Film Matters Magazine

We are actively seeking well-crafted comments (anywhere from one sentence onwards) on Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust (1991) for our “Film Bytes” column in issue 3.2 (2012).  This is a quick and easy way to get published!

Better still, the film is available streaming through the website Fandor, which offers a free two-week trial for new customers.  If you haven’t seen Daughters of the Dust, you really should!  The direct link to the film is here:

• http://www.fandor.com/films/daughters_of_the_dust

Please share your thoughts on Daughters by June 19th.  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 from you!

Working with Theresa L. Geller and her students at Grinnell College on their issue of Film Matters (2.4) on the theme of genre was such a positive experience, that we are looking forward to doing it again (three more times)!

John C. Tibbetts and his students at the University of Kansas will be producing issue 3.4 — due out later this year.  Their theme is fan culture.

Donna Peberdy and her students from Southampton Solent University will be our first guest editors for volume year 4 (2013), with their issue 4.2 on the theme of stars and performance.

Finally, Christopher Sieving and his University of Georgia students will be working on issue 4.4 — our last of 2013 — for us, along the theme of film in the sixties.  Sieving has mentored several of our past Film Matters authors (“Globalization and the Modern Vampire” by Lauren Berg; and “Ritual of the Sadists: The Subversive Horror Cinema of José Mojica Marins” by Will Stephenson) so we are pleased to be working with the University of Georgia again!

Ultimately, we are very excited to be able to share this unique publishing experience with undergraduate students and their instructors worldwide, and believe it results in a more diverse and vibrant Film Matters.  Thanks, as ever, for your support and interest — and we hope to work with you soon.

For more information about Grinnell College’s issue, please visit this link:  http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2216/

And if you are an instructor who would be interested in guest editing an issue of Film Matters with your undergraduate students, please get in touch with Liza (palmerl AT uncw.edu).

Film Matters is pleased to announce the release of FM 2.4, guest edited by Grinnell College.  In this issue, you will find:

• The “Eastern Western”: Cross-Cultural Hybridity and Violent Coexistence by Paul Dampier 
• The Underside of Desire: Cannibalizing Genre in Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day by Stephanie Wong
• Queer Horror: Unearthing Sexual Difference in Les Diaboliques by Stephanie Bastek, Isabel Lockhart Smith, and Kerstin Rosero
• Nobody’s Perfect: Queer Gender Performance in Some Like It Hot and Miss Congeniality by Shirley Welton 
• “The Scream Instead of the Statement?” Two Landmark Films in Science Fiction’s Meandering Path to Critical Relevance by Kramer McLuckie
• Sam Green’s Lost Utopias and Documentary Dreams by Phillip Brogdon, Christian Caminiti, and Mike Kleine
• “Bigger than the Rights”: Nina Paley Sings the Blues: Interview with Nina Paley by Laura Stamm, Winsome Eustace, and Paul Dampier

As well as some quality DVD reviews.  For more information about this issue, visit the following site:  http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2216/

Congratulations to Grinnell College, our first guest editors!  And should you wish to guest edit an issue with your undergraduate students, please get in touch with us today!

We at Film Matters are pleased to announce that issue 2.3 is out!  In this issue, you will find the following feature articles:

The team of guest editors for issue 2.4 of Film Matters from Grinnell College, led by Theresa L. Geller, celebrated their accomplishment with a launch party:

• http://www.grinnell.edu/news/features/film-matters

It’s a great issue and will be announced here soon!  In the meantime, stay involved with Film Matters by submitting to call 4.1.  And if you are interested in guest editing a future issue at your school, let us know!

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Vision Frame Analysis Contest 2011:

• Paul Tortolo, Wilfrid Laurier University

Hearty congratulations to Paul, whose winning analysis will feature in issue 3.2 of Film Matters due out later this year!

So high were the standard of the analyses that we received, that the judges decided that an Honorable Mention should also be given for this year’s inaugural award:

• Jacob Mertens, University of North Carolina Wilmington

You can read Jacob’s analysis here:

• https://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2012/05/07/the-transcendence-of-order-a-frame-analysis-by-jacob-mertens/

Many thanks to all our entrants. Based on the success of the first year’s event, we plan on announcing another contest opportunity later in 2012. So please stay tuned!

Finally, we thank our partners in this year’s initiative, whose support and guidance were invaluable:

• Zeitgeist Films
• Intellect Ltd.

Film Matters is pleased to announce that our latest issue (2.2) is now out and available.  In addition to a healthy review section for books and DVDs, this issue features the following articles:

For more information, please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2133/

Read a copy today!