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The Grand Budapest Hotel Mise-en-Scene Scrapbook. By Carrie Goodison
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) follows a writer who is interested in the infamous hotel known as the Grand Budapest Hotel, which is no longer in its prime, and has since become run-down. The writer meets with the current owner … Continue reading
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Abby Walkur, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Three Cheers for the Essay Film: How Chris Marker’s Vive la baleine Epitomizes Timothy Corrigan’s Model”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Abby Walkur: My article—“Three Cheers for the Essay Film”—utilizes esteemed scholar Timothy Corrigan’s essay film model to explain how famous French essayist Chris Marker’s Vive … Continue reading
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Open Call for Papers 14.1
Film Matters is pleased to announce our open call for papers from current undergraduates, authors who have been invited to revise and resubmit previous submissions (including authors who did not make it past our prescreening for a previous call), and recently … Continue reading
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Chuyi Zhang, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Deconstructing the Other’s Other: Analyzing the Chinese Female Image in the Film Saving Face”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Chuyi Zhang: My article mainly focuses on the film Saving Face created in 2004 by Chinese American director Alice Wu, which carries a lot of … Continue reading
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The Departed in Three Symbols. A Motif Analysis by Joey McDevitt
Dialogue is used to express what a character is thinking; however, it is a film’s visual aesthetic that subconsciously talks to the audience. In 2006, Martin Scorsese directed the film The Departed, which would win him his first Academy Award … Continue reading
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The 2021 Film Matters Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship Winner
Film Matters is pleased to announce the winner of the seventh annual Masoud Yazdani Award: Lydia Spencer-Elliott for her FM 11.1 (2020) article, “Choreography to Choreocinema: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Surrealism and Dance.” Lydia recently graduated from the University of … Continue reading
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Mute (2021). Reviewed by Constantine Frangos
A traveling salesman, a hitchhiker, a cheating wife, a murder. Did the salesman kill his wife or not? These tropes are ingrained in the film noir genre. Much like Walter Neff giving his confession of insurance claim fraud and murder … Continue reading
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Kalel, 15 (2019). Reviewed by Vanessa Zarm
A young boy is waiting with his mother in a hospital room as muffled noises overshadow the doctor’s examination. The audience is deprived of any sense of sound or space. Only once the two leave the hospital do we hear … Continue reading
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The Anti-Rom-Com in Postmodern Cinema: How the Portrayal of Fleeting Love Can Empower a Generation of Young Women. My Film Festival by Katharine Chapin
“People change, feelings change, but that doesn’t mean that the love once shared wasn’t true and real. It simply means that sometimes when people grow, they grow apart” (We Broke Up). For the past twenty-thirty years, girls all over the … Continue reading
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Shredded Nerves: A Festival of Stressful Cinema. My Film Festival by Yaakov “Jacob” Smith
Stress is a universal thing. Everyone’s been overwhelmed by something at some point in their life, and the anxiety it produces can make it feel like the universe is conspiring against you. This is an unpleasant experience in everyday life, … Continue reading
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