Issue 50 (Fall 2009)


Drake Stutesman Editorial

Susan Slyomovics Edward Said’s Nazareth


What now? Re-enactment in Contemporary Documentary Film, Video, And Performance Dossier

Guest Editor: Jonathan Kahana

Jonathan Kahana Introduction: What Now? Presenting Re-enactment

Jonathan Kahana Re-staging Two Laws: An Interview with Alessandro Cavadini and Carolyn Strachan

Christopher Pavsek The Black Holes of History: Raoul Peck’s Two Lumumbas

Deirdre Boyle Shattering Silence: Traumatic Memory and Re-enactment in Rithy Panh's S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

Ruth Erickson The Real Movie: Re-enactment, Spectacle, and Recovery in Pierre Huyghe’s The Third Memory

Karen Beckman Gender, Power, and Pedagogy in Coco Fusco’s Bare Life Study #1 (2005), A Room of One’s Own (2005), and Operation Atropos (2006)

Paige Sarlin New Left-wing Melancholy: Mark Tribe’s The Port Huron Project and the Politics of Re-enactment

E. Ann Kaplan Women, Trauma and Late Modernity: Sontag, Duras and Silence in Cinema 1960–1980


Cinephilia Dossier: What is Being Fought for by Today’s Cinephilia(S)?

Guest Editors: Jonathan Buchsbaum and Elena Gorfinkel

Jonathan Buchsbaum and Elena Gorfinkel Introduction

Jonathan Rosenbaum Reply to Cinephilia survey

Ken Eisenstein “They are like black lakes troubled by fantastic moons”

Laura Mulvey Some reflections on the Cinephilia question

Chris Fujiwara Cinephilia and the Imagination of Filmmaking

Nicole Brenez For A History Of Resistant Cinema

Laurent Jullier Untitled

James Quandt Everyone I Know is Stayin’ Home: The New Cinephilia

Zachary Campbell On the Political Challenges of the Cinephile Today

Lucas Hilderbrand Cinematic Promiscuity: Cinephilia after Videophilia

Girish Shambu What is Being Fought for by Today’s Cinephilia(S)?

Adrian Martin Cinephilia as War Machine

Aboubakar Sanogo Regarding Cinephilia and Africa


Dudley Andrew “Writing On The Screen:” An Interview with Emmanuel Burdeau

Donna Casella What Women Want: The Complex World of Dorothy Arzner and Her Cinematic Women


Reviews