Category Archives: Interviews
Jacqueline Brady, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “Reflexivity, Third Space, and Representation: Radical Reimaginings of the Banlieue in Swagger (2016)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jacqueline Brady: My article is about Olivier Babinet’s 2016 film Swagger and explores how the film challenges reductive cinematic and media representations of the French … Continue reading
Francesca Iucci, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “’I’m Learning to Smoke Now’: The Evolution of Cigarettes in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Francesca Iucci: My article explores the symbolic role cigarettes take in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai. Ever since watching the film, I was struck … Continue reading
Taylor Floyd, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “Aesthetics in Claymation: An Exploration of Adam Elliot”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Taylor Floyd: My article explores the core aspects of how the unique elements of clay molding impact the genre of claymation. This exploration was conducted … Continue reading
Jack Zornado, Author of FM 13.1 (2022) Article “Hitchcock and the Internalization of Soviet Sound Theory”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jack Zornado: This article is focused on Alfred Hitchcock’s use of sound and how he evolved as an experimental filmmaker, unafraid to experiment with new … Continue reading
Hannah Vliet, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Hannah Vliet: “White Saviors Get Gold Trophies: Colorblind Racism and Film Award Culture” analyzes the cultural “text” of Green Book’s Best Picture acceptance speech at … Continue reading
Georgina Beeby, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Examining the Function of Pretrauma Cinema, WALL-E and the Warning for Our Future”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Georgina Beeby: This article is about pretrauma cinema in relation to the film WALL-E. It explores E. Ann Kaplan’s proposal of pretrauma as a subgenre … Continue reading
Reid Anderson, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Cult Victim Turned Cult Star: The Hyperreal Image of Sharon Tate”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Reid Anderson: In this article, I aim to provide context to and shed light on not only the career and star image of Sharon Tate … Continue reading
Leo Nelki Göpfert, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Makavejev’s Neo-Documentarism”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Leo Nelki Göpfert: This is an article analyzing the film WR: Mysteries of the Organism by Dusan Makavejev through the lens of a totally different … Continue reading
Emily Nighman, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Orientalist Stereotypes and Transnational Feminisms in Disney’s 1998 and 2020 Mulan”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Emily Nighman: This article compares Disney’s original 1998 animated film, Mulan, and the 2020 live-action remake to examine the negative and positive treatment of Chinese/American … Continue reading
Amanda Coates, Author of FM 12.3 (2021) Article “Gregg Araki and Queer Asian American Empowerment in the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Amanda Coates: My article explores Gregg Araki’s cult trilogy (dubbed the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy), featuring the films Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere. … Continue reading