5. Robin Wood Bibliography: Cineaction magazine

INTRODUCTION: In the 1980s, Robin Wood, in collaboration with a collective of contributors, created cineACTION!, as it was then called. Cineaction  has its own back issue bibliography though its index is based on back issue availablility, and so not complete. The magazine's own list of back issues almost obviated the need for continuing my original list, except that the one I created had more detail and highlighted Wood's particular contributions.

CineACTION!

 

Issue No. 1

Spring, 1985 (slick cover with newsprint interior pages)

Theme: Neglected Films of the 1980s.

Editorial by the collective, page 1.

•"'80s Hollywood: Dominent Tendencies," Robin Wood, pages 2 - 5.

• "Rap/Punk/Hollywood: Beat Street and Out of the Blue," Bryan Bruce, pages 6 - 11.

• "A Matter of Time," Richard Lippe, pages 12 - 14.

•"Unspoken and Unresolved: Tell Me a Riddle," Florence Jacobowitz and Lori Spring, pages 15 - 20.

• "Death Watch: In Camera Power," Maureen Judge, pages 21 - 23.

•"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia," Robin Wood, pages 23 - 24.

 

Issue No. 2

Fall, 1985 (slick cover with newsprint interior pages)

Theme: Women in Contemporary Hollywood Film, and Neglected Films of the 1980s, part 2.

•"From the Editors," Bryan Bruce and Lori Spring, page 1.

• "Girls on Film: Fantasy, Desire, and Desperation," Susan Morrison, pages 2 - 6.

• "Madness, Pleasure, and Transgression: Looking for Mr. Goodbar," Bryan Bruce, pages 7 - 13.

•  "Obsessions in the Melodrama: Amy Jones's Love Letters," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 15 - 21.

•  "Firestarters, or Independence Day," Robin Wood, pages 22 - 27.

•  "Fathers, Feminism, and Domination: Marxist Theory on Ideology in Popular Film," Scott Forsyth, pages 28 - 37.

•  "Cat and Dog: Lewis Teague's Stephen King Movies," Robin Wood, pages 39 - 45.

•  "On Le Jour S…," Anthony Irwin, pages 46 - 48.

 

 

Issue No. 3 - 4

Winter, 1986 (slick cover with newsprint interior pages)

Theme: Reading the Text."Editorial," Robin Wood, pages 1-2.

•  "In Defense of Criticism," Andrew Britton, pages 3 - 5.

•  "Notes for a Reading of I Walked With a Zombie," Robin Wood, pages 6 - 20.

•  "Femnist Film Theory and Social Reality," Florence Jacobowitz, pages 21 - 31.

•  "Cries and Whispers Reconsidered," Varda Burstyn, pages 32 - 45.

•  "Gender and Destiny: George Cukor's A Star is Born," Richard Lippe, pages 46 - 57.

•  "The Other Dream: The Year of Living Dangerously," Lori Spring, pages 58 - 71.

•  "Hitchcock's Spellbound: Text and Counter-Text," Andrew Britton, pages 72 - 83.

•  "Inventing Paradox: Celine and Julie Go Boating," Janine Marchessault, pages 84 - 90.

•  "Capital at Play: Form in Popular Film," Scott Forsyth, pages 91 - 97.

•  "Neglected Films of the '80s Foxes," Bryan Bruce, pages 98 - 102.

•  "A Brief Critique of Pop Criticism," Bryan Bruce, pages 103 - 104.

 

Issue No. 5

Spring, 1986 (slick cover with newsprint interior pages)

Theme: Alternative Cinema: Feminist, Third World, Underground, Experimental.

• "From the Editors," Scott Forsyth and Maureen Judge, page 1.

•  "Sans Soliel," Janine Marchessault, pages 2 - 6.

•  "The Seven Sins of Bette Gordon's Variety," Kay Armatage, pages 7 - 11.

•  "Textual Excess in Joyce Wieland's Handtinting," Kass Banning, pages 12 - 14.

•  "An Interview with Arthur Penn," Robin Wood and Richard Lippe, pages 15 - 26.

•  "Pissing on the Cinema of Transgression," Bryan Bruce, pages 27 - 31.

•  "Notes for the Exploration of Hermosillo," Robin Wood, pages 32 - 38.

•  "Planting Pictures: A Discussion of the films of William D. MacGillivray," Peter Harcourt, pages 39 - 44.

•  "State Machismo: The Official Versions of the Stateof Male/Female Relations," Joyce Mason, pages 45 - 49.

•  "Point of View: A Criticism of Defence," Philip Corrigan, and " Born Again, or: Uncle Philip's Great Big Inflatable Ego machine," Andrew Britton, pages 50 - 52.

•  "Books: Political Criticism, Hollywood, and Oppositional Film," Scott Forsyth, pages 53 - 66, a review of a Jump Cut anthology.

 

Issue No. 6

Summer - Fall, 1986 (slick black and white cover with newsprint interior pages)

Theme: Martin Scorsese.

• "From the Editors," Anthony Irwin and Susan Morrison, pages 1 - 2 •  "An Interview with Martin Scorsesse," Susan Morrison, pages 2 - 11.•  "The Narrative of Alienation: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver," David Weaver, pages 12 - 16.•  "Sirk, Scorsese, and Hysteria: A Double(d) Reading," Susan Morrison, pages 17 - 25.•  "Scorsese: After Hours," Bryan Bruce, pages 26 - 31.•  "Desire in Scorsese's After Hours," Steve Reinke, pages 32 - 34.Theme: Issues of Masculinity.•  "Masculinity in the Movies: To Live and Die in L.A,," Richard Lippe and Florence Jacobowitz, pages 35 - 44.•  "The Woman's Nightmare: Masculinity in Day of the Dead," Robin Wood, pages 45 - 49.Theme: The Cinema We Need to See.•  "Radical Marginalia: Subversive Signs from the Hinterland," Geoff Pevere, pages 50 - 56.Theme: Wood on Cimino.•  "Hero/Anti-Hero: The Dilemma of Year of the Dragon," Robin Wood, pages 57 - 61.•  "Books: Final Cut," Robin Wood, pages 62 - 64.

Issue No. 7

Winter, 1986 - 1987 (slick two tone cover with newsprint interior pages)

Theme: Stars.

•"From the Editors," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 1 - 3.•  "Kim Novak: A Resistance to Definition," Richard Lippe, pages 4 - 21.•  "Joan Bennett: Images of Femininity in Conflict," Florence Jacobowitz, pages 22 - 34.•  "Cary Grant: Comedy and Male Desire," Andrew Britton, pages 36 - 51.•  ""The Superstar Story," Gloria Berlin and Bryan Bruce, pages 52 - 63.Interview•  "The Survival of Mise-en-scène: An Interview with Bernard Tavernier ["Bernard" on the contents page]," Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, and Robin Wood, pages 64 - 73.Theme: Minnelli Tribute.•  "Minnelli's Madame Bovary," Robin Wood, pages 74 - 80.Theme: Gay Films.•  "Gay Visibility: Contemporary Images," Richard Lippe, pages 81 - 88.

Issue No. 8

Spring, 1987 (Slick two tone cover with thin book stock interior pages)

Theme: Revaluation.

• "Editorial," Robin Wood, pages 1 - 2.•  " Leavis, Marxism, and Film Culture, " Robin Wood, pages 3 - 13.•  " Pasolini's Medea : The Power of Disruption," Anthony Irwin, pages 14 - 19.•  " One From the Heart: Leaning From Las Vegas, " Susan Morrison, pages 20 - 24.•  " Biology and Ideology: The 'Natural' Family in Paris, Texas," Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, pages 25 - 30.•  " Power and the Masquerade: The Devil Is A Woman, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 32 - 41.•  " Blonde Venus: Memory, Legend, and Desire," Peter Baxter, pages 42 - 50.•  " Aching to Speak: Power and Language in Pierre Perrault's La Bête Lumineuse, " Geoff Pevere, pages 51 - 57.•  " Drums Along the Mohawk," Robin Wood, pages 58 - 64.•  " Sirk and Bach: Fugal Construction in Written on the Wind," Bruce Fairley, pages 65 - 68.Interview•  " An Interview with Lizzie Borden " Maureen Judge and Lori Spring, pages 69 - 76.'80s Science Fiction•  " Invaders from Mars and the Science Fiction Film in the Age of Reagan " Barry K. Grant, pages 77 - 83.•  " The Terminator: Beyond Classical Hollywood Narrative " Lillian Necakov, pages 84 - 88.

Issue No. 9

Summer, 1987 (Slick two tone cover with thin book stock interior pages)Theme: Comedy"From the Editors," Bryan Bruce and Maureen Judge, pages 1 - 2.•  " Pee Wee Herman: The Homosexual Subtext, " Bryan Bruce, pages 3 - 7.•  " Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys ; or, Give It Back to the Indians, " Robin Wood, pages 8 - 14.•  " Reconsidering The Quiet Man, " Ken Nolley, pages 15 - 19.•  " The Falls," Paul Della Penna and Jim Shedden, pages 20 - 24.•  " Rosa Von Praunheim in Theory and Practice, " Bryan Bruce, pages 25 - 31.•  " Colin Campbell Interview," Kathleen Maitland-Carter, pages 32 - 38.•  " The Studio With the Team Spirit: A Look at Ealing Comedies," Marc Glassman and Judy Wolfe, pages 40 - 46.•  " Cavell and the Fantasy of Criticism: Shakespearean Comedy and Ball of Fire," Leland Poague, pages 47 - 55.Neglected Film•  " Corrupt/Cop Killer / Order of Death " Gloria Berlin and Bryan Bruce, pages 56 - 61.Letters•  Peter Benson, Paul Downes, Robin Wood, pages 62 - 64.

Issue No. 10

Fall, 1987 (Slick two tone cover with thin book stock interior pages)

Theme: Sex

•" From the Editors, " Kass Banning and Janine Marchessault, page 1.•  " Panic Cinema: Sex in the Age of the Hyperreal, " Arthur Kroker and Michael Dorland, pages 2 - 5.•  " In Search of it All, " Janine Marchessault, pages 6 - 12.•  " Bakhtin, Eroticism, and the Cinema: Strategies for the Critique and Trans-Valuation of Pornogrpahy, " Robert Stam, pages 13 - 20.•  " Rethinking the Pink: Miscegenation and Something Wild's Thin Sheen of Race, " Cameron Bailey, pages 21 - 25.•  " L'Atalante: The Limits of Liberation, " Robin Wood, pages 26 - 34.•  " All That Lovin' Stuff: Sexuality and Sexual Representation in Some Recent Films by Women, " Kay Armatage, pages 35 - 37.•  "Whipping It Up: Gay Sex in Film and Video," Bryan Bruce, pages 38 - 44.•  " Rock Hudson: His Story," Richard Lippe, pages 46 - 54.•  " Pleasure in the Dark: Sexual Difference and Erotic Deviance in the Articulation of a Female Desire, " Dot Tuer, pages 55 - 59.•  " Howling at the Machine: A Bed-Time Story, " David McIntosh, pages 60 - 64.•  " Hard to Imagine: Gay Erotic Cinema in the Postwar Era, " Tom Waugh, pages 65 - 72.

Issue No. 11

Winter, 1987-88 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with newsprint interior pages)

Themes: Godard, Canada, Nicaragua

•" Politics and Form: Not Necessarily in that Order [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, page 1.•  " Metaphysical Cinema: Two Recent Films by Jean-Luc Godard, " Peter Harcourt, pages 2 - 10.•  " Godard on Imagery, " R. Bruce Elder, pages 11 - 19.•  " In Other's Eyes: Four Canadian Films Come Home From Cannes, " Geoff Pevere, pages 20 - 29.•  " Exquisite Nostalgia: Aesthetic Sensibility in the English-Canadian and Quebec Cinemas, " Deborah Knight, pages 30 - 37.•  " Meshes of the Afternoon: Hollywood, the Avant-Garde, and Problems of Interpretation, " Julian Wolfreys, pages 38 - 41.•  " Count Me In/Out: Post Apocalyptic Visions in Recent Science Fiction Film, " Peter Fitting, pages 42 - 51.•  " The Skull Beneath the Skin: Some Indiscreet Charms of Narativity, " Robin Wood, pages 52 - 56.•  " Nicaragua and the New Documentary: The Extraordinary Reality, " Peter Steven, pages 57 - 63.•  " Third World Newsreel's 20th Anniversary, " [no author listed], page 65.•  " An Interview with Istvan Szabo, " Joan Davies, pages 66 - 72.


Issue No. 12

Spring, 1988 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Teen Films [and Vietnam]

• " Editorial [editor's note], " Anthony Irwin and Susan Morrison, pages 1 - 2.•  " Making The Journey with Peter Watkins, " Ken Nolley, pages 3 - 11.•  " Identification and Slaughter, " Peter Benson, pages 12 - 18.•  " Charlie is a She: Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and the Female Spectacle of Vietnam, " Krista Walter, pages 19 - 22.•  " Standard Hollywood Fare: The World War II Combat Film Revisited, " Peter Rist, pages 23 - 26.•  " Getting a Fix on the '60s: Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers Revisited, " Susan Morrison, pages 27 - 31.•  " The Edge, " Bryan Bruce, pages 32 - 38.•  " Your Life is a Film, " Janine Marchessault, pages 39 - 43.•  " Rebel Without a Chance: Cycles of Rebellion and Suppression in Canadian Teen Movies, " Geoff Pevere, pages 44 - 48.•  " Patti Rocks the Boat: A Conversation with David Burton Morris and Gwen Field, " Richard Lippe and Robin Wood, pages 49 - 60.•  Letters from Carl George, Kembra, Penelope Wehrli, and Jack Waters, pages 61 - 62.•  Response to Letters, Bryan Bruce, page 63.•  Response to " Godard on Imagery, " Robin Wood, page 64.•  Response to " The Skull Beneath the Skin: Some Indiscreet Charms of Narrativity, " Jonathan Rosenbaum, page 64.

