Category Archives: Interviews

Joe Day, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “History of Terror: The Non-Hammer Horror Period Piece and British National Identity”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Joe Day: This article examines British horror films that have used historical events of the nation to fuel their narratives.

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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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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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Sean Carson, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Film Noir Heroes and the American Dream: Examining Contradictions in American Ideology through Fred Zinnemann’s Act of Violence”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sean Carson: My article is an analysis of the spectrum of film noir heroes as depicted in Fred Zinnemann’s Act of Violence. I argue the film … Continue reading

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Grace Wallace, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “’Movies Are Supposed to Move, Stupid’: Examining Movement in Chris Marker’s La Jetée”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Grace Wallace: When we screened La Jetée in our senior seminar, I was struck by its simplicity and, despite this, its capacity to so accurately … Continue reading

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Nashuyuan Serenity Wang, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Filmic Architect or Architectural Filmmaker?: Examining the Relationship Between Space and Cinema in the Work of Michelangelo Antonioni”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Nashuyuan Serenity Wang: Michelangelo Antonioni is a director who is known for his distinctive visual style and his articulation of landscape, architecture, and cinematic space … Continue reading

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Gabrielle Despaigne, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Space Sirens: The Portrayal of Women in French New Wave Sci-Fi”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Gabrielle Despaigne: My article is about how French New Wave science fiction films have a unique portrayal of women within their stories, all of which … Continue reading

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Thomas Cruz, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “The Stigmatization of Queer Black Women in Television”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Thomas Cruz: The article discusses the harmful portrayals of queer black women in television. The idea for the article came to me while I was … Continue reading

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Anne Billingsley, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Rediscovering Paris, Rediscovering Identity: An Exploration of Sounds and Voice in Cléo from 5 to 7”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Anne Billingsley: My article explores the internal perspective of Cléo in Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) as shown through camera and sound devices. I … Continue reading

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