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Vanessa Zarm, Author of FM 13.2 (2022) Article “How Ordinary People Breaks the Stigma of Manila’s Street Children”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Vanessa Zarm: My article centers around Eduardo W. Roy Jr’s 2016 Filipino film Ordinary People, which explores the central issue of street children and baby-snatching … Continue reading
Jade Courchesne, Author of FM 13.2 (2022) Article “Two Worlds Combined: How Cleverman (2016-2017) Reimagines Indigenous Storytelling”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jade Courchesne: This article discusses the Australian television drama, Cleverman, a show that blends together science fiction, conventions of the superhero genre and influences from … Continue reading
Saveria Amicucci, Author of FM 13.2 (2022) Article “Brechtian Orality in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Saveria Amicucci: I’m a big fan of Zacharias Kunuk, and my article began as my attempt to articulate what drew me to his films. I … Continue reading
FM 13.2 (2022) Is Here!
FM 13.2, jointly edited by Chapman University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), is officially out. Ably introduced by Sophia Bain, “Generation Anxiety: Preface,” FM 13.2 includes the following feature articles, on the theme of “Generation Anxiety,” peer … Continue reading
Call for Print Reviews
Film Matters is actively seeking book and film/DVD/Blu-ray reviews by current undergraduate students for future print issues.
Citation Ethics and Inclusive Scholarship: Fostering Equity in Academic Discourse. By Alexis Johnson
During my senior year of undergrad, I was assigned to peer review papers for a film studies class I was taking. Usually, this process is pretty uneventful, with the biggest offense typically amounting to a couple of comma splices and … Continue reading
Sound and Image in Psycho: An Analysis of Herrmann and Hitchcock’s Affective Methods of Evoking Horror. By Lena Streitwieser
Alfred Hitchcock has long been considered the “master of suspense,” most commonly because of how he used cinematography to instill fear in the audience. Yet, Hitchcock made distinct use of other elements of filmmaking along with visuals to induce horror. … Continue reading
Open Call for Papers 16.1
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
Uncanny Details: Coraline’s Gothic Horror and Its Visual Narration. By Costanza Chirdo
Figure 1: Coraline’s “welcome home” cake, Henry Selick (dir.), Coraline, 2009. USA © Focus Features. When the eleven-year-old Coraline Jones discovers a small door in her new house to be a portal to an “Other World,” she is welcomed by … Continue reading
Dream Projects Unveiled: An Interview with Author Yehuda Moraly. By Alexis Johnson
Alexis Johnson: Please tell us about your latest book in your own words. Yehuda Moraly: The idea for writing my book Dream Projects in Theatre Novels and Films: The Works of Paul Claudel, Jean Genet and Federico Fellini (Liverpool University … Continue reading