Issue No. 13-14 [issue number misidentified on contents page]

Summer, 1988 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Film Noir

•" Policy and Politics [editor's note], " Robin Wood and Richard Lippe, pages 1 - 2.•  " The Myth of Postmodernism: The Bourgeois Intelligentsia ni the Age of Reagan, " Andrew Britton, pages 3 - 17.•  " Film Noir: How Hollywood Deals with the Deviant Male, " Deborah Thomas, pages 18 - 28.•  " Hawks and Film Noir: The Big Sleep, " Michael Walker, pages 29 - 39.•  " The (Ideo)logical Consequences of Gender on Genre, " Susan Morrison, pages 40 - 55.•  " At the Margins of Film Noir: Preminger's Angel Face, " Richard Lippe, pages 46 - 55.•  " Phantom Lady,Cornell Woolrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic, " Tony Williams, pages 56 - 63.•  " The Man's Melodrama: Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 64 - 73.•  " Seeing by Glimpses: Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardenia, " Douglas Pye, pages 74 - 82.•  " Rancho Notorious: A Noir Western in Color, " Robin Wood, pages 83 - 93.•  " Peckinpah the Radical: The Wild Bunch Reconsidered, " Christopher Sharett, pages 94 - 100.•  Letter from Gregg Rickman, pages 101 - 103.




Issue No. 15

Winter, 1988 - 1989 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Interpretation

• " From the Editor [editor's note], " Bryan Bruce, page 1.•  " Falling in Love Again: Notes on Film Criticism and Marlene, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 2 - 7.•  " The Critic's Choice: Things Great and Things Not So Great, " Janine Marchessault, pages 8 - 12.•  " Symmetry, Closure, Disruption: The Ambiguity of Blackmail, " Robin Wood, pages 13 - 25.•  " 'Just What the Hell is Rickman Trying to Say?': Some Remarks on Critical Method and Critical Controversy, " Susan Morrison, pages 26 - 28.•  " Modern Diseases: Gay Self-Representation in the Age of AIDS, " Bryan Bruce, pages 29 - 38.•  " Class Struggle at the Movies?, " Scott Forsyth, pages 39 - 46.•  " The Philosophy of the Pigeonhole: Wisconsin Formalism and the "Classical Style", " Andrew Britton, pages 47 - 63.


Issue No. 16

May, 1989 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Canadian Cinema 

•" A Note From the Editors [editor's note], " Janine Marchessault and Kass Banning, pages 1 - 2.•  " Themes on Canadian Nationalism: In Memoriam, " George P. Grant, pages 3 - 5.•  " The Uncertain Trumpet: Defining a (Canadian) Art Cinema in the Sixties, " Peter Morris, pages 6 - 13.•  " Rhetorical Remarks Towards the Politics of Otherness, " Kass Banning, pages 14 - 19.•  " Dialectice Interpretation: The Case of Cinema Direct and Pierre Perrault, " David Clandfield, pages 20 - 24.•  " Mermaids: Singing Off Key?, " Marion Harrison, pages 25 - 30.•  " Melancholia and the Banal, " Dennis Bellemare, pages 31 - 39.•  " Atom Egoyan: An Interview, " Ron Burnett, pages 40 - 44.•  " Scanning Egoyan, " Cameron Bailey, pages 45 - 51.•  " Reproduction and Repetition of History: David Rimmer's Found Footage, " Catherine Russell, pages 52 - 58.•  " Towards a Canadian (Inter)national Cinema, " Robin Wood, pages 59 - 63 [also see Errata note in next issue].•  " Dead Ringers: The Joke's on Us, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 64 - 68.•  " Who is the American Cousin? Canadian Cinema, Cultural Freedom, and Sandy Wilson's American Cousin, " Joanne Yamagouchi, pages 70 - 72.•  " Underground, " Bryan Bruce, pages 73 - 75.•  " Grierson and Canadian Nationalism, " Scott Forsyth, pages 76 - 79.

Issue No. 17

September, 1989 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Re: Positioning 

• " Re: Positioning [editor's note], " Susan Morrison and Florence Jacobowitz, pages 1 - 2.•  " The Politics of Difference, or: How to Create a Socialist-Feminist Culture in One Capitalist Country Without Really Trying, " Andrew Britton, pages 3 - 15.•  Letters: Scott Perna, Janine Marchessault, Gregg Rickman, Susan Morrison, Peter Hrcourt, Robin Wood, pages 16 - 22.•  " Towards a Canadian (Inter)national Cinema, Part 2: Loyalties and Life Classes, " Robin Wood, pages 23 - 35.•  " Montgomery Clift: A Critical Disturbance, " Richard Lippe, pages 36 - 42.•  " Imagining Mr. Average, " John McCullough, pages 43 - 55.•  " Moonshine: Love and Enchantment in Annie Hall and Manhattan, " Ed Gallafent, pages 56 - 65.•  " Sunrise: A Reappraisal, " Robin Wood, pages 66 - 71.•  Errata: for " Towards a Canadian (Inter)national Cinema, " from issue No. 16, Robin Wood, page 72.



Issue No. 18

Fall, 1989 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Imperialism and Film 

•" Imperialism Now [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, pages 1 - 2.•  " Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction's Alien 'Other' as (Among Other Things) New Hispanic Imagery, " Charles Ramirez Berg, pages 3 - 17.•  " Aping Africa: The Mist of Immaculate Miscegenation, " Diane Sippl, pages 18 - 28.•  " Around the World, Across the Frontiers: Sans Soleil as Depays, " Michael Walsh, pages 29 - 36.•  " Their Finest Hour: Humphrey Jennings and the British Imperial Myth of World War II, " Andrew Britton, pages 37 - 44.•  " Fascism / Cinema, " Robin Wood, pages 45 - 50.•  " Black Mic-Mac and Colonial Discourse, " Sheila Petty, pages 51 - 55.•  " Black Bamboo, " Trinh T. Minh- Ha, pages 56 - 59.•  " The Documentary Impulse and Third Cinema Theory: An Introduction, " Peter Rist, pages 60 - 63.•  " Two Books on Third World Film, " Mary Alemany-Galway, pages 64 - 65 [Third World Filmmaking and the West, Film and Politics in the Third World].Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1989•  " Summer of Aviya: A Contemporary Melodrama, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 66 - 68.•  " Monsieur Hire: A Study in Obsession, " Richard Lippe, pages 68 - 69.•  " Les matins infidels: Patriarchy and Photography, " Janine Marchessault, pages 69 - 71.•  " Five Films at the Festival, " Susan Morrison, pages 71 - 73 [American Stories, Route One, Amore in Corso, Street of No Return, Motel].•  " New Films by MacGillivray and Hou, " Robin Wood, pages 73 - 76.•  " Working Class Fates, " Scott Forsyth, pages 77 - 80.


Issue No. 19 - 20

Winter - Spring, 1990 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Critical Issues 

•" Critical Issues [editor's note], " Richard Lippe and Susan Morrison, pages 1 - 2.•  " Critical Realism: Subversive Commercial Art, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 3 - 10.•  " Consuming Culture: The Development of a Theoretical Orthodoxy, " Andrew Britton, pages 11 - 19.•  " Right Wing Chic: Adam Parfrey and R. Kern Fingered!!, " Bryan Bruce, pages 20 - 27.•  " Holy Men in the Wilderness: The Mission and Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons, " Deborah Root, pages 28 - 32.•  " The Last Temptation of Christ: A Fragmented Oedipal Trajectory, " Tony Williams, pages 33 - 42.•  " The Celluloid Contradiction: Am Other Look at Parting Glances, " John Champagne, pages 43 - 51.•  " Fugitive Details: Readings of Image and Content in Two Films by Max Ophuls, Madam de … and Lola Montes, " Susan Lord, pages 52 - 61.•  " Cracks in the King's Armour Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, and The Shining, " Viveca Gertton, pages 62 - 73.•  " Pedagogy in the Perverse Text, " Viveca Gretton, pages 74 - 83.•  " Theory vs Experience: Alice Miller and the Status of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory, " Robin Wood, pages 84 - 102.•  Letter: from Geraldine M. Murphy, page 103.

Issue No. 21 - 22

Summer - Fall, 1990 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Rethinking Authorship 

• " Rethinking Authorship [editor's note], " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 1 - 2.•  " Creativity and Evaluation: Two Film Noirs of the 50s, " Robin Wood, pages 4 - 20 [The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly].•  " Authorship and Cukor: A Reappraisal, " Richard Lippe, pages 21 - 34.•  " What Does a Man Know About Mother Love?: Blonde Venus, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 35 - 45.•  " Authorship Revisited, " Robin Wood, pages 46 - 56.•  " Film Authorship: The Premature Burial, " V. F. Perkins, pages 57 - 64.•  " Terence Davies Interview, " Tony Williams, pages 65 - 69.•  " You Could Look it Up: Notes Towards a Reading of Baseball, History, and Ideology in the Dominant Cinema, " Viveca Gretton, pages 70 - 75.•  " Genre and Authorship: Two Films of Arthur Penn, " Peter C. Knowles, pages 76 - 83.•  " Laugher, Redemption, Subversion in Eight Films by Leo McCarey, " Margaret Smith, pages 84 - 90.•  " Fuck Sal's Pizza: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing as Product of the Hip Hop Movement, " James A. Hurst, pages 91 - 98.


Issue No. 23

Winter, 1990 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Documentary: Theory and Politics 

•" Documentary: Theory, Practice and … Watching the Gulf War [editor's note], " Kass Banning and Scott Forsyth, pages 2 - 3.•  " A Cinema of Duty: The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva, " Cameron Bailey, pages 4 - 12.•  " Embodied Knowledge and the Politics of Power, " Bill Nichols, pages 14 - 21.•  " Proudly She Marches: Wartime Propaganda an the Lesbian Spectator, " Marilyn Burgess, pages 22 - 28.•  " Words of Command: Notes on Cultural and Political Inflections of Direct Cinema in Indian Independent Documentary, " Tom Waugh, pages 28 - 39.•  " The Bourgeoisie is Not My Audience: An Interview with John Greyson, " Peter Steven, pages 40 - 45.•  " Windows Without Glass: Reflections on the Documentary Genre, " Ron Burnett, pages 46 - 53.•  " Documentary and Figuration, " John McCullough, pages 54 - 59.•  " Radicalism and Popular Cinema: The Films of Oliver Stone, " Robin Wood, pages 60 - 69.Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1991•  " Writing Feminist Histories: The Burning Times and The Company of Strangers, " Janine Marchessault, pages 70 - 72.•  " Bethune: The Making of a Hero, " Kass Banning, pages 73 - 74.•  " My Husband Tried to Kill Me … : Reversal of Fortune, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 76 - 78.•  " Weininger Nacht [Weininger's Last Night], " Susan Morrison, pages 79 - 80.

Issue No. 24 - 25

Winter, 1991 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Feminist Film Theory-Criticism 

•" Feminist Culture and the New Order [editor's note], " Janine Marchessault and Susan Morrison, page 2.•  " Letter From an Editor [editor's note], " Florence jacobowitz, page 4.•  " Kindler, Gentler CineACTION? [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, pages 2 - 3.•  " Documentary: Theory, Practice and … Watching the Gulf War [editor's note], " Kass Banning and Scott Forsyth, pages 2 - 3.•  " The (Female) Subject of Masochism: Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned…, " Susan Morrison, pages 6 - 15.•  " Madonna Wannabe, " Sarah Evans, pages 16 - 24.•  " Bad Magic: Germaine Dulac's La Souriante Madam Beaudet , " Susan Lord, pages 25 - 29.•  " Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema: From Introspection to Retrospection, " Janine Marchessault, pages 30 - 37.•  " Dog and Woman, Together at Last: Animals in the Films of Neil Shipman, " Kay Armatage, pages 38 - 44.•  " Boys, Girls, and Switch: On the Policing of Sex and Gender, " Ki Namaste, pages 46 - 49.•  " Twin Peaks Mountains or Molehills?, " Christine Ramsey, pages 50 - 59.•  " In Light of Difference: In Visible Colours Film/Video Festival and Symposium, " Monika Gagnon, pages 60 - 65.•  " The Subaltern Body: A Study in Ethics, Alterity, and Subject Construction, " Helen Lee, pages 66 - 74.•  " Dorothy's Arzner's Dance Girl, Dance: Regendering the Male Gaze, " Samuel L. Chell, pages 75 - 79.•  " Criticism or Complicity?: The Question of the Treatment of Rape and the Rape Victim in Jonathan Kaplan's The Accused, " Mallorie Cook, pages 80 - 85.•  " All About Eve, Margo, Karen …, " Robert K. Lightning, pages 86 - 91.•  " Women in Film: Teaching Across Disciplines, " Marilyn Burgess, pages 92 - 96.

Issue No. 26 - 27

Winter, 1992 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Melodrama and the Female Star 

•  " Empowering Glamour, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 2 - 11.•  " Greta Garbo, The Star Image: A Corrective Reading, " Richard Lippe, pages 12 - 21.•  " Spying on Masculinity: Dishonored, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 22 - 31.•  " A New Servitude: Bette Davis, Now, Voyager, and the Radicalism of the Woman's Film, " Andrew Britton, pages 32 - 59 [see also letters page, next issue, No. 29].•  " The 'Noriko' Trilogy: Three Films of Ozu with Setsuko Hara, " Robin Wood, pages 60 - 81.•  " Kings Row, " Michael Walker, pages 82 - 93.•  " Male Scrutiny, Female Resistance: The Chapman Report, " Richard Lippe, pages 94 - 100.•  " Ever in Our Hearts: Barbara Stanwyck, " Robin Wood, pages 102 - 105.•  " Understanding Bliss, " Robin Wood, pages 106 - 107.•  " The Canadian Feminist Hybrid Documentary, " Kass Banning, pages 108 - 113.•  " Regarding Men: Disease and Affliction in Contemporary Male Melodrama, " Viveca Gretton and Tom Orman, pages 114 - 120.



