Features:
Siegfried Kracauer’s affinities by Thomas Elsaesser
Mapping the rise of the iPhone: Between phones and mobile media by Ginette Verstraete
Representations of Madrid in the (post-)transition to democracy by Vicente Rodriguez Ortega
Empire is out there!?: The spirit of imperialism in the Pixar animated film ‘Up’ by Dietmar Meinel
Representation or misrepresentation?: British media and Japanese popular culture by Perry Hinton
Special section: Traces
The navigational gesture: Traces and tracings at the mobile touchscreen interface by Nanna Verhoeff & Heidi Rae Cooley
Poetics and politics of the trace: Notes on surveillance practices through Harun Farocki’s work by Miriam De Rosa
Webcams as cinematic medium: Creating chronotopes of the real by Paula Albuquerque
Assembling traces, or the conservation of net art by Annet Dekker
The Third Party Diary: Tracking the trackers on Dutch governmental websites by Lonneke van der Velden
Microphysics of a rationalist utopia: Ruins, town plans, and the avant-garde documentary by Andrea Mariani
The beauty of the act: Figuring film and the delirious baroque in ‘Holy Motors’ by Saige Walton
Animated maps and the power of the trace by Giuseppe Fidotta
Enhanced echoes: Digitisation and new perspectives on film sound by Jasper Aalbers
Book reviews:
edited by Lavinia Brydon and Alena Strohmaier (NECS Publication Committee)
Globalisation and television formats review by Jaap Kooijman
Soundscapes, sound clash review by Nessa Johnston
Shadow economies and digital disruption review by Chris Baumann
The cinema of Béla Tarr: The circle closes review by Miklós Kiss
Impossible dreams: Europe and love in cinema review by Fiona Handyside
Festival reviews:
edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist (Film Festival Research Network)
Oberhausen: An interview with Lars Henrik Gass by Enrico Camporesi
Brazil’s International Disability Film Festival Assim Vivemos review by Ana Gilbert
Celebrating independence: 54th Thessaloniki International Film Festival review by Lydia Papadimitriou
Initiating regional talents: 2013 Sarajevo Film Festival review by Ivan Velisavljević
Past memories for a new future: 70th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia review by Enrico Vannucci
Exhibition reviews:
Fassbinder Frankfurt review by Senta Siewert
The biennale as a device: 4th Athens Biennale review by Eva Fotiadi
