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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 5d

Weekend Reads from FQ!

Showgirl - Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson

Interview with Errol Morris by Matthew Sorrento

Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael and Steven Spielberg

Plus: unlocked archives - Kael's greatest hits from FQ

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Volume 79 Issue 1 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 15d

FQ featured at 3Quarksdaily! “When Pauline Kael started writing on film in the 1950s, the study of cinema had not yet been enshrined in academia. She educated herself.” Adrian Schober on Kael in FQ's new issue (link to full article):
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Pauline Kael, Steven Spielberg, and a Romantic Film Criticism - 3 Quarks Daily

Adrian Schober at Film Quarterly:

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 16d

“The new Film Quarterly features a freely accessible interview with Errol Morris as well as articles on Pauline Kael and the ‘rebranding’ of Pamela Anderson,” writes David Hudson at Criterion Current!

David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 19d

Chantal Ackerman @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy + MUBI + 4Columns, new Serge Daney translations @laurentktz.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, villains @thebaffler.com, MEGADOC @theguardian.com + @newyorker.com, Mira Nair @ Club Ciné …

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Pascale Salkin and Maria de Medeiros in a still from Chantal Akerman’s black-and-white I’M HUNGRY, I’M COLD (1984).

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 19d

Chantal Ackerman @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy + MUBI + 4Columns, new Serge Daney translations @laurentktz.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, villains @thebaffler.com, MEGADOC @theguardian.com + @newyorker.com, Mira Nair @ Club Ciné …

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 20d

At the UC Press Blog, FQ editor J. M. Tyree introduces Adrian Schober’s retrospective on Pauline Kael in FQ’s latest issue!

UC Press unlocked Kael’s greatest hits for FQ, including her takedown of auteur theory.

Read “Reverse Weather Vane”:
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Reverse Weather Vane: Pauline Kael and "Film Quarterly"

Film Quarterly's editor considers the legacy of film critic Pauline Kael.

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 20d

FQ‘s new issue features free articles (link below)! 🍿
Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson’s Deobjectification
Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael’s Romantic Criticism
Matthew Sorrento interviews Errol Morris
Editor J. M. Tyree on the films of the quarter
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Journal cover for Film Quarterly, Fall 2025. Image of a woman saint looking up, surrounded by glowing light (movie still from The Ten Commandments, 1925). Cover text lists the issue articles as follows: DOSSIER: CINEMA AND PLEASURE, FEATURE: PAULINE KAEL’S ROMANTIC CRITICISM, RETROSPECTIVE: JEAN-PIERRE BEKOLO’S LES SAIGNANTES AT 20, REPORT: IRYNA TSILYK, INTERVIEW: ERROL MORRIS, COLUMNS: THE LAST SHOWGIRL, BABYGIRL.

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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 25d

The digital issue of Film Quarterly 79.1 (Fall 2025) @filmquarterly.bsky.social is now live, with my interview with Errol Morris @errolmorris.bsky.social , and other articles, currently free to read: online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/1 #chaosmansonmurders #separated #documentary

Volume 79 Issue 1 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 22d

It's here!!! *Very excited* to receive my copy of the new @filmquarterly.bsky.social -- which includes our *collectively edited* dossier on CINEMA AND PLEASURE. ❤️🎞️ @girishshambu.bsky.social @caetlin.bsky.social

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 22d

9/16/53: Max Ophüls masterpiece The Earrings of Madame De... w/Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica
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The Earrings of Madame de . . .

The Earrings of Madame de … was Max Ophuls’s penultimate film, preceding the difficult experience of Lola Montes (1955) and his untimely death at the age of fifty-five in 1957. Into it, as th…

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cover reveal! FQ’s fall issue arrives soon with amazing stuff…

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Aug 26

If you’re around Cornell, you’re in for a real treat! Caetlin’s Film Quarterly article about I Saw the TV Glow, the dysphoria horror, (& more!) is a big hit with my students, and I love it too!

Free access:
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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 24

Newly published: FQ contributing editor Josslyn Luckett's "Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A.," available from @ucpress.bsky.social!

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Book Cover: Toward a More Perfect Rebellion by Josslyn Luckett

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 24

In her new book, Becoming Ghost, poet Cathy Linh Che writes about how her parents were used as extras in Apocalypse Now.

FQ EIC J. M. Tyree discusses the book with the author at New England Review:
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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 17

For fans of Wanda and Barbara Loden - Elena Gorfinkel's notes on the film and the filmmaker are free to read in FQ's Summer issue!

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Wanda and Beyond

This experimental essay explores Barbara Loden’s film Wanda (1970) as a haunting and time shifting work of American independent cinema with a nascent feminist force resident in its descriptive aesthet...

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 17

In FQ's new issue, Eliot Dunn interviews Jenni Olson on the 10th Anniversary of The Royal Road - free to read!

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Queering NostalgiaAn Interview with Jenni Olson on the 10th Anniversary of The Royal Road

On the tenth anniversary of experimental queer durational film The Royal Road, director and celebrated queer film curator Jenni Olson chats with Eliot Dunn about the film’s reimagination of nostalgia,...

