Dr Anna Faktorovich

Interviews with Ripley's, an Illustrator, and the Winners of the Bff Dr Anna Faktorovich

This second issue of the Cinematic Codes Review includes innovative scholarship and critical pieces. The essays include cinematic theory studies such as Felicia Cosey's examination of paternal authority in post-apocalyptic films. Carolin Kirchner examines aesthetics in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's work. Robert McParland studies value in Apocalypse Now. Keith Moser's new contribution to Anaphora's journals looks at the crisis of simulation in Black Mirror. Antonio Sanna looks at grandeur in the Star Wars series. And Barbara Gambini considers the cinematic effects in Pascoli's industrial oblivion. The interviews section includes two interviews conducted by the editor, before, after and during her trip to the ALA conference in Orlando, Florida, with Mark Wayne Adams, the award-winning illustrator, and Edward Meyer, the Vice President of Ripley's Believe It or Not! Their replies are frank, surprising and informative. For the first time, a couple of the interns have stepped up to help add a new perspective. Garrett Donnelly, a Columbia student, conducted a series of interviews with the winners of the Brooklyn Film Festival this summer. These BFF interviews are with Bentley Brown, Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coats, Alix Blair and Jeremy Lange, Alicia Slimmer, and Claire Carré and Charles Spano. Another intern contributor is Samantha Lauer, who wrote a set of reviews of films that affected her, offering some detailed criticisms for viewers and academics alike. The cover image is from Alicia Slimmer's Creedmoria film, and her interview can be found among Donnelly's other BFF discussions.