Framework Volume 49, Number 2, Fall 2008

Framework is an international, peer reviewed journal dedicated to theoretical and historical work on the diverse and current trends in media and film scholarship. The journal’s multicultural coverage, interdisciplinary focus, and the high caliber of its writers contributes to important interconnections between regional cinemas, practioners, academics, critics, and students. Framework is committed to publishing articles from interdisciplinary and global perspectives.

Table of Contents

Editorial
Drake Stutesman

"Your Country Is Your Head": An Interview with Gore Vidal
Drake Stutesman

The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments
Laura Rascaroli

"You Cannot Continually Inflict": An Interview with Saadi Yacef
Jim Dingeman

Hegemony Conditions in the Coproduction Cinema of Latin America: The Role of Spain
Libia Villazana

Mobility and Modernity in María Novaro's Sin dejar huella
Claire Lindsay

Welcome to Applied Fiction
Jean-Pierre Bekolo

"Shown in 16mm on a Giant Screen": Adventures in Alternative Exhibition with The Secret Cinema–An Interview with Jay Schwartz
Elena Gorfinkel