Book Review Editor | Rédactrice de la critique des livres
Viviane Saglier
Assistant Editor / Rédactrice adjointe
Jessie Krahn
Questions for the editorial board can be directed to cjfmseditor@filmstudies.ca
08.01.2026 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Belatedly wrapping up our reflections on the first issue of vol. 34 with Sean Cubitt’s study of Werner Herzog’s 1992 documentary, Lessons of Darkness. Read the full article, and our wider special issue exploring solidarity, international humanisms, and more, at the link in our bio.
29.12.2025 14:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CJFMS/RCÉCM is accepting submissions in English and French for a special issue on the works of multidisciplinary artist Skawennati. Click the link in our bio for the full call!
28.11.2025 15:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the wake of "chastened" debates on film theory, what would a reinvigorated theory of film look like? Marc Furstenau reviews the Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, edited by Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social. Link in bio!
Find more from Furstenau: carleton.ca/filmstudies/...
11.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sarah Matheson reviews " What Television Remembers: Artifacts and Footprints of TV in Toronto" by Jennifer Vanderburgh. Matheson calls the book "a compelling and multi-faceted exploration" of the connections between Toronto and Canadian television more broadly. Read more at the link in our bio!
09.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As humans make films about animals, there are moments when animals seize the camera. Sara Swain examines videos documenting these moments. Dubbing them "multispecies achievements," Swain argues that videos like these "nudge" viewers "to expand the domain of politics." Link in bio!
05.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From our 34th volume, Ryan Watson examines the hybrid filmmaking of the Karrabing Film Collective, a largely Indigenous group whose name translates to "tide out" in Emmeniyengal. Watson's essay argues the group's works toward building ecologies of solidarity. Read more at the link in our bio!
30.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In issue 1 of CJFMS's 34th volume, Zaira Zarza approaches two works by Latinx-Canadian filmmakers: Mis dos voces (2022) and Roads in February (2018). She argues that her case studies take part in contesting the notion of "a singular Canadian national cinema." Visit the link in our bio to read more!
27.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Clint Enns reviews "Establishing Shots: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group" by Kevin Nikkel. Enns recommends the book "to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Canadian filmmaking traditions." Read more in vol. 34 at the link in our bio.
23.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Matthew Croombs opens vol. 34's special issue on Cinema and More-Than-Human Solidarity with his introduction. The scholarship on offer in this issue, Croombs says, makes "new inroads for examining the relationship between cinema, environmental crises, and solidarity." Link in bio!
21.10.2025 20:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In vol. 34 @lingzhang.bsky.social examines Dr. Bethune, a biographical film about a Canadian surgeon, communist, and early advocate for socialized healthcare. Zhang writes that its “socialist aesthetics” can advance transnational, political possibilities.
Read more at the link in our bio!
20.10.2025 20:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
The Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film (CPCF) at @brocku.ca examines the impact of media and communication in the creation of meaning, identity, and social change.
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Scholar and maker of activist media; fake and real; digital and material. Working in and about AIDS, (long) COVID, queer, trans, anti-racist and feminist media. Trying to act on my commitments to non-Zionism, the climate, and my union, PSC-CUNY.
Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
Lecturer in Film Studies. Palestinian and Arab cinema, film infrastructures, anticolonialism, and transnational solidarity. WIP.
Scotland - Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) - France
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allegedly finishing a phd
Postdoctoral fellow in Community Archives and Accessibility at McGill U & Research Associate at Archive/Counter-Archive, York U.
Ph.D. Communication and Culture, York University.
🔎cable access histories; a/v and community archives; pedagogy.
filmmaker & writer. video essayist. host of art & trash. publisher, black zero. programmer, ad hoc. sessional lecturer, cinema studies institute, university of toronto. he/him.
Professeure agrégée, littérature et cinéma @memorialu.bsky.social
Aime le cinéma muet, les surréalistes et Maïakovski
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
visiting assistant professor in film+media studies at lafayette college
critical theory, labour, cinema, aesthetics
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Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
TV Historian. she/her
Out now from University of Texas Press:
Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama & Midcentury American Culture
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