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My Man Godfrey (1936). Reviewed by Film Matters Fall 2019 Editorial Board
My Man Godfrey (1936) Criterion Blu-ray Review from Liza Palmer Contributors: Nic Connole, Julia Desmond, Andrew Doss, Candyce Edwards, Trey Gurley, Sherita Jackson, Jessica Kernan, Joshua Puckett, Anna Standridge, Tylen Watts, Anya Ekaterina, and Andrew Steven Williford.
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FM 10.1 (2019) Announcement
Film Matters is pleased to announce, officially, the release of issue 10.1, our first issue of 2019! In this issue, you will find these peer-reviewed feature articles: Rediscovering Paris, Rediscovering Identity: An Exploration of Sounds and Voice in Cléo from 5 … Continue reading
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Reviewed by Benjamin Bergstrom
Blade Runner (1982) serves as one of the pillars of a dystopian future and science fiction cinema that was popular in the 1980s. Now in the 2010s, the 80s have made a resurgent comeback in the form of remakes like … Continue reading
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Our 2019 Masoud Yazdani Award Judges
Judging for the 2019 Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship has officially begun, thanks to the hard work of our volunteer judges: Charlie Michael received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently teaches at Emory … Continue reading
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Hope at the End of the World. My Film Festival by Tylen Watts
With the looming threats of nuclear war and global climate change hanging over us, it’s easy to look at the state of the world right now with despair. According to scientists, humanity is as close to extinction as it’s ever … Continue reading
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The Lost City of Z (2016). Reviewed by Keshav Srinivasan
Western cinema, and by extension much of Western culture, has had a complicated relationship with colonialism. From the pro-British propaganda of Gunga Din to the “cowboys vs. Indians” subgenre that Stagecoach (1939) occupies, European and American representation of the very … Continue reading
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Chamberlain Staub, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “Confronting Rural Hardship in British Cinema: National Identity in The Levelling and God’s Own Country”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Chamberlain Staub: “Confronting Rural Hardship in British Cinema” argues that The Levelling and God’s Own Country are British heritage films; it is a topic that … Continue reading
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Emma Hughes, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emma Hughes: “The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western” is a revised version of a longer paper that I … Continue reading
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Alexandria R. Moore, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “A Feminine Techno-Utopia: Identification/Transformation/Transcendence of Embodiment in Spike Jonze’s Her”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Alexandria R. Moore: This piece was really the culmination of my undergraduate intellectual development. It was, to me, a way of dovetailing my humanities education in … Continue reading
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Adam Herron, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “‘Victim Sells’: The Commercial Context of Snuff Fiction and A Serbian Film”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Adam Herron: My article discusses how A Serbian Film demonstrates the commercial context of snuff fiction through its marketing and distribution, as well as its … Continue reading
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