FM 4.4 Is Out!

Film Matters is pleased to announce the release of FM 4.4 (2013) — a special issue on 1960s cinema guest edited by Christopher Sieving and his students from the University of Georgia. This issue includes the following feature articles:

  • Walking the Tightrope with Dylan: Cultural Performance in Dont Look Back by Sam Hagerman 
  • Metzger’s Women: Gender Representations and Visual Abstraction in ‘60s Sexploitation by Matthew Jones 
  • Midnights at the Charles: Exhibiting Underground Cinema in the Age of the Art-House by Daniel LoPilato
  • Reading Myth in Sweetback: Middling Strategies Between the Ideal and the Exploitative by Chris Lott
  • Defining Warhol: An Interview with J. J. Murphy, Avant-Garde Filmmaker and Author by Sara Porch
  • “She Doesn’t Speak English, Does She?”: Displaced Female Protagonists in Rosemary’s Baby and Repulsion by Grafton Tanner

Reviews of sixties cinema by: Adam Carlson, Dafna Kaufman, Meredith McKay, and Molly Beth Roland.

These featurettes:

  • Alfred Hitchcock and Beyond: An Interview with Film Scholar Dr. Richard Allen by Steven T. Gamble 
  • The Iconic Wurlitzer: Transforming Early Film Exhibition by Morgan A. Grogg 

As well as film, DVD, and book reviews by: William RepassJaime Carlos MenjivarIvy BurridgeLaura CasteelStephen GlawsonStephen MurphyLevi Vasquez, and Jen Withrow.

It’s a great issue with a great cover!  For more information about it, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2762/

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