Theme: Questions of Value.
' Questions of Value ' [a note from the editors],' Robin Wood, page 1.
# ' A.I. or The Agony of Steven Spielberg,' William Beard, pages 2 - 11.
# 'Metropolis: Rstoration, Re?valuation,' Susan Smith, pages 12 - 23.
# 'Pleasures of The Big Sleep,' Nathan Holmes, pages 24 - 28.
# 'The Centre Cannot Hold: Betrayals in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz,' Justin E. A. Busch, pages 29 - 41.
# 'This is Not a Game: Alan J. Pakula's Rollover,' Jack Hughes, pages 42 - 49.
# ''But It's Good': Finding Value in Twentynine Palms,' Jason Wilcox, pages 50 - 60.
# 'From Within: Music in the Style of Jean Renoir,' Alex Clayton, pages 61 - 72.

Theme: Film on Film.
'Film on Film' [a note from the editors],' Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe, pages 1 - 3.

Theme: Editor's Choices.
# 'Remembering Memories of Underdevelopment,' Scott Forsyth, pages 2 - 3.
# 'Zero de Conduite: Radical Cinema,' Florence Jacobowitz, pages 3 - 5.
# 'The Life and Death of Deathwatch and Dying at Grace,' Florence Jacobowitz, page 6. [Left off of the contents page.]
# 'In a Glass Cage,' Bruce LaBruce, page 7.
# 'Party Girl: Ray and Hollywood,' Richard Lippe, pages 7 - 8.
# 'Jia Zhang-ke's The World,' Susan Morrison, pages 9 - 10.
# 'Notorious,' Lori Spring, pages 10 - 11.
# 'Right Again: A Loving Tribute to Stan, Ollie, and Leo,' Robin Wood, page 11.
# 'Cinematic Meaning in the Work of David Lynch: Revisiting Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive,' Michael Vass, pages 12 - 23.
# 'Looking a Lola, Looking at Cinema' Jason Wilcox, pages 24 - 37.
# 'Film, Dreams, and Stolen Pocketwatches,' Dr. Ira Nayman, pages 38 - 42.
# 'In Memoriam [photo tribute to Marlon Brando],' pages 43.
# 'Ceylan and Company: Autobiographical Trajectories of Cinema,' Diane Sippl, pages 44 - 57.
# '?nibus 174 [Bus 174]: Intention in the System of Representation,' Hans W. Staats, pages 58 - 62.
# 'Centenary,' [photo tributes to Otto Preminger and Greta Garbo], pages 63.
# 'Seeing Elephant,' Dion Tubrett, pages 64 - 72.

Theme: Natural Born Killers.
'Natural Born Killers [editorial introduction],' Susan Morrison, page 1.
# ' Articulating the Violence Debate: True Lies, Natural Born Killers, and the Terms of 'Cultural Contamination', ' Kimberly A. Owczarski, pages 2 - 10.
# ' Elephant : The Physics of Violence,' Michael Sofair, pages 11 - 17.
# 'Firepower: Herzog's Pure Cinema as the Internal Combustion of War,' Nadia Bozak, pages 18 - 25.
# 'The Unattainable Narrative: Identity, Consumerism, and the Slasher Film in Mary Harron'sAmerican Psycho,' David Robinson, pages 26 - 35.
# 'Trauma and Violence, Different Sensibilities: Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room and Todd Field's In the Bedroom,' Henry M. Taylor, pages 36 - 44.
# 'Violence, Actions, and Words in Million Dollar Baby,' Edward Gallafent, pages 45 - 52.
# 'Jia Zhangke: Life and Times Beyond the World,' Alice Shih, pages 53 - 58.

Theme: Toronto International Film Festival
# ' The Sun,' Adam Nayman, pages 59 - 60.
# ' Takeshis',' Andrew Tracy, pages 60 - 62.
# ' Cache,' Florence Jacobowitz, pages 62 - 64.
# ' Heading South/Vers Le Sud: No Exit,' Richard Lippe, pages 64 - 67.
# ' The Brutal Beauty of Labour: Workingman's Death,' Scott Forsyth, pages 67 - 68.
# ' Shangai Dreams,' Susan Morrison, pages 69 - 70.
# ' Toronto International Film Festival, ' Robin Wood, pages 70 - 71.

