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Features:

Editorial Necsus

In search of ‘Sauve la vie (qui peut)’ by Michael Witt 

Oppositional banality: Watching ordinary Muslims in ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’ by Jenifer Chao 

Dancing in the sun: The musical as touristic hook in ‘Honeymoon’ by Lidia Merás and Sarah Wright 

Feminist film studies 40 years after ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, a triologue by Laura Mulvey, Anna Backman Rogers and Annie van den Oever


Audiovisual essays:

edited by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin

The audiovisual essay as art practice by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin 

Carnal Locomotive by Catherine Grant 

Club Video by Philip Brophy 


Special section: Animals

guest edited by Barbara Creed and Maarten Reesink

Animals, images, anthropocentrism by Barbara Creed and Maarten Reesink 

Why not look at animals? by Anat Pick 

When Lulu met the Centaur: Photographic traces of creaturely love by Dominic Pettman

Tasmanian tigers and polar bears: The documentary moving image and (species) loss by Belinda Smaill 

Cinematic slowness, political paralysis?: Animal life in ‘Bovines’, with Deleuze and Guattari by Laura McMahon 

Horseplay: Equine performance and creaturely acts in cinema by Stella Hockenhull 

Cows, clicks, ciphers, and satire by Tom Tyler


Book reviews:

edited by Lavinia Brydon and Alena Strohmaier (NECS Publication Committee)

Television studies reloaded: From history to text review by Massimo Scaglioni 

The documentary film book review by Malin Wahlberg 

Storytelling in the media convergence age: Exploring screen narratives review by Emre Caglayan 

Education in the school of dreams: Travelogues and early nonfiction film review by Adam Ludford Freeman 


Festival reviews:

edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist (Film Festival Research Network)

Dossier: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 edited by Marijke de Valck 

Dispatches from the dark: A conversation with Neil Young at the 2015 International Film Festival Rotterdam by Daniel Steinhart 

Hollywood legacies and Russian laughter: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto / Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2014 review by Gert Jan Harkema

We can haz film fest!: Internet Cat Video Festival goes viral review by Diane Burgess


Exhibition reviews:

edited by Miriam De Rosa and Malin Wahlberg (NECS Publication Committee)

Too much world: A Hito Steyerl retrospective review by Paula Albuquerque 

McMansion of media excess: Ryan Trecartin’s and Lizzie Fitch’s SITE VISIT review by Lisa Åkervall 

Reaching out!: Activating space in the art of Olafur Eliasson review by Olivia Eriksson 

David Reeb: Traces of Things to Come review by Leshu Torchin 

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Editorial Board

Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot

Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade

Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki

Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht

Skadi Loist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam

Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling

Andrea Virginás 
Babeș-Bolyai University

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