Introduction: This is what defined cinema in the 2010s Mark Freeman and César Albarrán-Torres October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s It would be preposterous to claim that this dossier encapsulates the totality of the stylistic trends, industry moves and authorial voices that dictat...
Digital Disquietude in the Screencast Film Jamie Tram October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s On its surface, the nascent trend of the screencast film could be dismissed as a mere vessel for cheap, hokey B-movie fare, typically preoccupied with...
What Happened? The Digital Shift in Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s To understand what the last ten years of cinema have been about, one has to start at the turn of the last century – the year 2000 – when Hollywood dec...
The Franchise Era: Blockbuster Hollywood in the 2010s…and Beyond Tara Lomax October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s It is July 2019 and Avengers: Endgame (Joe and Anthony Russo, 2019) – a flagship release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise – has just s...
The Marvel Method: How Marvel dominated franchising filmmaking Liam Burke October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s In 2009 Avatar (Cameron) became the highest grossing film of all-time at the global box office. In the same year the Walt Disney Company purchased Mar...
The echo of the Three Amigos Abel Muñoz Hénonin October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s The three best known Latin-American filmmakers worldwide, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, and Guillermo del Toro, are the surviving core ...
3/11 Cinema Kenta McGrath October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s The multifaceted disaster which struck Japan’s northeastern Tōhoku region on 11 March 2011 – a magnitude-9 earthquake, which triggered a devastating t...
Serial Rep-Cinema and Community Cinema-Going Claudia Sicondolfo October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s The September 2019 Senses of Cinema Dossier asks contributors to identify one central feature that has shaped and influenced cinema over the last deca...
Hard Women: Representations of older femininities in 2010s’ horror Samantha Broadhead October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s In Feud: Bette and Joan, (2017) Joan Crawford, played by Jessica Lange, noted that, “everything written for women seems to fall into just three catego...
Moonlight as a ‘Mass Art’ Film Peter Verstraten October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s Given his interest in paradoxes, the French philosopher Alain Badiou dubbed cinema a ‘mass art’, although not every film can be categorised in this wa...
The Old Dark House: Cinemagoing in the age of streaming Martyn Bamber October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s How has cinema changed over the last 10 years? This question is not about the art or business of cinema; it refers to the cinemagoing experience itsel...
Magical Summer Nights: Outdoor Cinema’s Communal Pleasures Jonathan Petrychyn October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s Earlier this year, I watched the Kenyan film Rafiki (Kahiu, 2018) on the opening night of the Christie Pits Film Festival, an outdoor film festival th...
Secret Superstars : Revolt by Stealth in Modi-era Bollywood Darragh O’Donoghue October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s In 2014 India elected Narendra Modi Prime Minister with a landslide. A right-wing Hindu fundamentalist and former member of the elite, fascistic Rash...
Instant Access: A Digital Golden Age for Film Fans Jeremy Carr October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s The conversation concerning developments in streaming service providers and digital, on-demand distribution has largely revolved around the accessibil...
Why Aren’t There More Women Directors in Hollywood—Even in 2019? Virginia Wright Wexman October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s The 2018 documentary This Changes Everything (Tom Donahue) describes the way in which women in Hollywood continue to be shut out of opportunities for ...
Pass/fail politics: face-to-face encounters and the attention economy Tara Judah October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s It’s been bang on ten years since I started my so-called career in film exhibition and film criticism. My hopes and desires, for film and for myself, ...
Snowpiercer and the Return of the Left Kalling Heck October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s A reemergent left was clearly amongst the most significant changes of the ‘10s, and these changes were not unaddressed by world cinema. Significantly,...
The swash of the Trans New Wave Claire Henry October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s Tristan Taormino heralded ‘The New Wave of Trans Cinema’ in a 2008 column, highlighting the emergence of ‘docu-porn’ created by, for, and about trans ...
Slow History: Cinema and Culture in the 2010s Daniel Fairfax October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s In his recent book, Clear Bright Future, the British political theorist Paul Mason admits to having recently experienced a moment of uncanny bewilderm...
