Film Matters is pleased to announce officially the release of FM 12.2 (2021), jointly edited by Chapman University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW).
Chapman’s themed section, “The Monstrous,” is introduced by Amber Power:
And comprises the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
- The Complexities of Exile, the Other, and the Postcolonial Predicament in Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) by Cáit Murphy
- Tired Gaze: A Feminist Reading of Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber (2010) by Lauren Powell
- The Monster and the Mob: A Critical Analysis of Fritz Lang’s Fury (1936) and James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) by Emma Cieslik
- One of the Boys: The Smug, Patriarchal Undertones of Anders als die Andern (1919) by Devon Kurtz
These Chapman featurettes:
- The Evolution of the Monstrous: An Interview with Bong Joon-ho by Angelique Acuna, Joseph Lee, and Din Dinso
- Exploring Internal and External Monstrosity: An Interview with Damon Lindelof on Confronting Visible and Invisible Monsters through Television by Hunter Freedman
The issue also includes these UNCW peer-reviewed feature articles:
- Seeing Triple: Identification and Gamic Vision in Film and FPS Games by Clare Matthews
- The “Eagle Scout Film”: David Lynch as Auteur and Genre Filmmaker by Jonathan Monovich
- Over and Over, and Over Again: Tension, Repetition, and Catharsis in the Films of Wes Anderson by Michael Stringer
- The Triumph of Trauma: Tarantino Style by Samantha Van Zandt
These book reviews:
- Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New British Horror, Lindsey Decker (2021) by Owen Bradford
- Global TV Horror, Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett (2021) by Brandon Cloobeck
- New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror, Eddie Falvey, Joe Hickinbottom, and Jonathan Wroot (2021)
- Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender, Monica Germanà (2020) by Caroline Arden
- Suburban Fantastic: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century, Angus McFadzean (2019) by Carleigh Laxton
These film reviews:
- Axolotl Overkill (2017) by Anya Ekaterina
- Another Round (Druk, 2020) by Dylan O’Connell
- This Texas Thing Here : The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) by McKenna Dallas
And these DVD/Blu-ray reviews:
- Town Bloody Hall (1979) by Isabella Caron
- The Night of the Hunter (1955) by Devin Meenan
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) in Four Frames by Tia M. Adkins, A. G. Lawler, and Grace Smith
Contributor copies should be mailed soon! In the meantime, for more about this issue, please visit:
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fm/2021/00000012/00000002
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