Articles

The Kaufman Cinematic and Literary Universe (Preview)
by Richard Porton

God-Awful Sex Thrillers, Sermons, & Vicarious Thrills: In Praise of the American Exploitation Film
by Darragh O’Donoghue

All Violent on the Western Frontier: Reassessing Two Revisionist Native American Films
by Graham Fuller

Silver Lode: A Western Parable About McCarthyism (Web Exclusive)
by Larry Ceplair

Film Reviews

The Personal History of David Copperfield (Preview)
Reviewed by Graham Fuller

Epicentro
Reviewed by Megan Feeney

Martin Eden
Reviewed by Imogen Sara Smith

Waiting for the Barbarians
Reviewed by Page Laws

Boys State
Reviewed by Mary F. Corey

First Cow
Reviewed by Robert Koehler

Blu-ray and DVD Reviews

The Lady Eve (Preview)
Reviewed by Catherine Russell

Come and See
Reviewed by Stuart Liebman

Christ Stopped at Eboli
Reviewed by Chris Shields

Tender Mercies
Reviewed by David Sterritt

The War of the Worlds
Reviewed by Robert Cashill

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Reviewed by Michael Sandlin

Staff Recommendations: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Colonel Redl, The Cranes Are Flying, CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel, and Taste of Cherry
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors

The Cameraman (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Karen Backstein

The City Without Jews (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Stuart Liebman

Lonely Are the Brave (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by T. R. Delapa

Toni (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by David Sterritt

Town Bloody Hall (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Jonathan Kirshner

Black Gravel (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Robert Kohen

Interviews

The Alternating Current of History: An Interview with Michael Almereyda
by Steve Erickson

Telling Stories Between the Frames: An Interview with Ed Lachman
by Cynthia Rowell and Emilio Oliveira

Biting the “Forbidden Fruit” of Exploitation Film: An Interview with Bret Wood
by Darragh O’Donoghue

Lost in The Green Fog and Feeling Vertigo: An Interview with Guy Maddin, and Evan and Galen Johnson
by Scott MacDonald

Helen Keller and Untold Histories (Hers and Ours): An Interview with John Gianvito
by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Book Reviews

Manny Farber: Paintings and Writings Reviewed by Adrian Martin

The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Reviewed by Kevin Canfield

Letters from Hollywood: 1977–2017
Reviewed by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland & Hanns Eisler and Aaron Copland’s Hollywood Film Scores
Reviewed by Frank K. DeWald

Chantal Akerman Retrospective Handbook
Reviewed by Sandy Flitterman-Lewis

Lucrecia Martel
Reviewed by Giovanni Marchini Camia

What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor
Reviewed by Christoph Huber

Phoenix
Reviewed by Jaimey Fisher

LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Matthew Hays

Visions of Avant-Garde Film: Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Stuart Liebman

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Errata for Cineaste, Fall 2020

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