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New at NRFTS Blog: Dahlia Schweitzer (@Doctor_Dahlia) reflects on the powerful ambivalence of Severance, a series whose splitting-of-the-self premise "remains so seductive even after the series has shown us exactly how horrifying it is." nrftsjournal.org/television-…
New at NRFTS Blog: William Brown reviews Steven Swarbrick’s “Divest: An Essay on Political Masochism”, calling it “a crucial if imperfect text – as well as crucial because imperfect.” nrftsjournal.org/divest
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New at NRFTS Blog: Duncan Caillard examines Hawaiʻi on-screen in "The White Lotus" and "Chief of War", arguing that investigating these images reveal "not simply a question of what is represented, but concerns the very process of representation itself." nrftsjournal.org/screen-medi…
NRFTS is hiring! We're looking for a new Online Editor to oversee the development of the NRFTS blog and podcast and to manage the journal’s web presence and public outreach. Applications due by July 1, 2026. Click for more information and how to apply.
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New at NRFTS Blog: Dylan Caskie investigates the "Holiday Movie Awards," a 1950s "film diplomacy prize" that reflected the broader postwar impulse to award "American films [that] promoted pro-American sentiment around the world." nrftsjournal.org/screen-medi…
New at NRFTS Blog: Liza Palmer and Tim Palmer report from the final @sundancefest in Park City. With reviews of new films including The Gallerist, Nuisance Bear, Extra Geography, The Incomer, and more! nrftsjournal.org/festival-re…
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New at NRFTS Blog: @Tom_LSOO on John Bleasdale’s Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer, which "raises a foundational question about the role of the critic: how to establish a pattern of recognition without being reductive?" nrftsjournal.org/darkness-vi…
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We're proud to partner with the SCMS Queer & Trans Caucus on the Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! The 2025 winner is Clare O'Gara (@uwcommarts) and their essay “You Better (Hide) Work: Queer Failure and Invisible Labor Across the Media Industries”. (Runner-up below)
The runner-up for this year’s award is Madeleine Collier (@medialeine) (Program in Literature at @DukeU) and her essay “Model Behavior/Model Organism: Mimesis and Sameness in the Two Dead Ringers (1988 and 2023)”.
New issue 23.2 online!
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Featuring Queer and Trans Caucus Holmlund Prize-winning article by Hugo Ljungbäck and Open Access scholarship by Pamela Krayenbuhl!
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We're proud to again partner with @scms_tv on their Graduate Student Essay Contest! Submissions are due JANUARY 2, 2026, and can be e-mailed to Matt Boyd Smith ([email protected]).
For more information on submissions, go to the SCMS TV SIG Instagram account (@scms_tv).
New at NRFTS Blog: @lawrencengarcia on "scale, situation, and character" in Michel Deville’s Dossier 51 (1978), "a film whose remarkable achievement is perhaps matched only by its relative obscurity." nrftsjournal.org/screen-medi…
A reminder that the deadline for the 2026 SCMS QTC Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize is THIS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15! Details below. Send submissions and/or questions to [email protected]
New Review is thrilled to be partnering with the @SCMSQT on the Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! Send submission (at least 6,500 words, on a queer or trans cinema/media studies topic, and by a current QTC grad member) to [email protected] by November 15, 2025.
New Review is thrilled to be partnering with the @SCMSQT on the Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! Send submission (at least 6,500 words, on a queer or trans cinema/media studies topic, and by a current QTC grad member) to [email protected] by November 15, 2025.
At NRFTS Blog, RL Selden reviews the second edition of @TimothyShary's Teen Movies: A Century of American Youth, which includes a new chapter on Generation Z on screen and the rise of the "tween film". @ColumbiaUP nrftsjournal.org/teen-movies…
New issue 23.1 online!
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Special issue on “The Hotel in Film”, edited by Sean Redmond
Open access to Sean's introduction and articles by @deborahjermyn and Brenda R. Weber, Misha Kavka, and Dirk de Bruyn!
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Check out the redesigned NRFTS Blog! Featuring a revised layout and fresh new look courtesy of our brilliant online editor, Geneveive Newman. nrftsjournal.org/
New episode of the New Review podcast! @TimothyShary interviews @alessandraseggi about her book "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences". @Palgrave nrftsjournal.org/youth-and-s…
New at NRFTS Blog: observing that "there are few figures in the academic field of Film Studies whose work has attracted more appraisal," Corey Cribb considers the "academic afterlives" of André Bazin. nrftsjournal.org/screen-medi…
