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FILM CRITICISM

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FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION
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“An Experience of the Impossible”: The Planetary Imagination in Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon

2025-06-25

In Georges Méliès’s masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon, one of the first spectacles that the astronomer-adventurers encounter is the image of Earth rising above the horizon. The scene in Méliès’s 1902 fantasy film is an uncanny foreshadow of two of the most famous photographs in human history, Earthrise and Blue Marble. The image of Earth from space evokes the critical question of what it means to [...]

Charley Varrick and the Incorporation of America in the 1970s

2025-06-25

Don Siegel’s Charley Varrick (1973) encodes a troubled perception of transformations in American economic life into a tightly organized heist narrative. The title character uses his crop-dusting business as cover for bank robberies. As a crop duster, Charley bills himself as “The Last of the Independents,” a moniker which suggests the imperiled nature of the mythos of freedom and [...]

The Concealment of Human Rights Abuse in Videos of the United States Customs and Border Protection

2025-06-25

This essay examines the short-length videos of the United States Customs and Border Protection agency that were produced between 2009 to 2022. It examines how the CBP exploits video to fashion an image of itself as a humane and “benevolent” force. Studied as an ensemble, the videos fall under three distinctive categories: the agency’s canine training program; CBP officers and volunteerism; and [...]

"Make People Live with It”: Sound, Suture, and Transgender Embodiment in Punch Line

2025-06-25

The short film Punch Line (dir. Becky Cheatle, 2022, Ireland)—a rare and powerful example of a transgender-themed narrative authored, directed, and acted by transgender filmmakers—offers an expanded vision of trans-ness and broadens the possibilities for cinematic suture. The film not only defies the stereotypical tropes and images often found in stories depicting transgender characters produced [...]

Assault on Stagecoach: An Intertextual Analysis

2025-06-25

This article contributes to debate about the political meanings of John Carpenter’s 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13. Existing scholarship has considered how meaning is constructed in Assault via its relationship to the horror genre and from this analysis divergent interpretations have arisen that conceptualise Carpenter’s politics as either “unconsciously reactionary” or liberal. This article [...]