80 Genre and Global Cinema

GENRE
Shocked and Awed?
Hostel and the Spectacle of Self-Mutilation
by Gregory A. Burris

Genre Matters
Film Criticism and the Social Relevance of Genres
by Juan A. Tarancón

Whos Bleeding Whom?
Analyzing the Cultural Flows of
Blaxploitation Cinema, Then and Now
By John Semley

Telling the (Wrong) Story
The Disintegration of Transcultural
Communication and Narrative in The Fall
by E. Charlotte Stevens

Where Do We Go From Here?
Confronting Contingency with Gerry
by Lee Knuttila

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
White Material
A Film by Claire Denis                                         
by Florence Jacobowitz

European Melodramas
The Refuge and I Am Love
by RICHARD LIPPE

What Does a Woman Want?
Io sono lamore/I Am Love and Cairo Time
by Susan Morrison


A TRIBUTE
Jennifer Jones and Jean Simmons
by RICHARD LIPPE


GLOBAL CINEMA
City Spaces and National Identity
by Katrina Sark

The Language of Emotion
in Godard's Films
by Anuja Madan

Neither Hand, Nor Foot, Nor Kidney
Biopower, Body Parts and Human Flows
in Stephen Frear's Dirty Pretty Things
by Larissa Lai

Editorial Collective

Scott Forsyth
Florence Jacobowitz
Richard Lippe
Susan Morrison

Robin Wood, contributing editor

Magazine Design, Bob Wilcox
Web Site, Mike Cartmell

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