Category Archives: Interviews
Jasper Chen, Author of FM 11.1 (2020) Article “Westernization and Sinicization: How Chinese Cinema Formed a Modern National Identity”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jasper Chen: “Westernization and Sinicization” is a historical research piece on the effects of Westernizing and modernizing influences on Chinese film in the early twentieth … Continue reading
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Lydia Spencer-Elliott, Author of FM 11.1 (2020) Article “Choreography to Choreocinema: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Surrealism and Dance”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Lydia Spencer-Elliott: “Choreography to Choreocinema: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Surrealism and Dance” explores the role of dance within the Surrealism movement from performances in 1917 … Continue reading
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Parul Tiwari, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Exploring the Relationship of the Geography and People Through Composition in the Films of Abbas Kiarostami”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Parul Tiwari: This article aims to analyze landscape in the films of Abbas Kiarostami using the compositional frames of the films to speculate upon the … Continue reading
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Alyson E. Picard, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “‘Utter the flood of feeling’: Melodrama and Musical Score in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1956)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Alyson E. Picard: My article analyzes the connection of Frank Skinner’s musical score to the melodramatic tropes within Douglas Sirk’s film, Written on the Wind … Continue reading
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Madi Margolis, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Cyborg Feminism: Ambiguity and Hybridity of the Female Cyborg in Metropolis”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Madi Margolis: A posthuman figure like the female cyborg challenges traditional humanist feminism in ways that make room for theorizing new subjectivities and feminist epistemologies. … Continue reading
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Justine Xi, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Critical Anti-Realism in Chinese Postsocialist Films Chicken Poets (Meng Jinghui, 2002) and Asia One (Cao Fei, 2018)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Justine Xi: My article discusses the deviation of two films in style and intention from contemporary independent Chinese filmmakers commonly referred to as the Urban … Continue reading
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Alexandra Coburn, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Valerie the Vampire Slayer: Abjection, the Czech New Wave, and Feminist Interventions”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Alexandra Coburn: It’s about this film that was made in the 1960s in what was then Czechoslovakia and now the Czech Republic. It was essentially … Continue reading
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Sarah Matthews, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Threshold Figures: The Babysitter in American Film”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sarah Matthews: My research began with a desire to investigate the one-dimensional and often negative on-screen representations of babysitters, as well as the formulaic narratives … Continue reading
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Jason Husak, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “I Aint Afraid of No Remake: Exploration of the Financial, Marketing, and Societal Failure of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Jason Husak: I really wanted to write an article that showcased the different representations of feminism in film. As a feminist, myself, I find it … Continue reading
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Suzi Fera, Author of FM 10.3 (2019) Article “Purple Reign: The Contradictory Use of the Royal Color Purple in Disney’s Animated Villains”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Suzi Fera: “Purple Reign” Is a stylistic analysis of the use of the color purple in Disney animated feature films. It argues that, until very … Continue reading
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