Issue No. 28

Spring, 1992 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Canada: Cinema and Criticism 

•" Editorial [editor's note]," Kass Banning, page 2.•  Letter: from Brad Stevens, page 3 [on Oliver Stone].•  " Women in French-Quebec Cinema: The Space of Socio-Sexual (in)difference, " Chantal Nadeau, pages 4 - 15.•  " Sitting in the Dark, " William D. MacGillivray, pages 16 - 19.•  " Symptoms of Canada: National Identity and the Theft of National Enjoyment, " Kieran Keohane, pages 20 - 33.•  " On the Brink, " Geoff Pevere, pages 34 - 37.•  " What the Story Is: An Interview with Srinivas Krishna, " Cameron Bailey, pages 38 - 47.•  " The Melodramatic Imagination in Quebec in Canadian Women's Feature Films, " Brenda Longfellow, pages 48 - 57.•  " Montréal Confidential: Notes on an Imagined City, " Will Straw, pages 58 - 64.•  " Women and Political Documentary in Quebec: An Interview with Sophie Bissonette, " Barbara Evans and Scott Forsyth, pages 66 - 70.•  " Cinderella Does Montréal, " Olivia Riochet, pages 71 - 73.•  " Bordwell Considered: Cognitivism, Colonialism, and Canadian Cinematic Culture, " Jose Arroyo, pages 74 - 88.

Issue No. 29

Fall, 1992 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Revaluation: Hollywood, Contemporary and Classical 

•" Editorial [editor's note], " Robin Wood, page 1.•  " For Marlene, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 2 - 3.•  " Not Just a Bandit: Michael Cimino's The Sicilian, " Brad Stevens, pages 4 - 15.•  " The Rapture: A Woman's Film of the 90s, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 16 - 21.•  " 'Everything Means Something, Cynthia':Alan Rudolph's Mortal Thoughts, " Tom Orman, pages 22 - 26.•  " 'Well … That's a Start': Or, What Hollywood Can Do With a Deeply Serious Comedy, " Cosimo Urbano, pages 26 - 33.•  " Spike Lee's Homophobia, " Robert K. Lightning, pages 35 - 39.•  " Oliver Stone: Less Than Meets the Eye, " Tony Williams, pages 40 - 55.•  " While the City Sleeps, " Michael Walker, pages 56 - 69.•  " Talk '39: Re-reading George Cukor's The Women, " Viveca Gretton, pages 70 - 74.•  " The Collapse of Fantasy: Masculinity in the Westerns of Anthony Mann, " Douglas Pye, pages 75 - 81.•  " 'I'm Not the Sort of Person Men Marry': Monsters, Queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca, " Rohna J. Berenstein, pages 82 - 96.•  " Rebecca Reclaimed: For Daphne du Maurier, " Robin Wood, pages 97 - 100.•  " Constructing Culture: Media Education in the 1990s, " Susan Morrison, pages 101 - 103.•  Letter: from Andrew Britton, with reply by Robin Wood, page 104 [correcting an error in " A New Servitude: Bette Davis, Now, Voyager, and the Radicalism of the Woman's Film, " issue No. 26 - 27].

Issue No. 30

Winter, 1992 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Framing the Family 

•" Introduction [editor's note], " Janine Marchessault and Susan Morrison, pages 2 - 3.•  " Battle Stations: War, Memory, and the Family, " Deborah Root, pages 4 - 7.•  " Asians in Hollywood, " Kristen Emiko McAllister, pages 8 - 13.•  " Myth and Melodrama: Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, " Peter C. Knowles, pages 14 - 21.•  " Repression, or How to Make Good Home Movies, " Marnie Parrell, pages 22 - 23.•  " Ray's Mahanagar: Arati Chooses Integrity Over Security, " Fran Wong, pages 24 - 35.•  " Doubling Narratives: Dereliction and Desire in Julie Zando's Let's Play Prisoners, " Jessica Bradley, pages 36 - 41.•  " The Body Beautiful, " Brenda Longfellow, pages 43 - 47.•  " Pearl, Hilda, Thelma, and Louise: The 'Woman's Film' Revisited, " Susan Morrison, pages 48 - 53.•  " Explorations, Prosthetics, and a Sacrifice: Phantasies of the Maternal Body in the Alien Trilogy, " Carol Moore and Geoff Miles, pages 54 - 62.•  " Mirror, Mirror on the wall: Parent and Psycho as One in the 90s, " Gillian Helfield, pages 63 - 67.•  " Keeping the Black Phallus Erect: Gender ad the Construction of Black masculinity in Boys 'N' the Hood, " Rinaldo Walcott, pages 68 - 74.Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1992•  " Minbo no Onna, " Robin Wood, pages 75 - 76.•  " Okoge, " Robin Wood, pages 76 - 78.•  " Lesbians and Gays Make the Movies, " Richard Lippe, pages 78 - 82.•  " Autumn Moon, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 82 - 84.•  " The Pool, " Tom Orman, pages 84 - 86.•  " En-Gendering the Nation: Gerda, 'A Girl's Own Story', " Kass Banning, pages 87 - 88.

Issue No. 31

Spring - Summer, 1993 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Narrative and Film 

•" Narrative and Film [editor's note], " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 2 - 3.•  " Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Double Narrative, " Robin Wood, pages 4 - 17.•  " Robert Kramer: Along Route One/USA, " Ruth Perlmuter, pages 18 - 26.•  " Homework Times Three, " Robin Wood, pages 28 - 32.•  " The Necessity of Telling a Story: An Interview with Jamie Humbeto Hermosillo, " Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, and Robin Wood, pages 33 - 43.•  " Why We Should (Still) Take Hitchcock Seriously, " Robin Wood, pages 44 - 49.•  " Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! : Subverting the Glazed Gaze of American Melodrama and Film Theory, " Martha J. Nandorfy, pages 50 - 61.•  " Melodramatic Narrative: Orphans of the Storm and The Searchers, " Michael Walker, pages 74 - 83.•  " Male Narrative/Female Narration: Elaine May's Mikey and Nickey, " Brad Stevens, pages 84 - 88.•  " The Cat with Green Wings: Feminine Resistance and Narrativity in Radha Bharadwaj's Closet Land, " Viveca Gretton, pages 84 - 88.

Issue No. 32

Fall, 1993 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Rac-ing Home: Race and Cultural Identity " This Ain't No favour [editor's note], " Kass Banning and David Fujiwara, pages 1 - 2.•  " Jay Scott Obituary, " Kass Banning, pages 5 - 9.•  " Confession of a Snow Queen: Notes on the Making of The Attendant , " Isaac Julien, pages 5 - 9.•  " From Stereotype to Discourse: Some Methodological Reflections on Racism in the Media, " Robert Stam, pages 10 - 29.•  " Between the Borders of Cultural Identity: Atom Egoyan's Calendar, " Ron Burnett, pages 30 - 34.•  " Antillean Cinema in the absence of Ruins: The Case of Felix de Rooy, " Reece Auguiste, pages 35 - 42.•  " Blood, Vengeance, and the Anxious Liberal: Natives and Non-Natives in Recent Movies, " Deborah Root, pages 43 - 49.•  " Dark and Lovely, Too: Black Gay Men in Independent Film, " Kobena Mercer, pages 51 - 62.•  " Now You Can See It: The Liberal Aesthetic and racial Representation in The Crying Game, " Darrell Moore, pages 63 - 67.•  " Don't Go to Dat Place and Fool Around Like Rich Girls: Black Canadian Women Filmmakers and Video Artists, " Gabrielle Hezekiah, pages 68 - 76.•  " Small Pleasures: Large Rewards, " Xiaoping Li, pages 77 - 80.•  " Servants and Slaves: Brown Person in Classical Hollywood Cinema, " Robin Wood, pages 81 - 88 [See also letters section, Issue No. 33].

Issue No. 33

February, 1994 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Screening the New World Order 

•" Screening the New World Order [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, page 2.•  " Star Trek: The Voyages of Discovery from 1942 to the Space Age, " Yasmin Jiwani, pages 3 - 11.•  " Mad Priests and the Mimetic Faculty: Ethnographic Film, Post-Colonialism, and the (New) World Order, " Scott Mackenzie, pages 12 - 22.•  " … Evan As Also I Am Known: Vicarious Miscegenation on Post-Colonial Screens, " Diane Sippl, pages 23 - 42.•  " Encountering Chinese Modernity in For Fun: An Interview with Ning Ying, " Xiaoping Li, pages 43 - 52.•  " Imagining the New Information Order: 'You Will', " Janine Marchessault, pages 53 - 58.Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1993•  " What's Love, Science, and Singing Got to Do With It, " Kass Banning, pages 59 - 62.•  " 'TV Movie Syndrome' and Contemporary Film, " Susan Morrison, pages 63 - 64.•  " Little Movies/Large Pleasures, " Robin Wood, pages 65 - 66.•  " The Accompanist: The Game and the Rules, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 67 - 69.•  Letters from Cosmo Vecchiarelli, Rinaldo Walcott, Robin Wood, Kass Banning, and Sourayan Mookerjea, pages 70 - 72 [Controversy surrounding Wood's essay, " Servants and Slaves: Brown Person in Classical Hollywood Cinema, " in Issue No. 32].

Issue No. 34

June, 1994 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Modernism 

• " On Modernism [editor's note], " Florence Jacobowitz and Susan Morrison and Richard Lippe, page 1.•  " For Andrew Britton: A Personal Tribute, " Robin Wood, page 2.•  " For Andrew Britton, 1951 - 1994, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, page 3.•  " Rethinking History Through Narrative Art, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 4 - 19.•  " Driven to Distraction: Going to the Movies with Walter and Siegfried, " Paul Kelley and Susan Lord, pages 20 - 25.•  " Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography: An Interview with Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, and Stuart Samuels, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 26 - 40.•  " Politics of Modernity in Latin America: Memory, Nostalgia, and Desire in Baroco, " Zuzana M. Pick, pages 41 - 50.•  " Postmodern Times: Popular American Cinema and the Critical Climate, " Brad Stevens, pages 52 - 58.•  " Persona Revisited, " Robin Wood, pages 59 - 67.•  " Suffering Into Ideology: Bergman's Sasom I en Spegel [Through a Glass Darkly] , " Tony French, pages 68 - 72.

Issue No. 35

August, 1994 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Gays and Hollywood: Queer Cinema 

•" Policy and Politics [editor's note], " Richard Lippe and Robin Wood, page 1.•  " The New Queer Cinema and Gay Culture: Notes From an Outsider, " Robin Wood, pages 2 - 15 [See also letter to the editor in Issue No. 36].•  " Totally F***ed Up, but 'Things are Slowly Getting Better': An Interview with Gregg Araki, " Richard Lippe and Robin Wood, pages 16 - 21.•  " Discuss The Living End as a Response to the AIDS Crisis. You Have Three Hours: Or, Trying to Understand Love and Hate in an Exam Situation, " Cory Silverberg, pages 22 - 24.•  " For Philadelphia, " Richard Lippe, pages 25 - 28.•  " 'Met Me in St. Louis': Smith, or the Ambiguities, " Andrew Britton, pages 29 - 42.•  " Cukor and Garbo, " Richard Lippe, pages 43 - 60.•  " Go East Young Man! John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy, " James A. Hurst, pages 61 - 65.•  " No Place Like Home: Homelessness, Identity, and Sexuality in American Queer Cinema, " Patrick Crowe, pages 66 - 72.

Issue No. 36

February, 1995 (Perfect bound with two color cover on rough paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Reviewing the Toronto International Film Festival 1994

• " Editorial [editor's note], " Kass Banning, pages 1 - 2.•  " Letter to the Editor: On the Irresponsibility of a Certain Film Critic: A Note to an 'Outsider', " Robert Cagle, pages 3 - 8 [a response to Robin Wood's " The New Queer Cinema and Gay Culture: Notes From an Outsider, " in Issue No. 35].•  " Letter to the Editor; Lang Thompson, with a response by Susan Morrison, page 9.•  " The Bandit Queen, " Brenda Longfellow, pages 10 - 16.•  " Eclipse, " Peter Harcourt, pages 17 - 19.•  " Super 8 ½, " David McIntosh, pages 20 - 23.•  " Les Silences Du Palais, " Kay Armatage, pages 24 - 27.•  " Narmada: A Valley Rises, " Gabrielle Hezekiah, pages 28 - 30.•  " Fresh Kill, " Laura U. Marks, pages 31 - 33.•  " Father, Son, and Holy War, " Tom Waugh, pages 34 - 36.•  " John Woo, Wong Kar-wai, and Me, " Susan Morrison, pages 37 - 41.•  " The Crisis Cinema of John Woo, " Tony Williams, pages 42 - 52.•  " Ghosts of Stories: Black Audio Film Collectives Who Needs a Heart?, " Laura U. Marks, pages 53 - 62.•  " Guess Who Else is Coming to Dinner: Racial / Sexual Hysteria in Candyman, " Elspeth Kydd, pages 63 - 72.


Issue No. 37

June, 1995 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Movements: History and Filmmaking 

• " 10 Years of CineACTION!!???? [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, page 2.•  " The Films of Bob Quinn: Towards an Irish Third Cinema, " Jerry White, pages 2 - 10.•  " An Interview with Ali Kazimi, " Marcy Goldberg and Firoza Elavia, pages 11 - 20.•  " Hearts of Hate and the Poverty of the Liberal Documentary, " John McCullough, pages 21 - 28.•  " A Question of Narrative: Notes on a Radical Horror Parody, " Cosimo Urbano, pages 29 - 37.•  " On the Rise: The Work of Ngozi Onwurah, " Julian Stringer, pages 38 - 48.•  " The Politics of Cultural Conversion in Colonialist African Cinema, " Femi Okiremuete Shaka, pages 50 - 67.•  " On Pluralism, Policy, and Progress: A Response to R. L. Cagle, " Robin Wood, pages 68 - 72.

Issue No. 38

September, 1995

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Theme: Murder in America 

• " Murder in America [editor's note], " Susan Morrison, pages 2-3.•  " Assassinating an Image: The Strange Life of Kennedy's Death, " Haidee Wasson, pages 4 - 11.•  " Livin' and Dyin' in Zapruderville: A Code of Representation, Reality and its Exhaustion, " Tom Mullin, pages 12 - 15.•  " The Technology of Homicide: Constructions of Evidence and Truth in American Murder Films, " Ken Morrison, pages 16 - 24.•  " Carnivalising the Taboo: The Mondo Film and the Opened Body, " Mikita Brottman, pages 25 - 37.•  " Serial Killers, True Crime, and Economic Performance Anxiety, " Annalee Newitz, pages 38 - 46.•  " Mystery Rider: The Cultural Construction of a Serial Killer, " Philip Simpson, pages 37 - 55.•  " The Seen of the Crime: Violence, Anxiety, and the Domestic in Police Reality Programming, " Edward R. O'Neill, pages 56 - 63.•  " The 1990s Hollywood Fatal Femme: (Dis)Figuring Feminism, Family, Irony, Violence, " Julianne Pidduck, pages 64 - 72.

