Film Matters is happy to announce the TOC of FM 14.2 (2023), a jointly edited issue with our partners at Chapman University. It includes the following features, on the theme of “Retrospective 1974: Fifty Years Later,” peer reviewed by Chapman:
- Made of Shadows: The Night Porter (1974) as Memory Text and Memory Work by Sophia Bain
- Fragments of Reality: Landscape and Sexuality in Arabian Nights (1974) by Roy Bussell
- Myth and the Cinematic Apparatus Deconstructed in The Phantom of Liberty (1974) by William Yonts
As well as these features peer reviewed by UNCW:
- Translating a Monster: Motherhood and Horror Criteria in Ringu and The Ring by Johanna Carter
- “Films for Humanity”: De-victimization of the Female in At Five in the Afternoon and The Milk of Sorrow by A. G. Lawler
These Chapman featurettes:
- On Creative Practice and the Power of 1970s Film: An Interview with Todd Field by Alison Kreul
- From Yale to Hollywood: A Journey in Film Directing with John Badham by Jessie Carroll
- Barry Blaustein on the Evolution of Comedy Writing by Maxx Wolff
Book reviews:
- The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks (new expanded edition), Peter Graham and Ginette Vincendeau, eds. (2022) by Yue Tian
- Resonant Bodies in Contemporary European Art Cinema, Emilija Talijan (2022) by Nate Baker
- A Life Fulfilled in Thirty-Two Years by Carrie Goodison
- Meta Auto-Bio-Graph-Y by Graeme Hanson
- Deep Mediations: Cultural Conversations on Depth Within the Humanities by Mridula Sharma
Film reviews:
- Knock at the Cabin: Fear and Faith by Kim Samples
- My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021) by Yaakov “Jacob” Smith
- Nomadland (2020) by Dan Verley
And a healthy section of DVD/Blu-ray reviews:
- The Velvet Underground (2021) by Alison Kreul
- One Night in Miami (2020) by Chase Shealey
- This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2019) by Kathryn Albright
- Shaft: At the Start of Blaxploitation by Nick Brajevich
- Thunder Road (2018) by Peyton Holland
- Janus in the Moon: Al Reinert’s For All Mankind by Paul Klein
- Love Affair (1939) by Zoë Rogan
- Mississippi Masala (1991) by Emi Verhar
For more information about this issue, please visit:
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/fm/14/2
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