Issue 49.1 (Spring 2008)


Editorial

Philippa Gates The Three Sam Spades: The Shifting Model of American Masculinity in the Three Films of The Maltese Falcon


TRIBUTES

Kwate Nee Owoo The Language of Real Life: Interview with Ousmane Sembène

Samba Gadjigo Art for Man’s Sake: A Tribute to Ousmane Sembène

Astrid Söderbergh Widding A Full Integration with Film History: A Tribute to Ingmar Bergman

Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes Antonioni and the Place of Modernity: A Tribute


DOSSIER ON MORPHING REALITIES: The Current Status of the Real in Film and Television

Nitzan Ben Shaul Introduction

Michael Renov Family Secrets: Alan Berliner’s Nobody’s Business and the (American) Jewish Autobiographical Film

Jérôme Bourdon Self-Despotism: Reality Television and the New Subject of Politics

Yael Munk The Postcolonial Function of Television’s Virtual Space in ’90s Israeli Cinema

Raz Yosef Phantasmatic Losses: National Traumas, Masculinity, and Primal Scenes in Israeli Cinema—Walk on Water

Thomas Elsaesser Absence as Presence, Presence as Parapraxis: On Some Problems of Representing “Jews” in the New German Cinema

Raya Morag Chronic Trauma, the Sound of Terror, and Current Israeli Cinema

Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni History's Broken Wings: "Narrative Paralysis" as Resistance to History in Amos Gitai's Film Kedma


REVIEWS

Book Review

New York Film Festival