Issue No. 39

December, 1995

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Theme: Contemporary World Cinema

•" Contemporary World Cinema [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, page 2.•  " Doin' Diaspora, " Warren Crichlow, pages 4 - 8.•  " Planet Africa: Three Shorts, " Robert K. Lightning, pages 9 - 11.•  " Cuban Films and the Crisis of Socialism: 'Possible Endings', " Scott Forsyth, pages 12 - 18.•  " House of Pain, " Laura U. Marks, pages 19 - 37.•  " After the Celebration: Soul Survivor and the Discourse of Heritage, " Rinaldo Walcott, pages 22 - 27.•  " Crack Vision, Ritual Charm, and Hybrid Culture in John L'Ecuyer'sCurtis's Charm, " David McIntosh, pages 28 - 30.•  " The Films of Bela Tarr, " David Thomas Lynch, pages 31 - 35.•  " Le Cérémonie: 'The Last Marxist Film' by Claude Chabrol, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 36 - 43.•  " La Haine, Fallen Angels, and Some Thoughts on Scorsese's Children, " Susan Morrison, pages 44 - 50.•  " Wim Wender's Lisbon Story, " Jesse Zigelstein, pages 51 - 53.•  " In Defence of Jean Seberg, " Richard Lippe, pages 54 - 62.•  " Frisk and Doom Generation, " Robin Wood, pages 63 - 65.•  " About Desolation Angels, or, Pack Your Bags, We're Going on an Ego Trip, " Mickey Burns, pages 66 - 69.•  " Unstrung Families/Unstrung Heroes: A Meditation on Life, Death, Family, and Andie MacDowell's Nail Polish, " Cory Silverberg, pages 70 - 72.

Issue No. 40

May, 1996 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Themes: Re-Readings,: Five Films, and Do the Right Thing, a Spike Lee Dossier 

• " Editorial [editor's note], " Robin Wood, page 2.•  " Has Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind?, or, Can We Be Intelligent about the Past?, " Tony French, pages 4 - 12.•  " Ikiru: The Role of Women in a Male Narrative, " Elen A. Bovkis, pages 13 - 20.•  " Persona Psychoanalyzed, " Göran Persson, pages 22 - 31. With a brief forward by Robin Wood on page 21•  " Confession as Betrayal: Hitchcock's I Confess as Enigmatic Text, " Deborah Thomas, pages 32 - 37.•  " Lola Montes, " Mickey Burns, pages 38 - 43.•  " Do The Right Thing: Generic Bases, " Robert K. Lightning, pages 44 - 47.•  " By Any Meanings Necessary: Conflict and its Resolution in Do the Right Thing, " Ted Kulczycky, pages 48 - 56.•  " Multiculturalism and Spike Lee's Mixed Messages, " Mitchell Shore, pages 57 - 65.•  " More Than the Violence: A Reading of Intergenerational Relationships in Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, " Cory Silverberg, pages 66 - 72.

Issue No. 41

October, 1996 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Style

•" Editorial [editor's note], " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, page 4.•  " The Little Space In Between: Preliminary Notes on Before Sunrise, " Robin Wood, pages 4 - 13.•  " Style as Attitude: Two Films by Martin Scorsese, " Richard Lippe, pages 14 - 21.•  " Rewriting Realism: Bergman and Rossellini in Europe 1949 - 1955, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 22 - 32.•  " Style and Narrative in Bertolucci's The Conformist, " Michael Walker, pages 33 - 42.•  " Maintaining the Dual Perspective: Orson Welles and Chimes at Midnight, " Peter E. S. Babiak, pages 43 - 49.•  " New Parents and Old: The Horrifying Lyricism of Dancing on Graves, " Diane Sippl, pages 50 - 59.•  " Larry Cohen's Bone: Comic Strip as Radical Style, " Tony Williams, pages 60 - 67.•  " Book Review: Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film, " Susan Morrison, pages 68 - 71.

Issue No. 42

February, 1997 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Chinese Films [Mainland, Hong Kong, plus Toronto Film Festival]

• " [editor's note], " Susan Morrison and Scott Forsyth, page 1.•  " The Films of Ning Ying: China Unfolding in Miniature, " Jerry White, pages 2 - 9.•  " Oppositional Politics of Chinese Everyday Practices, " Monica Hulsbus, pages 10 - 14.•  " Music and Femininity in Zhang Yimou's Family Melodrama, " Yanmei Wei, pages 15 - 17.•  " Allegory and Ambiguity in Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad, " Shelly Kraicer, pages 18 - 27.•  " Centre-Stage: Reconstructing the Biopic, " Julian Stringer, pages 28 - 39.•  " From Hong Kong to Hollywood: John Woo and His Discontents, " Tony Williams, pages 40 - 46.•  " East - West Politics, " Patrick Tan, pages 47 - 49.•  " Asian American Filmmakers: The Next Generation? Identity, Mimicry, and Transtextuality in Mina Shum's Double Happiness and Quentin Lee and Justin Lin's Shopping for Fangs, " Edward R. O'Neill, pages 50 - 62.Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1996•  " Irma Vepp, " Susan Morrison, pages 63 - 65.•  " For Ever Mozart, " David Thomas Lynch, pages 66 - 67.•  " Michael Collins, " Scott Forsyth, pages 68 - 69.•  " Michelangelo Antonioni: The Later Years, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 70 - 72.

Issue No. 43

July, 1997

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Theme: Films of the 90s 

• " [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, page 1.•  Photo essays on Arthur Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer, pages 2 - 3.•  " The Spectres Emerge in Daylight, " Robin Wood, pages 4 - 13.•  " Todd Haynes's Safe: Illness as Metaphor in the 90s, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 14 - 17.•  " What's Love Got to Do With It? The Resilience of the Woman's Film, " Robert K. Lightning, pages 18 - 31.•  " Lost Highway: Unveiling Cinema's Yellow Brick Road, " Reni Celeste, pages 32 - 39.•  Photo essay on four Taiwan films, pages 40 - 41.•  " The Virtues of Theft: André T&$233;chiné's Thieves, " Diane Sippl, pages 42 - 49.•  " The Magical World of the Ultimate Matriarch, " Elen A. Bovkis, pages 50 - 57.•  " Videodrome and the Revenge of Repression, " Marty Roth, pages 58 - 61.•  " Against Convention: Form and Narrative in Paul Ledue's Frida, " Peter C. Knowles, pages 62 - 65.•  " Plotting the Revolution: Identity and Territory in Memories of Underdevelopment, " Amy Beer, pages 66 - 72.

Issue No. 44

July, 1997 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Performance

• "[Editor's Note; inside front cover]," Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe. • "Staying Alive in the '90s: Travolta as Star and the Performance of Masculinity," Jesse Zigelstein, pages 2 - 11. •"Performance and Still Photography," Marilyn Monroe," Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, pages 12 - 19. • "Exhuming Dorothy Dandridge: The Black Sex Goddess and Classic Hollywood Cinema," Marguerite H. Rippy, pages 20 - 31. • "Dorothy Dandridge: Ruminations on Black Stardom," Robert K. Lightning, pages 32 - 39. • "A Few Short Notes on Robert Mitchum," Peter E. S. Babiiak, pages 40 - 45. • "A Tribute to James Stewart," Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, pages  46 - 47. • "Interview with Miranda Richardson: British Film, Stage, and Television Performance: Training, Praxis, and Culture," Carole Zucker, pages 48 - 57. • "If the Heart Had Eyes: Tears, Silences, and Snow in Seeking the Maternal Performance," Diane Sippl, pages 58 - 65. • "On Being Norman: Performance and Inner Life in Hitchcock's Psycho," Deborah Thomas, pages 66 -72. 

Issue No. 45

February, 1998 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Canadian Cinema; Festivals 

•" [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, pages 1 - 2.•  " Faces Changing Colour Changing Canon, " Peter Harcourt, pages 2 - 9.•  " Highway 61 Revisited, " Chris Byford, pages 10 - 17.•  " To Act is to Be: Identity in Recent Quebec Cinema, " Jerry White, pages 18 - 26.•  " Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, " Robin Wood, pages 27 - 29.•  " Lesbian Desires: Bound and Invested, " Jean Noble, pages 30 - 39.Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1997•  " Nil By Mouth and Gummo, " Susan Morrison, pages 41 - 45.•  " Exile Shanghai, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 46 - 49.•  " Revolutionary Love and Post-Communist Murder: Amor Vertical and A Friend of the Deceased, " Scott Forsyth, pages 50 - 51.•  " Gay Movies, West and East: In and Out and Happy Together, " Richard Lippe, pages 52 - 59.•  " Wolves Cry Under the Moon, " Robin Wood, pages 60 - 61.•  " Visible Cities, Invisible Freedoms: Uncut, City of Dark and Exile in Sarajevo, " Marcy Goldberg, pages 61 - 65.•  " A Report on Screens: New Sites for Crosscultural Media [Riot in the Streets, Oz, Girls in Prison, America's Dream, A Day Without a Mexican Nightjohn ], " Diane Sippl, pages 65 - 72.Riot in the Streets, Oz, Girls in Prison, America's Dream, A Day Without a Mexican Nightjohn.

Issue No. 46

June, 1998 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: The Western, Then and Now 

• " [editor's note], " Robin Wood, page 1.•  " The Western: The Genre that Engenders the Nation, " Garry Watson, pages 2 - 10.•  " Bury My Heart at Fort Apache, " Tony French, pages 11 - 17.•  " 'One in a Thousand': Western Stars, Heroes, and their Guns, " Brian Fairlamb, pages 18 - 25.•  " Man(n) of the West(ern), " Robin Wood, pages 26 - 33.•  " A Tribute: Samuel Fuller and the Western, " Richard Lippe, pages 34 - 39.•  " From Clementine to Mrs. Miller: In the Name of Progress, " Ivan Yovanovich, pages 40 - 47.•  " Heaven's Gate Takes a Swing: Slamming the Capitalist Patrichy, " Mickey Burns, pages 48 - 55.•  " Rewriting Revisionism: Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, " Peter E.S. Babiak, pages 56 - 63.•  " We Have Secrets: Borzage, Romance, and the Bourgeois State, " Robert K. Lightning, pages 64 - 72.

Issue No. 47

September, 1998 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Anything But Hollywood 

• " [editor's note], " Susan Morrison, page 1.•  " Around the world in Eighty Minutes: The Travel Lecture Film, " Jeffrey Ruoff, pages 2 - 11•  " If it Moves — We'll Shoot It, " Melinda Stone, pages 12 - 15.•  " Project 734: Digital Video and Non-Professional Filmmaking, " Charles Tashiro, pages 16 - 23.•  " Flowers in the Dustbin: Termite Culture and Detritus Culture, " Scott Mackenzie, pages 24 - 29.•  " Contesting Cinema: A Carmelo Bene Project, " Marc Siegel, pages 30 - 35.•  " Pedro Almodovar on The Verge of a Pornographic Space, " Brian K. Aurand, pages 36 - 44.•  " A 'Breakthrough' Film? Hal Hartley's Henry Fool, " Sarah Phillips, pages 45 - 47.•  " Interview with Edward Yang, " Shelly Kraicer and Lisa Roosen-Runge, pages 48 - 55.•  " Nationalism and Commercialism: Chinese Cinema's First Wave of Entertainment Films, " Ying Zhu, pages 56 - 66.•  CineACTION! Index issues 1 through 46, pages 67 - 72.

Issue No. 48

December, 1998 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: French New Wave - Contemporary World Cinema

• " French New Wave: 40th Anniversary [editor's note], " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 1 - 7.•  " Calculated Approximations of Probabilities: Rhetorical Strategies in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard, " Peter Harcourt, pages 8 - 17.•  " Pre '59 New Wave: Polyphony and Paradigms, " Julien Lapointe, pages 18 - 29.•  " Coping with Contempt Godard's Rejected Male and his Hollywood Prototypes, " Brian Fairlamb, pages 30 - 41.•  " Cahiers de Rossellini, " Izzy Greenberg, pages 42 - 46.Contemporary World Cinema: Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1997•  " Humble Guests at the Celebration: An Interview with Thomas Vinterbeg and Ulrich Thomsen, " Robin Wood, pages 47 - 54.•  " The Hole, " Robin Wood, pages 54 - 57.•  " The Apple, " Robin Wood, pages 57 - 60.•  " Ron Havilio's Fragments* Jerusalem, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 60 - 62.•  " An Interview with Satoshi Isaka on Detective Rico, " Richard Lippe, pages 63 - 66.•  " A Conversation with Olivier Assayas on Fin aout, debut septembre, " Mark Peranson, pages 66 - 72.

Issue No. 49

June, 1999 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: [Class and Nation in Canadian Cinema] 

• " In This Issue [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, page 1.•  " John and the Missus: Progress, Resistance, and 'Common Sense', " Malek Khouri, pages 2 - 11.•  " The Lace Bay Miners' Museum/Margaret's Museum: Adaptation and Resistance, " Peter Urquhart, pages 12 - 18.•  " Rude, or the Elision of Class in Canadian Movies, " John McCullough, pages 19 - 25.•  " Alanis Obomsawin, Documentary Form, and the Canadian Nation(s), " Jerry White, pages 26 - 36.•  " Everybody Has His Reasons: John Sayles's City of Hope and Lone Star, " Michael Walker, pages 37 - 50.•  " Divergent Dialogues: A Question of Subjectivity, " Diane Sippl, pages 51 - 59.•  " Third Cinema in the 'First' World: Eve's Bayou and Daughters of the Dust, " April Biccum, pages 60 - 65.•  " Julian Henriques's Babymother, " Marcy Goldberg, pages 66 - 67.•  " Fantasy, Resistance, and Third Cinema, " Scott Forsyth, pages 68 - 71.

