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CFP 14.2: “Retrospective 1974: Fifty Years Later”
Film Matters is pleased to announce Chapman University’s CFP 14.2 for their third special issue, “Retrospective 1974: Fifty Years Later.” This themed call is inviting submissions from undergraduates and recent graduates for consideration in issue 14.2 (2023). The deadline for submissions is February 1, … Continue reading
Jonathan Monovich, Author of FM 12.2 (2021) Article “The ‘Eagle Scout Film’: David Lynch as Auteur and Genre Filmmaker”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jonathan Monovich: Knowing David Lynch’s background as an Eagle Scout, my article, “The ‘Eagle Scout Film’: David Lynch as Auteur and Genre Filmmaker” explores how … Continue reading
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Clare Matthews, Author of FM 12.2 (2021) Article “Seeing Triple: Identification and Gamic Vision in Film and FPS Games”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Clare Matthews: My article “Seeing Triple: Identification and Gamic Vision in Film and FPS Games” investigates the subjective shot as used in film and first-person … Continue reading
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Michael Stringer, Author of FM 12.2 (2021) Article “Over and Over, and Over Again: Tension, Repetition, and Catharsis in the Films of Wes Anderson”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Michael Stringer: My article looks at the films of Wes Anderson, and it tries to use parts of his very recognizable style to problematize elements … Continue reading
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Open Call for Statements of Interest for an Undergraduate-Authored Open Access Textbook
Film Matters, published by Intellect, is seeking statements of interest from undergraduate authors who are interested in writing a chapter for a forthcoming open access textbook that centers on producing the undergraduate film magazine. Individual chapter topics will fall within … Continue reading
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Memory as a Little Thing
This is the illusion of cinema: just as things appear, as we are about grasp them, they disappear. — Lesley Stern, DEAD AND ALIVE This piece is inspired by Peter Wollen’s “An Alphabet of Cinema.” The alphabet is a form … Continue reading
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ABCs for You and for Me
Is it possible people come to us—I do not here aspire exactly to a metaphysical argument, and certainly not one about faith or god, but rather just a simple, spiritual question—and then go away from us? — Ross Gay, THE … Continue reading
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Diving in the Pool of Desire
I am fascinated by the movement on, and of, the screen, that movement which is something like the leaving and swelling of the sea (though I have not yet been to the sea): and which is also something like the … Continue reading
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Synchronizations
[T]he sacrificial victim must send up long-drawn-out, mournful, pathetic cries, making the hearer feel the unutterable loneliness of existence. Thereupon my joy of life, blazing up from some secret place deep within me, would finally give its own shout of … Continue reading
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Awe, Fascination, and Movement
I am fascinated by the movement on, and of, the screen, that movement which is something like the heaving and swelling of the sea… — James Baldwin, “Congo Square” Toni gets close, pressing her face against the window in the door. … Continue reading
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