Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration
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Celebrate Black History Month with the NFB’s documentary playlist on Black Communities in Canada: A Rich History.

Issue 5.2 is now a flipbook, courtesy of ISSUU: https://issuu.com/mesjournal/docs/msj_5-2-issuu

MSJ advisory board member Dr. Allyson Nadia Field is the co-editor of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke UP), which is now an open educational resource free for download at https://openresearchlibrary.org//a294ae61-f999-42/4/single

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MSJ proudly presents its disruption issue, now published at https://journals.sfu.ca/msq/index.php/msq/issue/view/12 Issue 5.2 features articles on the radical feminism of Gene Tierney in Otto Preminger’s Whirlpool plus a fandom investigation of the whitewashed casting of The Last Airbender; an interview with Jennifer Reeder, making her directorial debut with Knives and Skin; and a dossier of featurettes breaking down scenes from The Shining, Inland Empire, Thriller, and Sunset Boulevard. #StayHome #WatchMoreFilms

There is no path until you walk it. Ethan Hawke on the power of creativity.

We are seeking a reviewer for Annette Michelson’s On the Wings of Hypothesis: Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema.

Movie poster of the day

Unboxing the first run of the print edition never disappoints! We are looking forward to sharing it with our sponsors, contributors, and readers.

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Notable themes in the selections for this year’s VHS emerged: female-centric horror, trauma, mental health, and resistance. Films offered politically and emoti...onally charged musings about women as subjects, spectators, and consumers of horror film. Thanks to @kellyad35 for this comprehensive dissection of some of our festival programming from 2019, including @lisaovies PUPPET KILLER @top_salt KAYA & CONSOMMÉ @davisbot LET’S GO DOWN @franco.williams @fionavroom @hadronfilms DANCE WITH A DEMON and @iljarautsi HELSINKI MANSPLAINING MASSACRE. https://journals.sfu.ca//index.php/msq/article/view/166/pdf

We’re all very proud of the fact that we have a show feauturing women of colour, people of colour who are just people working together their differences aren’t highlighted, says Agents of Shield showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen. Read her far-ranging interview with Olivia Popp in the latest issue of MSJ.

Iconic masks in film #WearAMask #maskingforafriend

ICYMI: Thousands of protests. 45 arrests. 33 years in Congress. Sometimes change calls for a little trouble. John Lewis: Good Trouble comes to theaters and on demand July 3rd. #JohnLewisIsGoodTrouble

MSJ Video Essay: Untethered: Engaging the Senses in Post-2013 Space-Travel Films by Melanie Robson

Paris Transforms River Seine into a Floating Cinema for Social Distancing Fun

Issue 5.1 (Spring 2020) has been published. https://journals.sfu.ca/msq/index.php/msq/issue/view/11

2020 is Black Mirror, Season 6. #dystopian #docudrama