Issue No. 50

September, 1999 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor 

• " Hitchcock and Cukor [editor's note], " Robin Wood and Richard Lippe, page 1.•  " The Spatial World of Hitchcock's Films: The Point-Of-View Shot, The Camera, and 'Instrarealism', " Susan Smith, pages 2 - 15.•  " Travels With My Aunt: Romanticism and Aging, " Richard Lippe, pages 16 - 19.•  " The Use of Glass in Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail, " Stephen Brophy, pages 20 - 23.•  " George Cukor's 'Take' on the Literacy Narrative: Hollywood Style, " Scott F. Stoddart, pages 24 - 31.•  " A Domestic Trilogy, " Robert K. Lightning, pages 32 - 42.•  " 'Your Father's Method of Relaxation': Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, " Tony French, pages 43 - 45.•  " Kim Novak: Vertigo, Performance, and Image, " Richard Lippe, pages 46 - 55.•  " Vertigo: Authorship as Transformation, " Tony Williams, pages 56 - 59.•  " Notes on the Long Take in George Cukor's A Life of Her Own, " Edward R. O'Neill, pages 60 - 69.•  " Manufacturing Horror in Hitchcock's Psycho, " Steven Schneider, pages 70 - 75.•  " Illusion and Deception in Cukor's Justine, " Randall Clark, pages 76 - 79.•  " Looking at The Birds and Marnie Through the Rear Window, " Robin Wood, pages 80 - 85.•  " Seeing and Believing: Sid Bernstein's German Atrocities Film and the Question of Hitchcock's Participation, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 86 - 88.

Issue No. 51

February, 2000 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: What Happened?

• " What Happened? [editor's note], " Susan Morrison, page 1.•  " Ride-Films and Films as Rides in the Contemporary Hollywood Cinema of Attractions, " Geoff King, pages 2 - 9.•  " Space Invaders: Speculations on the Politics of Postmodern Space in Recent Science Fiction Films, " Jamie Clarke, pages 10 - 16.•  " Representing Pre-Millennial Tensions: Hollywood's Gendered Invasion Narratives, " Diane R. Weiner, pages 17 - 22.•  " Out of the Depths and Through the Postmodern Surface: History and Class Figuration in Titanic, " David Ashen, pages 23 - 29.•  " Raising 'Film Avid': The Happy Teen from Technotown, " Graeme Harper, pages 30 - 35.•  " Cinema by Fits and Starts: New Zealand Film Practices in the Twentieth Century, " David Gerstner and Sarah Greenlees, pages 36 - 47.•  " Love and Rage: Irish Cinema of the '90s, " Carole Zucker and Kristian Moen, pages 48 - 54.•  " How Film Exhibition Has Changed in the Past 50 Years: An Interview with George Mansour, " Stephen Brophy, pages 55 - 59.Toronto Film Festival Reviews 1999•  " Darkness and Light, " Shelly Kraicer, pages 60 - 61.•  " One Piece: On Kore-eda, Kitano, and Some Lighter Moments in Recent Japanese Film, " Susan Morrison, pages 61 - 63.•  " Clair Denis and Masculinity: Beau Travail, " Richard Lippe, pages 63 - 65.•  " Spendour, " Robin Wood, pages 65 - 67.•  " L'humanité, " Robin Wood, pages 67 - 68.•  " A Humanist Philosophy: Interview(s) with Bruno Dumont, " Mark Peranson and Andrea Picard, pages 69 - 72.

Issue No. 52

Summer, 1988 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Exiles and Emigrés 

• " Exiles and Emigrés [editor's note], " Florence Jacoboqitz and Richard Lippe, page 1.•  " Douglas Sirk 1900 - 1987, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 2 - 3.•  " Lang and Brecht, " Robin Wood, pages 4 - 11.•  " Running out of Places: Fritz Lang's Clash By Night, " Douglas Pye, pages 12 - 17.•  " Under Capricorn: Hitchcock in Transition, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 18 - 27.•  " I Confess: Photographs of People Talking, " V. F. Perkins, pages 28 - 39.•  " Same Tune Again! Repetition and Framing in Letter From an Unknown Woman, " V. F. Perkins, pages 40 - 48.•  " Cat People and its 'Two Worlds', " Jason Wilcox, pages 49 - 55.•  " On and Around: My Best Friend's Wedding, " Robin Wood, pages 56 - 61.•  " 2001 Revisited, " Peter E. S. Babiak, pages 62 - 67.•  " The Cinema of the Dispersed Yugoslavias: Diasporas in the Making, " Dina Lordanova, pages 68 - 72.

Issue No. 53

November, 2000 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Horror and Apocalypse

• " Horror and Apocalypse [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, page 1.•  " Tomorrow is My Birthday: Placing Apocalypse in Millennial Cinema, " Diane Sippl, pages 2 - 21.•  " Interracial Tensions in the Night of the Living Dead, " Robert K. Lightning, pages 22 - 29.•  " Monkey Shines, " Tony Williams, pages 30 - 39.•  " Postmodern Cinema and the Death of the Hero, " Tom Pollard, pages 40 - 49.•  " Saying It with Flowers, " John Brown, pages 50 - 52.•  " Book Review: Apocalypse Movies: End of the World Cinema, " John McCullough, pages 53 - 55.•  " Some Arbitrary Forays into the Toronto Film Festival, " Robin Wood, pages 56 - 63.•  " Chinese Language Films in the 24th Hong Kong International Gilm Festival, " Shelly Kraicer, pages 64 - 72.

Issue No. 54

January, 2001 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Screwball Lives!

• " In This Issue [editor's note], " Robin Wood, page 1.•  " The Same, But Different: The Awful Truth about Marriage, Remarriage, and Screwball Comedy, " Kathrina Giltre, pages 2 - 11.•  " Screwball and the Masquerade: The Lady Eve and Two-Faced Woman, " Robin Wood, pages 12 - 19.Available on Video •  " Luis Bunuel: A Tribute, " author, pages 20 - 21.•  " Handy-Dandy: Bunuel's Susana, " Tony French, pages 22 - 27.•  " Beautiful People, " Robin Wood, pages 28 - 39.•  " Eden and Beyond, " Jason Wilcox, pages 40 - 44.Toronto Film Festival Reviews 2000•  " Interview with Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, " Robin Wood, pages 45 - 52.•  " Diversity or Dumb Reality: Speculations on Canadian Film and on Sea of Blood by Richard Fung, " Peter Harcourt, pages 52 - 56.•  " Above and Beneath: Francois Ozon's Sous le sable, " Richard Lippe, pages 57 - 60.•  " Amos Gitai's Kippur, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 60 - 63.•  " Asian Fusion: Some Notes on the Hybridization of the 'Heroic Warrior' Genre, " Susan Morrison, pages 63 - 67.•  " Platform, " Shelly Kriacer, pages 67 - 70.•  " Juan Carlos Tabio, Cuban Cinema, and The Waiting List, " Scott Forsyth, pages 71 - 72.

Issue No. 55

July, 2001 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Star Image Icon

• " Star Image Icon [editor's note], " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, page 1.•  " Hawke Ascending, " Robin Wood, pages 2 - 13.•  " Frank and Fearless: The Eve Arnold - Joan Crawford Sessions, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 14 - 23.•  " Playing Fathers and Monsters: The Classical Appeal of Anthony Hopkins, " Rachael Johnson, pages 24 - 30.•  " High Class Whore: Hedy Lamarr's Star Image in Hollywood, " Jan Christopher Horak, pages 31 - 39.•  " I Wonder What Becomes of Me? A Note on the Marx Brothers, " Tony French, pages 40 - 49.•  " Jim Carrey: The King of Embarrassment, " Tarja Laine, pages 50 - 56.•  " The Man in the Pink Shirt: Hugh Grant and the Dilemma of British Masculinity, " Gael Sweeny, pages 57 - 67.•  " Joan Fontaine's Heiress: Star in Transition, " Robert K. Lightning, pages 68 - 71.•  Letter: " Nationalism and the Zizek Syndrome: More Beautiful People, " from Vladislav Mijic, page 72.

Issue No. 56

September, 2001 (Perfect bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Shifting Narratives

• " Shifting Narratives [editor's note], " Susan Morrison, page 1.•  " 'So Where Are You?': Memento, Memory, and the Sincerity of Self-Deception, " Dion Tubrett, pages 2 - 10.•  " Flowers of Shanghai, " author, pages 11 - 19.•  " DVD: The Shift to Film's New Modernity, " author, pages 20 - 25.•  " Narration and Focalization in Wings of Desire, " author, pages 26 - 33.•  " Narrative and Spectacle in Gladiator, " Richard Rushton, pages 34 - 43.•  " They Kill for Love: Defining the Erotic Thriller as a Film Genre, " Doug Keesey, pages 44 - 53.•  " The Lake Effects: A 'Slowly Turning Narrative', " Trish Suchy, pages 54 - 66.•  CineACTION! Index issues 1 through 55, pages 67 - 72.

Issue No. 57

March, 2002 (Stitch bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Canadian Film

• " Canadian Films and More [editor's note], " unsigned, page 1.•  " Canadian Cinema in the Age of Globalization, " David L. Pike, pages 2 - 10.•  " STET, " Mike Cartmell, pages 11 - 15.•  " Toward the Quebec Auteur: From Perault to Arcand, " Georege Melnyk, pages 16 - 29.•  " The Party's Over: Rollercoaster, " Robin Wood, pages 30 - 34.•  " 'In the Sun It All Looks Nice': A Note on Paul Almond's Isabel, " Tony French, pages 35 - 41.•  " Persistence of Vision: The Wonderful World of John Paizs, " Robert L. Cagle, pages 42 - 49.•  " The New Face of British Heritage, " Deborah Tudor, pages 50 - 57.•  " Distance: Hirokazu Kore-eda, " Susan Morrison, pages 58 - 59.•  " The Intimate Screen: Dogme and Beyond, " Diane Sippl, pages 60 - 68.•  " Book Review: Cinema's Recounting of the Ordinary [Andrew Kleven's 0Disclosure of the Everyday], " Jeffrey Crouse, pages 69 - 71.

Issue No. 58

June, 2002 (Stitch bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: World Cinema Since 1990

• " Editorial [editor's note], " Robin Wood, page 1.

•  " Party Time, or Can't Hardly Wait for that American Pie: Hollywood High School Movies of the 90s, " Robin Wood, pages 2 - 10.•  " Time and Point of View in Contemporary Cinema, " Temenuga Trifonova, pages 11 - 31.•  " Are You With Me? Unemployed Negativity in Mike Leigh's Naked, " Garry Watson, pages 32 - 45.•  " The Import / Export Business: The Road to Abbas Kirostami's Taste of Cherry, " Devin Orgeron, pages 46 - 51.•  " The Most Dangerous Game: Failed Male Friendship in Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes, " author, pages 52 - 57.•  " Floating Desire, Floating Souls: Modern Cultural Landscape in Tsai Ming-Liang's Taipei Trilogy, " I-Fen Wu, pages 58 - 64.•  " Chop Suey: Photographs to Remember You By, " Richard Lippe, pages 65 - 67.•  " Beautiful People: In Praise of the Liberal State, " Robert Lightning, pages 68 - 72.•  Letter from Keith Withall [on Kippur], page 72.•  Response by Florence Jocobowitz, page 72.

Issue No. 59

September, 2002 (Stitch bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Max Ophus Centenary

•" Max Ophus Centenary [editor's note], " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 1 - 2.

•  " In Memory: Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, " author, page 3.

•  " Circles of Delight and Despair: The Cinema of max Ophuls, " Peter Harcourt, pages 4 - 13.

•  " Plunging Off the Deep End into the Reckless Moment, " Robin Wood, pages 14 - 19.

•  " Falling Women and Fallible Narrators, " Douglas Pye, pages 20 - 29.

•  " Werther (Max Ophuls, 1938), " Michael Walker, pages 30 - 39.

•  " Yoshiwara: Max Ophuls in the Empire of Passion, " Alexander Jacoby, pages 40 - 44.

•  " Captivated by Garbo: Max Ophuls's Roman Interlude with The Duchess of Langeais, " Lutz Bacher, pages 45 - 53.

•  " 'Do I Disgust You?': Or, Tirez pas sur La Pianiste, " Robin Wood, pages 54 - 61.

•  " Icons and Subversion in the Westerns of Clint Eastwood, " Peter E. S. Babiak, pages 62 - 68.

•  " Book Review: Fred and Ginger: A Vision of Emersonian Hollywood? [review of Astaire and Rogers by Edward Gallafent], " Jeffrey Crouse, pages 69 - 70.

•  Letter from Michael McKegney [on teen films], pages 71.

•  Response by Robin Wood, page 71.

Issue No. 60

Summer, 1988 (Stitch bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: East Asian Cinemas

• " East Asian Cinemas [editor's note], " Susan Morrison, page 1.

•  " A Tale of Two Emperors: Mimicry and Mimesis in Two 'New Year's' Films from China and Hong Kong, " Carlos Rojos, pages 2 - 9.

•  " Hollywood and the Chinese Other, " Tan Ye, pages 10 - 20.

•  " To Live and Dye in China: The Personal and Political in Zhang Yimou's Judou, " Vincent Brook, pages 21 - 29.

•  " Interview with Jia Zhangke, " Shelly Kraicer, pages 30 - 33.

•  " Three Japanese Actresses of the 1950s: Modernity, Femininity, and The Performance of Everyday Life, " Catherine Russell, pages 34 - 44.

•  " Looking for Nostalgia: Memory and National Identity in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's A Time to Live, A Time to Die, " I-Fen Wu, pages 45 - 51.

•  " The Halfway House of Memory: An Interview with Hirokazu Kore-eda, " Gabriel Paletz, pages 52 - 59.

•  " South Korean Film Genres and Art-House Anti-Poetics: Erasure and Negation in The Power of Kangwan Province, " David Scott Diffient, pages 61 - 71.I

Issue No. 61

February, 2003 (Stitch bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: New Canadian Cinema

• " New Canadian Cinema [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, page 1.

•  " Wotcha Lookin' at, Anyway? An Examination of Point-of -View in Denys Arcand's Stardom, " Peter Harcourt, pages 2 - 9.

•  " Quebec's Next Generation: From Lauzon to Turpin, " George Melnyk, pages 10 - 17.

•  " Blood in the Maple Syrup: Canon, Popular Culture, and the Canuxploitation of Julian Roffman, " Aaron Taylor, pages 18 - 28.

•  " Charting the Course of the Pacific New Wave, " Diane Burgess, pages 29 - 33.

