This marks my fortieth and final editorial as I step down from my post as editor in chief of this wonderful journal. Ten years ago, I accepted the helm of Film Quarterly with the intention of transforming it into a journal that I wanted to read, a journal that could offer the field of film and media studies an “alternative commons” instead of the usually siloed areas of identities, nationalities, sexualities, racializations, studies, and specializations that fracture it. I looked at the vibrancy of American studies and of visual anthropology, of transnational studies and work from the Global South, at the geopolitics of regions reshaping aesthetic visions, and I wanted more than what the traditional field of cinema studies was accustomed to including. There was a task ahead.

At the same time, I realized that the worlds of both filmmaking and journal publishing were changing; they were on the edge...

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