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A RECENT COVER STORY IN HARPER'S asked the question 'What Happened to Gen X?' Written by the Canadian-American philosophy professor Justin E. H. Smith, the piece opens with memories of [...]

OF THE GROUP OF AMERICAN FILMMAKERS known as the 'Film School Generation' (Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, etc.), Paul Schrader is perhaps the hardest to get a [...]

We feel it is important to identify research areas that are understudied. Certainly, the impact of economic development on or near Indigenous lands is one such area.In this issue, we have three feature articles that approach the issue of economic development in terms of policies, impacts, and benefits.What is clear is that we need a much better understanding of the benefits and perils that come with development. We also need better cooperation between governments, corporations, and Indigenous communities in order to develop effective legislation and fair land use and resource agreements.IIPJ wishes to encourage those who have studied development issues to submit their work. We will shortly be announcing our intent to create an international database of quality research across a wide range of important subjects. The purpose will be to create an ever expanding, open-access source of research. This database may also contain examples of agreements and rigorous assessments of the projects in order to advance our understanding of the challenges that come with economic development.

THE HOOPLA SURROUNDING TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022) is much like the hoopla that surrounded the remake of Ghostbusters (2016), which was the subject of my chronicle in the summer 2016 [...]

AS 2022 BEGINS, it seems that travel has returned, and so perhaps has cinema. For me, these two have always been intertwined. From my teenage days in the 1980s, when [...]

The article explores the history of film criticism. It compares literary criticism and film criticism. It describes the work of Leavisite film critic Robin Wood during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as his contributions to the bimonthly magazine "Film Comment." It discusses the decline of magazines of film criticism and the shift of some to online publication.

Kevin Nikkel, Establishing Shots: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group, University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, 2023, 444 pages. ISBN: 978-1-77284-103-1, $34.95 (paper) There was a time, and it [...]