MSJ 10.2: This issue is headlined by Heather Miller’s exploration of mathematical symbolism in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). Other highlights include Scott Manning’s examination of the Shakespearian rise and fall of Starscream in The Transformers: The Movie (1986) and Travis Cooper’s featurette on fourth-wall transgressions in Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder (2022). The issue offers two interviews: Paul Risker speaks with animator and director May Kindred Boothby about her animated short silent film The Eating of an Orange (2025) while Andy Hangman interviews Jay Glennie, author of The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Rebecca Yoshizawa offers a review of Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest (2020) in “Carving Time” that melds anecdotal insight with analysis. Undergraduate scholars Cole Smuland and Brook Lowry challenge the archetype of the heroic male in Star Wars: Episode III (2005), and the subversive use of horror film lighting conventions in Psycho (1960) and Parasite (2019),
