columnist Rebecca Wanzo examines the complex and contradictory politics of Taylor Sheridan’s Westerns, focusing on the popular Paramount+ series Yellowstone. While often described as “red-state television”—referring to both its location and the presumed audience demographics—Yellowstone has conservative diegetic logic at the same time as it depicts white supremacists as antagonists and critiques racial profiling. Yellowstone’s “messiness” suggests to Wanzo that it may be time to acknowledge that there are some contexts in which the category of “conservative” may not do analytical justice to the complicated ways in which pleasure, genre history, and politics work.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67059953","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.71
R. Wanzo
{"title":"Identity Remakes in and out of Time","authors":"R. Wanzo","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.71","url":null,"abstract":"Film Quarterly columnist Rebecca Wanzo reads Hagai Levi’s remake of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage as a case study for ongoing debates about remakes. Noting the particular scorn a remake can be subject to when racial or gender identities are changed or updated, she suggests that Levi’s Scenes is a feminist update that also illustrates how genre can get in the way of more progressive renderings of gender roles, revealing instead the intransigence of heteronormative gender performance.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67058494","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.89
Markus Nornes
{"title":"Review: The Japanese Cinema Book, edited by Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips; Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema, edited by Joanne Bernardi and Shota T. Ogawa; A Companion to Japanese Cinema, edited by David Desser","authors":"Markus Nornes","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.89","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67058295","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.66
Bilal Qureshi
{"title":"From Diversity Hire to Diverse Critic","authors":"Bilal Qureshi","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.75.3.66","url":null,"abstract":"FQ columnist Bilal Qureshi reflects upon his own career as a film critic of color in light of America’s current culture wars surrounding issues of race, representation, wokeness, and white privilege. Noting that the backlash to diversification has coalesced in the form of opposition to a hollowed-out conception of Critical Race Theory, Qureshi suggests an ancillary development within mainstream journalism that he calls Critical Representation Theory: the uplift of the minority critic as a representational course correction. He argues that Critical Representation Theory means that critics of color are pigeonholed by identity in terms of the films they are assigned and likewise restricts their responses through the narrow lens of race. Using the examples of Eternals (Chloé Zhao, 2021) and Dune (Denis Villeneuve, 2021)—two recent blockbusters notable for their diverse casting, or lack thereof—Qureshi argues for a critical practice removed from political and representational imperatives.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67058368","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.75.4.64
Manuel Betancourt
{"title":"Colombia Enchanted in Memoria and Encanto","authors":"Manuel Betancourt","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.75.4.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.75.4.64","url":null,"abstract":"FQ columnist Manuel Betancourt uses the odd couple pairing of Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021) and Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Encanto (Jared Bush and Byron Howard, 2021) to examine the cinematic representation of his home country of Colombia. Noting that his childhood cinephilia was nurtured by the foreign productions that dominated theaters, he observes that in the past few decades, bold new Colombian filmmakers have brought to the screen more varied visions of Colombia. Now with Memoria, a foreign filmmaker mines the country’s contradictions and, through his alienated and disoriented protagonist, invites viewers to embrace the unfamiliar in the world. In contrast, Encanto aches to create a kinship with Colombia by commodifying Colombian culture for mass consumption.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67058896","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.75.4.77
B. Rich
{"title":"Sundance 2022","authors":"B. Rich","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.75.4.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.75.4.77","url":null,"abstract":"Film Quarterly editor-in-chief B. Ruby Rich offers her reflections on attending her second virtual Sundance Film Festival. Rich’s disappointment at the festival’s last-minute decision to shift to a virtual format soon gave way to the familiar aura of film festival excitement: the thrill of just-hatched movies, some of which spoke to the present moment in pulse-racing fashion.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67058934","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.75.4.92
D. Forgacs
{"title":"Review: Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History, by Charles L. Leavitt IV","authors":"D. Forgacs","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.75.4.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.75.4.92","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67058984","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.11
Debashree Mukherjee
{"title":"A Night of Knowing Nothing","authors":"Debashree Mukherjee","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"Payal Kapadia’s feature debut, A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021), is at once a political chronicle of contemporary India, an ode to the intimate struggles of love, and a love letter to cinema. Winner of the Best Documentary award at Cannes, the film radically blurs the lines between fiction and documentary by using an epistolary narrative structure interspersed with multiple genres of staged and documentary footage, animation, news reportage, and home movies. In its promiscuous crossing of genre-boundaries and its critical citational ethics, A Night of Knowing Nothing does more than simply mobilize archive effects: it collates its own archive of loss and longing, resistance and repair.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67059113","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}