Criticisms of Films, Past and Present: Issue 1, Spring 2017 (Cinematic Codes Review)

Product Description This issue includes five film reviews from Cinematic Codes Review’s regular contributor, Samantha Lauer, which are illustrated with stills. There is also a scholarly film review of Ben-Hur from Antonio Sanna. One of the authors that previously published two poetry books with Anaphora, Jason Holt, made a critical essay contribution, with a study of Rocky IV’s training montage. Nichole DeWall, an associate professor of English at McKendree University, writes about two re-interpretations of two of William Shakespeare’s plays. And Brian Rowe writes about the intended victim in John Carpenter’s 1978 horror film, Halloween. About the Author Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. She is currently teaching college English at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Previously, she taught for three years at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Middle Georgia State College. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism. She published two academic books with McFarland: Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson (2013) and The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels (2014). She has been editing and writing for the independent, tri-annual Pennsylvania Literary Journal since 2009, and started the second Anaphora periodical, Cinematic Codes Review in 2016. She has presented her research at the MLA, SAMLA, EAPSU, SWWC, BWWC and many other conferences. She won the MLA Bibliography, Kentucky Historical Society and Brown University Military Collection fellowships.