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 17

Newly published and free to read in FQ's Summer issue, Jim Knipfel explores the art and history of movie novelizations!

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The Art and History of Movie Novelizations

This article considers the history of movie novelizations from historical, critical, and personal perspectives. Novelizations are considered in their commercial and artistic aspects, with case studies...

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Caetlin Benson-Allott @caetlin.bsky.social · Jun 16

Let's try this again without the adult content block! Come for the cheeks, stay for the theory!

Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 16

Free to read in our new issue, FQ contributing editor Caetlin Benson-Allott reassesses the butt shot in The Substance and Anora!

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Reassessing the Butt ShotFeminism Versus Spectacle in The Substance and Anora

Two of 2024’s most talked about, putatively feminist films—Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Sean Baker’s Anora—both tell stories of women who make their livings exploiting the male gaze and both su...

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Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social · Jun 16

Delighted to see a review of my @utexaspress.bsky.social book, Imagining the Method, in the latest issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social! Thank you, Magdalina El-Masry!

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 16

Free to read in our new issue, FQ contributing editor Caetlin Benson-Allott reassesses the butt shot in The Substance and Anora!

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Reassessing the Butt ShotFeminism Versus Spectacle in The Substance and Anora

Two of 2024’s most talked about, putatively feminist films—Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Sean Baker’s Anora—both tell stories of women who make their livings exploiting the male gaze and both su...

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 14

FQ‘s new issue features free articles (link below)! 🍿
-The Art and History of Movie Novelizations by Jim Knipfel
-Interview with Jenni Olson by Eliot Dunn
-Reassessing the Butt Shot by Caetlin Benson-Allott
-Wanda and Beyond by Elena Gorfinkel
-Editor's Notebook by J. M. Tyree

Journal cover for Film Quarterly Spring 2025 featuring a painted poster of an audience enjoying a Lumiere brothers film in 1895.

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Bruno Guaraná @brunoguarana.bsky.social · Jun 13

My latest in the Summer issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social addresses the genre-blending traits and intersectionality of GOOD MANNERS, one my favorite films to teach. Open access link: shorturl.at/yvlg7

Frame from GOOD MANNERS, depicting a woman walking up a street in São Paulo at night, holding an umbrella.

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 8

FQ's Summer issue is live for subscribers!

Look for unlocked articles soon...

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Volume 78 Issue 4 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 4

Elena Gorfinkel's introduction to "Wanda and Beyond - the world of Barbara Loden" began a season of Loden screenings at BFI Southbank last evening in London! Gorfinkel's notes on the film and the filmmaker appear in FQ's forthcoming Summer issue...

Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen reads: "Wanda and beyond - the world of Barbara Loden, June 2025, BFI Southbank."

Image of BFI Southbank Theatre 1. The image on the screen is a signed photograph of Barbara Loden.

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Jun 3

Cover reveal! Film Quarterly Summer issue coming soon...

Journal cover: Film Quarterly Summer 2025. Cover image: Text reads "Cinematographe Lumiere," painted poster of audience watching a film in 1895.

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Kristi McKim @kmckim.bsky.social · Dec 9

So much goodness here!

Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · Dec 4

Film Quarterly 78.2 is here from @ucpress.bsky.social
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Caetlin Benson-Allott: I Saw the TV Glow
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Ramzi Fawaz: Inside Out 2
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Amy Herzog talks to Sandi DuBowski
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Image: Cover, Film Quarterly 78.2: Winter 2024/2025

Contents
Editor’s Notebook
J. M. Tyree
https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/78/2/5/203871/Editor-s-Notebook

Features

The Untalented Mr. Ripley
Elizabeth Alsop

Evil Does Not Exist: Downstream Environmental Form
Brian R. Jacobson

Suspicious Minds and Dead Bodies: Queer Romance and Skepticism in Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding
Michelle Devereaux

Retrospective

A Cinematic Salvo from Interwar Austria: Hans Karl Breslauer’s Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews, 1924)
Noah Isenberg

Interview

A Conversation with Sandi DuBowski
Amy Herzog
https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/78/2/45/203863/A-Conversation-with-Sandi-DuBowski

Columns

Imagination Unbound
No Bad Parts: Forms of Self-Compassion in Inside Out 2
Ramzi Fawaz
https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/78/2/53/203869/No-Bad-PartsForms-of-Self-Compassion-in-Inside-Out

On Platforms
Life-Affirming Horror and the Films of Jane Schoenbrun
Caetlin Benson-Allott
https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/78/2/61/203866/Life-Affirming-Horror-and-the-Films-of-Jane

Festival Reports

To Commune: The Sixty-Ninth Flaherty Film Seminar
Jean Ma

Locarno 2024: Ride Lonesome, Together
Giovanni Vimercati

Book Reviews

To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World, by Yiman Wang
Faye Qiyu Lu

Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism, by Feng-Mei Heberer
Yuqin He

Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film, edited by Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon
Farzaneh Ebrahimzadeh Holasu

Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema, by Michael Zryd
Alex Denison

Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema, by Seung-hoon Jeong
Martin P. Rossouw

Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution, by Eleanor Patterson
Anna Stamm

Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes After the End of History, by Paloma Duong
Zaira Zarza

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