Category Archives: Interviews
Qingyang Zhou, Author of FM 11.3 (2020) Article “Discovering the Beauty of the Quotidian: The Contemporary Flâneur in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Qingyang Zhou: My article uses the theory of flâneur, developed by Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, to analyze the relationship between poetry, the urban landscape, … Continue reading
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Arta Barzanji, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “A Still Cinema: Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Still Life (1974)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Arta Barzanji: The article is, for the most part, a close reading of Saless’s Still Life, generally considered to be one of his two masterpieces. … Continue reading
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George Turner, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “Just Images: The Spectacle of Judicial Systems in Documentary Cinema”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. George Turner: This article explores, from various angles, the ethical questions concerning the representation of judicial systems in three documentary films. More specifically, I examine … Continue reading
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Ben Werdegar, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “The Forgotten Narrative of Palestine”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Ben Werdegar: My article is an analysis of Elia Suleiman’s 2002 film Divine Intervention and the bold statement the film makes about the effects of … Continue reading
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Andrew Lewis, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “Musical Communion in a Post-national World: The Other Side of Hope (2017)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Andrew Lewis: This article describes the use of diegetic music in Aki Kaurismäki’s 2017 film The Other Side of Hope. Portraying how music can make … Continue reading
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Ashley R. Spillane, Author of FM 11.2 (2020) Article “Iranian Essay Film Practice: A Blind Spot in Film History”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Ashley R. Spillane: “Iranian Essay Film Practice: A Blind Spot in Film History” aims to prove, through research and analysis, that essay film practice is … Continue reading
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Lauren Mattice, Author of FM 11.1 (2020) Article “Actualizing ‘It’: Clara Bow and the Scrutinized Star Persona”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Lauren Mattice: My article focuses on starlet Clara Bow and her once lost film It (1927) and demonstrates how both stars and studios have navigated … Continue reading
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Mohsina Shafqat Ali, Author of FM 11.1 (2020) Article “Existence or Extinction? 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Mohsina Shafqat Ali: Yes, the picture is HAL’s eye. However, the red eye not only resembles HAL’s eye, but also a demon’s eye. Is the … Continue reading
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Lubna Umar, Author of FM 11.1 (2020) Article “Bollywood and the Re-Orientalization of India: The Making of the Muslim ‘Other’ in Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Padmaavat (2018)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Lubna Umar: My article explores Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films, Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat, to show how aesthetics in Bollywood films play a major role in “re-Orientalizing” … Continue reading
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Sarah Mae Fleming, Author of FM 11.1 (2020) Article “The Sunken Place in the Cineplex: Get Out and Hollywood”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sarah Mae Fleming: In this article, I analyze Jordan Peele’s Get Out in terms of both the horror genre and Hollywood conventions. My essay argues … Continue reading
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