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Interview with David Fantle and Tom Johnson, Authors of C’mon, Get Happy: The Making of Summer Stock. By Sophia Stolkey
Sophia Stolkey: In the beginning of the book, you set out to shed light on the underrated film musical that is Summer Stock and “elevate” it to a higher standard of renown. Could you tell readers a little bit about … Continue reading
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Open Call for Papers 16.3
Film Matters announces an 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 graduated undergraduates for consideration … Continue reading
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Sloane Dzhitenov, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “In the Infinite Pool: The Cinematic Spectatorship of Sleep Has Her House (2017)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sloane Dzhitenov: “In the Infinite Pool: The Cinematic Spectatorship of Sleep Has Her House (2017)” is an exploration of the slow and landscape cinema values … Continue reading
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Emily Moore, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “Trains and Constrains: Re-Examining the Griersonian Documentary Influence upon David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emily Moore: My article explores the documentary-genre influence on Brief Encounter, with specific focus on Griersonian-influenced short films. In a way, the paper is split … Continue reading
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Monica Foster, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “Flâneuserie Reimagined: Ida and Purposeful Wandering”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Monica Foster: Much has been said about Charles Baudelaire’s nineteenth-century figure, the flâneur, and its relation to a variety of different disciplines. The flâneur was … Continue reading
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Emma Fergusson, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “‘A Ritz Among Laundrettes’: Identities and New Waves in My Beautiful Laundrette”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emma Fergusson: My article, “’A Ritz Among Laundrettes’: Identities and New Waves in My Beautiful Laundrette,” analyzes the 1985 Stephen Frears-directed film, My Beautiful Laundrette, … Continue reading
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Officially Announcing FM 13.3 (2022)!
We are shining a light on the TOC of FM 13.3, now out, which includes the following peer-reviewed features: A Contemporary Horror Cinema Dossier, edited and curated by Georgia Gwinnett College: And this featurette: For more information about this issue, … Continue reading
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Emily Heiser, Author of FM 13.2 (2022) Article “Empathizing with James Baldwin in I Am Not Your Negro”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emily Heiser: My article examines the critical reception of Raoul Peck’s film I Am Not Your Negro (2017) and how the film’s unique ability to … Continue reading
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Daisies (1966). Reviewed by Josie Banner
Daisies (1966) is a very interesting experimental film. Throughout, it uses many cinematic techniques and mise-en-scene elements to weave a complex web of emotion and discovery as two women both named Marie (played by Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová) navigate … Continue reading
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Interview with Will Kitchen, Author of Romanticism and Film and Film, Negation and Freedom. By Brittany Utley
Brittany Utley: What sparked your interest in wanting to investigate Romanticism and its connection to film? Will Kitchen: Pretty much all the work I’ve done since I started my film studies back in 2011 has been driven by … Continue reading
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