Editorial Open Theme by Stefano Odorico and Aidan Power (Issue Editors) https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.00 Articles Who’s Got the “Reel” Power? The Problem of Female Antagonisms in Blaxploitation Cinema by Melissa DeAnn Seifert https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.01 Egyptian Film Censorship: Safeguarding Society, Upholding Taboos by Dina Mansour https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.02 “I Get Sort of Carried Away, Being So Normal and Everything”: The Oscillating Sexuality of Clare Quilty and Humbert Humbert in the works of Nabokov, Kubrick and Lyne by Emerson Storm Fillman Richards https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.03 Towards an Embodied Poetics of Cinema: The Metaphoric Construction of Abstract Meaning in Film by Maarten Coëgnarts and Peter Kravanja https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.04 Film-Thinking and Narrative Indeterminacy by Jimmy Billingham https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.05 Image Versus Imagination: Memory’s Theatre of Cruelty in Chris Marker’s La Jetée by Martina Witt-Jauch https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.06 Anima Animus: Jennifer Jason Leigh’s Bisexual Method in Last Exit to Brooklyn by Ian Murphy https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.07 Book Reviews Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, by Warren Buckland Reviewed by Kevin McDonald https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.08 Recording Reality, Desiring the Real, by Elizabeth Cowie Reviewed by Amy Parziale https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.09 The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture, by Patricia Pisters Reviewed by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.10 Book Reviews Editor: Pierluigi Ercole Reports Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image. Curated by Ed Krčma and Matt Packer Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 26 July–4 November 2012 Report by Jill Murphy https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.11 The Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference 2012 Boston, USA, 21–25 March 2012 Report by Anthony Coman and Missy Molloy https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.12 Reports Editor: Ian Murphy Tweet