Offscreen. Issues of Representation.

In the latest issue of Offscreen to go online, editor Donato Totaro considers "one of Québec's national treasures," Pierre Perrault, as the National Film Board reissues his work on DVD.

Guan Soon Khoo revisits one of Zhang Yimou's most controversial works: "[D]ue to the dualist nature of the filmmakers' intentions - of a blockbuster for the world and a culture-conscious film - Hero's technical merit, both in its narrative structure and metaphorical showmanship, elevates it to a contemporary masterpiece, not a timeless work of art."

"Comparing the iconographies of Anna May Wong and Lucy Lui exemplifies the marginalized roles Asians are given in Hollywood, as well as showing the transition of the Asian American female from a desired to a feared figure," writes Krystle Doromal.

In an essay on Chronicle of a Disappearance, Lindsey Rock writes, "Through the exquisite use of rupture, fractured non-linearity, repetition, irony, and wry humor, Elia Suleiman exposes the fractured Palestinian identity: the lack of cohesive unity, the denied, the negated and the absurd."

Robert Robertson: "In the case of both [Sergei] Eisenstein and [Frank Lloyd] Wright the experimental process was crucial to the realisation of the ideal of an organic unity in their work, and integral to this approach was the method of testing for Nature's equilibrium."

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