We have tried to make this index as complete and accurate as possible. Should you see any omissions or entries that need to be emended, please contact: Vivian Freeman Chaffin * Vivian.Freeman@yellowrosetype.com Gerald Duchovnay * postscriptjournall@gmail.com

As screenwriter and director of her feature films, Chenillo tends to draw on her personal experiences and on her observation of how people cope with physical and emotional issues,...]]>Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Introduction%3a+Interviews+with+Latin+American+Women+Filmmakers.-a0679086528Gender imbalance has historically prevailed in filmmaking worldwide. In Latin America, women film directors and producers were rare until the 1990s, and only since the early 2000s did their presence begin to grow significantly. There were, however, a number of women who participated in moviemaking during the silent years of cinema, at the beginning of the twentieth century, mainly in...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Encyclopedia+of+Contemporary+Spanish+Film.-a0661839435The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Film. Eds. Salvador Jimenez Murguia and Alex Pinar. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 558 pp. Hardback $125. ISBN 978-1-4422-7132-6.

In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Film, Salvador Jimenez Murguia and Alex Pinar endeavor an ambitious project: to present a broad guide to Spanish film. The editors stated objective is to offer a text that...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/IN+A+LONELY+JOURNAL%3a+A+SELECTED+BIBLIOGRAPHY+OF+SCHOLARLY+ARTICLES+ON...-a0661839434One may rightly ask why there should be another bibliography on film noir. Doesn't every book ever published on the subject include a bibliography? Though true with few exceptions, the bibliographies one finds in book-length treatments of film noir often tend to be lists of works cited within the volume at hand, rather than exhaustive bibliographies on the subject. In addition, film noir,...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%27WOULD+THAT+IT+WERE+SO+SIMPLE%27%3a+VISIONS+OF+STARDOM+IN+A+STAR+IS+BORN...-a0661839433I.

It's the early 1950s in Los Angeles, and Esther Blodgett and Eddie Mannix both have a choice to make: to be a star, or to continue living out their ultimately not-so-meaningful lives. Esther, a singer, has worked her way up to mid-level gigs with an itinerant band, and she's just finished a stint playing at a club in L.A. She is supposed to leave in the morning for San Francisco, the...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+MATTER+OF+LIFE+AND+DEATH%3a+THE+UNSPEAKABLE+OTHERS+IN+ISRAELI+CINEMA.-a0661839432ABSTRACT

Israeli films made prior to the mid1990s avoided direct reference to the Holocaust. Despite being a critically significant theme in research and in daily life in Israel, it was surprisingly absent from the central stage of Israeli cinema. Moreover, delicate matters regarding questions of morals and ethics--let alone the role of the privileged and those who held morally ambiguous...]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/RAGE+AND+GLORY%3a+THE+FILMS+OF+ISRAELI+FILMMAKER+AVI+NESHER.-a0661839431Avi Nesher's many award-winning films have been integral to Israeli cinema, placing him as one of Israel's all-time greatest filmmakers. With twenty feature films to his credit as director, his work has received prestigious awards and nominations at major international festivals and has won several Ophir Awards (the Israeli equivalent of the Academy Awards) over the last thirty years. After...]]>Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/SOUND+OF+SILENTS%3a+ALLOY+ORCHESTRA.-a0651086726Labeled by the late Roger Ebert as "the best in the world at accompanying silent films," Alloy Orchestra is a three-man musical ensemble that writes new music and performs live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources. For nearly thirty years, Alloy has performed globally at...]]>Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/CARLOS+REYGADAS%3a+HIS+TIME.-a0651086725In March of 2019, IU Cinema hosted acclaimed Mexican film director Carlos Reygadas. The visit and film series were presented in partnership with Indiana University's Arts and Humanities Council and their spring cultural celebration called Mexico Remixed, along with the Office of the Provost. Special thanks to Ed Comentale and Provost Lauren Robel. The curated program was the very first...]]>Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ALEXANDRE+O.+PHILIPPE%3a+A+FILMMAKER%27S+FILMMAKER.-a0651086724Swiss American filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe has written and directed numerous award-winning films and documentaries, many of which take on the role of unpacking the most influential works of master filmmakers. His 2018 film, 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene, is a documentary about Alfred Hitchcock's iconic shower scene from Psycho. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and...]]>Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ANA+LILY+AMIRPOUR%3a+HER+WAY.-a0651086723Words like audacious, daring, fearless, visceral and uncompromising are often mixed with rad, ninja, firecracker, carnal, stingray and even bad-ass when describing Ana Lily Amirpour's style as a filmmaker and the way she carries herself as a person. She has been in the spotlight since the premiere of her debut feature film, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the "Iranian vampire spaghetti...]]>Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/JULIE+DASH%3a+CHALLENGING+THE+PARADIGM.-a0651086722Julie Dash's rich filmography explores the spectrum of Black women's experiences across wide swaths of geography and time. The year 2016 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of her film Daughters of the Dust; the BFC/A [Black Film Center/Archive at IU] and IU Cinema thought it to be the perfect time to screen the newly released digital restoration of the film. Dash previously visited Indiana...]]>Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/JOHN+BOORMAN%3a+CONJURER+OF+CINEMA.-a0651086721"John Boorman is an intoxicated moviemaker, with a wonderful kind of zeal," raved film critic Pauline Kael. Indeed, his impassioned cinematic forays have followed Lee Marvin through a criminal labyrinth, Sean Connery into a dystopian future, four city-dwellers down a harrowing river journey, a merry child through the rubble of the London Blitz, and King Arthur on his quest for the Holy...]]>Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/POROUS+BORDERS%3a+THE+DOCUMENTARY+FILMS+OF+NATALIA+ALMADA.-a0651086720From the transnational dimensions of narcocorridos to the material expression of symbolic power in the form of extravagant mausoleums, Natalia Almada's films offer unique and intimate portrayals of cultural phenomena stemming from the Mexican drug trade. Departing from the experience of common people, these films shed light on the complex interrelations between violence, immigration, the...]]>Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/MERYL+STREEP%3a+POWERING+THE+EMPATHY+MACHINE.-a0651086719In late 2013, IU Cinema led a nomination for Streep to receive an honorary degree, Doctorate of Humane Letters, from Indiana University. Along with the nomination letter from Founding Director Jon Vickers, letters supporting the degree were collected from IU faculty and outside friends, including Kristin Thompson, film scholar and co-author of Film Art: An Introduction, and Laura Emerick, arts...]]>Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/INTRODUCTION%3a+INTERVIEWS+FROM+INDIANA+UNIVERSITY+CINEMA.-a0651086718I was honored to be asked by Post Script to guest edit this double issue of the journal. The offer came as I was wrapping up my twenty-five-plus years in film exhibition and my ten-year tenure as Founding Director of Indiana University Cinema. This collection of interviews provides me the opportunity to share some of IU Cinema's highlights from the past decade.

With this its 38th edition, Post Script's Bibliography of Film Studies continues in its aim to provide researchers at all levels--undergraduate, graduate, and professional--a reliable and wide-ranging research tool. While not a comprehensive listing of every film-related article of the given year, the Bibliography seeks to catalogue the most important film commentary in...]]>Sun, 22 Sep 2019 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/1968+and+Global+Cinema.-a06246901651968 and Global Cinema. Eds. Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2018.422 pp. Paper $31.99. ISBN: 978-08143-4293-0.

1968 could best be understood as the single most tumultuous year of a decade marred by unpopular American military intervention in Southeast Asia and later culminating with hostile protests by students and factory workers against the de Gaulle...]]>