FM 4.1 Is Out!

Posted on January 13, 2014 by admin

Film Matters is pleased to announce the release of issue 4.1, which includes the following peer-reviewed feature articles:

  • Sub-Cultural Ethnography and the Case for Dogtown and Z-Boys by Christopher G. da Canha
  • “Hearing” War Crimes: Affective Evocation of Violence and Political Engagement through Sound Editing in Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin Féminin (1965) and Michael Haneke’s Caché (2005) by Kevin Hatch 
  • Emotional Engagement in Representations and the Issue of Perceptual Realism by Hanna Kubicka 
  • Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull, Italian American Masculinity, and the American Dream by Christina Marie Newland
  • More than a Musical Mission from God: Themes of Unification in The Blues Brothers as Fleshed Out by Bollywood Masala Cinema
    by Grayson Nowak
  • Fantasia and the Generic Confluence of Convention and Abstraction by Erin Nunoda
  • CGI: An Evolution in Cinema by Matthew D. C. Stamm
  • Pied Piper vs. Faun: Storybooks and Female Empowerment in The Sweet Hereafter and Pan’s Labyrinth by Amanda Stonebarger

These featurettes:

  • Der Räuber/The Robber (2010) and the Berlin School by Amy Lewis
  • A Conversation with Su Friedrich by Jacob Mertens
  • Is It Worth It? by Eliccia N. Edwards
  • For Film Fans by Film Fans: A Look at Firstshowing.net by Joey Powell

And our first dossier on film schools and resources, which includes the following special featurettes:

  • UC Berkeley’s Film Studies Program by Eamon Fay 
  • Western Carolina University’s ‘‘Motion Picture and Television Production’’ Program by Rachel C. Gentry
  • Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts by Brooke Gibson
  • Not Your Average Film School: A Brief Overview of SMFA by Jonathan V. Mariano
  • Obligated to In-State by Lawson Sitterding
  • Longhorns with Lenses by Levi Vasquez
  • The Moving Image Archives at UNCSA by Joshua D. Zich 

Not to mention some engaging reviews of recent books, films, and DVDs/Blu-rays by Jude Warne, Shane Wisniewski, Kale Hills, Brendan Boyle, and Duygu Eyrenci.

It’s a packed issue!  For more information, please visit:  http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals../view-issue,id=2585/

And think about becoming a Film Matters author today!  Submit to open call 5.3 by February 1, 2014!

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