Film Matters is pleased to announce the release of FM 5.1 (2014). This issue includes the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
- The Cabin on the Screen: Defining the “Cabin Horror” Film by Matthew Grant
- Heavy Metal Monsters!: Rudctio ad Ridiculum and the 1980s Heavy Metal Horror Cycle by Brandon Konecny
- Crossing a Man-Altered Landscape: Driving and the Vehicle in the Road Movies of Jim Jarmusch by Katerina Korola
- Exploring Archetypal Images in Roeg’s Walkabout by Ryan Larkin
- Archetypes of the Southern Gothic: The Night of the Hunter and Killer Joe by Christina Marie Newland
- Falling Victim to Consumer Culture: The Commodification of Bodies in “Smart” Films by Katie Jane Parkes
- Under the Skin: How Filmmakers Affectively Reduce the Space Between the Film and the Viewer by Joanna Scholefield
A dossier, “Life After Film School,” with the following featurettes:
- Life After Film School: As Told by UNCW Students and Alumni by Rika Dharmesh Bhakta
- The “Reel” Struggle: An Argument on the Benefits of Film School and a Liberal Arts Education by Ellie Cooper
- Documentary Filmmaking: From Concept to Distribution by John Gelardi
- Global Institutions’ Approach to Film Study and Production by Kysaundra Dawn Phillips
- Cucalorus: The Rise and Success of an Independent Film Festival Bolstered by a Zealous Community by Kailyn N. Warpole
The next “Mapping Contemporary Cinema” installment from Queen Mary, University of London:
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Climate Change, Capitalism, 9/11, and The Day After Tomorrow by Sophie Livesey
A stand-alone featurette on Quentin Tarantino:
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The Auteur Theory: Tarantino’s Blood by Robert Conley
As well as DVD/Blu-ray and book reviews by: Johnathan Adams, Stuart Collier, Dylan Ebbs, and Jason Zim.
Finally, rounding out the issue is our inaugural Color Stock design, celebrating The Big Lebowski (1998), from Christopher Schammel.
For more information about this first volume 5 issue, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2801/
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