Film Matters is pleased to announce our next open call, 5.1 (2014) — the deadline for which is September 1, 2013. For more information, please download the official document (in Word):
Submissions and questions should be directed to:
We look forward to receiving your papers!
Film Matters is pleased to officially announce the release of issue 3.3 — guest edited by John C. Tibbetts, T. L. Reid, and their students at the University of Kansas — in which you will find the following feature articles:
As well as some strong book and film/DVD reviews. For more information about this issue, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2360/
We love working with our guest editors, and providing unique publishing and editing opportunities to students and faculty! So get in touch with us today, if you would like to bring this applied learning experience to your campus!
This 1977 bodybuilding documentary features future stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno, and a host of (lesser known) but just as competitive competitors. We follow them as they train, train and train some more, all in order to be ready for the most glorious bodybuilding competition on the calendar, Mr. Olympia. And we see if five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger can add a sixth to his legacy, this time competing against up-comer and his (in film) rival Lou Ferrigno. Continue reading
Just in time for the Film Matters relaunch happening at UNCW tonight, February 5th (http://www.uncw.edu/articles/2013/01/filmstudiesintellect/), we’re pleased to officially announce the release of issue 3.2, in which you will find the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
As well as these featurettes:
In addition, this issue includes the winning frame analysis for Zeitgeist’s Vision by Paul Tortolo, as well as the next “Film Bytes” column and book and film/DVD reviews. For more information about this issue, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2339/
We have some excellent issues lined up to round out volume three, so stay tuned! And if you are in the Wilmington, NC area, we hope to see you at the relaunch tonight!
Blade Runner
“What was that dream from last night?” Such is the typical question brought on by the new morning consciousness. Whether it be in search of meaning or sheer remembrance, this question proves the mystifying and often inexplicable nature of dreams. Fortunately, the power of cinema has been exploring this question for some time. Throughout the development of film multitudes of characters have been influenced by diegetic nightmares or visions. How and why these are achieved provide assessors with an array of shared attributes which can be individually examined. Exposure, deviation, trickery, warning, reality, and wisdom are all essential characteristics of dreams which film has learned to adopt, apply, and represent. As a result, cinematic dream sequences have developed many observable properties that are important to recognize and understand. Continue reading
Film Matters is excited to launch volume three with issue 3.1, which was recently released. In this issue, you’ll find the following peer-reviewed feature articles:
As well as these featurettes:
Not to mention our first ever “Film Bytes” column, as well as a strong review section. For more information about this issue, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2301/
More quality issues to follow!
The deadline for Film Matters open call 4.3 (2013) is February 1st. Send those fall 2012 semester papers in for consideration today! For more information, please see the original post:
Questions can be directed to: palmerl AT uncw.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!
We are pleased to announce that Kathleen Bracke has won the prestigious Princess Grace Award for her undergraduate film scholarship:
Bracke’s article, “Understanding Defeat by Means of Jan Patocka: A Close Examination of Věra Chytilová’s Daisies” is forthcoming in issue 3.1 (2012) of Film Matters. Well done, Kathleen and all the 2012 award winners!
For our next Film Bytes column in issue 4.1 (2013), our editorial board has selected Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou (1965).
Film Bytes is a perfect opportunity to contribute to Film Matters in a meaningful yet casual way — particularly if you have been wanting to get published but don’t have the time to write reviews or submit your longer essays.
So the first step is to see the film, if you haven’t already. It is available through Amazon instant video for $1.99:
Then craft a comment for consideration in issue 4.1. Comments can be posted here on our website or on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/filmmattersmagazine), or you can email them to us at: futurefilmscholars AT gmail.com
We look forward to hearing your thoughts on this classic of the French New Wave!
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[Rec] (2007) and [Rec] 2 (2009) are two of my absolute favourite films of all time; they genuinely are masterpieces of the horror genre, and, to an extent, cinema itself because they intertwine so seamlessly. After having watched the third instalment, I can safely say that I haven’t been so disappointed with a franchise addition since X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).
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