Category Archives: Interviews
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
Leandra Djomo, Author of FM 14.3 (2023) Article “Daydreaming: An Exposé on VR Technology as a Form of Digital Escapism and Identity Design”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Leandra Djomo: My article “Daydreaming” focuses on the distortion of identity caused by VR technology in Satoshi Kon’s 2006 film Paprika and how that distortion … Continue reading
Interview with Filmmaker Kim Carr. By Kim Carr and Sophia Fuller
Station MVP explores the behind-the-scenes world of a public radio station and the characters who work there. The protagonist Jamie is in over her head—she must navigate a demanding new job, her zany colleagues, and ongoing threats from her estranged … Continue reading
A. G. Lawler, Author of FM 14.2 (2023) Article “‘Films for Humanity’: De-victimization of the Female in At Five in the Afternoon and The Milk of Sorrow”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. A. G. Lawler: “‘Films for Humanity:’ De-victimization of the Female in At Five in the Afternoon and The Milk of Sorrow” addresses the need for … Continue reading
Johanna Carter, Author of FM 14.2 (2023) Article “Translating a Monster: Motherhood and Horror Criteria in Ringu and The Ring”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Johanna Carter: “Translating a Monster: Motherhood and Horror Criteria in Ringu and The Ring” analyzes the shifting tonalities inherent in the cross-cultural process of monster … Continue reading
Interview with Filmmaker M. W. Daniels. By Sophia Fuller
Sophia Fuller: Tell us a little about yourself; how did you get started in filmmaking? M. W. Daniels: I got into filmmaking in 2011. I was a musician before that and a composer. Someone wanted to make a video for … Continue reading
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
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
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
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