Film Matters is pleased to release issue 6.3 (2015), our final 2015 issue before we start on 2016 with volume 7!
In this issue, you’ll find the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
- The Horrors of John Carpenter’s Halloween by Andrew Deacon
- The Production Code Administration and Sexualized Spaces in East of Eden
by Theresa Heitz - Crime and Punishment: Challenging the Cinematic Male Gaze with Takashi Miike’s Audition by Jonah Jeng
- The Otaku-Hero by Ekaterina Kormilitsyna
- Censorship: Representations of Justice in James M. Cain Adaptations by Dillan Newman
- Spectatorship and Synchronous Sound Before the Transition: A Contextual Analysis of Chronophone, Phonofilm, and Movietone Shorts by Nace Zavrl
Two “Mapping Contemporary Cinema” articles:
- The Star Producer, Abortion and Obama in The Ides of March by Rosemary Koper
- The Industrial, Political and Generic Economics of Killing Them Softly by Ben Skyrme
These featurettes:
- Astolat ki Lekhi (Speaking in Tongues): An Interview with Language Creator David J. Peterson by Christopher Schammel
- Massaging the Ears: The Centrality of Sound in Raise the Red Lantern by Rocco Tenaglia III
- From Big Budget to Independent: An Interview with Terrie Batson by Chic Scaparo
A dossier on censorship, which includes the following featurettes:
- The Censorship of Art After Death: Looking at Stanley Kubrick’s History with Censorship by Travis Richard Merchant
- Creating Art Not War in a World Where Art Is War: An Iranian Filmmaker’s Strive for Justice by Karsu Nalbantoglu
- Raise Ravens and They’ll Peck Out Your Eyes: How Spanish Filmmakers Bypassed Film Censorship During the Franco Dictatorship by Brianna Okamoto
- Censorship: An Interview with Ryan Prout by Brianna Okamoto
- Blood, Guts, and Disgust: The Effects of Censorship Changes on American Horror Films by Lydia Plantamura
- Films with a Criminal Record: An Investigation of Exploitation Films by Rachel Wassil
An exciting new venture, “High School Spotlight,” which includes:
- Preface by Kailyn N. Warpole
- Teenage Movies and Finding the Meaning of Life by Katherine Kossoy
Yet another dossier, this one on Robin Williams, which includes the following featurettes:
- Carpe Diem and Coming-of-Age in Dead Poets Society by Abigail Anundson
- The Improv Genius Himself: How Robin Williams Changed Show Business by Jackson R. Gentry
- A Performer Who Influenced a Generation by Chance Saller
As well as book and film/DVD/Blu-ray reviews by: Kevin Bahr, Rachel Beaney, Victoria Berndt, Paige Blankenship, Meredith A. Bryant, Joseph Bye, Sean Campbell, Robert J. Chase, Dominic Clarke, Wiebe Copman, Sophia Gant, Oscar Garza, Adam Getz, Matthew Grant, Philip Guglielmi, Yeng Hang, Brent Holmes, Mars Incrucio, Cody Jarman, Justin Ray Jonathan King, Mynt Marsellus, Richard F. Martin, Sarah McBain, Aaron Miller, Taylor K. O’Steen, Afra Siddiqui, Kailyn N. Warpole, and John Garland Winn.
It’s a big issue! For more information about issue 6.3, please visit Intellect’s website: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3067/
Film Matters is always looking for new authors and guest editors. Please get in touch with us today!
