I’m very excited to announce that the newest issue of Cinephile, New Lenses on Old Hollywood, is now available online.

You can view and download the complete PDF, or individual article PDFs, at our new hosting for journal issues here. This site also contains our entire archive of back issues in the same format! Read more about the new hosting project here.

This year’s issue features contributions from James Naremore, Cynthia Ann Baron, Wendy Haslem, Emily Carman, Monica Roxanne Sandler, Jimmy Dean Smith, Magdalina El-Masry, and Ash Kinney d’Harcourt, with a cover and interior illustrations by Aislynn Davey. 

Star Scholar Contribution

A Short Interview with James Naremore

The Wayward Pleasures of His Kind of Woman

— James Naremore

Articles

 Brando’s Engaging Contradictions

— Cynthia Ann Baron

Blonde: Redefining Marilyn Monroe as Digital Affect

— Wendy Haslem

A Misfit Revision: Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Transitional Stardom in Postwar Hollywood

— Emily Carman

The First Years of #OscarsSoWhite: Louise Beavers, Hattie McDaniel, and the History of Black Media Discourse at the Academy Awards

— Monica Roxanne Sandler

Poison: Flannery O’Connor’s Habit of Moviegoing

— Jimmy Dean Smith

The Many Faces of Judy Barton: Contemporary Retellings of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

— Magdalina El-Masry

Rider of the Purple S(t)age: How the Drag King Reimagines the Classical Hollywood Cowboy

— Ash Kinney d’Harcourt

VIFF Film Reviews of Aftersun, Corsage, EO, Falcon Lake, The Novelist’s Film, Until Branches Bend, and When Time Got Louder

— Liam Riley, Lily K. Evans, Tamar Hanstke, Will Riley, Harrison Wade, Orrin Pavone, and Jenny Yang