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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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Leo Nelki Göpfert, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Makavejev’s Neo-Documentarism”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Leo Nelki Göpfert: This is an article analyzing the film WR: Mysteries of the Organism by Dusan Makavejev through the lens of a totally different … Continue reading
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Emily Nighman, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Orientalist Stereotypes and Transnational Feminisms in Disney’s 1998 and 2020 Mulan”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emily Nighman: This article compares Disney’s original 1998 animated film, Mulan, and the 2020 live-action remake to examine the negative and positive treatment of Chinese/American … Continue reading
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Dimes Square Offline: My Experience with www.RachelOrmont.com. By Natasha Piner
In early 2022, I am aware of everyone else who seems to be online just the same amount as I am, so I recognize there is a trend in the content I am consuming. There is an online scene managed … Continue reading
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Amanda Coates, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Gregg Araki and Queer Asian American Empowerment in the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Amanda Coates: My article explores Gregg Araki’s cult trilogy (dubbed the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy), featuring the films Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere. … Continue reading
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The 2022 Film Matters Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship Winner
After an intensive judging process last fall, Film Matters is pleased to announce the winner of the eighth annual Masoud Yazdani Award: Maria Mutka for her FM 12.1 (2021) article, “‘To Begin on Again’: A Study of Early Cinema’s Unique Influence on … Continue reading
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Harriet Crisp, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude: The Free Cinema Movement in 1950s Britain”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Harriet Crisp: “An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude: The Free Cinema Movement in 1950s Britain” considers the relation of Karel Reisz’s … Continue reading
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Randall Rodriguez, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Otto the Barbarian: Patriarchy, Feminism, and Romanian New Wave Cinema”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Randall Rodriguez: This article aims at bringing to light some of the underlying themes in Ruxandra Ghițescu’s 2020 film Otto the Barbarian. One way to … Continue reading
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Genre Study: Spencer and the Horror Fairy Tale. By Costanza Chirdo
From director Pablo Larrain, Spencer (2021) was long awaited as the ultimate biopic on one of the most fascinating, yet cursed, personalities of modern history. The story of Lady Diana has been an object of attention since the very beginning … Continue reading
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