SLOW FILM
A Cinema of Recession
Micro-budgeting, Micro-drama, and the “Mumblecore” Movement
by Maria San Filippo
Slow Fuse: The Cinematic Strategies of Tsai Ming-Liang
by Marc Saint-Cyr
The Invisible Catastrophe: Lingering Movement and Duration in Werckmeister Harmonies
by Emre Caglayan
Passing Time: SOPHIA COPPOLA’S SOMEWHERE
by Tomas Hachard
CROWD PLEASERS
Unlikely Heroines? ‘Women of a certain age’ and romantic comedy
by Deborah Jermyn
Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood as Fallen Saviour
by William Beard
The American Personality Documentary: Fetishization,Nostalgia and the Working Class
by Caitlin Starowicz
Impalement: Race and Gender in Bryan Singer’s X-Men
by Heather J.Hicks
A Brief History of Taiwan’s Film Industry
by Alice Shih
A Report from the 2011 Berlinale: Governing Relationships
by Alison Frank
