Category Archives: Interviews

Ruby Ellen Hubbard, Author of FM 14.1 (2023) Article “How Does the Representation of Psychosis in Joker (2019) Provide Stereotypes That Affect Society’s Attitude Toward Mental Illness?”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Ruby Ellen Hubbard: Verification of who we are and where we come from in films can be useful. However, for people who cope daily with … Continue reading

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Gabrielle Lamb, Author of FM 14.1 (2023) Article “Camp Cinema and the Queer Experience”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Gabrielle Lamb: “Camp Cinema and the Queer Experience” talks about just that: the art form of camp and how it relates to the queer community. … Continue reading

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Interview with Stephen Lee Naish, Author of Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper. By Sophia Fuller

Sophia Fuller: Tell us a little about yourself; what got you into writing? Stephen Lee Naish: I studied film and media way back in the late 1990s and early 2000s in the city of Leicester, UK, where I grew up. … Continue reading

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Tillie Quattrone, Author of FM 14.1 (2023) Article “‘You know how the game goes, Baby’: Exploring Intersections of Power in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Tillie Quattrone: My article investigates overlapping manifestations of power and masculinity in one of the pioneering Blaxploitation films, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, … Continue reading

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Interview with David Fantle and Tom Johnson, Authors of C’mon, Get Happy: The Making of Summer Stock. By Sophia Stolkey

Sophia Stolkey: In the beginning of the book, you set out to shed light on the underrated film musical that is Summer Stock and “elevate” it to a higher standard of renown. Could you tell readers a little bit about … Continue reading

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Sloane Dzhitenov, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “In the Infinite Pool: The Cinematic Spectatorship of Sleep Has Her House (2017)”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sloane Dzhitenov: “In the Infinite Pool: The Cinematic Spectatorship of Sleep Has Her House (2017)” is an exploration of the slow and landscape cinema values … Continue reading

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Emily Moore, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “Trains and Constrains: Re-Examining the Griersonian Documentary Influence upon David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945)”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emily Moore: My article explores the documentary-genre influence on Brief Encounter, with specific focus on Griersonian-influenced short films. In a way, the paper is split … Continue reading

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Monica Foster, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “Flâneuserie Reimagined: Ida and Purposeful Wandering”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Monica Foster: Much has been said about Charles Baudelaire’s nineteenth-century figure, the flâneur, and its relation to a variety of different disciplines. The flâneur was … Continue reading

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Emma Fergusson, Author of FM 13.3 (2022) Article “‘A Ritz Among Laundrettes’: Identities and New Waves in My Beautiful Laundrette”

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emma Fergusson: My article, “’A Ritz Among Laundrettes’: Identities and New Waves in My Beautiful Laundrette,” analyzes the 1985 Stephen Frears-directed film, My Beautiful Laundrette, … Continue reading

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Emily Heiser, Author of FM 13.2 (2022) Article “Empathizing with James Baldwin in I Am Not Your Negro

Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emily Heiser: My article examines the critical reception of Raoul Peck’s film I Am Not Your Negro (2017) and how the film’s unique ability to … Continue reading

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