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Nolan Crawford, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “’He’s Fictional, But You Can’t Have Everything’: Screwball Comedy and the Viewer’s Reality”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Nolan Crawford: My article is a comparative analysis of three films, two of which are classic screwball comedies from the 1930s and the third of … Continue reading
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Mise-en-Scène Scrapbook: Hugo (2011) by Dan Verley
After his father dies in a fire, Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) is taken in by his Uncle Claude (Ray Winston), who takes care of the clocks at a train station. Claude is a drunk and eventually disappears, leaving Hugo to … Continue reading
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Vanessa Zarm, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “The Significance of Ingrid Goes West’s Obsession with Social Media”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Vanessa Zarm: My article centers around Matt Spicer’s 2017 dark comedy Ingrid Goes West and discusses its contemporary representation of social media, which shares a … Continue reading
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Qingyang Zhou, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “Discovering the Beauty of the Quotidian: The Contemporary Flâneur in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Qingyang Zhou: My article uses the theory of flâneur, developed by Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, to analyze the relationship between poetry, the urban landscape, … Continue reading
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FM 11.3 (2020) Released!
Film Matters announces the release of FM 11.3 ,via Ingenta and EBSCO. (Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, print copies will follow once the Intellect offices are back open at some point in 2021.) In this issue, you will find the … Continue reading
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Arta Barzanji, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “A Still Cinema: Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Still Life (1974)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Arta Barzanji: The article is, for the most part, a close reading of Saless’s Still Life, generally considered to be one of his two masterpieces. … Continue reading
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Open Call for Papers 13.2W
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 pre-screening for a previous call), and recently … Continue reading
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Moumen Smihi is Si Moh, pas de chance (1971). Reviewed by E. Rafael Jacobs-Perez
Smihi’s short film, Si Moh, pas de chance (1971), depicts a Moroccan immigrant in France. The film follows the path of the main character as he navigates the French ghettos in search of work. The short film can be looked … Continue reading
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The Night of the Hunter (1955). Reviewed by Devin Meenan
In Great Depression-era West Virginia, Ben Harper (Peter Graves) kills two men while robbing a store. Hiding the money in his daughter’s doll, Ben swears his two children to secrecy, intent that the stolen sum will be their inheritance. That … Continue reading
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George Turner, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “Just Images: The Spectacle of Judicial Systems in Documentary Cinema”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. George Turner: This article explores, from various angles, the ethical questions concerning the representation of judicial systems in three documentary films. More specifically, I examine … Continue reading
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