•  " Interview with R. Bruce Elder, " Aysegul Koc, pages 34 - 39.

•  " Beyond the Homeland: A Comparative Introduction to Latino Film in Canada and the US, " Elena Feder, pages 40 - 51.

•  " Seeing and Being Seen in Media Culture: Shelley Niro's Honey Moccasin, " Darrell Varga, pages 52 - 57.

•  " Border Crossings: Representations of North American Culture in Bruce McDonald's Highway 61, " Rochelle Simmons, pages 58 - 61.Toronto Film Festival Reviews 2002.

•  " The Consequences of Seduction: Adolph, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 62 - 64.

•  " The Intended, " Robin Wood, pages 64 - 65.

•  " Unknown Pleasures, ", Shelly Kraicer, pages 65 - 66.

•  " Making and Remaking Class in Ken Loach's Recent Films, " Scott Forsyth, pages 66 - 67.

•  " Fruit Chan's 'Excremental Vision': Public Toilet, " Susan Morrison, pages 67 - 68.International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg.

•  " When Fiction Turns Real: Suspending Disbelief, " Diane Sippl, pages 68 - 70.

•  "Book Review: Alan King, Filmmaker, " Janice Kaye, pages 71.

Issue No. 62

October, 2003 (Stitch bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Close Readings

• " Questions of Value [editor's note], " Robin Wood, page 1.

•  " Unanswered Questions: Vision and Experience in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, " Jacob Leigh, pages 2 - 14.

•  " The Purpose of Plot and the Place of Joan Bennett in Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window, " Andrew Kleven, pages 15 - 21.

•  " The Age of Innocence: Martin Scorsese, 1993, " Deborah Thomas, pages 22 - 33.

•  " Love Hurts: Redemption within the Bowels of Seil contre tous and the Cinema of Aggression, " Dion Tubrett, pages 34 - 40.

•  " In Search of the Code inconnu, " Robin Wood, pages 41 - 49.

•  " Apocalypse Then: Lessons of Darkness Revisited, " Adam Bingham, pages 50 - 53.

•  " Vive le Cinema: A Reading of What Time is it There?, " Aysegul Koc, pages 54 - 57.

•  " … Simply Because You're Near Me: Love, Chungking Expresss and In the Mood for Love, " Blair Miller, pages 58 - 66.

•  " Music and Modernity in A Brighter Summer Day, " Saul Austerlitz, pages 67 - 70.

•  Letter from Alexander Jacoby [on Catherine Russell's article on Ozu], page 72.

•  Response from Robin Wood, page 72.

Issue No. 63

April, 2004 (Stitch bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Minnelli and Ozu Centenary

• "[editor's note], " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 1 - 2.

•  " In Memoriam: Hepburn, Peck, Hepburn, " unsigned, page 3.

•  " Being a Clown: Curious Coupling in The Pirate, " Douglas Pye, pages 4 - 13.

•  " The Cobweb, " Stella Bruzzi, pages 14 - 21.

•  " Home from the Hill: Vincente Minnelli, 1959, " Michael Walker, pages 22 - 34.

•  " Love and the City: An Analysis of Vincente Minnelli's The Clock, " Stuart Hands, pages 35 - 37.

•  " The far Side of Paradise; The Style and Substance of Yolanda and the Thief, " Alexander Jacoby, pages 38 - 44.

•  " The Spaces In-Between: The Cinema of Yasujiro Ozu, " Adam Bingham, pages 45 - 56.

•  " Notes Toward a Reading of Tokyo Twilight [Tokyo boshoku], " Robin Wood, pages 57 - 58.

Toronto Film Festival Reviews 2003

•  " Los Angeles Plays Itself, " Richard Lippe, pages 59 - 61.

•  " Notes on the Toronto Film Festival, " Robin Wood, pages 62 - 65.

•  " Amos Gitai's Alila, " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 65 - 67.

•  " Drifters: Smoking and Moping on the Mainland, " Susan Morrison, pages 67 - 68.

•  " Tabio's So Far Away, " Scott Forsyth, pages 69 - 70.

•  " The Brown Bunny, " Dion Tubrett, pages 70 - 71.

•  Letter from Catherine Russell [see previous issue's letter section], page 72.

•  Letter from Jacob Leigh [correcting errors in his Malick essay], page 72.

Issue No. 64

August, 2004 (Stitch bound with two color cover on slick paper with book stock interior pages)

Theme: New Directions?

• " New Directions? [editor's note], " Susan Morrison, page 1.

•  " Where Globalization and Localization Meet: Spike Lee's The 25th Hour, " Patricia O'Neill, pages 2 - 9.

•  " The Politics of Hiccups: National Cinema with National Language, " Aniko Imre, pages 8 - 17.

•  "Two Stories, One Right, One Wrong: Narrative, National Identity and Globalization in Sliding Doors, " David Martin-Jones, pages 18 - 27.

•  " The Passion of Global Hollywood: ivansxtc, " Lisa Kernan, pages 28 - 36.

•  " Korean Cinema Now: Balancing Creativity and Commerce in an Emergent National Industry, " Peter Harry Rist, pages 37 - 45.

•  " Striking Home: Trends and Changes in Vietnamese Cinema, " Kim Worthy, pages 46 - 53.

•  " Takashi Miike's Cinema of Outrage, " Tony Williams, pages 54 - 62.

•  " Indigenous Feature Films: A New Hope for National Cinemas?, " Jenifer L. Gauthier, pages 63 - 71.

•  Letter from representatives of the Film Studies Association of Canada [on the attacks on Catherine Russell's essay on Ozu], page 72.

•  Editorial note from Scott Forsyth [on the letter exchanges concerning Catherine Russell's article on Ozu], page 72.

•  Response from Robin Wood [to Russell's letter in issue No. 63], page 72.

Issue No. 65

2004 (Heavy two color cover with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Sex, Terror, Madness, Canada

• " Sex, Terror, Madness, Canada [editor's note], " Scott Forsyth, page 1.

•  " In the Web of David Cronenberg: Spider and the New Auteurism, " Reni Celeste, pages 2 - 5.

•  " Thoroughly Modern Maddin, " David Pike, pages 6 - 18.

•  " Canadian Social Documentary in the Age of Michael Moore: The Corporation and The Fix, " Seth Feldman, pages 17 - 19.

•  " Gay Guerrilla Filmmaking and Terrorist Chic: Toronto Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce Discusses His Latest Art/Porn Feature, The Raspberry Reich, " Matthew Hays, pages 20 - 24.

•  " Caress, The Decay: Queer Desire in he Nature of Nicholas , " Andrew Lesk, pages 25 - 29.

•  " The Local and the Global Revisited: Un 32 Aôut sur terre, " Darrell Varga, pages 30 - 36.

•  " You Watch To Much TV, Kid: Causalities of Cultural Colonialism, " Robert L. Cagle, pages 37 - 43.

•  " Tedium and Torture: Fight Club, Globalization, and Professionals in Crisis, " John McCullough, pages 44 - 53.

•  " Allegorical Figurations and the Political Didactic in Bulworth, " Reagan Ross, pages 54 - 63.Toronto International Film Festival.

•  " Bridges: Notre Musique " Peter Harcourt, pages 63 - 64.

•  " Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Café Lumiere " Florence Jacobowitz, pages 65 - 66.

•  " The Ninth Day and Downfall " Susan Morrison, pages 66 - 67.

•  " Living and Looking at Life: Bruce Webber Interviewed " Richard Lippe, pages 67 - 70.

•  " The Toronto Film Festival: Random Thoughts " Robin Wood, pages 71 - 72.

Issue No. 66

2005 (heavy two color cover with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Questions of Value.

• " Questions of Value " [a note from the editors]," Robin Wood, page 1.

•  " A.I. or The Agony of Steven Spielberg," William Beard, pages 2 - 11.

•  "Metropolis: Rstoration, Reëvaluation," Susan Smith, pages 12 - 23.

•  "Pleasures of The Big Sleep," Nathan Holmes, pages 24 - 28. 

•  "The Centre Cannot Hold: Betrayals in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz," Justin E. A. Busch, pages 29 - 41.

•  "This is Not a Game: Alan J. Pakula's Rollover," Jack Hughes, pages 42 - 49.

•  "'But It's Good': Finding Value in Twentynine Palms," Jason Wilcox, pages 50 - 60.

•  "From Within: Music in the Style of Jean Renoir," Alex Clayton, pages 61 - 72.

Issue No. 67

Fall, 2005 (heavy two color cover with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Film on Film.

• "Film on Film" [a note from the editors]," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 1 - 3.

Theme: Editor's Choices.

•  "Remembering Memories of Underdevelopment," Scott Forsyth, pages 2 - 3.

•  "Zero de Conduite: Radical Cinema," Florence Jacobowitz, pages 3 - 5.

•  "The Life and Death of Deathwatch and Dying at Grace," Florence Jacobowitz, page 6. [Note: Left off of the contents page.]

•  "In a Glass Cage," Bruce LaBruce, page 7.•  "Party Girl: Ray and Hollywood," Richard Lippe, pages 7 - 8.

•  "Jia Zhang-ke's The World," Susan Morrison, pages 9 - 10.•  "Notorious," Lori Spring, pages 10 - 11.

•  "Right Again: A Loving Tribute to Stan, Ollie, and Leo," Robin Wood, page 11.

•  "Cinematic Meaning in the Work of David Lynch: Revisiting Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive," Michael Vass, pages 12 - 23.

•  "Looking a Lola, Looking at Cinema" Jason Wilcox, pages 24 - 37.

•  "Film, Dreams, and Stolen Pocketwatches," Dr. Ira Nayman, pages 38 - 42.

•  "In Memoriam [photo tribute to Marlon Brando]," pages 43.

•  "Ceylan and Company: Autobiographical Trajectories of Cinema," Diane Sippl, pages 44 - 57.

•  "Ônibus 174 [Bus 174]: Intention in the System of Representation," Hans W. Staats, pages 58 - 62.

•  "Centenary," [photo tributes to Otto Preminger and Greta Garbo], pages 63.

•  "Seeing Elephant," Dion Tubrett, pages 64 - 72.

 

Issue No. 68

January - March, 2006 (Heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Natural Born Killers.

• "Natural Born Killers [editorial introduction]," Susan Morrison, page 1.

•  " Articulating the Violence Debate: True Lies, Natural Born Killers, and the Terms of 'Cultural Contamination', " Kimberly A. Owczarski, pages 2 - 10.

•  " Elephant : The Physics of Violence," Michael Sofair, pages 11 - 17.

•  "Firepower: Herzog's Pure Cinema as the Internal Combustion of War," Nadia Bozak, pages 18 - 25.

•  "The Unattainable Narrative: Identity, Consumerism, and the Slasher Film in Mary Harron'sAmerican Psycho," David Robinson, pages 26 - 35.

•  "Trauma and Violence, Different Sensibilities: Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room and Todd Field's In the Bedroom," Henry M. Taylor, pages 36 - 44.

•  "Violence, Actions, and Words in Million Dollar Baby," Edward Gallafent, pages 45 - 52.

•  "Jia Zhangke: Life and Times Beyond the World," Alice Shih, pages 53 - 58.Theme: Toronto International Film Festival•  " The Sun," Adam Nayman, pages 59 - 60.

•  "Takeshis'," Andrew Tracy, pages 60 - 62.

•  "Caché," Florence Jacobowitz, pages 62 - 64.

•  "Heading South/Vers Le Sud: No Exit," Richard Lippe, pages 64 - 67.

•  "The Brutal Beauty of Labour: Workingman's Death," Scott Forsyth, pages 67 - 68.

•  "Shangai Dreams," Susan Morrison, pages 69 - 70.

•  " Toronto International Film Festival, " Robin Wood, pages 70 - 71.

Issue No. 69

June, 2006 (heavy two tone color cover with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Films From Around the Globe: Bolivia, Canada, China, Egypt, 60s America, South Africa.

• "Films From Around the Globe [a note from issue editor Scott Forsyth]," page 1. [Note: contents page gives mostly wrong page numbers]

•  "Images of the Rural: The Cinema of Quebec," Peter Harcourt, pages 2 - 11.

•  "Anxieties of Fundamentalism and the Dynamics of Modernist Resistance: Youssef Chahine's Al Maseer [The Destiny]," Malek Khouri, pages 12 - 23.

•  "On William D. MacGillivray," Robin Wood, pages 24 - 33.

•  "The Days of Frozen Dreams: An Interview with Wang Xizoshuai," Alive Shih, pages 34 - 39.

•  "The Brig: The Paradox of Resistance and Recuperation," Nicola Galombik and Michael Zryd, pages 40 - 49.

•  "Sexual Dependency: The Split Image of Globalisation," Michael Sofair, pages 48 - 55.

•  Reviews.•  "Bruce McDonald on the West Coast: The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess," George Melnyk, pages 56 - 58.

•  "C.R.A.Z.Y.," George Melnyk, pages 58 - 60.•  "Reading, Regarding, and Waiting: Three New Documentaries from Nova Scotia," Darrelll Varga, pages 60 - 63.

•  "Some Directions in World Cinema: AFI Fest 2005, 54th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, 7th Scandinavian Film Festival L.A." Diane Sippl, pages 66- 69.

•  "Two Films by Amnon Buchbinder: Some Questions About the Future of Canadian Cinema," Robin Wood, pages 69- 72.

Issue No. 70

December, 2006 (heavy two tone color cover with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Protest and Revolution."

• Protest and Revolution [a note from issue editor Robin Wood]," pages 1 - 2. Theme: Protest and Revolution.

Note: In a "calls for submissions" note published on page 1 of issue No. 69, Wood wrote, "In view of the current world situation it seems important to make an attempt to restore CineACTION to its original Leftist roots, which I feel have been to some degree eaten away by the pervasive discouragement and despair of the past decade." Wood goes on to announce that he would be writing about Salt of the Earth. However, in his editorial note for this issue, Wood announced that he dropped the essay after discovering James L. Lorence's book on the making of the film. Wood also announces in this issue that he is retiring from the editorial board of CineACTION! but he will continue to write essays "in my own time and at my own pace."

•  "The Documentary Films of Citizen Activist Michael Moore: A Man on a Mission, or, How Far a Reinvigorated Populism Ca Take Us," Garry Watson, pages 3 - 15.