Theme: Films From Around the Globe: Bolivia, Canada, China, Egypt, 60s America, South Africa.
'Films From Around the Globe [a note from issue editor Scott Forsyth],' page 1. [Note: contents page gives mostly wrong page numbers]
# 'Images of the Rural: The Cinema of Quebec,' Peter Harcourt, pages 2 - 11.
# 'Anxieties of Fundamentalism and the Dynamics of Modernist Resistance: Youssef Chahine's Al Maseer [The Destiny],' Malek Khouri, pages 12 - 23.
# 'On William D. MacGillivray,' Robin Wood, pages 24 - 33.
# 'The Days of Frozen Dreams: An Interview with Wang Xizoshuai,' Alive Shih, pages 34 - 39.
# 'The Brig: The Paradox of Resistance and Recuperation,' Nicola Galombik and Michael Zryd, pages 40 - 49.
# 'Sexual Dependency: The Split Image of Globalisation,' Michael Sofair, pages 48 - 55.
# Reviews.
# 'Bruce McDonald on the West Coast: The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess,' George Melnyk, pages 56 - 58.
# 'C.R.A.Z.Y.,' George Melnyk, pages 58 - 60.
# 'Reading, Regarding, and Waiting: Three New Documentaries from Nova Scotia,' Darrelll Varga, pages 60 - 63.
# 'Some Directions in World Cinema: AFI Fest 2005, 54th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, 7th Scandinavian Film Festival L.A.' Diane Sippl, pages 66- 69.
# 'Two Films by Amnon Buchbinder: Some Questions About the Future of Canadian Cinema,' Robin Wood, pages 69- 72.

Theme: Protest and Revolution.

' Protest and Revolution [a note from issue editor Robin Wood],' pages 1 - 2.


Theme: Protest and Revolution.


Note: In a 'calls for submissions' note published on page 1 of issue No. 69, Wood wrote, 'In view of the current world situation it seems important to make an attempt to restore CineACTION to its original Leftist roots, which I feel have been to some degree eaten away by the pervasive discouragement and despair of the past decade.' Wood goes on to announce that he would be writing about Salt of the Earth.However, in his editorial note for this issue, Wood announced that he dropped the essay after discovering James L. Lorence's book on the making of the film. Wood also announces in this issue that he is retiring from the editorial board of CineACTION! but he will continue to write essays 'in my own time and at my own pace.'


# 'The Documentary Films of Citizen Activist Michael Moore: A Man on a Mission, or, How Far a Reinvigorated Populism Ca Take Us,' Garry Watson, pages 3 - 15.

# ' Assessing V for Vendetta,' Tony Williams, pages 16 - 23.

# ' Bearing Witness: The Dardenne Brothers and Michael Haneke's Implication of the Viewer,' Brian Gibson, pages 24 - 38.

# ' Excesses of Millennial Capitalism, Excesses of Violence: Several Critical Fragments Regarding the Cinema of Michael Haneke,' Kevin Wynter, pages 39 - 45.

# 'Le Temps du loup/ Time of the Wolf,' Florence Jacobowiz, pages 46 - 50.

# 'Mourning and Misfortune: 9/11 and the Domestic Terror of Pedophilia,' Dion Tubrett, pages 51 - 58.

# ' Intuitions in Africa: Personal and Political Knowledge in The Constant Gardener,' Edward Gallafent, pages 59 - 65.

# ''What You See is Happening Right Now': Thermageddon and a Search for Tommorow,' Blair Miller, pages 66 - 69.

# 'Good Night, and Good Luck: History Replays Itself,' Richard Lippe, pages 70 - 72.

Sexuality In The Cinema

'The The Silent, Black Centre in the Early Films of Clair Denis,' Katharine Asals

' Fellini's Forgotten Masterpiece: Toby Dammit,' George Porcari

'The Strange Pleasure of The Leopard Man: Gender, Genre, and Authorship in a Val Lewton Thriller,' Scott Preston

'A Tribute to Robin Wood,' Kass Banning, Varda Burstyn, Scott Forsyth, Peter Harcourt, Bruce LaBruce, Bart Testa, Janine Marchessault

Toronto International Film Festival

'Some Tentative Responses to Directors I Value,' Robin Wood

'Master Classes: De Oliveira's Belle Toujours and Von Trotta's I am the Other Woman,' Richard Lippe

'Nue Propriete with Isabelle Huppert,' Florence Jacobowitz

'Golden Door/Nuovomondo,' Susan Morrison

'Cinema,-Cinema' [The 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival, AFI Fest 2006, American Film Market 2006, 55th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg]. Diane Sippl

