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Dylan O’Connell, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “Nagisa Ōshima’s Essayistic Exploration of Japan’s ‘Korean Problem’”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Dylan O’Connell: “Nagisa Ōshima’s Essayistic Exploration of Japan’s ‘Korean Problem’” analyzes four films by Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima: Forgotten Soldiers (1963), Diary of Yunbogi (1965), … Continue reading
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Jacqueline Brady, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “Reflexivity, Third Space, and Representation: Radical Reimaginings of the Banlieue in Swagger (2016)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jacqueline Brady: My article is about Olivier Babinet’s 2016 film Swagger and explores how the film challenges reductive cinematic and media representations of the French … Continue reading
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Francesca Iucci, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “’I’m Learning to Smoke Now’: The Evolution of Cigarettes in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Francesca Iucci: My article explores the symbolic role cigarettes take in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai. Ever since watching the film, I was struck … Continue reading
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Taylor Floyd, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “Aesthetics in Claymation: An Exploration of Adam Elliot”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Taylor Floyd: My article explores the core aspects of how the unique elements of clay molding impact the genre of claymation. This exploration was conducted … Continue reading
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Jack Zornado, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “Hitchcock and the Internalization of Soviet Sound Theory”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jack Zornado: This article is focused on Alfred Hitchcock’s use of sound and how he evolved as an experimental filmmaker, unafraid to experiment with new … Continue reading
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FM 13.1 (2022) Now Out!
Film Matters is pleased to announce officially the release of the first 2022 issue, FM 13.1, edited by the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) and featuring dossiers guest edited by Mina Radovic (Goldsmiths University of London, UK) and Tom Ue (Dalhousie … Continue reading
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Hannah Vliet, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Hannah Vliet: “White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture” analyzes the cultural “text” of Green Book’s Best Picture acceptance speech at … Continue reading
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Building a Scottish Platform for International Filmmakers: A Review of the St Andrews Film Festival 2021. By Ash Johann
The St Andrews Film Festival (SAFF), which took place 22-28 November 2021, celebrated its third year with a wide array of international films. Born in 2018 through the University’s Filmmakers’ Society, SAFF has become a charity committed to raising the … Continue reading
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Georgina Beeby, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Examining the Function of Pretrauma Cinema, WALL-E and the Warning for Our Future”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Georgina Beeby: This article is about pretrauma cinema in relation to the film WALL-E. It explores E. Ann Kaplan’s proposal of pretrauma as a subgenre … Continue reading
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Reid Anderson, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Cult Victim Turned Cult Star: The Hyperreal Image of Sharon Tate”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Reid Anderson: In this article, I aim to provide context to and shed light on not only the career and star image of Sharon Tate … Continue reading
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