•  " Assessing V for Vendetta," Tony Williams, pages 16 - 23.

•  " Bearing Witness: The Dardenne Brothers and Michael Haneke's Implication of the Viewer," Brian Gibson, pages 24 - 38.

•  " Excesses of Millennial Capitalism, Excesses of Violence: Several Critical Fragments Regarding the Cinema of Michael Haneke," Kevin Wynter, pages 39 - 45.

•  "Le Temps du loup/ Time of the Wolf," Florence Jacobowiz, pages 46 - 50.

•  "Mourning and Misfortune: 9/11 and the Domestic Terror of Pedophilia," Dion Tubrett, pages 51 - 58.

•  " Intuitions in Africa: Personal and Political Knowledge in The Constant Gardener," Edward Gallafent, pages 59 - 65.

•  ""What You See is Happening Right Now": Thermageddon and a Search for Tommorow," Blair Miller, pages 66 - 69.

•  "Good Night, and Good Luck: History Replays Itself," Richard Lippe, pages 70 - 72.



Issue No. 71

May, 2007 (heavy two tone color cover with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Sexuality in the Cinema.

• [Untitled editorial note from issue editors Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, page 1. 

•  "The The Silent, Black Centre in the Early Films of Clair Denis," Katharine Asals, pages 2 - 8.

•  " Fellini's Forgotten Masterpiece: Toby Dammit," George Porcari, pages 9 - 13.

•  " The Strange Pleasure of The Leopard Man: Gender, Genre, and Authorship in a Val Lewton Thriller," Scott Preston, pages 14 - 21.

•  " A Tribute to Robin Wood," Kass Banning, pages 22, Varda Burstyn, pages 22 - 24, Scott Forsyth, pages 24 - 25, Peter Harcourt, pages 25, Bruce LaBruce, pages 25 - 26, Bart Testa, pages 26 - 29, Janine Marchessault, pages 29 - 30.

•  Toronto International Film Festival, " Some Tentative Responses to Directors I Value," Robin Wood on Away From Her and Sarah Polley, pages 31 - 33, Offside, page 33, Climates, pages 33 - 34, The Wayward Cloud and I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, pages 34 - 36, When the Levees Broke, page 36, ; Richard Lippe on Belle Toujours and I Am the Other Woman, pages 36 - 39; Florence Jacobowitz on Nue Propriété, pages 40 - 42; Susan Morrison on Golden Door / Nuovomondo, pages 42 - 43.

•  "Cinema,-Cinema" [The 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival, AFI Fest 2006, American Film Market 2006, 55th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg]. Diane Sipple, pages 44 - 47.

•  "Of Human Bonding: An Interview with Tsai Ming-Liang," Aysegul Koc, pages 48 - 51.

•  " After This Director's Seventeen Years of Exile: An Interview with Patrick Tam," Alice Shih, pages 52 - 57.

•  "In Dreams and The Gothic: The Moment of Collapse," Carole Zucker, pages 58 - 66.

•  "Carolee Schneemann's Fuses as Erotic Self-Portraiture," Shana MacDonald, pages 67 - 71.

•  "In Memoriam: Alida Valli and Teresa Wright," page 72.






Issue No. 72

December, 2007 (heavy two tone color cover with book stock interior pages)

Theme: The State of the Art: Film and Film Criticism Today

• [Editorial note from issue editor Susan Morrison, page 1. 

•  "The New Film Studies and the Decline of Critique," Richard Rishton, pages 2 - 7.

•  " 'The Horror, Piglet, The Horror': Found Footage, Mash-Ups, The Avante Garde, And the Strange Case of Apocalypse Pooh," Scott Mackenzie, pages 8 - 15.

•  " Towards a Theory of Virtual Pornography: A Phenomenological Introduction to Interactive Sex Simulation in the 'Naive Realist' Paradigm," Kevin Wynter, pages 16 - 22.

•  " Saving the Image: Scale and Duration in Contemporary Art Cinema," Erika Balsom, pages 23 - 31.

•  " Singing Outside the Frame: The Female Voice Off in Gigi," Susan Smith, pages 32 - 41.

•  " The Risk of Ambiguity: Reconsidering Zavattini's Film Ethics," Nicholas Balaisis, pages 42 - 45.

•  " Interview: Joan Chen: Actor, Screenwriter, Director, Chinese, American, Woman, Mother, Who is Joan Chen?," Alice Shih, pages 46 - 53.

•  " Notes on a Radical Tradition: : Subversive Ideological Applications in the Hammer Horror Films," Brian Wilson, pages 54 - 59.

•  " Interview: Charles Mudede: Charles Mudede Discuses Police Beat and Zoo," Alice Shih, pages 60 - 65.

•  " Once Upon a Time in America: Sergio Leone and the Construction of Myth," Peter Babiak, pages 66 - 69.

•  " Index of CineACTION!: Issues 56 - 71," pages 70 - 72.

Issue No. 73 - 74

April, 2008 (heavy two tone color cover with slick book stock interior pages)

Theme: Cinema and New Media; Canadian Films 

• [Editorial note from issue editor Scott Forsyth, page 1. 

•  "Mini-Cinema: A Digital Diary for iPod," Catherine Russell, pages 2 - 7.

•  " New Media Resistance: Machinima and the Avant-Garde," Elijah Horwatt, pages 8 - 14.

•  " The Reality of Dreams: A presentation of L'Ange et la femme," Peter Harcourt, pages 15 - 19.

•  " The Imagined City: Toward a Theory of Urbanity in Canadian Cinema," George Melnyk, pages 20 - 27.

•  " 'I'm just a simple filmmaker': An Interview With Michel Brault," Aysegul Koc, pages 28 - 31.

•  " From Big Snow to Big Sadness: The Repatriation of Canadian Cultural Identity in the Films of Guy Maddin," John Semley, pages 32 - 37.

•  " Being at Home with Roy Dupuis and Pascale Bussires or, Star-Gazing In and Out of Quebec," Peter Dickinson, pages 38 - 43.

•  " Michael Haneke: Beyond Compromise," Robin Wood, pages 44 - 55. [Translation and reprint of two combined articles originally published in Filmhaftet]

•  " Voice and Body: Ahead of the Curve and Scouts Are Cancelled," Darrell Varga, pages 56 - 58.

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 

•  " And Along Come Tourists and The Counterfeiters," Florence Jacobowitz, pages 59 - 62.

•  " Les Bons Films: A Girl Cut in Two and Angel," Richard Lippe, pages 62 - 67.

•  " Random Thoughts On and Around the Toronto Film Festival [No Country for Old Men, Margot at the Wedding, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Munyurangabo]" Robin Wood, pages 67 - 69.

•  " My Kid Could Paint That," Susan Morrison, pages 70 - 72.







Issue No. 75

August, 2008 (Staple bound with two color cover on slick paper with slick stock interior pages)

Theme: The Art House Film

• " The Art House Film, " Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 1 - 2.

•  " The Bones of Reagan: The Ruins of Art Cinema in Contemporary American Film, " Darrell Varga, pages 4 - 19.

•  " Analogical Thinking Organizational Strategies Within the Works of Jean-Luc Godard, " Peter Harcourt, pages 20 - 23.

•  " The High Solitude of a Rare Bird, " Kohei Usuda, pages 24 - 27.

•  " Fellini Goes to the Beach, " George Porcari, pages 28 - 33.

•  " The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, or, They Don't Make 'em Like That Anymore: Honor de Cavalleria and Art Cinema's Last Stand, " Adam Bingham, pages 34 - 46.

•  " I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, " Robin Wood, pages 47 - 49.

•  " 'I Heart Hedwig,' " Conrad Page, pages 50 - 53.

•  " The Voice of Marianne Faithfull: On Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, " Kohei Usuda, pages 54 - 57.

•  " A Polite Way of Being Desperate: An Interview with Marjane Satrapi, " Jon Davies, pages 66 - 72.

•  " The Brave One: There's Plenty of Ways to Die, " Carole Zucker, pages 58 - 61.

•  " Movements and Rhythms: On Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3, " Kohei Usuda, pages 70 - 71.



Issue No. 76

 
2008 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Themes: International Cinema, Toronto Film Festival, Underrated Films.

• [Editorial matter], page 1. • "The Skull Beneath the Skin: Patrice Chereau and Son Frère,"  Robin Wood, pages 2 - 5. •"National Reconciliation and its Performative Limitations: John Boorman's In My Country and Fanta Regina Nacro's Night of Truth,"  Jeremy Maron, pages 6 – 13. •"Toronto Workers' Art in Global Hollywood," John McCullough, pages 14 – 15. •"Kiarostami's Life Lessons: How Art Flourishes Where It Would Suffer, and Struggles Where It Should Thrive," Dan Jones, pages 16 – 21. •"In Memoriam: Paul Newman," Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, pages 22 – 25. •Toronto Film Festival 2008 •"Six Films [Rhums, Four Nights with Anna, Happy Go Lucky, Le Silence de Lorna, Miracle at St. Anna, $5 a Day]" by Richard Lippe, pages 26 – 30.  •"Un barrage contre le Pacifique/ The Sea Wall," Florence Jacobowitz, pages 31 – 34. •"TIFF '08 and Liverpool," Susan Morrison, pages 35 – 37. •"Performance, Realism, and Melodrama," Scott Forsyth, pages 38 – 41.  Underrated Films •"Nicholas Ray's King of Kings," Tony Williams, pages 42 – 49. •"We the Undead: Nadja," George Porcari, pages 50 – 53. •"Atrocities at the Door: Peter Brook's Tell Me Lies, Images of Terror, and Brechtian Aesthetics," Scott MacKenzie, pages 54 – 62. •"Deciphering Lust, Caution," Alice Shih, pages 63 – 65. •"On the Road to Renewed Relevance: Jacques Tati’s Trafic," Dan Lalande, pages 66 – 67. •"The Art of Persuasion, Or: Have You Seen This Man's Films Lately?," Daniel Stefik, pages 68 – 72.

 

Issue No. 77

2008 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Theme: Documentary and Superheroes

• "Documentary and Superheroes: From the Margins to the Mainstream," Susan Morrison, page 1. Documentary •"Evita in Wonderland: Pulqui and the Workshop of Underdevelopment," Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli, pages 2 – 8. • "Sounds Like Canada: A Reexamination of the Development of Canadian Cinema Vérité," Michael Longfield, pages 9 – 17. •"The War on Film: Reanimating the Post-9/11 Viewer in The Prisoner, Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair," Brian Gibson , pages 18 – 24. •"The Dialogical Documentary: Jennifer Fox on Finding a New Film Language in Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2007)," Angelica Fenner, pages 25 – 33. Superheroes • "Secret Identities: The Superhero Simulacrum and the Nation," Matt Yockey, pages 34 – 41. • "Convergence Culture and the Caped Crusader: Batman and the Environment of New Media," Dru H. Jeffries, pages 42 – 49. •"On the Obama-ization of Will Smith," Edward D. Bacal, pages 50 – 52. "Lost in Translation: On Frank Miller's The Spirit," Brian Wilson, pages 53 – 55. • "'Tone down the Boobs Please': Reading the Special Effect Body in Superhero Movies," Sabine LeBel, pages 56 – 67. • "Of Depth and Surfaces: Notes on Watchmen and Other (non)Reflections on Phenomenological Film Experience," Kevin Wynter, pages 68 – 72.

 

Issue No. 78

2009 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Themes: Global Cinema; Canadian Films and TV 

• "Editorial Matter]," Scott Forsyth, page 1. Global Cinema • "Slumdog Comprador: Coming To Terms With the Slumdog Phenomenon," Ajay Gehlawat, pages 2 – 9. • "Free Films Made Freely: Paolo Gioli and Experimental Filmmaking in Italy,"Patrick Rumble, pages 10 – 16. • "Screening the Borderland: Transsexualism as Cinematic Metaphor," Carolyn Kraus, pages 17 – 22. • "Torture Porn and Bodies Politic: Post-Cold War American Perspectives in Eli Roth's Hostel and Hostel: Part II," Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield, pages 23 – 31. • "The New James Bond: And Globalization Theory, Inside and Out," Steven W. Thomas, pages 32 – 39. • "Who Wants To Be A Screenwriter? Script Development in Globalizing India,"Patricia Gruben, pages 40 – 45.• "Hop on Pop: Jiangshi Films in a Transitional Context," Stephanie Lam, pages 46 – 51. Canadian Films and TV • "Canadian Films and TV: Second City or Second Country? The Question of Canadian Identity in SCTV's Transcultural Text," Erin Hanna, pages 52 – 59. • "It Doesn't Seem 'Canadian': 'Quality Television' and Canadian-American Co-Productions," Anita Lam, pages 60 – 65. • "Still Mining His Winnipeg (An Interview With Guy Madden)," John Semley, pages 66 – 72.

 

 

Issue No. 79

2009 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Themes: Collaboration and the French New Wave: 50 Years [Note: The contents page messes up the page numbers of articles, corrected here.] 

• "[Editorial Matter]," Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, page 1. • "French New Wave: 50 Years," Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 3 – 5. • "Elia Kazan 1909-2009: A Man in Conflict," Richard Lippe, pages 6 – 7. • "The Second Wave: Collaboration and the Nouvelle Vague," Adam Bingham, pages 8 - 16.  • "Vive l'Amour," Robin Wood, pages 17 – 20. • "Contraband: Powell, Pressburger, Veidt, Hobson, Junge and Others," Tony Williams, pages 21 – 26. • "Collaborating Agent: Charles Feldman and Clients," Tom Kemper, pages 27 – 35. • "Body and Soul: John Garfield, Abraham Polonsky and the American Jewish Family," Stuart Hands, pages 36 – 45. • "The Biggest Film Biographer in the World: The Films of Ken Russell for the BBC," George Porcari, pages 46 – 49. • "Cannes Film Festival 2009," Robert K. Lightning, pages 50 – 57. • "Trace and Travesty: How The Columbus of Sex Became My Secret Life," Stephen Broomer, pages 58 – 63.• "Textures of Collaboration: Pop Music Culture and the Experimental Films of Abigail Child and Bill Morrison," Carolyn Elerding, pages 64 – 72.

