Film Matters Magazine

Film Matters is pleased to be working with Cinema Guild (http://www.cinemaguild.com/) to help promote their exciting lineup of films and DVDs.  We currently have a few Cinema Guild titles needing to be reviewed.  If you are a current instructor of film (graduate student, tenured/tenure-track professor, adjunct, etc.) at an institution of higher education, then this is an applied learning opportunity to consider bringing to your students!

By claiming one of these Cinema Guild DVDs, you are committing to produce a review for a future print issue of Film Matters.  The only stipulation is that undergraduate students must be involved in the writing of the review.  Creativity, as always, is encouraged!  But strategies include:  coauthoring with students, making the review a classroom exercise (i.e. each student contributes a paragraph, analyzing a frame or sequence), working with a student film society to secure a review, etc.  Once the review has been successfully submitted, instructors may keep the Cinema Guild DVD to use as they see fit.

The Cinema Guild DVDs are (if a title has TAKEN by it, it has already been claimed):

• About Elly (Farhadi, 2009) — TAKEN
• Handmade with Love in France (Bernard, 2014) — TAKEN
• Here Come the Videofreex (Nealon & Raskin, 2015) — TAKEN
• The Princess of France (Piñeiro, 2014) — TAKEN
• She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (Dore, 2014) — TAKEN

To apply, please email a brief proposal to Liza (futurefilmscholars AT gmail.com), detailing your preferred selection, as well as your name, affiliation, course information, and plans for: (1) how you will incorporate this Cinema Guild product into your classroom; and (2) how you will produce a review of the Cinema Guild product, involving undergraduate authors, to be published in a future print issue of Film Matters.

The DVDs will be awarded on a first come, first served basis.  Deadlines for reviews to be submitted to Liza will be January 15, 2017.

Please email Liza with any questions (futurefilmscholars AT gmail.com).  Otherwise, we look forward to working with you!

Final reminder that the deadline for call 8.3 (for issue 8.3, 2017) is September 1, 2016. For more information, please see the original post:

• Announcing Open Call for Papers 8.3

Questions and submissions should be directed to Liza: futurefilmscholars AT gmail.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

Undergraduates, think about submitting those film-related research papers to open call 8.3 today — the deadline is upon us!  For more information, please see the original announcement:

• Announcing Open Call for Papers 8.3

Email Liza Palmer (futurefilmscholars AT gmail.com) today, with questions or submissions — thanks!

Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Jason Mittell and Christian Keathley, among others, of inTransition (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/), Film Matters is excited to announce our first call for videographic film scholarship by undergraduate students — an initiative managed by Allison de Fren and Adam Hart.

For more information about this opportunity, including specific instructions for formatting submissions, please download the official document:

• Film Matters Call for Videos (PDF)

The deadline is October 1, 2016.

Questions and submissions should be directed to Allison De Fren and Adam Hart at: VideographicFM AT gmail.com

And for a recent example of videographic criticism, published by Film Matters, please consult the following from Jennifer Fleeger and Jordan Scharaga:

Scoring Night and the City. By Jennifer Fleeger and Jordan Scharaga

We look forward to receiving your video submissions!

Film Matters is pleased to announce a CFP for a dossier on Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema — guest edited by Fabrizio Cilento, Messiah College — slated for FM 8.3 (2017).

A range of formats is welcome — reviews of recent science fiction films, reviews of recent scholarly books on the science fiction genre, or interviews with relevant scholars in the field — in addition to essays.

For more information, please download the official document (in Word):

• SF CFP 8.3 Dossier

The deadline for submissions is: December 1, 2016.

And questions and submissions should be directed to Fabrizio Cilento (fcilento AT messiah.edu).

Please consider submitting today!