Film Matters is pleased to announce officially the release of the first 2022 issue, FM 13.1, edited by the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) and featuring dossiers guest edited by Mina Radovic (Goldsmiths University of London, UK) and Tom Ue (Dalhousie University, Canada).
FM 13.1 includes the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
- “Divines and the Constructed Self” by Sophie Barbour
- “Chicken Soup for the Postmodern Soul: Philosophizing Spike Jonze’s Her Through the Lens of Evolving Modernity” by Oishika Basak and Abhiraj Goswami
- “Reflexivity, Third Space, and Representation: Radical Reimaginings of the Banlieue in Swagger (2016)” by Jacqueline Brady
- “Western Modernism and the Fetishization of the Hijab: Deconstructing the Movie Hala” by Aatika Fareed
- “Aesthetics in Claymation: An Exploration of Adam Elliot” by Taylor Floyd
- “‘I’m Learning to Smoke Now’: The Evolution of Cigarettes in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai” by Francesca Iucci
- “The Paradise Theater (1941–1951): African American Movie Palaces and the 1943 Racial Uprising in Detroit” by Drew Meinecke
- “Nagisa Ōshima’s Essayistic Exploration of Japan’s ‘Korean Problem‘” by Dylan O’Connell
- “Can Queer Representations in Comedy Be Progressive in the Twenty-First Century?” by Lennox Carlos Encarnacao Roach
- “Ethical Criticism and There Will Be Blood: Autonomism, Moralism, and Immoralist Perspectives” by Giulia Tronconi
- “‘No, I Am the Man’: Hierarchical Male Homosociality in The Avengers (2012)” by Sharon K. Yuen
- “Hitchcock and the Internalization of Soviet Sound Theory” by Jack Zornado
These “Depicting Spiritual Life Through Literature and Film: Silence by Endo, Shinoda, and Scorsese” dossier featurettes:
- “Introduction: What Kind of Faith? On Christian Spiritual Life and the Message of Silence” by Mina Radovic
- “The Internal Journey Toward Spiritual Self-Recognition in Shūsaku Endō’s Silence” by Elijah Young
- “The Sound of Silence: Spiritual Struggle and Apostasy in Masahiro Shinoda’s Film” by Alison Parmenter
- “The Hope of the Cross in Martin Scorsese’s Silence” by Costanza Chirdo
These featurettes:
- “Interview with the Makers of The Portal” by Nicholas Mahoney and Leigh Ann Vicoli
- “Arrival: The Complex Concepts of Time and Language” by Mika Pascual
These “Reading Literature and Science” dossier featurettes:
- “Introduction: Can’t Buy Me Love?: Market, Mass Production, and Investment in Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence” by Tom Ue
- “How Capitalism Ends Humanity” by Miles Anton
- “Getting Tested for Monsterdom: Frankenstein and Ex Machina” by Chris Van Green
For more information about this issue, please visit:
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/fm/13/1
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