Film Matters is excited to announce the release of issue 6.1 (2015) — a special issue dedicated to the 2014 SCMS-U Conference! For more information about SCMS-U, please visit: http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=undergraduate
Guest editors and 2014 conference organizers, Man-Fung Yip and Victoria Sturtevant, provide an excellent editorial overview, reflecting on the conference, undergraduate scholarship, and the contents of issue 6.1. Please check it out!
Additionally, in this issue, you will find the following feature articles:
- Government Feature Film Production during the Great War: Examining Pershing’s Crusaders by Adam Dziesinski
- Ontology of the Cinematic Lamella by Jon Hendricks
- Image-Making Practices in Cynical Self-Surveillance: A Case Study of Hasan Elahi’s “Tracking Transcience” by Gary Kafer
- The Visual Psychology of Frederick Wiseman’s Domestic Violence by Isadora Kosofky
- The Globalization of Encoded Authorship: Copycat Programming in Post-Soviet Era Russia by Julia Petuhova
- Samurai with Afros: Political and Cultural Connotations of African American Depictions in Japanese-Style Animation by Keevan Robertson
- The “Golden Age” of Spanish-Language Theaters in Los Angeles: The Formation of a Transnational Cinema Audience by Carlos Sanchez
- Lizzie in Real Life: Social and Narrative Immersion Through Transmedia in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries by Allegra Tepper
As well as DVD/Blu-ray and book reviews by: Gregory Boyd, Sara Grasberg, Jonah Jeng, Kristi Kouchakji, Bryan Norton, Laurie Polisky, Chika Okuyama, and Joseph Sherry.
For more information about issue 6.1, please visit Intellect’s website: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2943/
Film Matters is really pleased (and proud) to be a part of the SCMS-U experience! Undergraduates, you can participate, too, by submitting to SCMS-U and Film Matters today!
