Category Archives: Interviews
Ciara Whelan, Author of FM 15.2 (2024) Article “Hybridized and Hyphenated Ethnic American Identity in Rocky IV: The Ordinary Whiteness of the American Action Hero in Reagan-Era Cinema”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Ciara Whelan: My article is analyzing and evaluating the ethnic whiteness represented in Rocky IV (1985). This film is selected as an apt example of … Continue reading
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Vanessa Anzola Castellanos, Author of FM 15.2 (2024) Article “Marta Rodríguez: When Cinema Unleashes Social Change and Serves as a Historic Archive”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Vanessa Anzola Castellanos: My article is about the Colombian documentarist Marta Rodríguez; she is one of the first documentary filmmakers in Colombia and her work … Continue reading
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Ann Zhang, Author of FM 15.2 (2024) Article “Representations of Doubling in Film: Can Two Become One?”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Ann Zhang: My article is about the idea of character “doubles” and how they are represented in film. Developments in visual effects technology have diversified … Continue reading
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Charlie Mc Evoy, Author of FM 15.2 (2024) Article “Crip Fatale: Deviance and Dis/Ability in Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Charlie Mc Evoy: My article discusses the 1955 film, The Man with the Golden Arm by Austrian director Otto Preminger. The Golden Arm is a … Continue reading
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Aidan O’Malley, Author of FM 15.2 (2024) Article “‘Bro, You Just Filmed Cringe!’: Cringe Cinema and So-Bad-It’s-Good in the Internet Age”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Aidan O’Malley: My article explores the rise of “cringe culture” on the internet and applies the ironic viewing practices of movies considered “so bad, they’re … Continue reading
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Sophia Rubino, Author of FM 15.1 (2024) Article “The Lesser Examined Coming of Age: Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (1971)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sophia Rubino: My article combines two different analytical frameworks, object-relations psychoanalysis and phenomenology, to bring together the unconscious happenings of the mind and how they … Continue reading
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Qingheng Yu, Author of FM 15.1 (2024) Article “In Plight and Reformation: Transnationalism and ‘Chinese-ness’ in the 1930s and Recent East Chinese Films”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Qingheng Yu: This article discusses the interesting relationship between two Chinese films, The Goddess (1934) and The Flowers of War (2011), produced at different times … Continue reading
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Interview with Written by Mike Director Ryan Cudahy. By Sophia Fuller
Sophia Fuller: Tell us a little bit about yourself; how did you get started in filmmaking? Ryan Cudahy: This is actually a story I have told quite a bit. I have been passionate about film my entire life. It really … Continue reading
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Paige Hartenburg, Author of FM 14.3 (2023) Article “See No Evil: Audio Identification with the Monstrous in Under the Skin”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Paige Hartenburg: My article, “See No Evil: Audio Identification with the Monstrous in Under the Skin,” focuses on the relationship between identity and body as … Continue reading
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Mary Beth Bauermann, Author of FM 14.3 (2023) Article “‘Wake Up!’ with Narrative Film Music: Optimizing Narrative Power Through Spike Lee’s Compilation Soundtracks of Popular Music”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Mary Beth Bauermann: This article takes a deep dive into three of Spike Lee’s films that feature significant compilation soundtracks of American popular music: Malcolm … Continue reading
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