Cinema Year Zero

Joseph Owen traces the genealogy of the yuppie.

Ben Flanagan looks back on the apex of British cuddliness.

An introduction to volume 5: Pagans.

Kirsty Asher declares Ken Russell to be the last British folk hero.

Laura Venning examines what her enjoyment of the period drama means.

Tom Atkinson laments the lost vision of Alan Clarke.

Cathy Brennan asserts just how it was that Toby Young and Julie Burchill lost friends and alienated people.

Kirsty Asher on cinema's blue chip art.

Cathy Brennan on the cinema institutions that have failed workers in the pandemic.

Ben Flanagan on the last in-person festival before the pandemic struck: Berlinale.

Tom Atkinson on a Cannes experiment.

Fedor Tot investigates why Fritz Lang's moral ambiguity influenced so many, but could be skilfully deployed by so few.

Ben Flanagan breaks down Fritz Lang's Abbey Road: the large-scale political quagmire of the two-part film The Indian Epic.

Tom Atkinson finds the Lang in one of the German auteur's most prolific spiritual descendants: Johnnie To.

Patrick Preziosi finds Lang's immediate influence in two 1950s Columbia noir films: Don Siegel's The Lineup and Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper.

Joseph Owen finds only despair and prison anxiety in the works of William Faulkner and serial killer thriller M.

Katie Hogan asks whether the woman-as-robot character in fiction can only be in the image of the Maria-bot in Metropolis.

Cathy Brennan finds that Dr Mabuse and The Wolf of Wall Street's Jordan Belfort have a lot in common.

Serena Scateni pulls out the imperialist practices afoot in Lang's 1919 Madame Butterfly adaptation, Harakiri.

An introduction to our third volume, In the Shadow of Lang.