Issue No. 80

2010 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Themes: Genre; Global Cinema 

• "[Editorial Matter]," unsigned editorial which mentions the death of editorial collective member Robin Wood, page 1. Genre • "Shocked and Awed? Hostel and the Spectacle of Self-Mutilation," Gregory A. Burris , pages 2 – 12. • "Genre Matters: Film Criticism and the Social Relevance of Genres," Juan A. Tarancón, pages 13 – 21. • "Who's Bleeding Whom? Analyzing the Cultural Flows of Blaxploitation Cinema, Then and Now," John Semley , pages 22 – 29. • "Telling the (Wrong) Story: The Disintegration of Transcultural Communication and Narrative in The Fall," E. Charlotte Stevens , pages 30 – 37. • "Where Do We Go From Here? Confronting Contingency with Gerry," Lee Knuttila, pages 38 – 43. Toronto International Film Festival  • "White Material A Film by Claire Denis," Florence Jacobowitz , pages 44 – 46. • "European Melodramas The Refuge and I Am Love," Richard Lippe, pages 47 – 49. • "What Does a Woman Want? Io sono lamore/I Am Love and Cairo Time," Susan Morrison, pages 50 – 51. • "In Appreciation: Jennifer Jones and Jean Simmons," Richard Lippe, pages 52 – 55. Global Cinema • "City Spaces and National Identity," Katrina Sark, pages 56 – 59. • "The Language of Emotion in Godard's Films," Anuja Madan, pages 60 – 66. • "Neither Hand, Nor Foot, Nor Kidney: Biopower, Body Parts and Human Flows in Stephen Frear's "Dirty Pretty Things," Larissa Lai, pages 68 – 72.

Issue No. 81

2010 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Themes: War Films; Female Directors 

• "[Editorial Matter]," unsigned, page 1. War Films • "Explosive Structure Fragmenting the New Modernist War Narrative in The Hurt Locker," Douglas A. Cunningham, pages 2 – 10. • "Imperial Symptoms In the Valley of Elah and the Cinematic Response to the 'War on Terror',"  Gregory A. Burris , pages 11 – 19. • "Refiguring Rambo: Competing Imperatives in the High Concept War Film," Harrison Gish , pages 20 – 27. • "Critical Voices: Points of View in and on The Thin Red Line," Jeremy Millington , pages 28 – 38.• "Representing the Human Condition in the Great War: William Boyd's The New Confessions and The Trench," Jane Mattisson , pages 39 – 45. Female Directors • "Formal Innovation and Feminist Freedom: Vera Chytilova's Daisies," Alison Frank , pages 46 – 49. • "Female Sexuality, Islam and the Global: Leila Merrakshi's Controversial Film Marok," Touria Khannous, pages 50 – 55. • "Original Visions: Female Directors in Contemporary Japanese Cinema," Adam Bingham, pages 56 - 61. •"Seeds of Summer," Maria San Filippo, pages 62 – 64.• "Enough Already: The Wonderful, Horrible Reception of Nancy Meyers," Darryl Wiggers, pages 65 – 72.

Issue No. 82 - 83

2010 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Themes: Science Fiction; Canadian Films and TV

• "[Editorial Matter]," Scott Forsythe, page 1.• "James Whale's Frankensteins: Reanimating the Great War," Christiane Gerblinger, pages 2 – 9. • "Going Na'vi: Mastery in Avatar," Robert Hyland, pages 10 – 16. • "Méliès and Early Cinema: Conjuring the Science Fiction Film Genre," by Lukasz Boron, pages 17 – 21. • "Postmodern Anxieties: Renaissance: Paris 2054 as Tech-Noir," William B. Covey, pages 22 – 28. • "Pop Star is the Medium is the Message: The Man Who Fell to Earth," Milan Pribisic, pages 29 – 33. TIFF 2010 • "Special Treatment/Sans queue ni tête," Florence Jacobowitz, pages 34 – 36. • "Film Socialisme: Jean-Luc Godard and the Cinema," Richard Lippe, pages 37 – 38. • "In Transit: Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff," Susan Morrison, pages 39 – 42. • "Amigo and Route Irish," by Scott Forsyth, pages 43 – 47. • "Television Discourse and Governmentality : Considering Da Vince's Inquest and Da Vinci's City Hall as Citizen Projects," Michael Thorn, pages 48 – 57. • "Black Christmas: The Slasher Film was Made in Canada," Sara Constantineau, pages 58 – 63. • "What’s So Funny About Class Struggle?: Ideology in the Trotsky, by Matthw Flisfeder, pages 64 – 67. • "Cannes Film Festival,  2010," Robert K. Lightning, pages 68 – 72.

Issue No. 84

June 2011 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Theme:
Robin Wood: In Celebration

• Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, Editorial, "The Original Robin Wood," pages 1-2.

Personal Notes:
• Richard Lippe, page 2.
• Florence Jacobowitz, pages 2 - 3.
• Susan Morrison, page 3.
• Scott Forsyth, page 3.

• "Films That Robin Particularly Valued," pages 4-5. A spread of images with brief unsigned commentary, concerning Code Inconnu, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Heaven's Gate, Tokyo Story.

• Peter Harcourt, "Remembering Robin," pages 6-7.

• Bill MacGillivary, "Robin Wood," pages 7-8

• Olof Hedling, "Looking for Robin," pages 9-12.

• James Zborowski, "Beyond the Male Gaze: Departures from Scottie's Point of View in Vertigo," pages 13 - 23.

• Lucy Fife Donaldson, "Normality is Threatened by he Monster: Robin Wood, Romero, and Zombies," pages 24 - 31.

• Gary Watson, "The Literary Critic, the Nineteenth Century Novel and The Wire," pages 32-40.

• Lippe, Richard Lippe, "Remembering Arthur Penn," pages 41-42.

• Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, Remembeing Claude Chabrol: The Undervalued Bellamy," pages 42-43.

• James MacDowell, [book review] "Britton on Film: The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton," pages 44-49.

• Richard Lippe, "Kim Novak: Five Films," pages 50-55.

• Tony Williams, "Encountering The Thing From Another World," pages 56-61.

• George Porcari, "Antonioni's Orgy," pages 62-69.

• George Porcari," Thanks Robin," page 63.

• Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, "In Remembrance," [on Jane Russell, Patricia Neal, Farley Granger, and Tony Curtis], pages 70-71.

Issue No. 85

 
September, 2011 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Themes: Slow Film; Crowd Pleasers

• "Slow Film and Crowd Pleasers," Susan Morrison, page 1. Slow Cinema • "A Cinema of Recession: Micro-budgeting, Micro-Drama, sand the Mumblecore Movement," Maria San Filippo, pages 2 - 8. • "Slow Fuse: The Cinematic Strategies of Tsai Ming-Liang," Marc Saint-Cyr, pages 9 - 14.  • "The Invisible Catastrophe: Lingering Movement and Duration in Werckmeister Harmonies," Emre Caglayan, pages 15 - 21. • "Passing Time" Sofia Coppola's Somewhere," Tomas Hachard, pages 22 - 25. Crowd Pleasers • "Unlikely Heroines?: Women of a Certain Age and Romantic Comedy," Deborah Jermyn, pages 26 - 33. • "Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood as Fallen Savior," William Beard, pages 34 - 42. • "The American Personality Documentary: Fetishization, Nostalgia, and the Working Class," Caitlin Starowicz, pages 43 - 51. • "Implement: Race and Gender in Bryan Singer's X-Men," Heather J. Hicks, pages 52 - 62. • "A Brief History of Taiwan's Film Industry," Alice Shih, pages 63 - 68. "A Report from the 2011 Berlinale: Governing Relationships," Alison Frank, pass 69 - 72. 

 

 

 

Issue No. 86

February, 2012 (heavy full color cover with slick interior pages)

Issue Themes: New Cinema; Canadian Films, and Festivals

 

"The Junkies of Plato's Cave: Inception, Mindbending, and Complex Narration in the Shadow of Philip K. Dick," Henry M. Taylor,  Pages 4 - 13.

"From Recoil to Ruination: Petropolis and the Future of the Canadian Landscape," Alexander Ginnan, pages 14 - 17.

"'I leave to several futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths': Proto-Interactivity in Late Fragment and The Tracey Fragments," Patricia Gruben, pages 18 - 24.

"Engendering Genre," Robert James Cardullo, Pages 25 - 36.

"Rape, the Unspeakable War Crime: An Interview with Slavenka Drakulic, and Juanita Wilson on the Award-Winning Filmic Rendition of As If I Am Not There," Alice Kuzniar, pages 37 - 41.

"The Trotsky: A Claim to Community," Amir Khan, pages 42 - 49.

"Digitality and Détournement: John Greyson's BDS Videos and 14.3 Seconds," Scott Mackenzie, pages 50 - 51.

"The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film," [book review], Susan Morrison, pages 52 - 53.

"The Deep Blue Sea: A Tale Told by Two Terences," Susan Morrison, pages 54 - 55. [Toronto International Film Festival.]

"A Celebration of a Simple Life," Alich Shih," pages 56 - 58. [Toronto International Film Festival.]

"Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," Florence Jacobowitz, pages 59 - 61. [Toronto International Film Festival.]

"Lars von Trier and Melancholia," Richard Lippe, pages 62 - 63. [Toronto International Film Festival.]

"A Box of Balkan Films," Alison Frank, Pages 65 - 67. [City Cinema International Film Festival.]

"Looking at Estonia with New Eyes," Alison Frank, pages 68 - 69. [Riga International Film Festival.]

"Andrea Segre: Confronting Difference," Alison Frank, pages 70 - 72. [Rayjavik International Film Festival.]

Issue No. 87

2012 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Theme: Criticism and Close Reading; Robin Wood Dossier

• [Editorial matter], Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, page 3. • "Lumière, Astruc, Bazin: Raymond Depardon's Profils paysans,"  Jerry White, pages 4 - 9. •"Christian Marclay's The Clock,"  Jacob Potempski, pages 10 – 13. •"The Imagery of Surveillance: In a Lonely Place," Tony Williams, pages 14 – 20. •"Marriage In a Lonely Place," Robert Alpert, pages 21 – 24. •"Nobody’s Vision: Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man," George Porcari, pages 25 – 27. •"To Experience Song of Ceylon" by Daniella Gitlin, pages 28 – 33.  •"Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life", M.G. Moscato, pages 34 – 35. •"Rogue Vehicles: David Cronenberg's Fast Company and the Tax Shelter Period," Mark Player, pages 36 – 39. •"Emotional Fault Lines in Café de Flore," Alsegul Koc, pages 40 – 41. •"In Memoriam: Eve Arden," Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, pages 42 – 43. •"In Memoriam: Elizabeth Taylor," Florence Jacobowitz, Richard Lippe, pages 44 – 45. • Robin Wood Dossier •"Personal and Political Views: How Robin Wood Taught Us How to Live," Alexander Jacoby, pages 46 – 53. •"Sweeter Still: Sweet Movie Revisited," Adam Balivet, pages 54 – 57. •"Magic in the Attempt: Before Sunset and a Legacy of Criticism," Adam Bingham, pages 58 – 61. •"Love Me Three Times: Time and Narrative in Letter from an Unknown Woman," Michael Longfield, pages 62 – 67. •"The Formal Dualism of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing," Robert Lighting, pages 68 – 72.

 

Issue No. 88

2012 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Theme: Beyond the Narrative: Social Issues on Film

• [Editorial matter], Susan Morrison, page 3. • "Love in the Time of Calvary: Romance and Family Values in Crucifixion Films,"  Brian Walter, pages 4 - 11. •"The Return of the Realist Spy Film,"  Luis M. Garcia-Mainar, pages 12 – 19. •"Hiding From Significance: Documented Disinterestedness in Winnebago Man," Amir Khan, pages 20 – 25. •"Lefties and Hippies and Yuppies, Oh My! David Cronenberg’s Scanners revisited," Michael Pepe, pages 26 – 33. •"Sex, Science and the “Female Monstrous”: Wood Contra Cronenberg, Revisited," Allan MacInnis, pages 34 – 43. •"Ideology in Christopher Nolan's Inception" by Andrew Winchur, pages 44 – 47.  • "Wajdi Mouawad in Cinema: Origins, Wars, and Fate," May Telmissany, pages 48 – 57. •"Light in Dark Spaces: A Review of Allan Sekula and Noel Burch's Film Essay 'The Forgotten Space' (2010)," Jill Glessing, pages 58 – 65. •"The Thinking Queer’s Pornographer: Bruce LaBruce, Art/Porn and the Politics of Co-optation," Jasmine McGowan, pages 66 – 69.  • "Shorts at the Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria," Alison Frank, pages 70 – 72.

 

 

Issue No. 89

2012 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Theme: 3-D and CGI

• [Editorial matter], Scott Forsyth, page 3. • "The Future is a Fairground: Attraction and Absorbtion in 3-D Cinema,"  Carter Moulton, pages 4 - 13. •"Reading Parallax: 3-D Meaning Construction in The Hole,"  Owen Weetch, pages 14 – 21. •"'Then One Day I Got In': Computer Imaging, Realism, Tron," Justin Morris, pages 22 – 27. •"Powell-Godarad-Scorsese: Influence, Genealogy, Intertextuality," Leighton Grist, pages 28 – 37. •"Crimes of Mike Recket: An Interview with Gabrielle Rose and Bruce Sweeney," Allan MacInnis, pages 38 – 45. •"Occupiers, Collaborators, and Resisters: Volker Schlöndorff's Calm at Sea" by George P. Lellis and Hans-Bernard Moeller, pages 46 – 51.  •"Suffer the Children," Robert Cardullo, pages 52 – 58. • Toronto International Film Festival • "The Sixties Redux," Scott Forsyth, pages 59 – 61. •"Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills: Realism and the Politics of Everyday Life," Florence Jacobowitz, pages 62 – 63. •"Liz Garbus's Love, Marilyn," Richard Lippe, pages 64 – 67. •"Post Tenebras Lux: 'Why Do People Need Explanations?'," Susan Morrison, pages 68 – 69. •"Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse," Scott MacKenzie, pages 70 – 72.

 

Issue No. 90

2012 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Theme: Authorship

 

Issue No. 91

2012 (heavy two tone cover with book stock interior pages)

Issue Theme: Film + Art

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