Reviews of Film Dialogue: Volume VI, Issue 1: Spring 2021

This issue includes a set of seven cinematic close-analysis review articles by the Editor, Anna Faktorovich, covering: Ray Donovan (anti-language that grunts with violence), American Greed (condensed societal analysis), Suits (arguments to argue without communicating), Vikings (research shortages and drama-overload), Covert Affairs (faking linguistic knowledge to perpetrate mass-murder), Brave New World (horrific nonsense), and The Hobbit series (the profit-motive). The focus of this particular set is on the dialogue, questioning the popular formulas, methods, and content that has been included in these mass-consumed cultural products. The extended transcripts of dialogue from these modern experiments are compared with segments of dialogue from the Inaccessible Renaissance Modernization Series that Faktorovich is working on, such as the previously untranslated satirical first quarto of Hamlet. Susie Gharib's set of film reviews analyze artistic films from Australia and other parts of the world, and also include an analysis of some of their dialogue. And a few photographs are featured by Fabrice Poussin.

Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press, who taught college English for over four years and 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).