Category Archives: Interviews
Anushree Joshi & Saman Waheed, Authors of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Romanticist Philosophy in Hindi Cinema: A Comparative Study of Keats, Shelley, and October”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Anushree Joshi & Saman Waheed: Our article explores the concerns of human mortality in a rapidly disconnecting society, owing to modern capitalism in Indian metropolitans, … Continue reading
Peter Horan, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “From Lotte Reiniger to Nguyễn Trinh Thi: Examining the Evolution of Non-Western Representation in Artists’ Film and Video”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Peter Horan: My article highlights how artists’ film and video have evolved in the past century when it comes to the representation of non-Western communities … Continue reading
Cameron Detig, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Slow Motion in the Age of Intensified Continuity”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Cameron Detig: My article, “Slow Motion in the Age of Intensified Continuity,” is about the ways in which slow motion has been implemented in film, … Continue reading
Abby Walkur, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Three Cheers for the Essay Film: How Chris Marker’s Vive la baleine Epitomizes Timothy Corrigan’s Model”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Abby Walkur: My article—“Three Cheers for the Essay Film”—utilizes esteemed scholar Timothy Corrigan’s essay film model to explain how famous French essayist Chris Marker’s Vive … Continue reading
Chuyi Zhang, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “Deconstructing the Other’s Other: Analyzing the Chinese Female Image in the Film Saving Face”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Chuyi Zhang: My article mainly focuses on the film Saving Face created in 2004 by Chinese American director Alice Wu, which carries a lot of … Continue reading
Maria Mutka, Author of FM 12.1 (2021) Article “’To Begin on Again’: A Study of Early Cinema’s Unique Influence on Modernist Literature”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Maria Mutka: My article is a brief study and overview of an emerging field of cinema-literature cross sectional studies. The article argues that famous modernist … Continue reading
Sam Lawson, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “‘Deviant’ Psychosis: An Exploration of the Production and Consumption of Queer and Transgender Women in the Films of Brian De Palma”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sam Lawson: I have consistently found myself drawn to the analysis of LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream media; as such, my article was a result of … Continue reading
Ron Ma, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “In Defense of What? The Battle Between Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. RM: My article examines the controversy between Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, Cannes announced that it would ban films not released in … Continue reading
Nolan Crawford, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “’He’s Fictional, But You Can’t Have Everything’: Screwball Comedy and the Viewer’s Reality”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Nolan Crawford: My article is a comparative analysis of three films, two of which are classic screwball comedies from the 1930s and the third of … Continue reading
Vanessa Zarm, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “The Significance of Ingrid Goes West’s Obsession with Social Media”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Vanessa Zarm: My article centers around Matt Spicer’s 2017 dark comedy Ingrid Goes West and discusses its contemporary representation of social media, which shares a … Continue reading