Featured Scholarship

The Cine-Files, Issue 14 (spring 2019)

Lucy Bollington, “Martel’s Aquatic Zoopoetics”

Adam Hebert, “Concrete Jungles: Street Skateboard Cinema, Animal Worlds, and Contingent Ecologies”

Lukas Brasiskis, “Mermaid with a Movie Camera: Performing the Cold War Past Eco-critically”


Eamonn Connor, “Diffractive Visions:  Toward an Oceanic Trans-Corporeality in Leviathan”


David Scott Diffrient, “Animals in Korean Cinema:  From Absent Referent to Present-Day Predicament”


Sean Donovan, “Animalistic Laughter: Camping Anthropomorphism in Roar”


Rosalind Galt, “Learning from a Llama, and Other Fishy Tales: Anticolonial Aesthetics in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama”

Ece Üçoluk Krane, “Tracing Posthuman Cannibalism:  Animality and the Animal/Human Boundary in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movies”


Mikki Kressbach, “A World of Wonder:  The Operational Aesthetic and Planet Earth II”


Milan Kroulík, “Imagining Beyond the Human:  Marketa Lazarová as Becoming-Animal”


Graig Alan Uhlin, “On Street Cats and City Rats:  Synanthropes and Cinematic Ecologies”