Film Matters is pleased to report that FM 5.3 (2014) is out — and with that, we are officially caught up!
In this issue, you will find the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
- Invisible Cameras: Audience–Lens– Character Relationships in Holy Motors by Henry Carroll
- Boys Will Be Girls: How Alice Guy Challenged a Male-Dominated Industry Through Prophetic Feminism by Dallis Frie Covey
- Suffering as a Form of Pleasure: An Exploration of Black Humor in Un Chien Andalou by Jordan Cox
- Hayao Miyazaki and Shinto: A Spiritual Connection by Oscar Garza
- Aki Kaurismäki: Globalizing Finnish Cinema by Viveca Tallgren
- The Men Who Weren’t There: The Unreliable Narrator and His Effect on Audience’s Perception of Reality and Truth in Neo-Noir by Kyle Turner
A themed dossier on contemporary French cinema, containing the following featurettes:
- Disillusioning Romance by Mallory Blackwood
- Cinéma du corps and Avant-Garde Cinematography: The Brutal, Contemporary French Revitalization of Experimental Filmmaking by Tyler Davis
- Holy Motors, the Spectatorial Gaze, and Cinematic Interpellation by Evan Perschetz
- Cinéma du Tell: A Study of Visual and Thematic Opposites in Luc Besson’s Angel-A
by Whitney Polk
These additional featurettes:
- Warner Bros. by Sean Campbell
- Love Is Never Simple: The Influence of Film Noir and Screwball Comedy on the Coen Brothers Through Analysis of Love Triangles in Blood Simple
by Shea Lenkaitis
As well as film, DVD/Blu-ray, and book reviews by: Jonathan Cziborr, Dustin Fleischmann, Zoë June Frank, Brendan Gates, Mars Incrucio, Justin Ray Jonathan King, Sarah E. Lerner, Tom Lordan, Richard F. Martin, Jonathan Mayo, Margaret Rasberry, Caleb Andrew Ward, Lizzie Warfield, Kailyn N. Warpole, and Archie Wolfman.
Finally, completing the issue is a Color Stock design, celebrating There Will Be Blood (2007), by Christopher Schammel.
For more information about issue 5.3, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2922/
Onto volume 6 (2015) issues!
