Category Archives: Interviews
Justine Xi, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Critical Anti-Realism in Chinese Postsocialist Films Chicken Poets (Meng Jinghui, 2002) and Asia One (Cao Fei, 2018)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Justine Xi: My article discusses the deviation of two films in style and intention from contemporary independent Chinese filmmakers commonly referred to as the Urban … Continue reading
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Alexandra Coburn, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Valerie the Vampire Slayer: Abjection, the Czech New Wave, and Feminist Interventions”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Alexandra Coburn: It’s about this film that was made in the 1960s in what was then Czechoslovakia and now the Czech Republic. It was essentially … Continue reading
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Sarah Matthews, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Threshold Figures: The Babysitter in American Film”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sarah Matthews: My research began with a desire to investigate the one-dimensional and often negative on-screen representations of babysitters, as well as the formulaic narratives … Continue reading
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Jason Husak, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “I Aint Afraid of No Remake: Exploration of the Financial, Marketing, and Societal Failure of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jason Husak: I really wanted to write an article that showcased the different representations of feminism in film. As a feminist, myself, I find it … Continue reading
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Suzi Fera, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Purple Reign: The Contradictory Use of the Royal Color Purple in Disney’s Animated Villains”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Suzi Fera: “Purple Reign” Is a stylistic analysis of the use of the color purple in Disney animated feature films. It argues that, until very … Continue reading
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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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