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Alternative Film Canons: from B to Z

Issue 21, July 2023

Introduction to the Issue

Letter from the Editors

By Hal Young, Rebecca Cavanagh, and Wesley Kirkpatrick


Feature Articles

‘Every Kaiju Movie Ever Made’: Fan Collecting and Curation of the Kaijū Film

By Steven Rawle


Rules Were Meant to be Broken: Len Cella’s Moron Movies (1983) Provokes Love, Hate, and Confusion from the MTV, YouTube, and TikTok Generations

By Ted Fisher


Close But No Cigar: Latin American Films Awarded, Produced, But Considered?

By Karen Sztajnberg


Blood as a Fashion Statement: On the Trend of ‘Abjection Chic’ in Contemporary Horror Cinema

By Milo Farragher-Hanks


Jackson Jickson: exposed insularities in guerrilla filmmaking from ‘The Trinity Island’

By Maria Fernanda Miño Puga


The Voice of Meiko Kaji in 1970s Japanese Exploitation Cinema

By Ash Johann Curry-Machado


Curating Folk Horror: Anti-Canonisation, Critical Transnationalism, and Crossover Festival Programming

By Cüneyt Çakırlar


P.O.V.

The Cult Afterlife

By Polly White


Film Featurettes

Abjection, postfeminism and the makeover in Miss Congeniality (2000)

By Clementine Vann-Alexander


Book Reviews

Ten Skies

Reviewed by Richard Bolisay


Modernités de Charlie Chaplin: Un Cinéaste dans l’Œil des Avant-Gardes

Reviewed by Wesley Kirkpatrick


Cinema and Brexit: The Politics of Popular English Cinema

Reviewed by Dean Richards


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