Category Archives: Interviews
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
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
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
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
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
Chamberlain Staub, Author of FM 10.1 (2019) Article “Manipulating the Masses with Modernism: The Weapon of Abstraction”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Chamberlain Staub: “Manipulating the Masses with Modernism: The Weapon of Abstraction” analyzes the different reactions to avant-garde throughout history. The article focuses on how Hitler, … Continue reading
Chamberlain Staub, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “Confronting Rural Hardship in British Cinema: National Identity in The Levelling and God’s Own Country”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Chamberlain Staub: “Confronting Rural Hardship in British Cinema” argues that The Levelling and God’s Own Country are British heritage films; it is a topic that … Continue reading
Emma Hughes, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emma Hughes: “The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western” is a revised version of a longer paper that I … Continue reading
Alexandria R. Moore, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “A Feminine Techno-Utopia: Identification/Transformation/Transcendence of Embodiment in Spike Jonze’s Her”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Alexandria R. Moore: This piece was really the culmination of my undergraduate intellectual development. It was, to me, a way of dovetailing my humanities education in … Continue reading
Adam Herron, Author of FM 9.3 (2018) Article “‘Victim Sells’: The Commercial Context of Snuff Fiction and A Serbian Film”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Adam Herron: My article discusses how A Serbian Film demonstrates the commercial context of snuff fiction through its marketing and distribution, as well as its … Continue reading