'Of Human Bonding: An Interview with Tsai Ming-Liang,' Aysegul Koc

'After This Director's Seventeen Years of Exile: An Interview with Patrick Tam,' Alice Shih

'In Dreams and The Gothic: The Moment of Collapse,' Carole Zucker

'Carolee Schneemann's Fuses as Erotic Self-Portraiture,' Shana MacDonald

'The New Film Studies and the Decline of Critique,' Richard Rushton

'The Horror, Piglet, The Horror: Found Footage, Mashups, The Avant-Garde, and the Strange Case of Apocalypse Pooh,' Scott Mackenzie

'Towards a Theory of Virtual Pornography,' Kevin Wynter

'Saving the Image: Scale and Duration in Contemporary Art Cinema,' Erika Balsom

'Singing Outside the Frame: The Female Voice in Gigi,' Susan Smith

'The Risk of Ambiguity: Reconsidering Zavattini's Film Ethics,' Nicholas Balaisis

'Interview: Joan Chen,' Alice Shih

'Notes on a Radical Tradition: Subversive Ideological Applications in the Hammer Horror Films,' Brian Wilson

'Interview: Charles Mudede,' Allan MacInnis

'Once Upon a Time in America: Sergio Leone and the Construction of Myth,' Peter Babiak

Index of CineAction Issues 56 to 71

Mini-Cinema: A Digital Diary for iPod by Catherine Russell


New Media Resistance: Machinima and the Avant-Garde by Elijah Horwatt


The Reality of Dreams: A presentation of L'Ange et la femme (1977) by Peter Harcourt


The Imagined City: Toward a Theory of Urbanity in Canadian Cinema by George Melnyk


Im just a simple filmmaker: An Interview With Michel Brault by Aysegul Koc


From Big Snow to Big Sadness: The Repatriation of Canadian Cultural dentity in the Films of Guy Maddin by John Semley


Being at Home with Roy Dupuis and Pascale Bussires or, Star-Gazing In and Out of Quebec by Peter Dickinson


Michael Haneke: Beyond Compromise by Robin Wood


Voice and Body : Ahead of the Curve and Scouts Are Cancelled by Darrell Varga



TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL


And Along Come Tourists; The Counterfeiters by Florence Jacobowitz


Les Bons Films: A Girl Cut in Two and Angel by Richard Lippe


Random Thoughts On and Around the Toronto Film Festival by Robin Wood


My Kid Could Paint That by Susan Morrison

The Art House Fim / Jean-Luc Godard / Federico Fellini / Tsai Ming-Liang


The Bones of Reagan by Darrell Varga

Analogical Thinking Organizational Strategies Within The Works of Jean-Luc Godard by Peter Harcourt

The High Solitude of a Rare Bird by Kohei Usuda

Fellini Goes To The Beach by George Porcari

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Adam Bingham

I Don't Want To Sleep Alone by Robin Wood

I Heart Hedwig by Conrad Page

The Voice of Marianne Faithful: On Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette by Kohei Usuda

A Polite Way of Being Desperate: An Interview with Marjane Satrapi by Jon Davies

The Brave One by Carole Zucker

Movements and Rhythms: On Sam Raimi's Spiderman 3 by Kohei Usuda

International Cinema


The Skull Beneath the Skin: Patrice Chereau and Son Frere by Robin Wood

National Reconciliation and its Performative Limitations:

John Boorman's In My Country and Fanta Regina Nacro's Night of Truth

by Jeremy Maron

Toronto Workers' Art in Global Hollywood by John McCullough

Kiarostami's Life Lessons or how art flourishes where it would suffer, and struggles

where it should thrive by Dan Jones

Paul Newman IN MEMORIAM

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL 2008

6 Films by Richard Lippe

Un barrage contre le Pacifique/ The Sea Wall by Florence Jacobowitz

TIFF '08 and Liverpool by Susan Morrison

4 Films by Scott Forsyth

UNDERRATED FILMS

Nicholas Ray's King of Kings by Tony Williams

We the Undead: Nadja by George Porcari

Atrocities at the Door: Peter Brook's Tell Me Lies, Images of Terror and Brechtian Aesthetics by Scott MacKenzie

