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As new film adaptations bring Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë back into the spotlight, explore scholarship that examines the unsettling power of these nineteenth-century novels.

Winner of two Golden Globes, "The Secret Agent" has been nominated for four Academy Awards. The film's critical success underscores the special moment Brazilian cinema is currently enjoying.

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino

For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.

Film Quarterly's editor considers the legacy of film critic Pauline Kael.

Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.

By Noah Tsika, author of Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria2019 was a peak year for moviegoing in Nigeria. Never before had there been so many theater screens in the country. Individual films, both locally produced and imported from Hollywood, broke box-office records