New year, new Film Matters! Our latest issue is 15.2 (2024), which includes the following features peer reviewed by Chapman University:
- Feedback, Fugitivity, and Overexposure: Monique Walton’s Dark Matters and the Criterion Channel’s Afrofuturism Collection by Francesca C. DiBona
- Crip Fatale: Deviance and Dis/Ability in Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) by Charlie Mc Evoy
- Marta Rodríguez: When Cinema Unleashes Social Change and Serves as a Historic Archive by Vanessa Anzola Castellanos
These features peer reviewed by the University of North Carolina Wilmington:
- Parasite: The Microcosm of Power Chasm Under the Hypercapitalism Paradigm by Yixuan Ma
- “Bro, You Just Filmed Cringe!”: Cringe Cinema and So-Bad-It’s-Good in the Internet Age by Aidan O’Malley
- Hybridized and Hyphenated Ethnic American Identity in Rocky IV: The Ordinary Whiteness of the American Action Hero in Reagan-Era Cinema by Ciara Whelan
- Representations of Doubling in Film: Can Two Become One? by Ann Zhang
A robust featurettes section, courtesy of Chapman:
- How Ideology Asks Masculinity and Femininity to Be Complementary: An Interview with Hilary Neroni by Taylor Bazella
- Exploring the Multiverse: A Deep Dive into Rachel Noll James’s Ingress (2023) by Colette Victorino and Grace Garrou
- A Conversation with a Hollywood Veteran: Opening Weekend by Estefania Rosas De La Maza
- Working Corporate for Hollywood’s Biggest Film Studios: An Interview with Jacquelyn Kim by Cecily de Leon
- Knowing the Difference: Identification and Existentialism in A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Carol Liddle
These book reviews:
- Transformative Power of Music in the World of Dennis Hopper by Bronwynn Buakong
- The Fictional Reality of Abbas Kiarostami by Jackson Burns
- The Significance of the Children’s Horror Film Genre by Angelina Eap
- Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape, Lisa M. Anderson (2023) by Taylor Fetterman and Celia Rammel
- Simply Sublime: How Art and Cinema Shape History by Emma Wu
And, finally, some film reviews:
- Burning (2018) by Holland Elana
- Her: Exploring the Connection of Human–AI Relationships by Jacqueline Fox
- The Spectacular Thrill of Nope (2022) by Ruby Schweitzer
Congrats to all our published authors! For more information about this issue, please visit:
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/fm/15/2
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