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“‘Ideal’ Femininity Is Actually Just Successful Drag”: Gender Performance in Little Miss Sunshine and Dumplin’. By Leah Gaus
Keywords: femininity, gender performance, drag, pageant, post-feminism, Little Miss Sunshine, Dumplin’ “There’s an absurdity involved in wearing a bathing suit with heels,” says Kimberly H. Hamlin, author of an article on the first years of the Miss America beauty pageant. … Continue reading
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FM 10.3 (2019) Now Out
Film Matters is pleased to report that FM 10.3 (our final issue of 2019) is now officially out electronically via Ingenta and EBSCO. (Due to the COVID-19 situation, print copies will follow once the Intellect offices are back open.) In … Continue reading
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CFP 12.2 (2021) Special Issue: “The Monstrous”
Film Matters is officially announcing Chapman University’s first special issue CFP 12.2 on “The Monstrous.” This themed call is soliciting work from undergraduates and recent graduates for consideration in issue 12.2 (2021). The deadline is December 1, 2020. Film Matters has officially adopted MLA 8th … Continue reading
Film Matters Goes Bicoastal!
Film Matters is pleased to announce a new academic partnership with Chapman University in Orange, California. Starting with issue 12.2 (2021), Chapman University will joint edit six issues — FM 12.2 (2021), FM 13.2 (2022), FM 14.2 (2023), FM 15.2 … Continue reading
FM 10.2 (2019), Guest Edited by The Ohio State University, Now Out
Film Matters is excited to announce the release of issue 10.2 — guest edited by The Ohio State University’s Margaret C. Flinn, with the help of Associate Guest Editor Anna Talarico and undergraduate students — on the theme of documentary! In this … Continue reading
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K. M. Wise, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Generational Horror: A Comparison of Tim Curry’s and Bill Skarsgård’s Portrayals of Pennywise in Stephen King’s IT”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. K. M. Wise: My article that is being published in Film Matters is titled “Generational Horror: A Comparison of Tim Curry’s and Bill Skarsgård’s Portrayals … Continue reading
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Film Matters Announces Community College Editor
Film Matters is pleased to announce that Michael Benton, Humanities Professor at Bluegrass Community & Technical College (BCTC) in Lexington, KY, has agreed to serve as our inaugural Community College Editor. Starting with issue 12.1 (2021), Film Matters will regularly … Continue reading
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Eduard Saakashvili, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Celebrity Theorists and the Filmic Embodiment of Thought”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Eduard Saakashvili: I analyze the documentary representation of critical theorists. Specifically, I look at how the filmic representation of their ideas interacts with the filmic … Continue reading
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Safwat Nazzal, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Off-Script: Toward a Revolutionary Arab Cinema”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Safwat Nazzal: My article examines Maysoloun Hamoud’s Bar Bahar, as a contemporary Palestinian film that delivers profound meditations on the stagnation of cultural identity through … Continue reading
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1984 (1984). Reviewed by Nikolas Schaal
Warning: Spoilers Ahead Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (George Orwell, 1949) has remained in the public consciousness for decades. Given the age in which we live, its prominence in current culture has grown larger, with many of the social and political … Continue reading
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