Issue 43 | September 2021

A Special Feature, European Culture and the Moving Image

• Introduction by İpek A. Çelik Rappas, Michael Gott, and Randall Halle

Research

• “European ‘Code Unknown’ Cinema by Peter Verstraten” by Peter Verstraten

• “Decolonial Queer Futures in No Hard Feelings [Faraz Shariat, Futur Drei 2020]” by Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber

• “European Revolution on Film: Pudovkin’s The End of St. Petersburg and Renoir’s La Marseillaise” by Casey Harison

• “The New European Cinema of Precarity” by Temenuga Trifonova

• “National, Transnational, Transitional: Albanian cinema in the 2000s” by Philip E. Phillis

• “Europe’s Moving Images” by Randall Halle

• “’Kultur Als Kopfkino:’ Hermann Glaser’s Critical Visions for the Arts and Social Entertainment: Translating German ‘Culture as Civil Right’ for the European Project” by Irina Herrschner and Benjamin Nickl

• “Babylon Berlin: Weimar-Era Culture and History as Global Media Spectacle” by Hester Baer and Jill Suzanne Smith

• “Making and Mapping European Border Series: From Bridges and Tunnels to Dark Forests” by Michael Gott

• “’Eurotrash’ Films, Hollywood, and the Possibilities and Limits of YouTube as a Media Archive for Popular European Film History” by Anne-Marie Scholz

• “What Moves Artists? Mapping Vienna through the Moving Images of Nilbar Güreş” by Lora Sariaslan

Visual Art

• “Art in the Cinema,” curated by Nicole Shea

Fiction

• Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero, translated from the Spanish by Victor Meadowcroft and Anne McLean

• The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid, translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

Book Reviews

• German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism, reviewed by Adam Cook

• Exhausted Ecologies: Modernism and Environmental Recovery, reviewed by Leanna Lostoski-Ho

• East German Film and the Holocaust, reviewed by Mariana Ivanova

• Imbalance: Germany’s Political Economy after the Social Democratic Century, reviewed by Johannes Kiess

Campus

• “Syllabus: European Cinema: 1960 to Present” by Temenuga Trifonova

Campus Monthly Round-Up

• “Adopting Sustainable Practices Through Initiatives in Higher Education” by William Bowden

Editor’s Pick

• Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema History, Theory, and Reception by Andrea Virginás

• Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story by Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla, translated by Thomas Fazi

Published on September 15, 2021