Publisher's Synopsis
This Fall 2024 CCR issue includes a set of cinematic reviews from the Editor, Anna Faktorovich. They analyze one fictional feature film, The Good Liar, to analyze the sub-genre of lying narrators, and the violent female-vigilante heroines that are handled with different approaches in pop cinema. Then, the House of Lies fictional television series is considered for the manner it dodges the truth about corrupt consultants by distracting viewers with superfluous entertainment. The rest of this set focuses on documentaries, and the truths they reveal, often seemingly despite their directors' attempts to hide these truths. Gossip bares the corruption of the newspaper-tabloid sector by those who want to purchase good press about themselves, and bad press about their opponents. Milli Vanilli discloses the lip-syncing and other types of ghostly assistance that pop-stars in the music industry usually receive in secret. And the final two reviews coincide in their perspectives on the John F. Kennedy assassination. JFK: What the Doctors Saw claims that the initial Dallas doctors who tried but failed to save JFK initially recorded more bullet wounds in JFK's body than could have possible argued for only a single assassin. And Mafia Spies reports a narrative that has rarely been seen in the media before (which tends to mythologize JFK as a do-gooder). Mafia Spies reports that JFK had been compromised by the mob, and thus agreed to help the mob by using his CIA to try to assassinate Fidel Castro, in revenge for Castro's confiscation of the mob's Cuban casinos. The reviews section also includes a review of the fictional film Queer by Jeremy Freeman. And there are two essays about films from Jaymen Neff-Strickland, covering abuse at Nickelodeon in Quiet on Set, and complex narratives in Smallville. The issue closes with a curious piece of art by Evan H. Brisson: Treaserasure #57.
Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. She previously taught for over four years at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Middle Georgia State College. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism, an MA in Comparative Literature, and a BA in Economics. She published two academic books with McFarland: Rebellion as Genre (2013) and The Formulas of Popular Fiction (2014). Her most recent publication are the 20 volumes of the British Renaissance Re-Attribution and Modernization Series (https: //anaphoraliterary.com/attribution).
