Film Matters is excited to launch volume three with issue 3.1, which was recently released. In this issue, you’ll find the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
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Focus Features: A New Safe Haven for Queer and Gay Cinema by Kimberly Behzadi
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Understanding Defeat by Means of Jan Patocka: A Close Examination of Vĕra Chytilová’s Daisies by Kathleen Bracke
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“Can You Dig it?”:The Politics of Race, Gender,and Class in Blaxploitation Cinema by Ashley Sauers
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An Exploration of Sexual Transgression and Psychological Transformation in David Cronenberg’s Shivers (1975) by Laura Anne Stephens
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The Repressed Tension in Haute tension by Zulma Terrones
As well as these featurettes:
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Central Station (1998): Globalized Aesthetics and Western Narrative to Address Local Context by Edward Emsley
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The Dark Side of Facebook, the Bright Side of Filmmaking: An Interview with Ariel Schulman, Co-Director of the Documentary Catfish by Suzan Olivia Simmons
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Genre Hybridity and Conflicts of Interest in Pixar’s WALL-E by Caterina Lotti
Not to mention our first ever “Film Bytes” column, as well as a strong review section. For more information about this issue, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2301/
More quality issues to follow!
