April 2021
Introduction
We now share our April issue in full, including articles, book reviews, and film reviews from three festivals: Sundance, Slamdance, and SXSW. --John Lyden, EditorArticles
By and For Jewish Women Only: The Musical Film "The Heart That Sings"
Celia E. Rothenberg
Revising Mary Queen of Scots: from Protestant Persecution to Patriarchal Struggle
Jennifer M. DeSilva and Emily K. McGuire
“He Who Laughs Last!” Terrorists, Nihilists, and Jokers
William S. Chavez and Luke McCracken
Book Reviews
Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story of An Image
Eric Michael Mazur
Stanley Kubrick, Jewish Filmmaker: A Review Essay
Michael Gibson
Scorsese and Religion
Joel Mayward
Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature
Alicia Izharuddin
Film Review
Reboot Camp
William L. Blizek
Sundance Film Festival Reviews
Sundance 2021 Introduction
John C. Lyden
How It Ends
John C. Lyden
A Glitch in the Matrix
John C. Lyden
Strawberry Mansion
John C. Lyden
Rebel Hearts
John C. Lyden
Together Together
John C. Lyden
Playing With Sharks
Jodi McDavid
Coming Home in the Dark
Jodi McDavid
Human Factors
Rubina Ramji
In the Earth
Rubina Ramji
You Wouldn't Understand
Rubina Ramji
The Unseen River
William L. Blizek
Misery Loves Company
William L. Blizek
Spirits and Rocks: An Azorean Myth
William L. Blizek
I ran from it and was still in it
William L. Blizek
The Touch of the Master's Hand
William L. Blizek
This Is the Way We Rise
Michele M. Desmarais
The Fourfold
John C. Lyden
Mountain Cat
William L. Blizek
Five Tiger
William L. Blizek
Like the Ones I Used to Know
Rubina Ramji
Slamdance Film Festival Reviews
Anarchy Goes Virtual: Report from Slamdance 2021
William L. Blizek
Feeling Through
William L. Blizek
Unforgivable
William L. Blizek
Sleeping with the Devil
William L. Blizek
Izaokas (Isaac)
William L. Blizek
Bare Bones
William L. Blizek
Delimitation
William L. Blizek
Revelations
William L. Blizek
I Think It's Enough, Isn't It?
William L. Blizek
Taipei Suicide Story
John C. Lyden
The Length of Day
John C. Lyden
Every Day's Like This
John C. Lyden
In France, Michelle is a Man's Name
John Lyden
The Sleeping Negro
William L. Blizek
Catastrophe Anthem
William L. Blizek
A Black Rift Begins to Yawn
Brady DeSanti
SXSW Film Festival Reviews
Women Is Losers
John C. Lyden
The Return: Life After ISIS
John C. Lyden
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
John C. Lyden