Deciphering Lust, Caution by Alice Shih

On the Road to Renewed Relevance: Jacques Tati's Trafic by Dan Lalande

The Art of Persuasion Or: Have you seen this man's Films Lately? by Daniel Stefik

Documentary & Superheroes


Documentary


Evita in Wonderland
Pulqui and the Workshop of Underdevelopment
Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli


Sounds like Canada
A Reexamination of the Development of
Canadian Cinema Verite
Michael Longfield


The War on Film
Reanimating the Post-9/11 Viewer in
The Prisoner, Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair
Brian Gibson


The Dialogical Documentary
Jennifer Fox on Finding a New Film Language in Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2007)
Angelica Fenner


Secret Identities
The Superhero Simulacrum and the Nation Matt Yockey
Superheroes


Convergence Culture and the Caped Crusader
Batman and the Environment of New Media
Dru H. Jeffries


On the Obama-ization of Will Smith
Edward D. Bacal


Lost in Translation
On Frank Miller's The Spirit
Brian Wilson


"Tone down the Boobs Please"
Reading the Special Effect Body
in Superhero Movies
Sabine LeBel


Of Depth and Surfaces
Notes on Watchmen and Other (non)Reflections on Phenomenological Film Experience
Kevin Wynter

Coming to terms with the Slumdog Phenomenon

Eli Roth's Hostel & Hostel II

Transsexualism as Cinematic Metaphor

PLUS: Second City, Guy Maddin... and more!

Collaboration & French New Wave: 50 Years

French New Wave: 50 Years by Florence Jacobowitz and Richard Lippe.


Elia Kazan 1909-2009 A Man in Conflict by Richard Lippe

The Second Wave

Collaboration and the Nouvelle Vague by Adam Bingham

Vive l'Amour by Robin Wood.


Contraband: Powell, Pressburger, Veidt, Hobson, Junge and Others

by Tony Williams

Collaborating Agent: Charles Feldman and Clients by Tom Kemper

Body and Soul

John Garfield, Abraham Polonsky and the American Jewish Family

by Stuart Hands


The Biggest Film Biographer in the World

The Films of Ken Russell for the BBC by George Porcari

Cannes Film Festival 2009 by Robert K. Lightning

Trace and Travesty

How The Columbus of Sex Became My Secret Life by Stephen Boomer


Textures of Collaboration

Pop Music Culture and the Experimental Films of Abigail Child and Bill Morrison

by Carolyn Elerding

Genre and Global Cinema

GENRE

Shocked and Awed?

Hostel and the Spectacle of Self-Mutilation

by Gregory A. Burris


Genre Matters

Film Criticism and the Social Relevance of Genres

by Juan A. Tarancon


Whos Bleeding Whom?

Analyzing the Cultural Flows of
Blaxploitation Cinema, Then and Now

By John Semley


Telling the (Wrong) Story

The Disintegration of Transcultural
Communication and Narrative in The Fall

by E. Charlotte Stevens


Where Do We Go From Here?

Confronting Contingency with Gerry

by Lee Knuttila


TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

White Material

A Film by Claire Denis

by Florence Jacobowitz


European Melodramas

The Refuge and I Am Love

by RICHARD LIPPE


What Does a Woman Want?

Io sono lamore/I Am Love and Cairo Time

by Susan Morrison



A TRIBUTE

Jennifer Jones and Jean Simmons

by RICHARD LIPPE



GLOBAL CINEMA

City Spaces and National Identity

by Katrina Sark


The Language of Emotion
in Godard's Films

by Anuja Madan


Neither Hand, Nor Foot, Nor Kidney

Biopower, Body Parts and Human Flows
in Stephen Frear's Dirty Pretty Things

by Larissa Lai

War Films: The Hurt Locker; In the Valley of Elah; The Thin Red Line; Female Directors: Nancy Meyers; Vera Chytilova; Japanese Directors and Much More!!!

LONG FORM DRAMA

The International Language of Espionage:

Melodrama, The Americans, and the Global Television Imaginary – by Meredith Slifkin

Mad Men, the Historical Novel, and Social Change – by William Bartley

Long Form Televisual Narrative and Operatic Structure in Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal – by Maria Ionita

Rehabilitating Imperial Glory: Or Rome Finishes What Gladiator Started – by Malcolm Morton

Working Toward a Television Canon – by Thomas A. Foster

Are Sitcoms the Future of West African Cinema? – by Boukary Sawadogo

Read It Today, See It Tonight: Extratextuality and the Silent Film