Film International #32


Out now - Film International #32! In this issue: Steven Spielberg! Brazilian Sci-Fi! Doctor Who! New Zealand! Curse of the Golden Flower!
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Contents Film International #32

Editorial
by Daniel Lindvall

Science Fiction in the Brazilian Cinema: A Brief Overview
by Alfredo Luiz Suppia

New Zealand Film and Questions of Genre
by Barry Keith Grant

Digesting Steven Spielberg
by Murray Pomerance

A Personal Study of Film Studies, inspired by Film International's Frank Capra Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Criticism
by Kira Takeshita

Weaving a Dark Parody: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower
by Huang Yiju

The Lovely Smallness of Doctor Who
by Ken Chen

Film Happenings
by Liza Palmer

DVD Reviews: Index 020, Index 023 (Lars Gustaf Andersson), La Haine (Philip Cartelli), Flag Wars (Chelsea Wayant)

Book Reviews: Cinema Before Cinema: The Origins of Scientific Cinematography (Carmen Siu), Filmosophy (David Sterritt)

Film Reviews: 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Anton Biel), No Country for Old Men (Jonathan Murray), Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Ruth Starkman)

Festival Reports: Compass International Festival of Resistance (Nadia Arancio and Luke Moffat), London 2007 (Harry Joll), Thessaloniki 2007 (Dimitra Kessenides), Cucalorus 2007 (James Kreul), Turin 2007 (Jan Lumholdt), Montpellier 2007 (Larry Portis)