Film Matters is pleased to announce that the judging for the 2016 Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship has begun.
Nineteen candidates – feature article authors from volume 6 issues – are automatically being considered for the annual book prize, given in honor of Masoud Yazdani, late chairman (and all-around visionary) of Intellect. Our award candidates represent the following academic institutions:
- Carleton College
- Edge Hill University
- Harvard College
- Institute of Art Design and Technology
- King’s College London
- Queen Mary, University of London
- University of Bristol
- University of Calgary
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, Santa Barbara (x3)
- University of Exeter
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Rochester
- University of South Florida
- University of Southern California
- Wilfrid Laurier University
- Yale University
We are fortunate to be working with the following judges and thank them for their service to Film Matters, as well as the discipline of film and media studies:
Frederic Leveziel is a French native with a PhD in Spanish living in Tampa, Florida. He teaches French and Spanish film, language, and culture. Leveziel is currently writing a book chapter on the Spanish and Portuguese diasporas in France, and is also working on an article on The River by Jean Renoir. He will be doing research on Renoir at the University of California, Los Angeles in August in preparation for his manuscript.
Tom Ue is the Frederick Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at the University of Toronto and an Honorary Research Associate at University College London. He has published on Canadian cinema, Studio Ghibli, and representations of Toronto. Ue is currently at work on a book chapter about Quentin Tarantino and the western, and his long-term project is a monograph about the White Messiah. He teaches courses in film and literature at the University of Toronto.
Johnny Walker is Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University in the UK, author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (Edinburgh UP, 2015) and the co-editor of the following: Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (2016) and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (2016). He is the founding editor of the Global Exploitation Cinemas book series published by Bloomsbury, and is currently writing a book on the infancy of video rental culture in Britain for the University of Exeter Press.
Film Matters looks forward to announcing the 2016 winner later in the year. Please watch this space for updates.
