FM 9.3 (2018) Announcement

Film Matters is pleased to announce the release of issue 9.3, our final issue for the 2018 volume year.

In this issue, you will find these peer-reviewed feature articles:

• “A Real Human Being and a Real Hero”: Masculinity, Liminality, and Design in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive by James Doyle

• Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana: A Challenge to Hollywood Orientalism by Zachary Goldstein

• “Victim Sells”: The Commercial Context of Snuff Fiction and A Serbian Film by Adam Herron

• The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western by Emma Hughes

• A Feminine Techno-Utopia: Identification/Transformation/Transcendence of Embodiment in Spike Jonze’s Her by Alexandria R. Moore

• Confronting Rural Hardship in British Cinema: National Identity in The Levelling and God’s Own Country by Chamberlain Staub

• A Recipe to Self-Made Womanhood? Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, Domesticity, and Gender by Florian Zitzelsberger

The following Console-ing Passions undergraduate conference (East Carolina University, 2017) dossier article:

• Sex and Violence: Slash Shipping and Female Sexuality by Helen Armstrong

The following featurettes:

• A Rendezvous with Hong Kong Cinema by Utso Roy

• Netflix & Chill: The Evolution of the Streaming Outlet by Jamie Foley

The latest Mapping Contemporary Cinema column:

• Bright (2017): Corporate Worldmaking, Racial Allegory and the Netflix Blockbuster by Hansel Rodrigues

A guest-edited dossier — Self and Other — by Tom Ue (University of Toronto Scarborough)

• Self and Other Dossier Introduction: Reading, Empathy, and Activism: Reality Checked in Ready Player One by Tom Ue

• Reality or Fiction?: The Merge of the Worlds in Avatar and Nocturnal Animals by Natalie Bedrossian

• The Apocalypse for Androids: How Humans Create Dystopia for A.I. by Timothy Watson

• Dystopia in The Dark Knight Trilogy: How Utopian Ideas Are Warped and Corrupted in Their Application by Alexander Wills

As well as book, film, and DVD/Blu-ray reviews by: Evan Amaral, Lizzie Bankowski, Nick Bugeja, Catherine Colson, Anthony DeFeo, Matthew Johnson, Tyler Linden, Connor Allen Lummert, Shaun Soman, Ashley R. Spillane, Steph Triplett, Emmett Williams, K. M. Wise, and Jonathan Wright.

For more details about this issue, please visit: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fm/2018/00000009/00000003

If you are an undergraduate writing about film and media, we want to work with you — so please get in touch with us today!